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Eyles, Nick and Andrew Miall: Canada Rocks: The Geologic Journey ( Canadian Geology ) Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2007, 1st Edition, 1st Printing ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 1550418602
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-----------large (quarto) softcover, a Very Good+ copy with a bit of light wear, 512 pages, packed with colour photos and illustrations, contents include: NTRODUCTION; ABOUT THE AUTHOR ; ---CHAPTER 1: A HELLISH BEGINNING --- The Hadean; The start of something Really Big 14 billion years ago; From dust to a planet; The earliest continents: a watery birth ; The birth of the Archean: a unique Canadian record; Early life on Earth ---CHAPTER 2: MOVING EARTH: PLATE TECTONICS --- Looking deep into planet Earth; Crust, mantle and core; The Earth stirs and our crust move; The formation and destruction of lithospheric plates; Where plates move away from each other: making oceanic crust; Where plates collide: the subduction factory Where plates slide past each other: transform boundaries ; Plate collisions and the building of continents;Volcanic activity and plate tectonics; Volcanoes at the edges of plates ; Volcanoes in the middle of plates: hot spots ; Under heat and pressure: metamorphic rocks; Plate tectonics: is it the only model of how Earth works? ; LIPS and MOMO events; MOMO events and the history of life; Dynamic topography; Rock stars: the impact of meteorites; Paleomagnetism and moving plates; The rock cycle and sedimentary basins ; A final comment on plate tectonics ---CHAPTER 3: THE UNITED PLATES OF CANADA: FOUR BILLION YEARS OF TECTONIC ACTIVITY --- Construction and breakup: how continents evolve ; The earliest continents; From Arctica to Nena to Rodinia ; The beginning of the Paleozoic: the explosion of Rodinia ; The assembly of Pangea ; The breakup of Pangea and the westward drift of North America ; The last few million years ---CHAPTER 4: CANADA'S HEARTLAND: THE SHIELD ----A crustal collage built by plate tectonics ; Provinces and cratons; The North American craton vs. the Canadian Shield ; History of the North American craton: a tale of four continents (Arctica, Nena, Columbia and Rodinia) ; The first North American continent (c. 2.7 Ga): Arctica ; Formation of the Slave Province ; Formation of the Superior Province; the largest piece of the craton ; The Slave and Superior provinces weld together ; Glaciation in the Huronian; The younger North American continents (c. 2.0 to 1.5 Ga): Nena and Columbia ; The Trans-Hudson, Thelon, Wopmay and Penokean orogenies ; The Trans-Hudson Orogeny in eastern Canada ; The Sudbury structure: A gigantic meteorite strike; Nena on the rack: The Midcontinent Rift; The third North American continent (c. 1.7 to 1 Ga): part of Rodinia ; The Grenville Province in central Canada; The Grenville Province in eastern Canada ; Granites and moon rocks of the Grenville Orogen; The end of Rodinia (1 Ga to 600 Ma): Laurentia breaks free ; Disappearing mountains and the formation of the Canadian Shield; Early life in Canada ; Eozoon canadense ; Prokaryotes: the earliest bacteria ; The Eukaryotes: building blocks of animals and plants ; Life diversifies: the Cambrian explosion ----CHAPTER 5: GIANT SEAS COVER THE SHIELD: THE INTERIOR PLATFORM --- The big picture ; The platform ; The sedimentary cover ;; The idea of "sequences" ; Sequences in Canada; Earth processes that formed the sequences ; The puzzles of epeirogeny and eustasy ; Some events that plate tectonics cannot explain ; Dynamic topography ; Three surface processes driven by mantle heat ; How the three processes explain the geology of Canada's interior platform; The geography of giant seas ; Thinking about the Bahamas ; Along the margins of the craton ; The middle of the craton ; Something different at Niagara; Devonian rocks ; Reefs and oil ; Other Devonian rocks; Pangea interval ; Orogeny and transgression in the Cretaceous ;Unrest in the west ; The highest seas of all time ; The seas depart; Marking time: Global Standard Sections and Points ;---CHAPTER 6: BUILDING EASTERN CANADA --- Plate tectonics began here ; The puzzle of the trilobites ; The modern era begins; Rodinia breaks up and the Iapetus Ocean is born ; The Taconic orogeny and the closure of Iapetus ; Animal life on the margins of Iapetus; A glimpse of an ancient sea floor and the mantle below ; Seeing the Moho ; Pillows and smokers; The plate collision continues ; The end of the Taconic; Exotic fragments arrive from Europe and Africa ; The quest for Avalon: looking in Africa ; Avalon arrives: the Acadian Orogeny ; Meguma moves in; The final assembly of Pangea ; Alleghanian squeezing; The Maritime Rift ; In the end lies the beginning; Pangea breaks up and the Atlantic Ocean is born ; Foundering in Fundy ; Hibernia reservoirs take shape; ---CHAPTER 7: BUILDING ARCTIC CANADA --- Exploring by sea and by air ; Tectonic setting ; The Canadian Shield ; The Arctic platform ; The Franklinian basin ; Sverdrup basin ;; Arctic coastal plain;Early Paleozoic evolution of the Franklinian ;; Basin and Pearya ; Tectonism and sedimentation in the Siluro-Devonian: the end of the Franklinian Basin ;The Sverdrup Basin 1: Upper Paleozoic ;The Sverdrup Basin 2: The Mesozoic ; The final phase: Greenland's brief life as a separate plate ; The island topography evolves ---CHAPTER 8: BUILDING WESTERN CANADA --- The big picture ; Horses, helicopters and terranes; Small bugs but big clues: signposts to Western Canada's origins ; Wrangellia: a far travelled terrane ; The Cordillera as collage of terranes; Pangea breaks up and western North America scoops up terranes ; Anatomy and growth of the Canadian Cordillera ; Foreland Belt and Omineca Belt ; Intermontane Belt ; The Insular Belt and Coast Belt; The importance of strike slip faulting ; Volcanoes in western Canada: legacy of an active plate margin ; The Rocky Mountains ; Up and down; but also sideways; the key to the Rocky Mountains ; Mountains and Prairie are inextricably linked ; The development of the fold-thrust belt; The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin ; Patterns of sedimentation ; Cycles of sedimentation ; The sculpting of the modern Foothills and Prairies; The Rockies and the basin "north of 60" ;The Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin ----CHAPTER 9: WHEN THE ICE SHEETS CAME --- Frozen history: Canada's glacial heritage ; What is a glacier?; Continental ice sheets: the discovery of ice ages ; Louis Agassiz's 'great plough' ; John William Dawson and icebergs ; Joseph B. Tyrrell and the great Canadian ice sheet; Countdown to cold ; Plate tectonics and the start of global cooling (55 Ma) ; The deep freeze comes to Canada (3 Ma): the first ice sheets ; The deep sea record of ice ages: astronomical controls on climate; Timesl(ice)s of the last (Laurentide) ice sheet ; The ice sheet begins to grow (110 ka) ; The ice sheet reaches its maximum size (20 ka) ; The ice sheet melts: our interglacial (the Holocene) begins (10 ka) ; The answer to the climate puzzle may lie in space ; The future?; Canada's glacial landscapes ; Canadian Shield ; The plains of western and central Canada ; The Cordillera ; The offshore record ---CHAPTER 10: ROCKY RESOURCES: MINING IN CANADA --- About 11,000 years ago: Canada's first mines ; 1000 A.D The Europeans arrive ; Mid 1800's: The birth of the modern mining industry ;Going underground: the first hard rock mines; Late 1800's: Railways and mining ;Sudbury copper and nickel ; Cobalt silver; Gold in Western Canada ; Placer gold ; The 1858 gold rush and the Province of British Columbia ; The 1896 gold rush in the Yukon Territory; Iron ;Iron Formations ; Labrador: The iron centre of Canada ; Bell Island, Newfoundland: mining ironstone under the ocean; Nickel ; Voisey's Bay, Labrador; Diamonds: facets of a new industry ;.1 North America's first diamond (1843) ; Recent discoveries; Mining ancient ocean floors: the importance of hydrothermal alteration ; Volcanogenic massive sulphides of the Archean ; VMS deposits of the Ordovician Iapetus Ocean ; Cretaceous VMS deposits of British Columbia ; Hydrothermal lode gold ; Water under the volcano: porphyry deposits; Skarn deposits ;Deep weathering and mineral deposits in Canada; Uranium ;Oil and gas ; The international oil industry begins (1858) ; Mining for oil: Canada's Tar Sands industry ; Natural gas ; Gas hydrates; energy from ice; Coal ;Coalbed methane; Potash and salt ; Building with rock ; The future ;---CHAPTER 11: CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE ---From geology to geoscience ; Water wealth ; The urban threat to water ; Waste and waters ; Cleaning up our chemical mess ;.; Case histories; The tectonic threat: earthquakes ; Seismic zones in Canada; Unstable slopes ; Case histories; Climate change ; The climate-change debate ; Living with changing climate: permafrost in Canada's far north ; Canada's Arctic challenge ; Ice shelf disintegration on Ellesmere Island: sign of a climatic crisis? ; Going to extremes: worse weather to come?; Geology and our health;POSTSCRIPT: GEOLOGY AND THE BUILDING OF A CANADIAN IDENTITY ; ROCKTALES ;GLOSSARY ;SOURCE OF ILLUSTRATIONS ;INDEX , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo First Edition Soft Cover; First Edition

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Merrell, James H. Into the American Woods : Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier, New York, NY, U.S.A. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated 1999 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0393046761
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463 pages including index. An award-winning historian's beautifully written reconstruction of how Europeans lived in peace and war with Indians on America's colonial frontier. Long erased from history - overlooked even in Benjamin West's famous painting of William Penn's legendary encounter with the Indians - the go-betweens of early America are recovered here in vivid detail. "... subtle, original, and engaging all at once... His creative and elegant narrative not only explores an intiguing subject; it opens up a whole new perspective on parts of eighteenth-century American life that we thought we already understood." - Peter H. Wood, Duke University. A new unread copy. NEW Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: FRONTIER PIONEER LIFE PENNSYLVANIA INDIANS NORTH AMERICA GOVERNMENT RELATIONS POLITICS HISTORY COLONIAL PERIOD CA 1600 1775 PIONEERS BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY HISTORICAL NATIVE AMERICAN UNITED STATES STATE LOCAL SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES Into the American Woods : Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier frontier and Pioneer Life Pennsylvania History Colonial Period 1600-1775 17th Century 18th Century Negotiation