Vincenzo Costanzo, "Urban Heat Stress and Mitigation Solutions: An Engineering Perspective"
English | ISBN: 0367493632 | 2021 | 430 pages | PDF | 32 MB
This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy needs of buildings in urban areas. The book covers the latest approaches to energy and outdoor comfort measurement and modelling on an urban scale, and describes possible measures and strategies to mitigate the effects of the mutual interaction between urban settlements and local microclimate.
Turning Back the Fenians: New Brunswick's Last Colonial Campaign By Robert Dallison
2006 | 132 Pages | ISBN: 0864924615 | EPUB | 4 MB
In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish population and undefended frontier, was a perfect target. The book tells how, in the spring of 1866, a thousand Fenians massed along the St. Croix River and spread terror among New Brunswickers. When the lieutenant-governor called in British soldiers and a squadron of warships, the Fenians saw that New Brunswick was no longer an easy target, and they turned their efforts against central Canada. The Fenian "attacks" and the demand for home defence fanned the already red-hot political debate, and a year later, in July 1867, New Brunswick joined Confederation.Turning Back the Feniansis volume eight in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.
Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick By Faye M. Kert
2005 | 105 Pages | ISBN: 0864924429 | EPUB | 4 MB
The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, butTrimming Yankee Sailsby Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint John to the east coast of the United States down to the Virginias, this insightful book offers a glimpse of northeastern North America's naval history and the pirates and privateers who scourged the Atlantic coast throughout the 19th century.InTrimming Yankee Sails, Faye Kert recounts a thrilling but little known story. Pirates and privateers sailed from New Brunswick ports throughout the 19th century, but their exploits began in earnest during the War of 1812. Amid tales of battles at sea and fortunes lost and won, Kert's exposure of the murky context in which these semi-legal marauders operated reveals surprising truths about Confederation and its promoters.Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswickis Volume 6 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.
Jennifer Ballengee, "Trauma and Literature in an Age of Globalization"
English | ISBN: 0367520818 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 22 MB
While globalization is often associated with economic and social progress, it has also brought new forms of terrorism, permanent states of emergency, demographic displacement, climate change, and other "natural" disasters. Given these contemporary concerns, one might also view the current time as an age of traumatism. Yet what―or how―does the traumatic event mean in an age of global catastrophe? This volume explores trauma theory in an age of globalization by means of the practice of comparative literature. The essays and interviews in this volume ask how literary studies and the literary anticipate, imagine, or theorize the current global climate, especially in an age when the links between violence, amorphous traumatic events, and economic concerns are felt increasingly in everyday experience. Trauma and Literature in an Age of Globalization turns a literary perspective upon the most urgent issues of globalization―problems of borders, language, inequality, and institutionalized violence―and considers from a variety of perspectives how such events impact our lived experience and its representation in language and literature.
Robert S. Lesman, "Translating Cuba: Literature, Music, Film, Politics "
English | ISBN: 0367456435 | 2021 | 194 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Cuban culture has long been available to English speakers via translation. This study examines the complex ways in which English renderings of Cuban texts from various domains―poetry, science fiction, political and military writing, music, film―have represented, reshaped, or amended original texts. Taking in a broad corpus, it becomes clear that the mental image an Anglophone audience has formed of Cuban culture since 1959 depends heavily on the decisions of translators. At times, a clear ideological agenda drives moves like strengthening the denunciatory tone of a song or excising passages from a political text. At other moments, translators' indifference to the importance of certain facets of a work, such as a film's onscreen text or the lyrics sung on a musical performance, impoverishes the English speaker's experience of the rich weave of self-expression in the original Spanish. In addition to the dynamics at work in the choices translators make at the level of the text itself, this study attends to how paratexts like prefaces, footnotes, liner notes, and promotional copy shape the audience's experience of the text.
Top 50 Most Delicious Tamale Recipes by Julie Hatfield
English | February 4, 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00T70PGJ4 | 188 pages | EPUB | 2.40 Mb
Tamales are a traditional Latin American dish that goes back to the Mayans. There are over 5,000 variations in Mexico alone. But they're also found in countries such as Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Argentina, among other countries, each with their own variations.
Too Young to Die: Canada's Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War By John Boileau; Dan Black; John De Chastelain
2017 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 1459411722 | EPUB | 18 MB
John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths -- some as young as fourteen -- who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors'' popular 2013 bookOld Enough to Fightabout boy soldiers in the First World War. Like their predecessors a generation before, these boys managed to enlist despite their youth. Most went on to face action overseas in what would become the deadliest military conflict in human history.They enlisted for a myriad of personal reasons -- ranging from the appeal of earning regular pay after the unemployment and poverty of the Depression to the desire to avenge the death of a brother or father killed overseas. Canada's boy soldiers, sailors and airmen saw themselves contributing to the war effort in a visible, meaningful way, even when that meant taking on very adult risks and dangers of combat.Meticulously researched and extensively illustrated with photographs, personal documents and specially commissioned maps,Too Young to Dieprovides a touching and fascinating perspective on the Canadian experience in the Second World War.Among the individuals whose stories are told:Ken Ewing, at age sixteen taken prisoner at Hong Kong and then a teenager in a Japanese prisoner of war campRalph Frayne, so determined to fight that he enlisted in the army, navy and Merchant Navy all before the age of seventeenRobert Boulanger, at age eighteen the youngest Canadian to die on the Dieppe beaches
Time for a Quick Bite: Quick Snack Recipes to Make Kids Love Summer Break by Molly Mills
English | July 1, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B098GWCT7D | 78 pages | EPUB | 3.09 Mb
Summer is really a time for the kids to enjoy school-free days. When they have nothing to do at home besides play, they will crave your attention and activities that will keep them busy, so they will have something to spend their boundless energy into. But moving a lot also means they are always hungry. That's where this cookbook of quick snack recipes comes in useful. It will help moms and dads to create quick and easy snacks that are kids-approved and utterly delicious.
Megan E. Geigner, "Theatre After Empire"
English | ISBN: 1138368954 | 2021 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Emphasizing the resilience of theatre arts in the midst of significant political change, Theatre After Empire spotlights the emergence of new performance styles in the wake of collapsed political systems.
The Way of the Tortoise: Why You Have to Take the Slow Lane to Get Ahead by Matt Little
English | June 10, 2021 | ISBN: 1789292603, 1789293324 | EPUB | 256 pages | 1.8 MB
Foreword by Sir Andy Murray