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Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who
have made major contributions to the development of geography and
geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from
all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those
less well known, including explorers, independent thinkers and
scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and
work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas.
Each study includes a select bibliography and a brief chronology.
The work includes a general index, and a cumulative index of
geographers listed in volumes published to date. Published under
the auspices of the International Geographical Union.
An annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major
contributions to the development of geography and geographical
thought. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and
work, discusses his or her influence and includes a bibliography of
works and a chronology.
Discover some of the great Canadian authors and titles you've been
missing. This guide describes and organizes according to reading
interests more than 500 of the best contemporary Canadian fiction
titles available today. Canadian fiction offers a wealth of diverse
pleasures to readers, from high-toned literary works to
down-and-dirty genre fiction. However, apart from the big names and
superstars, many of these authors are not well known outside of
Canada. Designed to help readers' advisors in the United States,
Canada, and other English-speaking countries make informed reading
recommendations to their patrons, this guide provides readers'
advisors and readers with an overview of Canadian fiction, covering
more than 650 popular titles—mainstream and genre fiction— most
published within the past decade. The guide categorizes mainstream
titles according to primary appeal features (language, character,
setting, and story), and identifies the secondary appeal when there
is one. Genre fiction, covered in a separate section, is organized
according to standard genres (fantasy, romance, etc.), with
subdivisions for subgenres and themes. For each title bibliographic
information and a brief annotation is provided. Subjects are
listed, along with awards, and an indication of whether the title
is appropriate for book groups. A read on section with references
to some 2,400 titles, leads you to titles with similar features.
Indexes cover author/title and subject (including awards, genre,
series character names). An appendix contains information on
Canadian Book Awards. A readers' advisory guide and reference tool,
this book is also an important aid for collection development.
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This book examines the way in which Australian institutions have
responded to the influx of migrants of non-Anglo-Saxon origin
during the past thirty years. Until the end of the sixties, the
typical Australian reaction was that these migrants could be, and
were being, assimilated into the mainstream of British-Australian
society and culture. At the end of the sixties, both the
assimilationist philosophy and the claim of successful and
effortless absorption came into question, and migrants of
non-English speaking background began to be defined as problems.
Now, in a third phase, migrants themselves are rejecting the notion
that they are, above all, problems or people with problems. Instead
they are asserting their rights and dignity as legitimate
minorities in an ethnically plural society. The author goes on to
trace in detail the response of the institutions of education,
health, and the trade unions to 'the migrant presence'. 'Well
written, well presented, well documented and challenging.' - C. A.
Price, The National Times 'Well written, sympathetic to the point
of anger and should be included in any course on Australian society
or public policy...an invaluable contribution.'- James Jupp,
Politics Studies in Society is a series edited by Ronald Wild which
sets out to cover the major topics in Australasian sociology. The
books will not be 'readers' but original works - some will cover
new ground and present original research, some will provide an
overview and synthesis of source materials and existing research,
and all will be important reading for students of sociology.
For more than three centuries the collections of the Ashmolean
Museum have occupied a position of primary importance in the
history of collecting in Great Britain and an honourable position
in the development of museums on a European scale. Many collection
catalogues (especially those of the natural sciences), compiled by
curators over the past two or three hundred years, have never
before been published. This volume - a further volume, designated
Part II is to follow - starts to bring these collections to a wider
audience. Their independent importance is considerable, for they
provide not only a record through time of the fluctuating content
of the Ashmolean but also an index of the changing preoccupations
of the collectors and donors who progressively enriched the museum,
of the curators who tended it, and of the wider community of
scholars for whom the collections represented a fundamental
resource.
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imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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