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Book Laurentian University Review

Download or read book Laurentian University Review written by Laurentian University of Sudbury and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laurentian Divide

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  • Author : Sarah Stonich
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2018-09-18
  • ISBN : 145295786X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Laurentian Divide written by Sarah Stonich and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country, from the best-selling author of These Granite Islands and Vacationland Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different this year is what’s missing: Rauri Paar, the last private landowner in the Reserve, whose annual emergence from his remote iced-in islands marks the beginning of spring and the promise of a kinder season. The town’s residents gather at the local diner and, amid talk of spring weather, the latest gossip, roadkill, and the daily special, take bets on when Rauri will appear—or imagine what happened to him during the long and brutal winter. Retired union miner and widower Alpo Lahti is about to wed the diner’s charming and lively waitress, Sissy Pavola, but, with Rauri still unaccounted for, celebration seems premature. Alpo’s son Pete struggles to find his straight and narrow, then struggles to stay on it, and even Sissy might be having second thoughts. Weaving in and out of each other’s reach, trying hard to do their best (all the while wondering what that might be), the residents of this remote town in all their sweetness and sorrow remind us once more of the inescapable lurches of the heart and unexpected turns of our human comedy.

Book Laurentian University

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  • Author : Matt Bray
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2010-10-01
  • ISBN : 0773580972
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Laurentian University written by Matt Bray and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 September 1960 - the very first day of classes at Laurentian University - the Sudbury Star editorialized about what it called "the greatest experiment ever undertaken in Canadian higher education." Given the new university's bilingual and tri-cultural mandate, and religious complexities, the Star predicted there would inevitably be tensions and setbacks but that with cooperation, goodwill, and understanding, there would also be major accomplishments. This study, by five Laurentian members of faculty - four historians and one sociologist - explores the many ways in which this prognostication proved accurate, on both scores, over the next half-century.

Book Laurentian University Review

Download or read book Laurentian University Review written by Laurentian University of Sudbury and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sudbury

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  • Author : C.M. Wallace
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 1996-07-25
  • ISBN : 145971363X
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Sudbury written by C.M. Wallace and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the century Sudbury was a town set on the railway line, with a population of about 2,000. The community was smaller than Sault Ste. Marie and Copper Cliff to the west, and to the east, North Bay and Pembroke. Now, nearly 100 years later, Sudbury is the largest city in northeastern Ontario. it is also the centre of many governmental, business, social, educational, media, medical, and other professional services in the region. Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital, which honours the centenary of the community's incorporation as a town in 1893, analyses Sudbury decade by decade, describing the ongoing changes in the community and their impact on citizens. The book also examines the forces that shaped the city's destiny and argues that Sudbury is far more than a single-industry town based on mining. Grounded in new research and written in an accessible style by a team of local scholars, the book, with numerous maps and photographs will appeal to urban historians as well as the general reader both within and beyond the city.

Book From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City

Download or read book From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City written by Oiva W. Saarinen and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal occupancy, exploration and mapping by Europeans, exploitation by fur traders and Canadian lumbermen and American entrepreneurs, the rise of global mining giants, unionism, pollution and re-greening, and the creation of a unique constellation city of 160,000. The title posits the book’s two main themes, one physical in nature and the other human: the great meteorite impact of some 1.85 billion years ago and the development of Sudbury from its inception in 1883. Unlike other large centres in Canada that exhibit a metropolitan form of development with a core and surrounding suburbs, Sudbury developed in a pattern resembling a cluster of stars of differing sizes. Many of Sudbury’s most characteristic attributes are undergoing transformation. Its rocky terrain and the negative impact from mining companies are giving way to attractive neighbourhoods and the planting of millions of trees. Greater Sudbury’s blue-collar image as a union powerhouse in a one-industry town is also changing; recent advances in the fields of health, education, retailing, and the local and international mining supply and services sector have greatly diversified its employment base. This book shows how Sudbury evolved from a village to become the regional centre for northeastern Ontario and a global model for economic diversification and environmental rehabilitation.

