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  • Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition

    53rd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, AIPR 2025, Washington, DC, USA, October 13–14, 2025, Proceedings

    Edición de Franklin Tanner, John Irvine ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 53rd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, AIPR 2025, held in Washington, DC, USA, during October 13–14, 2025.The 41 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They focus on Imagery-Related challenges in Generative AI and Large Language Models, highlighting the accelerating impact of ... Leer más

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  • Fashioning the Canadian Landscape

    Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era

    Edición de John Irvine Little ...
    Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, ... Leer más

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    The High Cost of Free Land

    When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario's Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free grant scheme, citing the district's poor agricultural prospects. In the end, such caution was ... Leer más

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  • A History of Canadian Culture

    In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable connection between life and art in Inuit culture (the Innu word for 'breathe' also means 'to make ... Leer más

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  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

    de Paul Chiasson ...
    The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus.In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. One of the oldest points of exploration and settlement in the Americas, with a written history dating ... Leer más

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  • The Long Way Home

    A Personal History of Nova Scotia

    de John Demont ...
    The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write.No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history.The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the ... Leer más

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  • National Dreams

    Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

    As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense of national identity: the fundamental beliefs that we Canadians hold about ourselves. National Dreams ... Leer más

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  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Leer más

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  • The Imaginary Indian

    The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

    First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photographs of the 19th century to the Mounted Police sagas and the spectacle of Buffalo Bill's Wild West ... Leer más

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  • A Concise History of Candian Architecture

    Edición de Harold Kalman ...
    As in the original work, Harold Kalman presents a panorama of Canadian building as rich as it is vast, from the dwellings of pre-contact Native peoples and the first European settlers to the revolutionary structures of the Modernist period and the renewed apprediation of the past that marks much of the architecture created on the eve of the new millennium. Emphasizing social and cultural contexts, ... Leer más

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  • Wolfe Island

    A Legacy in Stone

    Wolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age and moves through the many centuries of First Nations habitation to the era of French exploration and the fur trading, the arrival of the earliest British settlers and the United Empire Loyalists, up to current time.The development and decline of industry, the evolution of facilities, land title frustrations, and the ... Leer más

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Leer más

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