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Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Canada : P. Brock
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fighting Joe Martin written by Peter Brock and published by Canada : P. Brock. This book was released on 1981 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Martin
Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780895872333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (723 download)
Download or read book On Any Given Day written by Joe Martin and published by John F. Blair, Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day the doctors told Joe Martin how long he had to live. Joe told himself: Just live.So he has, beyond anyone's expectations but his own. And in living his life, Joe Martin has changed countless other lives.This is the story of a man who was successful by every measure -- a pillar of his church and community, a top executive of his company, the father of three children. In 1994, Joe was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease. The doctors told him his life would be over in twenty months or less. After a brush with despair and terror, Joe decided with his family and friends that he would recover, if not from the disease, then from the diagnosis. No doctor could predict what might be accomplished on any given day.Using the resources at hand, Joe fashioned a credo combining the words of the psalmist and of baseball legend Cal Ripken, Jr. This is the day the Lord has made. Get up, go to the ballpark and do your very best. Joe Martin's best has been nothing short of spectacular.Having built a career as the acknowledged conscience of Bank of America, Joe took on the sponsorship of a program to organize low-income neighborhoods for greater political and economic clout, a year after his death sentence. He helped start one of the Southeast's leading centers for ALS research and treatment. In Charlotte, North Carolina, he played a leading role in overturning a county government that threatened to rip apart his community along a religious fault line. Acting on his own, Joe began a movement of racial reconciliation that has inspired people to build friendships across ethnic barriers. Unable even to work a keyboard or speak, Joe is seeminglypowerless. Yet he has found the power to change his world.Unlike Tuesdays with Morrie, a book about a man dying with ALS, On Any Given Day is a book about a man living with the disease. This is both an inspiration story and a how-to book about contributing to life as a full human being, even when most of the basic tools of humanity are taken away. This is a book for anyone who's been tempted to stop hoping, a book on recovering hope and discovering possibilities. It is a blueprint for making the best out of every day, one day at a time.It's a book, too, about and for caregivers. Joe's wife, Joan, leads a strong supportive cast. Family, friends and young assistants learn to redefine caregiving through commitment, to sustain dignity through love. And for those who imagine American business to be an impersonal profit machine, On Any Given Day will be a stunning wake-up; Joe's company demonstrates that, no matter how severe one's disability, it is the value of the individual that powers corporate success.
Author : Brock, Peter Jeffry
Publisher : 1976.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Fighting Joe Martin in British Columbia written by Brock, Peter Jeffry and published by 1976.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peniel E. Joseph
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617851
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Sword and the Shield written by Peniel E. Joseph and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.
Author : Christopher Kobrak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442616253
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book From Wall Street to Bay Street written by Christopher Kobrak and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Wall Street to Bay Street is the first book for a lay audience to tackle the similarities and differences between the financial systems of Canada and the United States. Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin reveal the different paths each system has taken since the early nineteenth-century.
Author : R. G. Harvey
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781894384759
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Head On! written by R. G. Harvey and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a province where mountain ranges are at odds with road and rail builders, and its capital city and a large portion of its population are on an island, it's no surprise that provision of an effective transportation system has been a challenging undertaking—or that mistakes have been made. In many cases, BC's political leaders not only didn't solve problems, they added to them. And many of the mistakes made resulted from premiers exploiting their time in office to further their own political preferences, theories and agendas. This insider's examination looks at premiers' errors and exploitations, along with their triumphs and achievements, from the first days of the provincial government. Whether it be trouble with bridges (premiers Prior and Pattulo), railways (McBride and Bennett) or ferries (Clark), R.G. Harvey calls it like he sees it.
Author : Jan Peterson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781894384667
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Hub City written by Jan Peterson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nanaimo Bastion, which marked its 150th anniversary in 2003, remains a prominent symbol of Nanaimo's heritage as an HBC fort, coal-mining centre and transportation hub, a vital link between other developing parts of Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. Hub City, the second volume in Jan Peterson's trilogy on Nanaimo's vibrant history, tells of the development of this Vancouver Island community from the arrival of the E&N Railway in 1886 through to the end of the First World War and the Spanish enfluenza epidemic. Included in her story are such pivotal events as the mining disaster of 1887, the Big Strike of 1912-1914, the emergence of the labour movement, and the rise and fall of coal baron James Dunsmuir.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Westminster ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Martin Eden written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Rayner
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781894384247
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Scandal!! written by William Rayner and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotus Land's scandals of the past 130 years may seem to be all about money, but there's also been sex, corruption, staggering incompetence and outright lies. Jump aboard as veteran political junkie William Rayner explores BC's scandal-ridden history. Read about the comely juror and the murder suspect, the two politicians who fell in love on the job, the crooked cops, the scam artists, the double-talking bureaucrats and--above all--the fast ferries from hell.
