As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this... reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover, Canadian culture is not static, and hockey's place in it has evolved and changed.In Coast to Coast, a wide range of contributors examine the historical development of hockey across Canada, in both rural and urban settings, to ask how ideas about hockey have changed. Conceptually broad, the essays explore identity formation by investigating what hockey meant to Canadians from the nineteenth century to the Second World War, as well as the role of government, entrepreneurs, and voluntary associations in supporting and promoting the game. Coast to Coast is an intriguing look at the development of a national sport, a must-read for hockey fans and historians alike.

Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, to fight for the... Confederacy. Of the 120 original recruits in his company, Watkins was one of only seven to survive every one of its battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows," he wrote this remarkable account of "Co. Aytch" -- its common foot soldiers, its commanders, its Yankee enemies, its victories and defeats, and its ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865. Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. Among Civil War memoirs, it is considered a classic -- a living testament to one man's enduring humanity, courage, and wisdom in the midst of death and destruction.

Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, to fight for the... Confederacy. Of the 120 original recruits in his company, Watkins was one of only seven to survive every one of its battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows, " he wrote this remarkable account of "Co. Aytch" - its common foot soldiers, its commanders, its Yankeee enemies, its victories and defeats, and its ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.

Of the 120 men who enlisted in "Company H" (Or Co. Aytch as he calls it) in 1861, Sam Watkins was one of only seven alive when General Joseph E.... Johnston's Army of Tennessee surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman in North Carolina on April, 1865. Of the 1,200 men who fought in the First Tennessee, only 65 were left to be paroled on that day. "Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War" is heralded by many historians as one of the best war memoirs written by a common soldier of the field. Sam R. Watkin's writing style in "Co Aytch" is quite engaging and skillfully captures the pride, misery, glory, and horror experienced by the common foot soldier.

This book traces the formation of Australian colonial society and economy within the context of the changing fortunes of British hegemony in the... nineteenth-century world economy. Australia's transition from conservative origins as a penal colony supporting a grazier class oriented to export production, to liberal agrarian capitalism, was not a simple reflex of imperial setting. Domestically, the 'agrarian question' - who should control the land and to what end? - was the central political struggle of this period, as urban-commercial forces contested the graziers' monopoly, of the landed economy. Embedded in the conflict among settler classes was an international dimension, involving a juxtaposition of laissez-faire and mercantilist phases of British political economy. Professor McMichael argues that the transition from a patriarchal wool-growing colony to a liberal-nationalist form of capitalist development is best understood through a systematic analysis of the effect of the imperial politicoeconomic relationship on the social and political forces within nineteenth-century Australia.

A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the... biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on Stump's interviews with Ty Cobb while ghostwriting the Hall-of-Famer's 1961 autobiography, this award-winning new account of Cobb's life and times reveals both the darkness and the brilliance of the "Georgia Peach." "The most powerful baseball biography I have read."--Roger Kahn, author of THE BOYS OF SUMMER

Completely revised and updated, the Manual of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Second Edition is a how-to manual for those working in the fields of... drug safety, clinical research, pharmacology, regulatory affairs, government and legal professions. This comprehensive and practical guide discusses the theory and the practicalities of drug safety (also known as pharmacovigilance) and side effects, as well as providing essential information on drug safety and regulations, including: recognizing, monitoring, reporting and cataloging serious adverse drug reactions. The Manual of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Second Edition teaches the ins and outs of drug safety in the industry, hospitals, FDA, and other health agencies both in the US and around the world, and presents critical information about what is done when confronted with a drug safety problem.

COBOL . . . Still standing tall.Just like the evergreen, the COBOL programming language has remained vibrant and full of life year after year. Today,... COBOL is running a large number of the world's business data applications, and it's likely to remain a viable language in the years ahead.Now in its 11th Edition, Nancy Stern, Robert Stern, and James Ley's COBOL for the 21st Century continues to show how to design COBOL programs that are easy to read, debug, modify, and maintain. You'll learn to write interactive programs as well as batch programs with sophisticated file processing techniques, and become familiar with valuable information processing and systems concepts.Features* Updated to reflect COBOL 2008, where appropriate.* A chapter on the Report Writer Module.* More end-of-chapter questions.* A running case study builds on what you have learned in each chapter.* Integrated coverage of interactive programming.* Covers information processing and systems concepts that will help you interact with users and systems analysts when designing programs.* Introduces programming tools such as pseudocode and hierarchy charts that make program logic more structured, modular, and top-down.* Presents useful techniques for maintaining and modifying older "legacy" programs.* Effective learning tools, including chapter outlines and objectives, debugging tips and exercises, critical-thinking questions, and programming assignments.* Links to COBOL Internet resources.* Companion Website (www.wiley.com/college/stern), featuring a syntax reference guide, data sets for all programming assignments, and all programs illustrated in the book.

COBOL . . . Still standing tall.Just like the evergreen, the COBOL programming language has remained vibrant and full of life year after year. Today,... COBOL is running a large number of the world's business data applications, and it's likely to remain a viable language in the years ahead.Now in its 11th Edition, Nancy Stern, Robert Stern, and James Ley's COBOL for the 21st Century continues to show how to design COBOL programs that are easy to read, debug, modify, and maintain. You'll learn to write interactive programs as well as batch programs with sophisticated file processing techniques, and become familiar with valuable information processing and systems concepts.Features* Updated to reflect COBOL 2008, where appropriate.* A chapter on the Report Writer Module.* More end-of-chapter questions.* A running case study builds on what you have learned in each chapter.* Integrated coverage of interactive programming.* Covers information processing and systems concepts that will help you interact with users and systems analysts when designing programs.* Introduces programming tools such as pseudocode and hierarchy charts that make program logic more structured, modular, and top-down.* Presents useful techniques for maintaining and modifying older "legacy" programs.* Effective learning tools, including chapter outlines and objectives, debugging tips and exercises, critical-thinking questions, and programming assignments.* Links to COBOL Internet resources.* Companion Website (www.wiley.com/college/stern), featuring a syntax reference guide, data sets for all programming assignments, and all programs illustrated in the book.

For Courses in Cobol Programming. This edition is designed to satisfy all of your COBOL needs - on multiple platforms. The textbook covers all basic... COBOL elements, with additional chapters on the Year 2000 problem, structured programming and design, debugging, subprograms, table processing, sorting, screen I/O, sequential file maintenance, indexed files, and object-oriented COBOL. The third edition teaches programming as it is practiced in the real world, with programming tips that go beyond the syntactical rules of COBOL, that make programs easier to maintain and run more efficiently.