Product Description: A visual feast of images chronicling the history and stylistic character of one of our nation's most iconic building types. Almost overnight railway lines sprawled across the United States, quickly assuming a key role in America’s rapid growth and development...read more

Product Description: New Edition - With 5 New Arguments!Hockey’s most controversial authority gives you everything you need to know to be Canada’s best-informed armchair coach.Sports talk-radio personality Bob McCown knows what he’s talking about, and he’s not afraid to say what’s on his mind...read more

Product Description: Celebrates the history of 40 of the finest stage theaters still in operation around the United States. Original photographs include stunning examples of early Eastern town hall opera houses, Midwest venues, and boomtown opera houses...read more

Product Description: A student-oriented approach in which basic ideas and assumptions are stressed and discussed in detail and full developments of all important analyses are provided. The book contains many worked examples that illustrate the methods of analysis discussed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Looks at the era of movie house splendor and their architects, from the grand old film emporiums like Radio City Music Hall to hundreds of American Main Street theaters

Product Description: Book by Naylor, David

Product Description: Naylor's particular concern is with the nature and extent of the medical profession's opposition at both the provincial and federal levels. He details various developments in medical politics and policies, including the dispute over state health insurance plans in British Columbia during the depression, the national health insurance program drafted by the King government, the doctors' strike in Saskatchewan, and the development and eventual governmental rejections of prepayment plans sponsored by organized medicine...read more