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  • Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition

    53rd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, AIPR 2025, Washington, DC, USA, October 13–14, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Franklin Tanner, John Irvine ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 53rd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, AIPR 2025, held in Washington, DC, USA, during October 13–14, 2025.The 41 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They focus on Imagery-Related challenges in Generative AI and Large Language Models, highlighting the accelerating impact of ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Fashioning the Canadian Landscape

    Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era

    Edited by John Irvine Little ...
    Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

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  • Hardscrabble

    The High Cost of Free Land

    by Donna E. Williams ...
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  • A Number of Things

    Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects

    by Jane Urquhart ...
    From one of our nation’s most beloved and iconic authors comes a lyrical 150th birthday gift to Canada. Jane Urquhart chooses 50 Canadian objects and weaves a rich and surprising narrative that speaks to our collective experience as a nation.Each object is beautifully illustrated by the noted artist Scott McKowen, with Jane Urquhart conjuring and distilling meaning and magic from these unexpected ... Read more

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  • A History of Canadian Culture

    by Jonathan F. Vance ...
    In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable connection between life and art in Inuit culture (the Innu word for 'breathe' also means 'to make ... Read more

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  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered North America

    by Paul Chiasson ...
    The gripping, marvel-filled account of how a native son took a casual walk up a mountain on Cape Breton Island and made an archeological discovery of world-shaking proportions.In the summer of 2002, at home for his parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on the island where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. Cape Breton ... Read more

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  • The Long Way Home

    A Personal History of Nova Scotia

    by John Demont ...
    The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write.No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history.The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the ... Read more

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  • National Dreams

    Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

    by Daniel Francis ...
    As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense of national identity: the fundamental beliefs that we Canadians hold about ourselves. National Dreams ... Read more

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  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

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  • The Imaginary Indian

    The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

    by Daniel Francis ...
    First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photographs of the 19th century to the Mounted Police sagas and the spectacle of Buffalo Bill's Wild West ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of Candian Architecture

    Edited by Harold Kalman ...
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