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  • Civic Symbol

    Creating Toronto's New City Hall, 1952-1966

    by Christopher Armstrong ...
    When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as strange and distinctive today as it did fifty years ago.In Civic Symbol, Christopher Armstrong chronicles the complex and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Wilderness and Waterpower

    How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir

    by Christopher Armstrong, H. V. Nelles ...
    Series series Energy, Ecology and the Environment
    Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

    Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism

    by Daniel Ramirez, Daniel Fuller, Christopher Armstrong, Scott E. Erickson, Philip Goff, Stephen Marini, Darryl Hart, Katherine McGinn, Barbara Murison0, Kay Norton1, David Rempel Smucker2 ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalismMusic and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity and define their relationship with America and to Christianity. Representing seven groups—Baptists ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The River Returns

    An Environmental History of the Bow

    by Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden, H.V. Nelles ...
    Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The River Returns

    by Christopher Armstrong ...
    Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed made to spin hydro-electric turbines and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow changed water quality and newly stabilized and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Travel Collection (Unabridged)

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    by et al. William Dean Howells ...
    Narrated by Christopher Armstrong, Sharon Castro, Laura Johnson, Catherine Mackey ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    Wanderlust alert! Immerse yourself in the captivating travelogues of William Dean Howells and beyond in this audiobook collection. Set sail for the romance of Venice, with its shimmering canals and ancient charm. Explore the rich tapestry of Italian journeys, from bustling cities to sun-drenched countrysides. Journey beyond with adventures in Spain, Switzerland, and even London. Howells' keen ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    by Rodger D. Touchie ...
    The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada-U.S. border, it was Potts who led them ... Read more

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  • The Lives of Conn Smythe

    From the Battlefield to Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Icon's Story

    by Kelly McParland ...
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    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

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  • The First Stampede of Flores LaDue

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