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Chapters: Margaret Atwood, Neil Peart, George Bowering, Harold Innis, Robert J. Sawyer, Ed Robertson, Johnny Devine, Allison Danger, Grant Allen, Charles Templeton, David Usher, Winnett Boyd, Brock Chisholm, Eric Nicol, Patricia Rozema, John A. Leslie, Robert Altemeyer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 126. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. The affiliated Innis College at the University of Toronto is named for him. Despite his dense and difficult prose, many scholars consider Innis one of Canada's most original thinkers. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels. Innis's writings on communication explore the role of media in shaping the culture and development of civilizations. He argued, for example, that a balance between oral and written forms of communication contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC. He warned, however, that Western civilization is now imperiled by powerful, advertising-driven media obsessed by "present-mindedness" and the "continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity". Innis laid the basis for scholarship that looked at the social sciences from a distinctly Canadian point of view. As the head of the University of Toronto's political economy department, he worked to build up a cadre of Canadian scholars so that universities would not continue to ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=177907 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Neanderthal Parallax, Flashforward, Foreigner, the Terminal Experiment, Illegal Alien, Rollback, Wake. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Neanderthal Parallax is a trilogy of novels by Robert J. Sawyer published by Tor. It depicts the effects of the opening of a connection between two alternate Earths: the world familiar to the reader, and another where Neanderthals became the dominant, sentient hominid. The societal, spiritual and technological differences between the two worlds form the focus of the story. The trilogy's volumes are titled Hominids (published 2002), Humans (2003), and Hybrids (2003). Hominids first appeared as a serial in Analog Science Fiction, won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award the same year; Humans was a 2004 Hugo Award finalist. The initial contact between the two worlds takes place at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Sudbury, Ontario, which is also the location of a scientific research facility in the Neanderthal world. As the books unfold, both species agree to use the Neanderthal terms to distinguish between them; thus a gliksin is a member of Homo sapiens, and a barast is of Homo neanderthalensis. Human refers to either species. Barasts are dedicated hunter-gatherers, and have no developed concept of agriculture. Despite this, they are still technologically advanced, possessing quantum computers, helicopters, communications and biological recording instruments. They live in harmony with their environment, using clean energy, living homes, and keeping a constant population. They measure long periods of time in lunar months, not years. The total barast population is much lower, numbering only 185 million worldwide compared to the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2513627 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Mazo de La Roche, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Robert J. Sawyer, Anne Robillard, Hélène Rioux, Fredrick D'anterny, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Fils, Lynn Coady, Mario Francis, Ronald Wright, Jean-François Chassay, Agnès Ruiz. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Mazo De la Roche (15 janvier 1879 - 12 juillet 1961), née Mazo Louise Roche à Newmarket dans l'Ontario, est une romancière canadienne, auteur de Jalna, l'une des séries les plus populaires de son époque. Mazo de la Roche en 1927 Mazo De la Roche était l'enfant unique de William Roche, un représentant de commerce, et d'Alberta (Lundy) Roche. C'était une enfant solitaire ; sa famille déménagea à plusieurs reprises au cours de son enfance en raison du mauvais état de santé de sa mère et des emplois variés de son père. Elle devint une lectrice passionnée et développa son propre monde de fiction, qu'elle appelait « La Pièce » (The Play), et au sein duquel elle inventait des scènes et des personnages. Elle écrivit sa première nouvelle à l'âge de neuf ans. Au hasard des déplacements de la famille, celle-ci s'installa pour quelques années dans une ferme appartenant à un homme fortuné qui considérait son exploitation comme un hobby. C'est là que Mazo commença à développer son univers imaginaire de l'aristocratie rurale, qui allait devenir Jalna. Alors qu'elle avait sept ans, ses parents adoptèrent sa jeune cousine orpheline Caroline Clement, qui entra dans son jeu de monde imaginaire et allait devenir la compagne de toute sa vie. Elles menaient une vie très retirée et leur relation fut peu évoquée dans la presse. En 1931, elles adoptèrent deux enfants dont les parents décédés avaient été amis des Clement et des de la Roche. Avant de devenir célèbre, elle véc...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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CONTENTS: ~ ~~ ~ SERIAL: Survival Instinct (Conclusion) [Edward M. Lerner]; NOVELETTES: Ineluctible [Robert J. Sawyer]; Truck Stop [Walter F. Cuirle]; SHORT STORIES: It's Only Human [Brian Plante]; Tower of Babel [Grey Rollins]; The Cat and the Pendulum [Kathy Oltion]; The Human Equations [Dave Creek]; ARTICLES: Stem Cells and Human Cloning [Joan Slonczewski]; Niven's Laws, 2002 [Larry Niven]; To Describe or Prescribe [Stanley Schmidt]; Biolog: Kathy Oltion [Jay Kay Klein]; Quark Stars [John G. Cramer] ... Read more