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Over the course of three decades, George Bernard Shaw and theatre critic Malcolm Watson of the Daily Telegraph carried out an extensive correspondence. My Dear Watson brings together in book form the previously unpublished letters from Shaw to Watson (those from Watson to Shaw are no longer extant): letters that are significant for the light they shed on the working relationship between Shaw and one of London's major newspapers.Many of the letters include self-drafted "interviews" with Shaw that Watson was able to use (sometimes with considerable embellishment) in his columns in the Telegraph. The letters reveal not only Shaw's views on his own plays, but also important theatrical initiatives of the time. Shaw's attempts to educate Watson on theatre censorship add new dimensions to Shaw's deep engagement with the controversial issue, while Watson's "interview" with Shaw about anticipated raucous audience behaviour at the opening night of Pygmalion, and Shaw's subsequent thank-you to Watson for his cooperation in trying to establish a "new code of manners in thetheatre," speak to Shaw's serious concern about giving actors a fair hearing. All but one of the letters deal with theatrical matters; the exception deals with a personal income tax question that Watson had raised with Shaw and, apart from revealing Shaw's knowledge of British tax legislation, suggests that the professional relationship between the two men had reached a level of comfort and respect that enabled such discussion of personal matters.Shaw's letters to Watson, and the self-drafted interviews that accompanied some of the letters, provide the backbone of the narrative of their relationship. Editor L.W. Conolly has provided relevant context to link the letters, including transcripts of Watson's columns on Shaw. The book also includes full transcripts of, or lengthy extracts from, Daily Telegraph reviews of Shaw's major plays during the years that Watson worked for the paper. The result is a work that sheds significant light not only on one of the English language's greatest playwrights but also on the practice and profession of theatre criticism."Conolly's editing, notes and references are thorough and illuminating, and his subtle editorial approach and impeccable scholarship make this slim volume highly entertaining as well as informative." --Dr. Anne Wright, The Shavian

In The True North: How Canadian Creativity Changed the World, D. Paul Schafer explores the extraordinary legacy of generations of Canadian artists, inventors, scientists, politicians, and activists-a legacy of creativity that has not only shaped today's Canada but has made a huge impact on the world as a whole. Among the many fascinating facts you'll learn while reading The True North:• Alexander Graham Bell is best-known as the inventor of the telephone, but he was active in many other fields of invention, including aviation and the development of the hydrofoil.• Anne Innis Dagg, known for her pioneering work on the behaviour of giraffes, comes from a family renowned for its contributions to Canadian scholarship: her father, Harold Innis, was a celebrated economic historian and her mother, Mary Quayle Innis, a noted author and academic administrator.• When the Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA championship, the whole country rejoiced, particularly because the roots of this internationally popular sport can be traced back to the game's inventor, James Naismith, a Canadian, who was born in Almonte, Ontario.• Canada is a world leader in adult education, early childhood education, and the creation of greater opportunities for people with disabilities, with major contributions from such figures as J. Roby Kidd, Fraser Mustard, Henry Enns, Jean Vanier, Terry Fox, and Rick Hansen earning worldwide recognition.In addition to describing the many ways in which Canadian creativity has shaped the world, the author in his concluding chapter also considers how these and other contributions might be enhanced and expanded in the years ahead, particularly in such areas as the environment, multiculturalism, the arts, and artificial intelligence.

L.M. Montgomery's journals speak of simple pleasures and deep joy, dogged worries and profound disappointments. The story of her life from 1930 to 1933 is as gripping as the earlier volumes published by Rock's Mills Press.This volume is different from earlier ones in a surprising way, however: "It has happened. It is too cruel and hideous and unexpected to write about. I have spent two days in hell. I cannot see how I am to go on living. . . . And I have had to keep up a face to the world when something in my soul was bleeding to death" (February 5, 1933). The truth of this "cruel and hideous" event is, for a time, too dificult to commit to her journals; it casts a shadow of shame on Montgomery's life for months. When she finally explains, it is page-turning material that gives a fascinating look into the hidden side of life in Ontario almost a century ago.Montgomery also recounts other difficult situations facing her in those years, including attempts to help a slippery young man facing embezzlement charges and a younger woman's obsessive crush on her. Over 100 of Montgomery's own photographs are included, many never before published. This edition also includes an introduction, extensive notes, and an index of photography, all original to this edition.

Two exceptional personalities interconnect in this short, captivating narrative. Jisbella Lyth's story begins with a hair-raising adventure on her parents' farm in a Hampshire village. She survives-as she later does a remarkable series of other life experiences-and her stories provide fascinating glimpses into a rapidly changing post-Victorian world. Among the most extraordinary of these life experiences are her encounters with a leading proponent of those changes, George Bernard Shaw. In the summer of 1930 a retired soldier named Ambrose Lyth became postmaster of the remote and tiny village of Ayot St Lawrence in Hertfordshire, England. Six weeks after taking up the appointment he died, and his forty-six-year-old widow, Jisbella Georgina Lyth, became postmistress. One of the first villagers to offer condolences and support to Jisbella was Bernard Shaw, world-famous playwright and polemicist, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, and Ayot resident since 1906. Thus began a close business and personal relationship that endured until Shaw's death in 1950. Soon after his death, an Irish writer named Romie Lambkin moved to Ayot. Fascinated not only by Jisbella's accounts of Shaw, but also by her absorbing and often moving pre-Ayot experiences-in menial jobs in turn-of-the-century England; as a nanny and teacher in Hong Kong, the United States, and Canada; and during her sometime desperate search to find employment for herself and her ailing husband in England during the 1920s' depression-Romie wrote Jisbella's life story. Rejected by publishers at the time, Jisbella's memoir has now been published with Romie Lambkin's original preface, and an introduction and extensive explanatory notes by Shaw scholar Leonard Conolly. The publication finally gives Jisbella Lyth her due, not just as a crucial mainstay to Shaw during his declining years, but also as a courageous, determined, independent, and entrepreneurial woman in her own right. She died in 1964 and is buried with her husband in Ayot St Lawrence.

