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British Railways 1948-73
Originally published in 1986, this is a business history of the first twenty-five years of nationalised railways in Britain. Commissioned by the British Railways Board and based on the Board's extensive archives, it fully analyses the dynamics of nationalised industry management and the complexities of the vital relationship with government. After exploring the origins of nationalisation, the book deals with the organisation, financial performance, investment and commercial policies of the British Transport Commission (1948-2), Railway Executive (1948-53) and British Railways Board (1963-73). Calculations of profit and loss, investment, and productivity are provided on a consistent basis for 1948-73. This business history thus represents a major contribution not only to the debate about the role of the railways in a modern economy but also to that concerning the nationalised industries, which have proved to be one of the most enduring problems of the British economy since the war.
Costa Blanca
Raymond Fraser - best known as a journalist, and someone who was praised by Alden Nowlen as "one of the most gifted writers" in the country, has written a novella set in Spain, Boston, Toronto and the east coast of Canada. It is Raymond Fraser's fifth book of fiction, and like so much of his writing, it is filled with an unforgettable cast of characters: a superannuated hooker, a self-made tonsorial entrepreneur, a youth tangled in the shame of ignorance and poverty. Into this mix, Fraser draws us a picture of a ill-starred reunion of childhood sweethearts, showing us an alcoholic writer's search for a Spanish fantasy and a cigar-chewing ex-con beguiled by the bright lights of Tin Pan Alley.... It is also provocative and unfailingly entertaining.
Farewell To The Good Old Days
Farewell to the Good Old Days is a lively and intimate tale by David Greatrix, a man who has lived a dynamic professional life, first as an aerospace engineer and then as a professor of the subject. The book, leaning heavily on the actual life experiences of Greatrix and a number of his academic colleagues close and far away, is divided into two discrete parts; the book’s narrator for both parts is nominally a fictional consolidated representation of Greatrix, drawing from various sources in addition to the author. Part One covers the narrator’s childhood and early adulthood, followed by his moving into his years of growth as a professional breaking into the challenging field of aerospac...
Floyd Patterson
This knockout biography follows boxing legend Floyd Patterson, civil rights activist, national icon, and the youngest man to win the World Heavyweight Champion title, and the first to ever win the title twice.
Through Sunlight and Shadows
Through Sunlight and Shadows is an autobiographical novel about a young boy set in the small New Brunswick town of Bannonbridge in the 1940s and 1950s. The story is told from the perspective of an older man, Walt Macbride, a character well known to readers of other Raymond Fraser novels."When I think back to those early days," he says, "my first feeling is of darkness inside our home, and sunshine in the yard outside. But if I think a little more I can find sunshine within and darkness without." Macbride's "memoir" is a vivid portrayal of childhood, a time when every experience is new and fresh, and when the innocence and bright expectations of the young inevitably run into life's not always kind realities. Those who began life in the middle of the last century frequently describe that era as "the best time of all to have been young," and a town like Bannonbridge as "the greatest place in the world to grow up in."
South Shore Phrase Book
Collected from the talk of the people who live along Nova Scotia's South Shore, from Halifax to Yarmouth on the Atlantic shore, this book is a lively guide to the unusual way they speak. It is both very old, including words and phrases spoken but not written down since before Chaucer, and in a lively way, new and elaborate, like the original, complete version of "happy as a clam." It provides a guide to the life and character of these resilient fisher and farm folk. The work is illustrated with old photographs from the region, and it includes scholarly appendices on "Elizabethan English on Nova Scotia's South Shore" and "Rough Measure in Maritime Dialect Research," the latter written with Ja...
The Yoko Ono Project
Three very different Asian-Canadian women fall into the world of Yoko Ono -- her music, art, Instruction Poems and words -- and are never the same again. A cheeky multimedia performance art comedy, The Yoko Ono Project unravels and investigates the demonization of one of the most intriguing and controversial artists in North American pop culture.
