In the spirit of Thomas Lynch's bestselling "The Undertaking" and Mary Roach's hit "Stiff," this darkly comic memoir tells of Wilkins's year as a 20-year-old student-grave digger in the 1960s.
It was an ordinary 21-foot canoe. They were an ordinary family--a divorced father and his two teenaged sons. This is the amazing, true story of their incredible 12,181-mile canoe trip from Winnipeg to the mouth of the Amazon River. "Exquisite images . . . courageous, sometimes sensitive, often exciting, and always immediate . . . A model ...
This work takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the fundamentals of mass spectrometry for bacterial analysis. From chemotaxonomy to characterization of targeted proteins, "Identification of Microorganisms by Mass Spectrometry" provides an overview of both well-established and cutting-edge mass spectrometry techniques for identifying ...
Hockey legends often faced their toughest trials off the ice. This collection of poignant stories details the lives of hockey's greatest players after the last goal has been tended and the final buzzer sounds. Read about Phil Esposito, Bobby Hull, Gordie How, and others.
The Great Wallenda Circus represents a form of art that's rapidly dying out, a cirrus complete with tigers, clowns, acrobats, and other traditional acts. Charles Wilkins, son of a circus enthusiast, travelled with this circus, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, to Flirt Flon in northern Manitoba -- "the edge of the earth, " as far north as any circus ever ...
This current volume covers research advances in nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, and optical spectroscopy with emphasis on computer-assisted interpretation methodologies.
This book brings together a collection of stories and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior's north shore - on wilds and wildlife, people and places. This work allows you to: spend a day in the kitchen of the famed Hoito Restaurant in Thunder Bay; discover the secret life of ravens; the passions of the blueberry picker, the thrills and ...
"High on the Big Stone Heart" is a collection of colourful, insightful essays that explore the new realities of North-western Ontario, in particular Thunder Bay and the north shore of Lake Superior. Wilkins, having personal experience with influences that shape the lives of northerners, skilfully reveals the new faces of the North, including, ...
The two objectives of this book are: to teach the fundamentals of the BASIC programming language by description and example; and to present a number of chemically-oriented BASIC programs that can both teach about the language and be useful in their own right. The first part of the book introduces the reader to programming in the BASIC language. ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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Paddle to the Arctic: The Incredible Story of a Kayak Quest Across the Roof of the World
