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Author : Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher : Colombo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Canadian Geniuses written by Richard Kostelanetz and published by Colombo. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554911
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Horse-and-Buggy Genius written by Royden Loewen and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They became known as a “horse-and-buggy” people. Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas about the impact of the modern world on their lives. This book records their responses and strategies for resisting the very things—ease, technology, upward mobility, consumption—that most people today take for granted. Loewen’s subjects are drawn from two distinctive groups: 8,000 Old Order Mennonites, who continue to pursue old ways in highly urbanized southern Ontario, and 100,000 Old Colony Mennonites, whose history of migration to protect traditional ways has taken them from the Canadian prairies to Mexico and farther south to Belize, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Whether they live in the shadow of an urban, industrial region or in more isolated, rural communities, the fundamental approach of “horse-and-buggy” Mennonites is the same: life is best when it is kept simple, lived out in the local, close to nature. This equation is the genius at the heart of their world.
Author : Dreiser T.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5521068619
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The "Genius" III written by Dreiser T. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The «Genius» is Theodore Dreiser’s autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple con licts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. The «Genius» was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Industrial Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Knowledge Commons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1607106086
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Instant Genius: Fast Food for Thought written by The Knowledge Commons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open this book anywhere, any time, any place for bite-size morsels of essential (and not-so-essential) knowledge. We have two mottos here at Portable Press: “Get smart” and “Have fun.” As the publishers of the wildly popular Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series, we have twenty years’ experience in translating our mottos into bestselling books, but we also know that not every reader is a bathroom reader. That’s why we’ve created this definitive collection of bite-sized bits of knowledge that covers a wide variety of topics ranging from the seemingly ordinary to the obscure. We’ll take you on a fun and fascinating trip through the essentials (and nonessentials) of history, science, geography, the arts, pop culture, language, mathematics, and more. So you can become a genius instantly! Up your genius factor with such tidbits as: There are moneys in Mexico that apply natural, plant-based perfumes to their bodies. Gnomons are the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. Opsigamy is a marriage late in life. Albert Einstein’s brain was kept in two Mason jars in a small office in Wichita, Kansas, for more than twenty years. And more . . .
Author : Gary May
Publisher : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 : 1771616423
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Crude Genius written by Gary May and published by Mosaic Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ An unknown and hitherto untold story of one of the true pioneers of the international oil industry.” William McGarvey was crowned the “ Petroleum King of Austria,” dubbed “ Europe' s Rockefeller,” advised the British government in the great debate over converting its naval fleet to oil fuel in preparation for World War I. His story is one that links Canada, the US, Austro-Hungary, Russia, and Romania.Today, we are witnessing a global campaign to bring to an end King Oil' s 150-year reign by shrinking the world' s reliance on fossil fuels. Yet the story of the early years of how the petroleum world evolved remains wrapped in obscurity. Crude Genius fills in an important gap in that history.The story of William McGarvey covers just five decades. Yet in that period, McGarvey became a leader in the procurement of oil, and raised it from a primitive act to a sophisticated international business. He transformed the primitive practice of oil extraction into a science and a powerful technology. He drilled and refined oil, he manufactured equipment and built pipelines.He created a global vision and brought that vision from North America to the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia &– now part of Poland and Ukraine &– and made it for a time the third largest oil producing jurisdiction in the world. He expanded his empire to Russia and Romania. McGarvey was among a handful of individuals responsible for bringing petroleum to the brink of ubiquity. The arrival of World War I in 1914 solidified its global omnipresence.Crude Genius is based upon two decades of research in six countries. Gary May has also collected a massive photo archive that visually documents his detailed research.This book reads like an adventure story, full of intriguing characters, stretching many decades, engaging in numerous plots and subplots, through many countries. Most of all, this book informs us how the son of an Irish immigrant to Canada put down roots in a very small industry and ho
Author : Paul O'Keeffe
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026422
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Some Sort of Genius written by Paul O'Keeffe and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A man of undoubted genius," T.S. Eliot said of Wyndham Lewis, ". . .but genius for what precisely it would be remarkably difficult to say." Painter and draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer and critic, Wyndham Lewis's multifarious activities defy easy categorization. He launched the only twentieth century English avant–garde art movement, Vorticism, in 1914. Brilliant both as painter and writer, the precise, mechanistic formality of his visual style crossed over into a unique satirical prose which, emphasizing the external, turned his characters into automata. It enabled Lewis to pit himself against a prevailing orthodoxy, the stream of consciousness technique favoured by contemporaries as diverse as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein. Combining years of research with dry wit and creative storytelling, Paul O'Keeffe's Some Sort of Genius crackles with intense details of Lewis's work, life and times, simultaneously dismantling longstanding assumptions about his subject and offering brilliant new perspectives. Employing narrative creativity that reinvents the genre of biography itself, O'Keeffe delivers an unparalleled portrait that does full justice to Lewis's complexity. Throughout O'Keeffe's definitive account, readers will be introduced to one of the most compelling and misunderstood figures of twentieth century modernism.
