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Author | : Alex Souchen |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774862955 |
During the Second World War, Canadian factories produced mountains of munitions and supplies, including some 800 ships, 16,000 aircraft, 800,000 vehicles, and over 4.6 billion rounds of ammunition and artillery shells. Although they were crucial to winning the war, these assets turned into peacetime liabilities when hostilities ended in 1945. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, Alex Souchen provides a definitive account of the disposal crisis triggered by Allied victory and shows how policymakers implemented a disposal strategy that facilitated postwar reconstruction. Canadians responded to the unprecedented divestment of public property by reusing and recycling military surpluses to improve their postwar lives. War Junk recounts the complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies of munitions disposal in Canada by revealing how the tools of war became integral to the making of postwar Canada.
Author | : Marcus Eriksen |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2017-07-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0807056413 |
An exciting account of a scientist’s expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft” in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution A scientist, activist, and inveterate adventurer, Eriksen and his co-navigator, Joel Paschal, construct a “junk raft” made of plastic trash and set themselves adrift from Los Angeles to Hawaii, with no motor or support vessel, confronting perilous cyclones, food shortages, and a fast decaying raft. As Eriksen recounts his struggles to keep afloat, he immerses readers in the deep history of the plastic pollution crisis and the movement that has arisen to combat it. The proliferation of cheap plastic products during the twentieth century has left the world awash in trash. Meanwhile, the plastics industry, with its lobbying muscle, fights tooth and nail against any changes that would affect its lucrative status quo, instead defending poorly designed products and deflecting responsibility for the harm they cause. But, as Eriksen shows, the tide is turning in the battle to save the world’s oceans. He recounts the successful efforts that he and many other activists are waging to fight corporate influence and demand that plastics producers be held accountable. Junk Raft provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering message: it’s within our power to change the throw-away culture for the sake of our planet.
Author | : Mary Gentle |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575128844 |
Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing a failed treacherous attack, Ilario crosses the sea to Carthage, where the mysterious Penitence shrouds the sky in darkness. There, a strange and awful destiny awaits the would-be painter, one that spans continents and kingdoms.
Author | : Lauren Abbey Greenberg |
Publisher | : Running Press Kids |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0762462965 |
For fans of Rebecca Stead and Jennifer L. Holm, this is the perfect middle grade summer beach read. Twelve-year-old Shayne Whittaker has always spent summers on the Maine coast, visiting her grandmother Bea and playing with her BFF Poppy. Both Shayne and Bea are collectors, in their own ways: Shayne revels in golden memories of searching for sea glass and weaving friendship bracelets with Poppy, while Bea scours flea markets for valuable finds, much of which she adds to a growing pile in her house that Shayne jokingly calls Junk Mountain. This summer, though, everything has changed. Poppy would rather talk about boys than bracelets, and Bea's collecting mania has morphed into hoarding. Only Linc, the weird Civil War-obsessed kid next door, pays attention to her. Turns out Linc's collected a secret of his own, one that could enrage the meanest lobsterman on the planet, his grandpa. What begins as the worst summer of Shayne's life becomes the most meaningful, as she wages an all-out battle to save her friendships, rescue her grandmother, and protect the memories she loves the most.
Author | : Oula Seitsonen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429640668 |
This book discusses the archaeology and heritage of the German military presence in Finnish Lapland during the Second World War, framing this northern, overlooked WWII material legacy from the nearly forgotten Arctic front as ‘dark heritage’ – a concrete reminder of Finns siding with the Nazis, often seen as polluting ‘war junk’ that ruins the ‘pristine natural beauty’ of Lapland’s wilderness. The scholarship herein provides fresh perspectives to contemporary discussions on heritage perception and ownership, indigenous rights, community empowerment, relational ontologies and also the ongoing worldwide refugee crisis.
Author | : Francis Henry Nichols |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Shaanxi Sheng (China) |
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Author | : Steven Bohls |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2016-12-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1484730399 |
Jed is a regular kid with a normal, loving family . . . that is, if it's normal for a loving family to drop their child off in the middle of nowhere and expect him home in time for Sunday dinner. Luckily, Jed excels at being a regular kid who-armed with wit and determination-can make his way out of any situation. At least until the morning of his twelfth birthday, when Jed wakes to discover his parents missing. Something is wrong. Really wrong. Jed just doesn't realize it's floating-city, violent-junk-storm, battling-metals, Frankensteined-scavengers kind of wrong. Yet. A cryptic list of instructions leads Jed into a mysterious world at war over . . . junk. Here, batteries and bottled water are currency, tremendously large things fall from the sky, and nothing is exactly what it seems. Resilient Jed, ready to escape this upside-down place, bargains his way onto a flying tugboat with a crew of misfit junkers. They set course to find Jed's family, but a soul-crushing revelation sends Jed spiraling out of control . . . perhaps for good.
Author | : Edward Belcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : Edward Belcher |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2024-05-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368726552 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author | : Eugene M. a. Baikoff |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 125794231X |
The second instalment in the story of Yves de Kergouat; we follow our hero on a new adventure as he sets up a trading firm. But he is always in danger from the jealousies of the British East India Company. Meanwhile, back in France, the Revolution has overthrown the aristocracy. Yves and his staff must now decide where their loyalties, and their futures, lie.