Alan Bowker: 4 books
Alan Bowker's Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle
A Time Such as There Never Was Before / On the Front Line of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In this two-book bundle, Alan Bowker sheds new light on two subjects with a surprising connection: the great Canadian writer Stephen Leacock and the rise of Canada on the world stage, which Leacock profiled with keen wit and observational skill. With Bowker as your guide, explore what it was really...
A Time Such as There Never Was Before
Canada After the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted
Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|
The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change,...
On the Front Line of Life
Stephen Leacock: Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...