Book At the End of the Shift

Download or read book At the End of the Shift written by Matt Bray and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-01-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario’s northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual confernce of Northern Ontario research and development held in 1990. The papers are grouped into four sections, the early years; the era of government intervention; the present and finally the future and what can be done to maintain the commnities.

Book New Serial Titles

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 2306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boy from Winnipeg

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  • Author : James H. Gray
  • Publisher : Saskatoon : Fifth House
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781895618716
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book The Boy from Winnipeg written by James H. Gray and published by Saskatoon : Fifth House. This book was released on 1996 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book According to Baba

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  • Author : Stacey Zembrzycki
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 0774826983
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book According to Baba written by Stacey Zembrzycki and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba’s stories about Sudbury’s small but polarized Ukrainian community and what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression. According to Baba grew out of those stories, out of a fledgling historian’s desire to capture the experiences of her grandparents’ generation on paper. Eighty-two interviews conducted by Stacey and her grandmother laid the groundwork for this insightful and personal social history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community. The interviews also brought to light the challenges of doing oral history, particularly as Stacey lost authority to her Baba, wrestled it back, and eventually came to share it. By disclosing the hard work that goes into making communities partners in research, Zembrzycki offers a new paradigm for writing oral history and for studying the politics of memory.

Book Laurentian University

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  • Author : Linda McGuire Ambrose
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0773537724
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Laurentian University written by Linda McGuire Ambrose and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Ambrose, Matt Bray, Sara Burke, Donald Dennie, et Guy Gaudreau The fascinating story of Laurentian University's growth and innovations in post-secondary education.

Book Dieter Misgeld

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  • Author : Hossein Mesbahian
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-04-17
  • ISBN : 9463009329
  • Pages : 8 pages

Download or read book Dieter Misgeld written by Hossein Mesbahian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Dieter Misgeld taught Philosophy of Education at the University of Toronto for over 30 years. His retirement lent occasion for a series of lengthy interviews, ranging from his years in Heidelberg where he studied philosophy in its history, based on philosophical hermeneutics with Gadamer, participated in debates about Hegel with Heidegger, and saw Habermas begin his career; to his interest in Richard Rorty, encounter with Buddhism, and reflections on global politics and the new security regime. With Dieter Misgeld we see the seductions of philosophy when studied among this centuries’ greatest practitioners. What emerges in the book is a pedagogy of hope based on Misgeld’s own utopian aspirations, emancipatory politics, and caution about philosophy – Misgeld argues that philosophy is no longer helpful for any project of social and political change, that the problems of the world today are political rather than philosophical. Thus, it is political engagement rather than philosophical reflection that is called for. Considering the stature of his teachers and the depth of his own philosophical capabilities, his insistence on the limitations of philosophy compels us to reflect on our own assumptions about the promise of philosophy. What emerges is the grounding of thought in the personal character of philosophical reflection, and the drama of ideas as they unfold throughout a lifetime.

Book Studies on Aggression

Download or read book Studies on Aggression written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Circular

Download or read book Information Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Lights on the Prairies

Download or read book Red Lights on the Prairies written by James Henry Gray and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Course Correction

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  • Author : Paul W. Gooch
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2019-03-14
  • ISBN : 1487531133
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Course Correction written by Paul W. Gooch and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Course Correction engages in deliberation about what the twenty-first-century university needs to do in order to re-find its focus as a protected place for unfettered commitment to knowledge, not just as a space for creating employment or economic prosperity. The university’s business, Paul W. Gooch writes, is to generate and critique knowledge claims, and to transmit and certify the acquisition of knowledge. In order to achieve this, a university must have a reputation for integrity and trustworthiness, and this, in turn, requires a diligent and respectful level of autonomy from state, religion, and other powerful influences. It also requires embracing the challenges of academic freedom and the effective governance of an academic community. Course Correction raises three important questions about the twenty-first-century university. In discussing the dominant attention to student experience, the book asks, "Is it now all about students?" Secondly, in questioning "What knowledge should undergraduates gain?" it provides a critique of undergraduate experience, advocating a Socratic approach to education as interrogative conversation. Finally, by asking "What and where are well-placed universities?" the book makes the case against placeless education offered in the digital world, in favour of education that takes account of its place in time and space.