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David Jhave Johnston

A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being.This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes a poetics appropriate to the digital era while connecting digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being (a.k.a. ontological implications).Digital poetry...

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David Johnston

From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston's frank, informed, and novel thoughts about Canada.Touching on a wide range of topics ranging from learning, the law, kindness and courage, to the monarchy, Aboriginal education, justice, bilingualism, mental health and hockey, David Johnston has always used th...

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David Cay Johnston

Now updated with a new prologue!Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax have been largely ignored by the media. But the cumulative results are re...

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David Johnston

From our esteemed former Governor General--and author of the bestsellers The Idea of Canada and Ingenious--a very timely guide for restoring personal, community, and national trust.Trust is a much-needed manual for the repair and restoration of the social quality on which all democracies rely. One of Canada's most revered governors general, David Johnston mines his long life and varied career to give Canadians twenty ways to make themselv...

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David Johnston

The 28th Governor General's most personal and timely book to date: a passionate and practical guide for turning empathy into action.As the world stumbles through the most severe pandemic of the last century, threatened by teetering economies, torn by political division, separated by unequal access to resources, and wrestling with issues as diverse as racism, gender, cybercrime, and climate change, the nations that best adapt and prosper are those in which empathy i...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bert Alexander Petzold, Opera and Ballet as Audio Drama with Music

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Peter Baker, Eva Russel, Kevin Ford, Catherine Campion, David Johnston, Gale Van Gott, Will de Meo

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Opera and Ballet as Audio Drama with Music

"The Magic Flute" is a full-cast audio drama featuring famous melodies, exquisite arias and outstanding voice actors. Tamino, a prince lost in a foreign land, is pursued by a fearsome monster. He is rescued by three enigmatic ladies, who slay the creature and present him with a portrait of Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, with whom he instantly falls in love. To win the princess's hand, Tamino must undergo a series of trials. Armed with a magic flute and a set of enchanted bells...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bert Alexander Petzold, Classics for Children - Audio Dramas with Music

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Eva Russel, Gale Van Gott, Kevin Ford, David Johnston, Peter Baker, Catherine Campion, Will de Meo

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Classics for Children - Audio Dramas with Music

"Hansel and Gretel" is a full-cast audio drama, presented as an exciting adventure for children, featuring famous melodies, exquisite themes and outstanding voice actors. Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to collect berries as punishment. The siblings become lost at twilight and discover the gingerbread house of an ugly old witch. She enchants the children and plans to bake them into gingerbread. Hansel and Gretel use their wits to save themselves, pushing the wick...

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Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Bert Alexander Petzold, Classics for Children - Audio Dramas with Music

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Kevin Ford, Eva Russel, Will de Meo, David Johnston, Catherine Campion, Peter Baker, Chris Lateano

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Classics for Children - Audio Dramas with Music

"The Nutcracker" is a full-cast audio drama, presented as an exciting adventure for children, featuring famous melodies, exquisite themes and outstanding voice actors. On Christmas Eve, Clara receives a nutcracker from her godfather, Drosselmeyer. That night she dreams that the nutcracker is fighting alongside toy soldiers against the Mouse King's army. Clara helps the nutcracker and it transforms into a prince. Together they journey to the Land of Sweets and celebrate a marvellous festiva...

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David Johnston, Tom Jenkins

This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a way to celebrate our history and world contributions on Canada's 150th birthday.Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces -- insig...

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David Johnston

The Hebrides off Scotland's West Coast are famed the world over for their stark beauty, culture and history.The Island Race lifts the lid on events on one island where a despotic landowner tries to control the lives of everyone who lives in his domain.When his aristocratic daughter falls in love with an island lad the laird will stop at nothing to end romance across the social divide and doesn't care who he hurts in the process.

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David Hodgkinson, Rebecca Johnston

The aviation industry is being transformed by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones – commercially, militarily, scientifically and recreationally. National regulations have generally failed to keep pace with the expansion of the fast-growing drone industry.Aviation Law and Drones: Unmanned Aircraft and the Future of Aviation traces the development of aviation laws and regulations, explains how aviation is regulated at an international and national level, considers the inte...

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David Johnstone

Disability studies has become a legitimate area of academic study. It is multi-disciplinary in its critique of the oppressions that have historically "dumped" disabled people on the margins of society. This fully revised and updated edition not only explains disability studies as an academic field of inquiry, it also explores many of the current issues affecting the lives and circumstances of disabled people.The book explores and analyzes "quality of life" factors in the lives of d...