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Chapters: John Kenneth Galbraith, Helen Shaver, Sperry Cline, Audrey McLaughlin, James Craig Watson, Justin Azevedo, James E. Murray, Joseph Flintoft Berry, Wilson Mills, Colin Campbell, Dwight Wilson, Mahlon Burwell, Murray Barr, Ann Shipley, George Blewett, Silas Alexander Ramsay, Daniel Luton, Fred Bodsworth, Donald Macnish, Dave Sparenberg,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. 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 Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 1970s and he filled the role of public intellectual in this period on matters of economics. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He taught at Harvard University for many years. Galbraith was active in politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; and among other roles served as United States Ambassador to India under Kennedy. He was one of the few honorees who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice. He received one in 1946 from President Truman and another in 2000 from President Bill Clinton. He was also awarded the Order of Canada in 1997 and, in 2001, the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, for his contributions to strengthening ties between India and the United States. Galbraith was born to Canadians of Scottish descent, Archibald "Archie" Galbraith an...http://booksllc.net/?id=84271 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alanis Obomsawin, Wendy Crewson, Helen Shaver, Molly Parker, Suzanne Cloutier, Sarah Polley, Mary Walsh, Micheline Charest, Susan Clark, Gloria Reuben, Jennifer Dale, Anne Wheeler, Nell Shipman, Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, Lisa Jakub, Denise Di Novi, Cynthia Scott, Tamara Williamson, Marguerite Duparc, Holly Dale, Deepa Mehta, Hejer Charf, Patricia Rozema, Valerie Buhagiar, Dorothy Todd Hénaut, Tonya Lee Williams, Nisha Ganatra, Cathy Jones, Nia Vardalos, Gail Harvey, Leila Basen, Mary Harron, Louise Carré, Eva Almos, Catherine Martin, Lorraine Dufour, Erica Ehm, Sandy Wilson, Shauna Robertson, Amanda Mackay. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Alanis Obomsawin, née le 31 août 1932, est une cinéaste documentariste Abénaquis québécoise (Canada). Cinéaste prolifique et reconnue internationalement, elle a réalisé/produit/scénarisé plusieurs documentaires avec l'ONF sur la culture et l'histoire des amérindiens. Le plus connu est sans doute Kanehsatake - 270 ans de résistance, le premier de quatre documentaires traitant de la Crise d'Oka de 1990 qui gagna 18 prix de par le monde. Jean-Paul Nolet, ancien animateur de radio et de télévision a aussi grandit sur la réserve d'Odanak. Alanis Obomsawin est née au New Hampshire sur sol Abénaquis. À l'âge de six mois, sa mère et elle sont retournées vivre à la réserve Odanak au Nord-Est de Montréal où ils vécurent 9 ans. Son cousin du côté maternel, Théophile Panadis, l'initia à l'histoire de la nation Abénaquis et lui appris plusieurs chansons et légendes. À l'âge de 10 ans, ils quittèrent Odanak pour s'installer à Trois-Rivières. Parlant peu le français et aucunement l'anglais, et étant la seule famille amérindienne du quartier, elle s'y sentait isolée et se con...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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An award-winning collection of ten stories that charts the complexities of modern life and explores the strange and secret places of the heart. The gruesome discoveries of an archaeological dig in Britain find parallels in a contemporary love affair; a girl disappears without a trace and returns to haunt a collection of landscape paintings; a nineteenth-century case of mass-poisoning on the famous Franklin Expedition stirs memories of a dead friend; a woman exacts a fittingly wicked revenge on her ex-lover; a well-known journalist is betrayed by a former mentor and friend. Brilliantly rendered, disturbing, poignant at times, scathingly humorous at others, Wilderness Tips imbues the familiar world in which we live with indelible truths.


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