“When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the ‘FDIC’ logo on the doors of the nation’s banks than for anything i
Describes the westward expansion of Canada, including the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Klondike gold rush, and the effect the expansion had upon the native Maetis people.
Discusses Canada's relationship with the United States and the world, including the recent prime ministers of Canada and their policies and Canada's response to the terrorist attacks in the U.S. in 20
Sophie Ryan, a middle-aged woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, is stuck in a dead-end job barely paying her bills. Adding to her problems, she and her husband, Ray, live in an old New Hampshire
Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth century was a pivotal Western site for both the United States and Canad
In The Enchanted One, Sheila Applegate provides readers with a guide to embracing love in every moment. It gently reopens and reconnects readers' hearts with their minds and encourages surrender as th
SynopsisIntroducing iOS 6.x, the senior’s guide to getting the most out of your iPad for people of all ages - whether a tween, teen, gen x'er, or a senior like Grandma herself - welcomes the reader in
As a teacher or homeschooling parent, you've used the same materials to teach about dinosaurs, African American history, and Thanksgiving dozens of times, school year after school year. But there's a
Train your dog the positive way. Includes how to raise a puppy positively, how to build a strong relationship, manners training, teaching a really reliable recall, and how to train effectively without
If you keep your eyes and ears open in the Scottish countryside, you can catch a glimpse of an aboriginal people, known as the luchd siubhail, literally, the travelling people. Willie MacPhee owned ve
Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories offers new interpretations for several of the artist's most beautiful and enigmatic paintings of his late career. Sheila McTighe argues that, despite their outwa
?Second book from poet selected for Best British Poetry 2012(edited by Sasha Dugdale)?Second book from Aldeburgh First Collection Prize nominee?Background as Professor of Medical Sociology brings orig
Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s. She demonstrates
Around the wild and windswept Cornish coast fishing has been a way of life for centuries. Sons have followed fathers and grandfathers in the family boats, setting out from ports such as Polperro, Meva
This book explores issues related to the loss of democracy, neoliberalism, and the problems of globalization and their relevance to education in the United States, Britain and other countries today.Ut
