Authors:David Taras, Frits Pannekoek, Maria Bakardjieva,
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Keywords: communicate, canadians
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2003-09
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1552381048
ISBN-13: 9781552381045

This is a timely collection that chronicles the extraordinary changes that are shaking the foundations of Canada’s cultural and communications industries in the twenty-first century. With essays from some of Canada’s foremost media scholars, this book discusses the major trends and developments that have taken place in government policy, corporate strategies, creative communities, and various communication mediums: newspapers, films, cellular and palm technology, the Internet, libraries, TV, music, and book publishing. This volume addresses many issues unique to Canada in a broader

Authors:David Taras, Maria Bakardjieva, Frits Pannekoek,
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Keywords: identity, globalization, media, communicate, canadians
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-06-11
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1552382249
ISBN-13: 9781552382240

In the first volume of "How Canadians Communicate" the editors examined and assessed the health of Canada’s cultural industries circa 2003. In this second volume, they not only undertake a new examination of Canada’s current media health, but also turn their attention to analysing the impact of the startling pace of global media proliferation on our country’s media institutions. The revolutionary changes underway in mass media technology, from blogs to peer-to-peer networks and the ubiquitous cell-phone, have all imposed structural modifications to global communication system

Author: A. Pannekoek
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: astronomy, books, dover, history
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 1989-07-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0486659941
ISBN-13: 9780486659947

Well-balanced, carefully reasoned study relates astronomy to political, social conditions of the day. Part I covers ancient astronomy, including Ptolemaic theory; Part II discusses Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, laws of celestial mechanics. Part III covers modern developments up to work of Eddington. Author saw astronomy as an adventure of the mind. Illustrated.

Authors:Anton Pannekoek, Robert F. Barsky,
Publisher: AK Press
Keywords: councils, workers
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1902593561
ISBN-13: 9781902593562

Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents provided the main opposition to the Bolsheviks. Rarely printed, often cited, Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils is the Das Kapital of Left Communism. This updated edition includes a substantial introduction from Noam Chomsky, illuminating the continuing relevance of this classic text."An urgent message to the future— are we listening?—from th

Author: Frits van der Leede
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: second, encyclopedia, water
Number of Pages: 824
Published: 1990-01-31
List price: $269.95
ISBN-10: 0873711203
ISBN-13: 9780873711203

A million facts and figures, valuable for many uses-all in one volume. Years of professional scientific work, selection, and organization went into this encyclopedia.ALL NEWEvery Fact, every figure, every table, chart, diagram, and figure is all-new since the first edition. Double the Content-This new edition gives you twice the material and twice the data of the original book.ALL THE FACTS THAT COUNToGround water contaminationoDrinking wateroFloodsoWaterborne diseasesoGlobal warmingoClimate changeoIrrigationoWater agencies and organizationsoPrecipitationoOceans and seasoRivers, lakes and wate

Author: Bobbie Frits
Publisher: DRG
Keywords: throws, amp, afghans, crochet, sensational
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1573672785
ISBN-13: 9781573672788

Our talented designers created these out-of-the-ordinary afghans using their favorite yarns and stitch patterns.

Author: Frits Kalshoven
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: law, humanitarian, international, implementation
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1989-07-20
List price: $263.00
ISBN-10: 9024737842
ISBN-13: 9789024737840