Author: David J. Bercuson
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: general, strike, relations, industrial, winnipeg, labour, confrontation
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1990-11
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0773507949
ISBN-13: 9780773507944

Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the strike.

Authors:David Bercuson, Holger H. Herwig,
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: bismarck, destruction
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2001-10-29
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1585671924
ISBN-13: 9781585671922

Late in the morning of May 27th, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by an overwhelming British armada in a fierce battle that lasted ninety minutes. Admiral Günther Lütjens, Captain Ernst Lindemann and 2,206 men of her crew were lost; only 115 survived. Five days earlier, at 5:00 p.m. on May 22nd, an RAF reconnaissance plane flying low off the coast of Norway spotted four large warships in the sea below. At 32,000 tons apiece, the sight of the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau was shocking enough; even more so was the sight of the 42,000-ton sister ships— t

Authors:S. F. Wise, David J. Bercuson, S. F. Wise, David J. B
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: revisited, horror, valour
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 1994-11
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0773512713
ISBN-13: 9780773512719

In January 1992 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( cbs ) broadcast "The valour and the horror", a three-part television series on Canada’s role in World War II. It sparked a major controversy among viewers, war veterans, and historians. Brian and Terence McKenna of Galafilm, the authors-producers of the series, were accused of distorting historical facts, maligning individuals such as commanders Arthur Harris and Guy Simonds, presenting a biased account of events, and overstepping the line between journalism and drama. "The valour and the horror revisited" brings together source doc

Author: Kenneth Bercuson
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Keywords: paper, intl, monetary, fund, occasional, development, case, study, rapid, singapore
Number of Pages: 67
Published: 1995-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1557754632
ISBN-13: 9781557754639

Authors:David Jessop, David Jones, Peter Baily, David Farmer,
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Keywords: management, principles, purchasing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-01-13
List price: $89.50
ISBN-10: 0273646893
ISBN-13: 9780273646891

Providing a proactive managerial view of the purchasing function, this text meets the needs of the modern manager as a practical guide and satisfies the requirements of students of purchasing management, whether functional, specialist or general. Suitable for undergraduate Business or Engineering students taking a module in Purchasing and Supplies Management, MBA and CIPS students.

Authors:Joyce E. Penner, David Lister, David J. Griggs, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: report, special, atmosphere, global, aviation
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521664047
ISBN-13: 9780521664042

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report is the most comprehensive assessment available on the effects of aviation on the global atmosphere. The report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft that modify the chemical properties of the atmosphere, leading to changes in radiative properties and climate change, and modification of the ozone layer, leading to changes in ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth. This volume provides accurate, unbiased, policy-relevant information and is designed to serve the aviation industry and the expert and policymaking

Authors:David Wray, David Lee, Andrew Clark, David Stenhouse,
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: surgery, oral, general, textbook
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-08-28
List price: $92.95
ISBN-10: 0443070830
ISBN-13: 9780443070839

This practical resource helps readers arrive at an integrated understanding of both general and oral surgery — in one convenient text. A companion to Wray: Textbook of General and Oral Medicine, it provides the basic principles of general surgery and general medicine and a more detailed knowledge of certain areas of these specialties which are related to dentistry or have an influence on the practice of dentistry.