Authors:Gifford, Donald Gifford, John Salter,
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Keywords: parliament, understand
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 1859412068
ISBN-13: 9781859412060

There is a very real need today for people to know how to approach an understanding of the numerous Acts of Parliament and other forms of legislation, including European Legislation. Neither an Act of Parliament nor European Regulations, decisions or directives can be read without reference to the special rules of interpretation that have evolved and which govern this and indeed govern legislation in all the other forms that it takes today.

Author: Rob Gifford
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Keywords: road, china
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-05-16
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0786157909
ISBN-13: 9780786157907

National Public Radio’s Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world’s most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford’s twenty years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China’s border with Kazakhstan. As he takes the reader on this journey, he will also take us through China’s past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation’s potential future.

Author: Rob Gifford
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: rising, power, future, journey, road, china
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0812975243
ISBN-13: 9780812975246

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with K

Author: Don Gifford
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: ulysses, joyce, james, notes, annotated
Number of Pages: 694
Published: 2008-01-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0520253973
ISBN-13: 9780520253971

Don Gifford’s annotations to Joyce’s great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of Ulysses. The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of his literary method. The annotations in this volume illuminate details which are not in the public realm for most of us. The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend an

Author: C.G. Gifford
Publisher: Lorimer
Keywords: seniors, fighting, canada
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 1550283146
ISBN-13: 9781550283143

First published in 1990, this book charts the emergence and rapid growth of Canada’s powerful seniors’ movement. Seniors’ political clout has been increasingly evident since the mid-eighties, when their protest convinced Brian Mulroney to drop his efforts to limit pension benifits. Gifford’s book provides a short history of seniors’ organizing and tells the personal and organizational stories of today’s seniors’ groups. Sections on the work of seniors’ groups in the United States and Europe add a global dimension to the book’s analysis.Cana

Author: Jim Gifford
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Keywords: century, storm, canada, hazel, hurricane
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2004-08-03
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1550025260
ISBN-13: 9781550025262

On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel battered southern Ontario, leaving in its wake a terrible toll: thousands homeless, $25 million in property damage, and, worst of all, 81 people dead. Hazel destroyed bridges, submerged towns, and drowned unsuspecting Ontarians in their homes and cars. Raymore Drive in Weston was decimated when the Humber River swelled by eight feet, taking the lives of 32 residents in only one hour. In Etobicoke, five volunteer firemen drowned while trying to reach marooned motorists. Towns and villages from Toronto north to Timmins felt Hazel’s fury. After the storm, pe

Author: Don Gifford
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: artist, man, portrait, dubliners, annotated, notes, joyce
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1982-11-13
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0520046102
ISBN-13: 9780520046108

In James Joyce’s early work, as in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden signififances in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man would require an encyclopedic knowledge of life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dublin such as few readers possess. Now this substantially revised and expanded edition of Don Gifford’s Notes to Joyce: "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" puts the requisite knowledge at the disposal of scholars, stu