Indians of North America Government Relations Intercultural Communication 463 pages including index. An award-winning historian's beautifully written reconstruction of how Europeans lived in peace and war with Indians on America's colonial frontier. Long erased from history - overlooked even in Benjamin West's famous painting of William Penn's legendary encounter with the Indians - the go-betweens of early America are recovered here in vivid detail. Virgin copy. 463 pages including index. An award-winning historian's beautifully written reconstruction of how Europeans lived in peace and war with Indians on America's colonial frontier. Long erased from history - overlooked even in Benjamin West's famous painting of William Penn's legendary encounter with the Indians - the go-betweens of early America are recovered here in vivid detail. "... subtle, original, and engaging all at once... His creative and elegant narrative not only explores an intiguing subject; it opens up a whole new perspective on parts of eighteenth-century American life that we thought we already understood." - Peter H. Wood, Duke University. Virgin copy. Native Peoples History]

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KAHN, AVA F. & DOLLINGER, MARC (EDITORS). California Jews. Brandeis University Press, Waltham / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2003.

216 pages. The first full-length presentation of Jewish life, history, and culture in California from the Gold Rush to the twenty-first century. In the late nineteenth century, a Jewish resident in the small Romanian town of Husch received a letter from a friend in America. "If you want to be poor all your life," the writer admonished, "go to New York." Otherwise, he advised, "go to the other side," meaning California, where the 1848 discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills unleashed a massive migration from Europe, Asia, and the eastern United States. From these early days forward, the state's Jewish community has challenged cultural assumptions about American Jewish life, assumptions almost entirely based on the experiences of east coast Jews. The union's thirty-first state emerged early as one of the nation's most diverse. California's indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by the arrival of gold miners from every corner of the world. Because of its Catholic missionary history, eastern-style Protestantism did not dominate Gold Rush California, permitting a more rapid and inclusive immigrant acculturation process. And, unlike their eastern counterparts, California Jews were often among the first settlers to establish a west coast community. Jewish immigrants to California took advantage of its physical environment, ethnic diversity, and cultural distinctiveness to fashion a form of Judaism unique in the American experience. California Jews enjoyed unprecedented access to political power a generation earlier than their New York counterparts. They thrived in the multicultural mix, redefining the classic black-white racial binary by forging relations with a variety of religious and ethnic groups in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. This lavishly illustrated volume is the first to look at a variety of issues that have shaped California Jewry over its one hundred and fifty year history. Essays discuss Jews and the gold rush, synagogue architecture, Latino-Jewish relations in Los Angeles, the Jewish community of Venice, kibbutzniks in San Fernando, Hollywood's Jewish organizational leadership, Jewish response to Japanese incarceration during World War II, post-war affiliations between Jews and Catholics in the Bay area, San Diego Jewish life and its connection to SDSU, Jewish women's activism, the California counter-culture, and the birth of Brandeis Camp Institute. The volume also includes two photo essays that capture different styles of California Jewish artNthe Ketubot (wedding contracts) of artist Robert Saslow, and the work of Michelle and David Plachte-Zuiback, Jewish stained glass artists. The book analyses themes such as "Jews in the Gold Rush, behind-the-scenes Jewish influence on Hollywood during the 1930's, and the success of Jewish women in politics, among other issues" that add "considerably to our understanding of the complex history of ethnic California." NCalifornia History "California Jews offers a window into one of the most intriguing communities in American Jewish history." NJewish Telegraphic Agency "California Jews is a presentation of Jewish life, history, and culture in California that explores relations with other ethnic groups, social change, innovations, demography, and community history." NSHOFAR The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Foreword by Moses Rischin * Acknowledgment & Introduction "The Other Side" * Chapter 1. The Challenge of Family, Identity, and Affiliations * Chapter 2. Jioning the Rush * Chapter 3. Early Synagogue Architecture * Chapter 4. Through the Lens of Latino-Jewish Relations * Chapter 5 Jewish Space and Place in Venice * Chapter 6. "Kibbutz San Fernando" * Chapter 7. Ketubot of the Golden State * Chapter 8. Jewish Leader and the Motion Picture Industry * Chapter 9. Civil rights and Japanese American Incarceration * Chapter 10. Jew and Catholics Against Prejudice * Chapter 11. From Minyan to Matriculatoin * Chapther 12. 