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  • American Backlash

    The Untold Story Of Social Change In The United States

    by Michael Adams ...
    THE EXCEPTIONAL SOCIETYIn his insightful, award-winning work Fire and Ice, Environics president Michael Adams explored the growing divergence between American and Canadian values. Using the same mixture of polling and analysis in American Backlash, Adams fixes his penetrating gaze on contemporary America—the exceptional society.Exploding the accepted wisdom of an America divided bitterly into ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Stayin Alive

    by Michael Adams ...
    Canadian baby boomers now range in age from their mid-40s to mid-60s. This confident and rebellious generation has broken new ground at every stage of life; late middle-age and retirement will be no different.Most boomers are healthier than their grandparents could have hoped to be at the same age. Some have made the pursuit of physical, mental, and spiritual health an all-consuming occupation. ... Read more

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  • Problems in Lexicography

    A Critical/Historical Edition

    by Michael Adams ...
    Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference on Lexicography, held November 11–12, 1960. It set a standard that still holds today, three generations later.This critical and historical ... Read more

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  • Problems in Lexicography

    A Critical / Historical Edition

    by Michael Adams ...
    Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference on Lexicography, held November 11–12, 1960. It set a standard that still holds today, three generations later.This critical and historical ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Slang

    The People's Poetry

    by Michael Adams ...
    Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly engaging way, illuminating the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Unlikely Utopia

    The Surprising Triumph Of Canadian Multiculturalism

    by Michael Adams ...
    Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation. Some pundits argue that similar convulsions will shake Canada’s multicultural foundations. But Michael Adams argues that Canadians don’t see this as inevitable. Far from being disabused of their naïveté by the world’s conflicts and bloodshed, Adams believes Canadians suspect that the world might ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • In Praise of Profanity

    by Michael Adams ...
    When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language": how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequently in practice? Though ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Achieving Your Goals

    Effective Strategies for Setting and Reaching Targets

    by Michael Adams ...
    A comprehensive guidebook called "Achieving Your Goals: Effective Strategies for Setting and Reaching Targets" is meant to help people make their dreams come true. This book looks into the psychological factors that affect behavior and motivation. By looking into these factors, it also goes into detail about the basic rules of goal setting. With the help of the SMART criteria-which stand for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies

    A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made

    by Michael Adams ...
    "Michael Adams's book is great fun! No one intends to make a truly bad movie, but when they do, Michael Adams will be there to watch it...and make it entertaining!" —John Landis, director of Trading Places and The Blues BrothersIn Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, film critic Michael Adams embarks on a year-long odyssey to discover the worst movie ever made, which Mystery Science Theater ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future

    Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams

    by Jason A. Scorza, J. Michael Adams, Dame Glynis Breakwell, Angelo Carfagna, Inwon Choue, Ramu Damodaran, Elizabeth Davis-Russell, Emmet Dennis, Hassan B. Diab, Sheldon Drucker0, Allan E. Goodman1, Andrew Hamilton2, Neal King3, Fernando León-García4, James Alexander McWha5, Brendan O'Malley6, Alvaro Romo7, Toyoshi Satow8, Kakha Shengelia9, Michael Stevenson0, Ichiro Tanioka1, Uroyoán R. Walker-Ramos2, John Wood3, Nicholas Baldwin4, H.E. Ban Ki-moon5, Yong-seung (Stephen) Park6, Rev. Emma Percy7, Nigel Thrift8 ...
    This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.The highlight of the 50th Anniversary Meeting was an academic ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Hanging Ned Kelly

    Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia

    by Michael Adams ...
    In Hanging Ned Kelly, Elijah Upjohn's tale becomes the rusty scalpel that slices open the underbelly of colonial Victoria. Written by Michael Adams, creator of the acclaimed podcast Forgotten Australia, this is an odyssey into an infernal underworld seething with serial killers, clueless cops, larrikin vigilantes, renegade reporters, racist settlers, furious fallen women and cunning waxworks ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD