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On the Front Line of Life
In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress.
Social Criticism
Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada's foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fact, Leacock was a professor of political economy, and more than half of his writings addressed the pressing issues of his day. This volume represents the neglected aspect of Leacock's career, gathering together his writings on a range of subjects, including imperialism, education and culture, religion and morality, feminism, prohibition, and social justice. The collection begins with 'Greater Canada: an appeal,' which dates from 1907, when Leacock was a popular lecturer advancing the cause of impe...
A Time Such as There Never Was Before
Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands. What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.
Sheet Metal 2015
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 16th International Conference on Sheet Metal (SheMet 2015), March 16-18, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. The 70 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Keynote; Chapter 2: Forming; Chapter 3: Bending; Chapter 4: Incremental Forming; Chapter 5: Hot Stamping; Chapter 6: Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming; Chapter 7: Materials Testing; Chapter 8: Modelling; Chapter 9: Cutting and Joining; Chapter 10: Planning; Chapter 11: MatProFuture
Sheet Metal 2013
The collection provides an outlet for both industry and academia alike to present their latest findings in the area of sheet metal forming. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). There are 69 peer reviewed contributions from Industry and academia representing 23 Countries. The research presented covers a diverse field from the fundamental testing and characterisation of sheet metals to the development of new and innovative forming processes.
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The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
What is the meaning of all this that we see? Is this wealth or is it povery? asks Stephen Leacock in this clear-headed and highly readable study of work, wages, and social utopia. The world seems filled with money and short of goods -- while even in the midst of this very scarcity a new luxury has broken out, he states. The capitalist rides in his ten thousand dollar motorcar. The seven-dollar-a-day artisan plays merrily on his gramophone in the broad daylight of his afternoon that is saved, like all else, by being 'borrowed' from the morning While he gained his fame as a writer from such amusing books as Frenzied Fiction, Nonsense Novels, and Literary Lapses, Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was also Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal.
The Leacock Roundabout
This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.
