Author: Henry C. Klassen
Publisher: University Of Calgary Press
Keywords: alberta, history, business
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1999-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1552380092
ISBN-13: 9781552380093

Businesses large and small have always been an integral part of Alberta’s identity and growth. Exploring the evolution of business growth in Alberta, Dr Klassen’s study examines the role businesses have played in the economic, political and social development of the province. This book offers an unprecedented look at the birth of business firms, and the subsequent effects these had upon wider political and cultural matters in Alberta.

Author: Henry C. Klassen
Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr
Keywords: bow, valley, calgary, people, future, business, eye
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2002-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1552380785
ISBN-13: 9781552380789

An accessible business history that considers the dynamic interplay between economic climate and the personal determination of business people in the late 1800s. The book provides insight into how entrepreneurs, retailers, manufacturers, bankers, farmers, and ranchers pioneered a booming business city. It discusses the people and activities that helped to create the conditions in which Calgary emerged as a city and the Bow Valley an important agricultural centre. Historical figures such as Isaac G Baker, Agnes K Bedingfeld, and James A Lougheed in the context of business in Calgary. The author

Author: Julie Klassen
Publisher: Bethany House
Keywords: manor, milkweed, lady
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0764204793
ISBN-13: 9780764204791

As Charlotte drew closer to the looming grey edifice that was to become her temporary home, she could not help but notice the secretive shuttered windows. Then she noticed the milkweeds.... Even a proper vicar’s daughter can make a mistake--and now Charlotte Lamb must pay a high price for her fall. To avoid the prying eyes of all who know her, she hides herself away in London’s forbidding "Milkweed Manor," a place of mystery and lore, of old secrets and new birth. But once there, she comes face to face with a suitor from her past--a man who now hides secrets of his own. Both

Author: Norman Klassen
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, sight, knowledge, love
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1996-12-15
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 085991464X
ISBN-13: 9780859914642

In this study, Norman Klassen shows how Chaucer explores the complexity of the relationship between love and knowledge through recourse to the motif of sight. The convention of love at first sight involves love, knowledge, and sight, but insists that the claims of love and the realm of the rational are in strict opposition. In the metaphysical tradition, however, the relationship between love, knowledge and sight is more complex, manifesting both qualities of opposition and of symbiosis, similar to that found in late medieval natural philosophy. The author argues that Chaucer is unorthodox in

Author: Peter J. Klassen
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: anabaptist, pietist, studies, books, center, modern, poland, prussia, mennonites
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-04-21
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0801891132
ISBN-13: 9780801891137

At a time when religious conflicts and persecution plagued early modern Europe, Poland and Prussia were havens for Mennonites and other religious minorities. Noted Anabaptist scholar Peter J. Klassen examines this extraordinary example of religious tolerance. Through extensive archival research in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands, Klassen unearths rich material that has rarely, if ever, been studied previously. He demonstrates how the interaction of religious, political, and economic factors created a situation in Poland and Prussia that permitted a diversity of religious beliefs and pract

Author: Julie Klassen
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Keywords: daughter, apothecary
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764204807
ISBN-13: 9780764204807

Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure and experience than life in her father’s shop and their small village provides. She also longs to know the truth behind her mother’s disappearance, which villagers whisper about but her father refuses to discuss. Opportunity comes when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London. Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lilly is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father’s bedside. Women are forbidden to work as apothecaries, so to

Authors:James Cosgrave, Thomas Klassen,
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: canada, gambling, legalized, state, casino
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-02-05
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0802096883
ISBN-13: 9780802096883

While there has been an unprecedented explosion of legalized gambling in Canada - particularly in the form of casinos and electronic games - the public has become increasingly aware of addictions to gambling. Casino State is a timely collection that examines the controversial role of the state as a promoter of gambling activities often against the best interest of its citizens. Investigating the tensions that arise from the relationships between gambling and morality, risk, social policy, crime, and youth problem gambling, these essays draw upon a range of disciplines to consider the econom