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“richard k mcmaster”

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  • Scotch-Irish Merchants in Colonial America

    by Richard K McMaster ...
    During the course of the eighteenth century, migration from Europe and Africa shaped the emerging consciousness and culture of the American Colonies. Whether free, bond servant, or slave, migrants brought skills and folkways from their motherlands, contributing to the agricultural and commercial development as well as to the peopling of North America. Emigrants from Ulster, the northern province ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grasping the Moment

    Sensemaking in Response to Routine Incidents and Major Emergencies

    by Christopher Baber, Richard McMaster ...
    The ways in which organizations make use of information available to them to make decisions and manage activity is an essential topic of investigation for human factors. When the information is uncertain, incomplete or subject to change, then decision making and activity management can become challenging. Under such circumstances, it has become commonplace to use the concept of sensemaking as the ... Read more

    $336.66 CAD

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    Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times

    by Gerard S. Doyle ...
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    A field guide to survival medicine, improvisation, and emergency care when professional help is unavailable. When There Is No Doctor by Dr. Gerald S. Boyle is a practical guide to emergency and improvised medical care for situations where professional treatment is delayed or unavailable. Drawing on clinical experience and disaster-preparedness knowledge, Boyle outlines basic principles of first ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Troubles

    by Brian Feeney ...
    Series series Short Histories
    From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.It details the motivation behind the IRA 'armed struggle', the Civil Rights movement, the murder campaigns of various loyalist terror groups, the major incidents of ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Facing the Wave

    A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

    by Gretel Ehrlich ...
    **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)****Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf

    by Sean Duffy ...
    Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever ... Read more

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  • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs

    Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology

    by Hourly History ...
    Series series Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology
    The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction to Celtic Mythology will serve the novice well – for it is a complicated history with the earliest written ... Read more

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  • 1916 and All That

    A History of Ireland From Back Then Until Right Now

    by C.M. Boylan ...
    1916 And All That is as an extremely funny and irreverent satirical history of Ireland. The central assumption behind 1916 And All That is that, despite all of the compulsory school lessons and exams taken, there are only a few muddled facts of our history that most people retain into adulthood. We recall snatches of events, names and dates, and few of us can piece together a coherent narrative or ... Read more

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  • Machine Shop Trade Secrets

    Second Edition

    by James Harvey ...
    Written by an experienced machinist and plastic injection mold maker, this groundbreaking manual will have users thinking and producing like experienced machinists. Machine Shop Trade Secrets provides practical “how-to” information that can immediately be put to use to improve ones machining skills, craftsmanship, and productivity. It is sure to be used and referred to time and again.Users will ... Read more

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  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)

    Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement

    by Raymond Gillespie ...
    Series Book 3 - New Gill History of Ireland
    In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way. Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their organising themes. It does not see Ireland as a passive receptor of colonial ideas imposed from above. In ... Read more

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  • Beyond Command and Control

    Leadership, Culture and Risk

    by Richard Adams, Christine Owen, Cameron Scott, David Phillip Parsons ...
    This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and control. Leadership is separated from ideas and institutional seniority and explained as the collaborative power of one with others. Enabling the intelligent co-participation of all people, the constructive effect of this approach to leadership is in the engagement of people. This is ... Read more

    $166.26 CAD

  • Forgotten Soldiers

    The Story of the Irishmen Executed by the British Army during the First World War

    by Stephen Walker ...
    Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad. From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, ... Read more

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