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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Focuses on four themes that recur in descriptions of the Niagara Falls: Niagara as a thing imagined from afar; as a metaphor for death; as an embodiment of nature; and as a focus of future events. As a cultural geographer, McGreevy connects the Niagara people imagine and the one that exists. ... Read more

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Decent book; gets too academic in places
Living 40 minutes from Niagara Falls for the past 12 years, I was anxious to read more about the history of the Falls, and McGreevy's "Imagining Niagara" was my choice.Overall, it's a decent book and covers a great breadth of topics revolving around how the meaning of Niagara has changed over time (the "Editors Reviews" are very good in describing this more).

It did, however, get a bit too in-depth and academic multiple times for an average, casual reader.I would not immediately recommend this as a first book for someone wanting to learn about Niagara Falls.

That said, some parts were completely enthralling.It went into very well-written discussions and explanations on topics of general interest to anyone.The best way to summarize this (and this occurred to me over and over as I read this book) is that, if you paid good money to hire a tour guide to take you around the Falls, you would want your tour guide to have read this book.A tour guide with this kind of insight would provide a wonderful, deeply-felt, lasting impression of your visit, far beyond the already immense feelings the common visitor to the Falls takes away.

In summary, if you're planning to visit to Falls and want to take away an extraordinary appreciation of the Falls, read this book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Virgil Patrick Copas, Vincent Eri, Tore Lokoloko, Chris Haiveta, Paul John Marx. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Archbishop Virgil Patrick Copas KBE MSC (19 March 1915 3 October 1993) was archbishop of Kerema and Port Moresby, both in Papua New Guinea. Copas was born on in Toowoomba, Queensland and on 23 July 1944, aged 29, he was ordained as Priest of the Order of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Archbishop James Duhig. On 19 December 1959 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and on 15 November 1966 he was appointed Archbishop of Port Moresby. On 19 December 1975, aged 60, he resigned as Archbishop of Port Moresby, but was appointed Archbishop (Personal Title) of Kerema, Papua New Guinea six months later. He resigned this position on 6 December 1988 and died in 1993, aged 78. He was a priest for 49 years and a bishop for 33 years. Alastair McIntosh, who was a Scottish VSO volunteer (1977-80) in St Peter's Extension School which he established at Kerema, records this (presently unpublished) memory of him: "My boss while I was there was Archbishop Virgil Copas. Hed retired from the capital city and had been proud to hand over to the first black archbishop. But instead of going back to Australia he chose to take up an unpopular posting in Gulf Province, one of the poorest parts of the country a vast malaria swamp fringed with densely forested mountains to the north. "During my first year, teaching in his school for no-hope kids, I became ever so close to him. He talked only when necessary, and people would complain about having gone for tea with the bishop but he said nothing. The truth was that he substituted words for presence and example. Maybe that was just as well because theologically he...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14458155 ... Read more

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A new multimedia e-dtion package includes the book and CD-ROM as well as access to the entire contents of the book online. The website is continuously updated, and offers links to important websites, calculators, the full text online, and all the illustrations--downloadable for presentations. A completely new editorial team presents the radical revision to this leading critical care text, previously edited by Shoemaker et al. Today's best coverage of both adult and pediatric critical care, with contributions from an impressive roster of world experts. In addition to numerous new chapters and many extensively rewritten ones, it features a completely new section on commonly encountered problems and a new, more user-friendly organization. The CD-ROM, bound into every copy, contains extended references plus all the illustrations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Studies in Romanticism, published by Boston University on December 22, 2003. The length of the article is 2129 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Michael Eberle-Sinatra, ed. Mary Shelley's Fictions: from "Frankenstein" to "Falkner.".(Book Review)
Author: Patrick Vincent
Publication: Studies in Romanticism (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2003
Publisher: Boston University
Volume: 42Issue: 4Page: 591(6)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Vincent Ward, Bill English, Tufuga Efi, Michael Fay, Michael King, Joe Karam, John Leslie, Simon Mannix, Mark O'regan, Martin Devlin, Patrick Power. Excerpt:The Honourable Simon William English MP Simon William "Bill" English (born 1961) is the Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Finance and Minister of Infrastructure of New Zealand . English entered parliament in 1990 as a National party MP representing the Wallace electorate. In 1999 English served as Minister of Finance for a brief period until National, under the leadership of Jenny Shipley at the time, lost the election later that year. In October 2001 he replaced Shipley as the leader of the National Party , but after a disastrous result in the 2002 election he was replaced as the leader by Don Brash in October 2003. After Don Brash's resignation in November 2006 he became deputy leader of the party under John Key , becoming the Deputy Prime Minister after a November 2008 election victory . Personal life English was born in the small Southland town of Dipton . He was a boarder at St. Patrick's College, Silverstream in Wellington, and was Head Boy. He later gained degrees in commerce at the University of Otago , where he was a resident at Selwyn College and in English literature , at Victoria University of Wellington . After completing his studies, he returned to Dipton to work as a farmer. In 1987, he returned to Wellington to work as a policy analyst in the New Zealand Treasury, returning to D... ... Read more

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Chapters: John Jesus Flanagan, Matt Mcgrath, Al Hall, Loree Smith, Dan John, Patrick Ryan, Harold Vincent Connolly, Lance Deal, Clarence Childs, Simon Gillis, Leander Talbott, Ken Flax, Jud Logan, Truxtun Hare, Kristal Yush, Bill Green, Jesseca Cross, Charles Redmon, Fred Tootell, Erin Gilreath, John Mcewen, A. G. Kruger, Melissa Myerscough, Larry Hart, Anna Mahon, John Dewitt, James Mceachern, Edward Burke, Charles Chadwick, Peter Zaremba, Basil Bennett, Edmund Black, Bob Bennett, Carol Cady, Scott Boothby, Albert Johnson, Amber Campbell, Don Gwinn, Jessica Cosby, Brittany Riley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 98. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Jesus Flanagan (January 9, 1873 June 3, 1938) was a three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw: 1900, 1904, and 1908. John Jesus Flanagan was born in Kilbreedy, County Limerick, Ireland on January 9, 1873. He emigrated to the United States in 1896. At that time he already held the world record for the hammer throw. He competed for both the New York Athletic Club and the Irish American Athletic Club. He was part of a group of Irish-American athletes known as the "Irish Whales." In 1900 Flanagan represented his new country at the Olympic Games in Paris, France. Flanagan, the only non-college man to medal for the Americans, outdistanced American athlete Truxton Hare by 4.75 meters in the hammer throw. Hare and Josiah McCracken, both college football players from Pennsylvania, took silver and bronze. Flanagan also competed in the discus throw, finishing seventh. Flanagan joined the New York City Police Department in 1903. His first assignment was the Bureau of Licenses, where he had little to do and could take time off to train and compete. In 1904, sporting the Winged Fist of the Irish American Athletic Club in St. Louis, M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4304121 ... Read more