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  • Toronto, the Belfast of Canada

    The Orange Order and the Shaping of Municipal Culture

    by William J. Smyth ...
    In late nineteenth-century Toronto, municipal politics were so dominated by the Irish Protestants of the Orange Order that the city was known as the “Belfast of Canada.” For almost a century, virtually every mayor of Toronto was an Orangeman and the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne was a civic holiday. Toronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today’s cosmopolitan ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement

    Patterns, Links, and Letters

    by William J. Smyth, Cecil J. Houston ...
    Series series Heritage
    In mid-nineteenth-century Canada, the Irish outnumbered the English and Scots two to one. Yet they have been much less studied than their US counterparts, even though their experience was very different. Irish settlers arrived earlier in Canada, formed a larger proportion of the founding communities, and were largely rural-based; more than half were Protestant. The Famine provided only a rather ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • From Ulster to Canada: The life and times of Wilson Benson, 1821-1911

    by Cecil J. Houston, William J. Smyth ...
    Canada is as much a nation of immigrants as the United States. And what is the link between this, the second largest country in the world, and the province of Ulster? No Country contributed more to the establishment of Canada than Ireland. And of the 500,000 souls who arrived there in a constant stream in the generation before the Great Famine, the vast majority originated in Ulster. Canadian ... Read more

    $13.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sash Canada Wore

    A Historical Geography of the Orange Order in Canada

    by William J. Smyth, Cecil J. Houston ...
    Series series Heritage
    Here is the story of the rise, spread, and fall of the Orange Order in Canada. Beginning in 1800, the Order grew steadily in many parts of the country during the nineteenth century, reaching its peak in the early part of the twentieth century. Since then, with the changes in Canadian society, the Order has declined in popularity and since 1945 has almost disappeared.The Sash Canada Wore explains ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Technocracy

    by William Henry Smyth ...
    Narrated by Aplicazona Estudios ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 38 min

    The word technocracy refers to a system of government by technical experts such as scientists, technologists, and engineers. William Henry Smyth is often thought to have invented the term in 1919, although it had in fact been used earlier. ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD

  • Nonviolence as Educational Praxis

    Edited by Ying Ma, Jon L. Smythe, Jennifer Williams ...
    Series series Lived Experience, Nonviolence, and Curriculum Studies
    Nonviolence as Educational Praxis, offers an international perspective on integrating nonviolence into educational practices. Featuring contributions from scholars in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, England, and elsewhere, this volume emphasizes the urgency of practicing nonviolence in the international educational landscape.It centers nonviolence in the educational field within and beyond ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Gist of Swedenborg

    by Julian K. Smyth, William F. Wunsch ...
    The Gist of Swedenborg is a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the philosophical and theological ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, written by Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch. Published in 1970, the book serves as an accessible introduction to Swedenborg's complex body of work, making his ideas understandable to a broader audience. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toward A Psychology of Persons

    Edited by William E. Smythe ...
    This closely integrated collection of essays constitutes a wide-ranging and comprehensive attempt to understand persons within psychology--a long-lost enterprise. The volume was inspired by the observation that contemporary psychology has become increasingly depersonalized in its conceptions and its methodology, and has thereby lost touch with its traditional subject matter of human individuality ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Combinatorial Algorithms

    28th International Workshop, IWOCA 2017, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, July 17-21, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Ljiljana Brankovic, Joe Ryan, William F. Smyth ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 28th International Workshopon Combinatorial Algorithms, IWOCA 2017, held in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in July 2017.The 30 regular papers presented in this volume together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They were organized in topical sessions named: approximation algorithms and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Combinatorial Algorithms

    26th International Workshop, IWOCA 2015, Verona, Italy, October 5-7, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Zsuzsanna Lipták, William F. Smyth ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings for the 26 International Workshop on combinatorial Algorithms, IWOCA 2015, held in Verona, Italy, in October 2015.The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 90 submissions. The topics of the papers include algorithms and data structures (including sequential, parallel, distributed ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Biotechnology Regulation and Trade

    by Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr, Peter W. B Phillips ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of the conflict, discussing the challenges of global governance, international trade, and the history of regulation of genetically ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • GM Agriculture and Food Security

    Fears and Facts

    by Stuart Smyth, William Kerr, Peter Phillips ...
    Efforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture. This book explores the theory, evidence and rhetoric of the impact of food production on the environment, and the impact of the environment on food production. The chapters address: food security and technology; expertise and opportunism; the promise of technology; the ... Read more

    $68.09 CAD