Author : John Little
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666994
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Patrician Liberal written by John Little and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrician Liberal examines the life and career of a neglected figure in Canadian history, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. This book provides a detailed account of Joly’s political career as Quebec premier, Cabinet minister in the Laurier government, and lieutenant-governor of British Columbia, as well as his public role as a French-speaking Protestant promoter of national unity, a leading spokesperson for the Canadian forest conservation movement, a Quebec seigneur, and father to a large and devoted family. Joly’s life serves as a prism through which author J.I. Little elucidates important themes in Quebec and Canadian society, economy, politics, and culture during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. As Little reveals, Joly’s story is particularly fascinating for how closely the conflicting forces in his life – religious, cultural, and social – mirrored those of a Canadian society straining to forge a cohesive and distinctive national identity.
Author : Peter Grant
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926613333
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Victoria written by Peter Grant and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2010 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Douglas described Victoria as a perfect Eden when the Hudson's Bay Company first set up its trade depot in what was then Fort Victoria. A few years later, more than 30,000 miners arrived, hoping to find their own Eden in a rich gold strike that set the stage for the tiny settlement's growth into the vibrant city that Victoria has become. Using more than 140 archival photographs and an informative, easy-to-read text, Victoria: A History in Photographs tells the city's story in compelling visual fashion, making this a keepsake for visitors and residents alike.
Author : Joseph Kapacziewski
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250021286
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Back in the Fight written by Joseph Kapacziewski and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb. On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner's hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski's right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing a nerve and artery in his right arm. He endured more than forty surgeries, but his right leg still wasn't healing as he had hoped, so in March 2007, Kapacziewski chose to have it amputated with one goal in mind: to return to the line and serve alongside his fellow Rangers. One year after his surgery, Kapacziewski accomplished his goal: he was put back on the line, as a squad leader of his Army Ranger Regiment. On April 19, 2010, during his ninth combat deployment (and fifth after losing his leg), Kapacziewski's patrol ran into an ambush outside a village in eastern Afghanistan. After a fellow Ranger fell to withering enemy fire, shot through the belly, Sergeant Kap and another soldier dragged him seventy-five yards to safety and administered first aid that saved his life while heavy machineguns tried to kill them. His actions earned him an Army Commendation Medal with "V" for Valor. He had previously been awarded a Bronze Star for Valor—and a total of three Purple Hearts for combat wounds. Back in the Fight is an inspiring and thrilling tale readers will never forget.
Author : Geoff Meggs
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155017830X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Strange New Country written by Geoff Meggs and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salmon gillnetting in the turbulent waters of the Fraser River at the turn of the last century was dangerous, back-breaking work. Skiffs were equipped with a single sail, but most maneuvering had to be accomplished by oars, an almost impossible task against any current or tide. Once towed to the grounds by a cannery tug, the fishermen were on their own for at least twelve hours, casting their 400-metre long nets out and pulling them back by hand. Their only shelter was a partial tent over the bow. Many came to grief on dark, windy nights as they blew out of the main channel to the mudflats of the estuary, or worse, the open waters of the Strait of Georgia. When the powerful Fraser River Canners’ Association fixed the maximum price per salmon at 15 cents, fishermen united in their determination to win a decent living. Their strike shut down British Columbia’s second-largest export industry and effectively resulted in the imposition of martial law as the canners, frustrated by political deadlock in Victoria, called out the militia without government assent to achieve their ends. The strike has long been understood as a watershed moment in the province’s industrial history. In this revealing chronicle, Geoff Meggs shows it was even more than that. Other strikes in that era may have lasted longer, many were more violent, but none drew such diverse groups—Indigenous, Japanese, white—into an uneasy, short-term but effective coalition. While united by the common goal of economic equality, strikers were divided by forceful social pressures: First Nations fishermen wished to assert their Indigenous rights; Japanese fishermen, having fled poverty in their homeland, were seeking equality and opportunity in a new country; white fishermen were angered by the greed of the tiny clique of wealthy Vancouver industrialists who controlled the salmon industry. This maelstrom came together in Steveston, a ramshackle clapboard and cedar shake cannery boom town that blossomed into one of the province’s largest cities for a few hectic months each summer. In this compelling account, told with journalistic flair and vivid detail, Meggs leaves no room for doubt: this event marked BC’s turn into the modern era, with lessons about inequality, racism, immigration and economic power that remain relevant today.
Author : Robert A.J. McDonald
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864745
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book A Long Way to Paradise written by Robert A.J. McDonald and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada’s most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. Robert McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of “common sense” liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detailed overview provides fresh insight into the fascinating story of provincial politics in Canada’s lotus land.
Author : Terry Reksten
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706064
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Dunsmuir Saga written by Terry Reksten and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dunsmuir Saga brings to life three generations of the legendary Dunsmuir family of Vancouver Island. Robert Dunsmuir -- canny, acquisitive and imaginative -- became the richest man in British Columbia; his sons struggled to consolidate the family fortune; his grandchildren spent it. Award-winning author Terry Reksten brings the members of the Dunsmuir family and their colourful saga to life with her lively writing, vivid anecdotes and careful research. A selection of 50 historical photographs depicts the Dunsmuirs and their grand style of life.
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Publisher : MT Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1934729205
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Dreyfous Collection written by and published by MT Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
