The Lumberjacks

The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct. They called themselves lumberers, shantymen, timber beasts, les bucherron -- and, more recently, lumberjacks, working in the vast forests of eastern Canada and British Columbia.
Across the country, farm boys would go to the woods, lumbering being the only winter work available. Immigrants -- Swedes and Finns more often than not -- resumed the trades they had learned so well in the forests of northern Europe. They broke the cold, hard monotony of camp life with songs, tall tales and card games.
Within these pages, author Donald MacKay allows us a glimpse into that moment in our heritage when men entered the virgin forest to carve out an industry from the seemingly endless array of pine, spruce, maple and balsam fir found there.
"[Donald] MacKay's book has many virtues. His prose is clean. He lets the surviving pioneers talk for themselves when they have something to say, but never allows them to get too windy. He separates legends and half-truths from facts ..." - The Montreal Star
"... a superb marriage of text and pictures, a nostalgic but not sentimental discussion of one of Canada's primary industries, logging." - The Globe and Mail
"It's marvellous material of a type often ignored by historians ... Such books may do more to help us understand ourselves than all the academic tomes together." - Atlantic Insight

Engineering & Transportation

Donald MacKay

Engineering

McGraw=Hill

Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

P. Harris

Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals is a comprehensive series in five volumes that focuses on environmental fate prediction and quantitative structure activity relationship analysis. Volume II examines the properties and environmental fate of three classes of important series of chemicals: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (about 40 chemical compounds), highly toxic chlorinated "dioxins," and equally toxic chlorinated dibenzofurans, which are similar to dioxins in structure and toxicity. What is Different About These Books? These books are like no others in that they tackle environmental fate calculations and QSAR Plots. Environmental partitioning and persistence are calculated in a generic "unit world" using standard fugacity models. This shows where the chemicals will go, relative concentrations, persistence, and important intermedia transport processes. From this information, a behavior profile emerges that can be presented in a standard format. For the series of chemicals presented, QSAR Plots can be prepared by plotting these properties against molecular descriptors (e.g., carbon number, chlorine number, molar number) and relationships between properties can be explored. This helps validate the data and estimates of properties for other chemicals can be made from these plots.

Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, Volume II

Science & Math

Chemistry

CRC-Press

This comprehensive series focuses on environmental fate prediction and quantitative structure activity relationship analysis.

Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, Volume III

Kuo-Ching Ma

Wan Ying Shiu

When Lilacs Bloom

Trafford

This giant book illustrates the history of the Canadian National Railway (“World’s Greatest Travel System”) created after World War I with a combination of resources from five financially troubled railroads. Canadian National played a central role in the population growth of the more remote northern areas of Canada, moved passengers between major cities in style, and was instrumental in the movement of goods both to market and to the country’s smaller towns. The story is told by engineers, porters, signalmen and others in this 192-page softcover volume. A truly beautiful book! Large format, 9½ x 11", 181 black/white photographs.

Train Country: An Illustrated History of Canadian National Railways

Douglas&McIntyre

As a long-range fighter, the Luftwaffe's Bf110 was highly effective in the early years of World War II, although the introduction of quicker Allied fighters eventually revealed its deficiencies. This development, production, and service history of the Luftwaffe's most-feared World War II fighter features many rare period photographs of the Bf110 in action.

Messerschmitt Bf 110 (Crowood Aviation Series)

History

Military

Crowood Press

The Domino That Stood- The Malayan Emergency 1948-1960

Cultured Lotus

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