120 Years of Women's Activism * Champter 13. The Counterculture * Chapter 14. Contemporary Art Glass * Chapter 15 Shlomo Bardin's "Eretz" Brandeis * Contributing Authors * Bibliographical Essay * Index. Ava F. Kahn has taught in the Jewish Studies programs of The University of California at Davis and San Francisco State University. Her publications include Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849-1880 (2002) and Jewish Life in the American West: Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community (2002). Marc Dollinger is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, San Francisco State University, and the author of Quest For Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America (2000). "The color illustrations are glorious; the large photos and reprints of documents are clear and engrosing . . . Each chapter is a self contained topic, chapters advancing chrnologically from the 1848 Gold Rush to the 1990's. Readers can pick and choose subjects and be assured when they do that they will be well informed by digestible facts, insightful analysis, sources an footnotes . . . California Judaism is as sound as it is spirited. California Jews is the book to convince you; try it!"NJewish Book World Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

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Cascone, Gina: LIFE AL DENTE: LAUGHTER AND LOVE IN AN ITALIAN-AMERICAN FAMILY, New York Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 2003
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Before the Sopranos, there were the Cascones .. Life al Dente, the new memoir from the author of Pagan Babies, brings the same wit and wonder to the telling of Gina Cascone's Italian-American girlhood .. well, boyhood actually. In an Italian family, few things are a greater handicap than being born female, but Gina's Dad generously decides to overlook this shortcoming and raise Gina as a boy - the son he always wanted. As lawyer to numerous "alleged" mobsters, Dad had some colorful clents who would regularly gather around the basement pool table to talk business, drink and be hustled by junior high Gina. There was no way Gina was going to turn into one of the big hair girls of Italian-American stereotype, but her journey would have all the bumps that come with that cherished immigrant ambition of moving from steerage to the suburbs in three generations. That sense of dislocation came early for Gina as her family moved from the kind of neighborhood where old men play bocce and the pet frogs are named Nunzio to one where Barbies and frozen food prevail. And though Gina's brains got her into the top high school, she quickly made the lonely discovery that she was the only one there whose name ended in a vowel. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Cascone's contribution to the ever-burgeoning category of Italian-American memoirs is rife with classic images of massive family dinners and old spinsters who put evil spells (mal'occhio) on deserving family members. Yet for all its predictability, the account still manages to unpack the ethnic experience, as Cascone, who grew up in what readers can assume are the 1960s and '70s (there are no dates mentioned) in New Jersey, takes readers from her early memories of learning to say "vaffanculo" when she's angry to dating a "WASPy, preppie" kid who-gasp!-cuts his spaghetti when they're out to dinner. Cascone's style mixes her tough, "don't mess with me" personality with gruff humor, and her retelling of loony family fiascoes-her uncle's attempt to shoot eels to eat for Christmas Eve dinner; her father's finger getting stuck in the steering wheel of a Jaguar he's test-driving; and Cascone's own victories "hustling" the neighborhood boys over pool games in the basement-are comical and even sweet. The work covers Cascone's childhood and early college years (she recounted her Catholic school experiences in Pagan Babies) and deftly portrays the author's transition from being proud of her ancestry to ashamed of it (and the nose it gave her) and back again. Fairly chronological, the book is jarring only at the end, when Cascone abruptly changes gears to describe visiting Italy with her children and non-Italian husband after her parents have died. Spotty on dates and specifics-e.g., readers never learn where, exactly, the Cascones live, and Cascone doesn't give her parents and sisters' names-these reminiscences are simple yet heartwarming. (July 22) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews Italian-American Cascone (Mother's Little Helper, 1986, etc.) pays affectionate tribute to her heritage as she recalls growing up among relatives determined to live life con brio. In chapters that chronicle the various highlights of her youth, the author begins by recalling how her father adjusted to her being a girl. Though this successful lawyer had expected his firstborn to be a son, he soon decided that even a daughter should not grow up to be one of those "silly ladies." He taught Cascone to stand up for herself, fight back when attacked, and never to back down. When the boys no longer allowed her to join their baseball games, her father taught her pool. Soon, to his delight, she was not only beating the local adolescent males but her father's friends too. When a neighbor complained that Gina was playing pool for money, her mother initially forbid her to "hustle," but upon learning that she was actua Hardcover 8.74x5.77x.85 in. .67 lbs.

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