Author : James Burton Pond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Eccentricities of Genius written by James Burton Pond and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section titled: Women lecturers and singers, p.144-181, plus brief sketches of actresses Charlotte Cushman and Ellen Terry.
Author : Kevin Bazzana
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991845
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Lost Genius written by Kevin Bazzana and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Wondrous Strange, the critically acclaimed biography of Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre, untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician. The composer Arnold Schoenberg called him an “utterly extraordinary” pianist of “incredible originality and conviction,” yet today he is all but forgotten. Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin Nyiregyházi (nyeer-edge-hah-zee) was a remarkable prodigy: at eight he performed at Buckingham Palace, and when he was thirteen a psychologist published a book about him. In his teens, his idiosyncratic, intensely Romantic playing electrified audiences and astounded critics in Europe and America. But his adult career quickly foundered, and he was reduced to penury. In 1928, he settled in Los Angeles, and eventually he withdrew from public life, preferring to spend his time quietly composing. Psychologically, he remained a child, and found the ordinary demands of daily life onerous — he struggled even to dress himself. He drank heavily, was insatiable sexually (he married ten times), and described himself as “a fortissimo bastard,” yet such was his talent and charisma that he numbered among his friends and champions celebrities such as Jack Dempsey, Theodore Dreiser, Bela Lugosi, and Gloria Swanson. Rediscovered in the 1970s, he enjoyed a brief, sensational, and controversial renaissance before slipping back into obscurity. He died in 1987. Lost Genius, the product of ten years’ research, is the first biography of Nyiregyházi, whose story is among the most fascinating — and bizarre — in twentieth-century music.
Author : Jean Goldman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207778
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Strokes of Genius written by Jean Goldman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from November 1, 2014, to February 1, 2015."
Author : Ken Hoeppner
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888647662
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The Ordinary Genius written by Ken Hoeppner and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of agriculture in Alberta owes much to Arnold W. Platt, who set out to plant a seed of positive change. Whether as a plant breeder, an organizer for the Farmers’ Union of Alberta, or a commissioner for the McPherson Royal Commission on Transportation, Platt applied his inventive and creative thinking to problems of rural development in twentieth century Alberta. In The Ordinary Genius, Ken Hoeppner pays homage to the accomplishments of this modest man, whose life’s work continues to resonate in farmlands across the Prairies. This detailed and thoroughly researched story will appeal to western history enthusiasts, agriculture specialists, and farmers.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Northrop Frye written by Northrop Frye and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professional and personal correspondence of Northrop Frye, one of the preeminent literary critics of the last century. The letters reveal Frye's attitudes toward scores of topics: the value of James Bond thrillers, the gap between faith and reason, surrealism, hippies, political hysteria in the U.S., anarchism, the teaching of religion in the university, and other issues"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9389187303
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Perfect Genius NCERT Science & Social Science Worksheets for Class 3 (based on Bloom's taxonomy) 2nd Edition written by and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catharine Cox Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses written by Catharine Cox Miles and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9389187311
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Perfect Genius NCERT English Worksheets for Class 3 (based on Bloom's taxonomy) 2nd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cade Metz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524742686
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Genius Makers written by Cade Metz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling." —Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker Recipient of starred reviews in both Kirkus and Library Journal THE UNTOLD TECH STORY OF OUR TIME What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. Where an extraordinarily powerful new artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing. Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a sixty-four-year-old computer science professor who didn’t drive and didn’t fly because he could no longer sit down—but still made his way across North America for the moment that would define a new age of technology. The other was a thirty-six-year-old neuroscientist and chess prodigy who laid claim to being the greatest game player of all time before vowing to build a machine that could do anything the human brain could do. They took two very different paths to that lofty goal, and they disagreed on how quickly it would arrive. But both were soon drawn into the heart of the tech industry. Their ideas drove a new kind of arms race, spanning Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and OpenAI, a new lab founded by Silicon Valley kingpin Elon Musk. But some believed that China would beat them all to the finish line. Genius Makers dramatically presents the fierce conflict among national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice. Like a great Victorian novel, this world of eccentric, brilliant, often unimaginably yet suddenly wealthy characters draws you into the most profound moral questions we can ask. And like a great mystery, it presents the story and facts that lead to a core, vital question: How far will we let it go?
Author : Canada. Parliament. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
