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Harold Adams Innis : portrait of a scholar
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ISBN: 0802063292 1442637854 1442653310 Year: 1978 Volume: 202 Publisher: Toronto,Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,

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Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some years after his death, but there is no growing recognition among Canada's scholars of the depth of his perceptions and the fruitfulness of his thought for understanding of Canada's and of world history. A close friend of Innis at the University of Toronto was Donald G. Creighton, who wrote this memoir of his life in the summer of 1953. To this paperback edition of that work, Professor Creighton has added a new introduction on its origins in the university conditions of its time. A personal tribute, the book is written in Creighton's distinctive and elegant style; it is a skilful biography which will serve well to introduce the career, character, and thought of Harold Adams Innis to a new audience. Donald Creighton himself is recognized as one of the outstanding scholars of his time. Like Innis, he has reinterpreted Canadian history in his many books and this finely crafted memoir reveals the gifts of both the biographer and his subject.

Food, fuel, and shelter : a watershed analysis of land-use trade-offs in a semiarid region.
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ISBN: 0891580700 Year: 1978 Publisher: Boulder Westview

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Letters from a distinguished American : twelve essays by John Adams on American foreign policy, 1780.
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ISBN: 0844402583 Year: 1978 Publisher: Library of Congress

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Big huckleberry abundance as related to environment and associated vegetation near Mount Adams, Washington
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Year: 1978 Publisher: Portland, Or Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

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Annales du Centre de Recherches sur l'Amérique anglophone ; nouvelle série no. 4 : séminaires 1978
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ISBN: 2858920311 Year: 1978 Publisher: Talence Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine

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Harold Adams Innis
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ISBN: 9781442653313 1442653310 9781442637856 1442637854 0802063292 9780802063298 Year: 1978 Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] Buffalo [New York] Ottawa, Ontario

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Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some years after his death, but there is no growing recognition among Canada's scholars of the depth of his perceptions and the fruitfulness of his thought for understanding of Canada's and of world history. A close friend of Innis at the University of Toronto was Donald G. Creighton, who wrote this memoir of his life in the summer of 1953. To this paperback edition of that work, Professor Creighton has added a new introduction on its origins in the university conditions of its time. A personal tribute, the book is written in Creighton's distinctive and elegant style; it is a skilful biography which will serve well to introduce the career, character, and thought of Harold Adams Innis to a new audience. Donald Creighton himself is recognized as one of the outstanding scholars of his time. Like Innis, he has reinterpreted Canadian history in his many books and this finely crafted memoir reveals the gifts of both the biographer and his subject.


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Failure & success in America : a literary debate
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ISBN: 0691063664 0691628033 1400867169 0691100705 9781400867165 9780691628035 9780691063669 9780691100708 0691648271 9780691648279 Year: 1978 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of innumerable writers, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Melville, Henry Adams, William and Henry James, Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and Norman Mailer. She draws on the work of philosophers, psychologists, and historians as well. Rather than discussing failure and success as merely economic or political statistics, Professor Banta explores them in terms of attitudes and concepts. She asks what it feels like for an American to succeed or fail in a country that is often defined in relation to its own success or failure as an idea and as an experience. While examining the thoughts, feelings, and language of Americans caught in the dialectic between winning and losing, the author reveals the strain Americans feel in fulfilling the overall scheme of their own lives as well as the life or destiny of their country.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Infinite loop spaces
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ISBN: 0691082073 0691082065 1400821258 Year: 1978 Volume: no. 90 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.

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The theory of infinite loop spaces has been the center of much recent activity in algebraic topology. Frank Adams surveys this extensive work for researchers and students. Among the major topics covered are generalized cohomology theories and spectra; infinite-loop space machines in the sense of Boadman-Vogt, May, and Segal; localization and group completion; the transfer; the Adams conjecture and several proofs of it; and the recent theories of Adams and Priddy and of Madsen, Snaith, and Tornehave.

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Algebraic topology --- Loop spaces --- Espaces de lacets --- Infinite loop spaces. --- Abelian group. --- Adams spectral sequence. --- Adjoint functors. --- Algebraic K-theory. --- Algebraic topology. --- Automorphism. --- Axiom. --- Bott periodicity theorem. --- CW complex. --- Calculation. --- Cartesian product. --- Cobordism. --- Coefficient. --- Cofibration. --- Cohomology operation. --- Cohomology ring. --- Cohomology. --- Commutative diagram. --- Continuous function. --- Counterexample. --- De Rham cohomology. --- Diagram (category theory). --- Differentiable manifold. --- Dimension. --- Discrete space. --- Disjoint union. --- Double coset. --- Eilenberg. --- Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms. --- Endomorphism. --- Epimorphism. --- Equivalence class. --- Euler class. --- Existential quantification. --- Explicit formulae (L-function). --- Exterior algebra. --- F-space. --- Fiber bundle. --- Fibration. --- Finite group. --- Function composition. --- Function space. --- Functor. --- Fundamental class. --- Fundamental group. --- Geometry. --- H-space. --- Homology (mathematics). --- Homomorphism. --- Homotopy category. --- Homotopy group. --- Homotopy. --- Hurewicz theorem. --- Inverse limit. --- J-homomorphism. --- K-theory. --- Limit (mathematics). --- Loop space. --- Mathematical induction. --- Maximal torus. --- Module (mathematics). --- Monoid. --- Monoidal category. --- Moore space. --- Morphism. --- Multiplication. --- Natural transformation. --- P-adic number. --- P-complete. --- Parameter space. --- Permutation. --- Prime number. --- Principal bundle. --- Principal ideal domain. --- Pullback (category theory). --- Quotient space (topology). --- Reduced homology. --- Riemannian manifold. --- Ring spectrum. --- Serre spectral sequence. --- Simplicial set. --- Simplicial space. --- Special case. --- Spectral sequence. --- Stable homotopy theory. --- Steenrod algebra. --- Subalgebra. --- Subring. --- Subset. --- Surjective function. --- Theorem. --- Theory. --- Topological K-theory. --- Topological ring. --- Topological space. --- Topology. --- Universal bundle. --- Universal coefficient theorem. --- Vector bundle. --- Weak equivalence (homotopy theory). --- Topologie algébrique

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