Writer, would-be Catholic priest, editor, librettist, and professor, Eugene Benson surveys ninety years of travel, adventure, and engagement at the very heart of Canadian culture. Born in Ireland, Benson's early recollections recall a world of political troubles, war, and wavering religious devotion. His adventures working and travelling across the globe are both fascinating and sometimes eyebrow-raising. Benson's involvement in Canadian cultural affairs took place at a time when this country was becoming an important presence on the world stage. Benson's memories of many of the key figures that shaped it, including Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, are deeply insightful, and his overall perspective is witty, humanistic, and occasionally cynical."There is a surprisingly broad sweep to Eugene Benson's memoir, in places, people and ideas. He is a seeker and adventurer, delving deeply into subjects as diverse as theology, the barbarism of bullfights and musicology. Benson has written this eloquent, clear-minded book at age 90. His powers of recall reach not just the events, places and people of his life, but actual conversations. And they are interesting! 'The exercise of writing an autobiography is sometimes an exercise in evasion' Benson says at the beginning of his book. He seems to be not guilty of that except for the two most traumatic experiences of his life. He cannot describe the emotional pain he went through in deciding the priesthood was not for him. The other is in late life when his beloved German-Canadian wife dies of dementia. In between are vivid, lively, insightful accounts of his adventures when he emigrated to Canada and taught in a remote Saskatchewan school with all grades in the one room. He held odd jobs in Vancouver, wrote a novel in Mexico, became a dishwasher of no fixed address in Toronto, taught English to immigrant pilots, then did his PhD at University of Toronto. There, caught in the unacknowledged rivalry between Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, Benson almost failed his oral exam by politely telling McLuhan his questioning was unintelligible. Then began his secure academic career helping to build the Department of English at Guelph University as he contributed important books on Canadian theatre, wrote libretti for avant-garde operas, promoted the Guelph music festival and worked with the prominent Canadian writers of the 1970s and '80s. He became a particular friend of Graeme Gibson and chaired the Writers' Union of Canada in 1983-84. Margaret Atwood called on him to serve on the first executive of PEN Canada. Through his portraits of friendship with the greats of the Canadian music and literary world emerges a fascinating portrait of the talented, valuable Eugene Benson." -Dorris Heffron, author of City Wolves and other novels

Alexander Brodie emigrated from Scotland to what was then the British colony of Upper Canada-now Ontario-in the 1830s. In this fascinating memoir, written in the early years of the 20th century, Brodie describes life on what was still very much the frontier. Among the subjects described by Brodie are the Rebellion of 1837, making maple syrup in the bush, "Indian" raids, and, of course, the transatlantic crossing to Canada.John Steckley, anthropologist, sociologist, and author of numerous books, has carefully edited and annotated his great-great-great-uncle's original manuscript. The result is a fascinating look at early Ontario-a era less than two centuries in the past, yet in many ways an altogether different world from our own.

This unique volume provides a comprehensive overview of social policies in China and their evolution over the 70 years since the People's Republic of China was established in 1949. Particular attention is paid to changes in social policies since the era of "opening up" and economic reform began in the late 1970s. Individual chapters are written by experts in their fields. Weizhen Dong, professor of sociology at the University of Waterloo, has edited the volume, as well as authoring or co-authoring a number of chapters.Topics covered include: family planning policy, including the history of the "one child policy" population mobility and migration policy the hukou system and rural migrants' assimilation healthcare elder care housing policy education policy employment and income policies From the preface: This book is for those who are keen to understand China-students, scholars, entrepreneurs, government officials, businessmen, or an individual with a curious mind. I hope this volume can serve as a bridge between our readers and China. Our readers will find that although China is old-a country with thousands of years of history and cultural heritage-China is also actually quite young: the People's Republic of China is just approaching its seventieth anniversary. In the past 69 years, there are lessons to be learned, there are successes to be celebrated, and there are also a lot of "growing pains". At a time when China is becoming more visible in world affairs, this book serves the purpose of addressing global curiosity about China, answering questions such as: What kind of socioeconomic system does China have? What are the main social welfare benefits the Chinese people enjoy? What are the main social issues facing China and the Chinese people? Is China a communist country? The current climate makes understanding among different countries and peoples more important than ever before.

Lord and Lady Macbeth are being stung, not by scorpions, but by imagery, the medium by which human beings think at the deepest levels. And the kingdom which they seek to conquer and control is not just Scotland, but the kingdom of the mind. Imagery enlightens, but it also obscures; imagery is loyal, but it also betrays; imagery is visible on the surface, but manifests itself at hidden depths. Their mutual struggle -- to live in prose while thinking in imagery -- affects the two Macbeths in different ways.The Project Together, this novel and the journal and notebook that accompany it, comprise the twentieth installment in an on-going novel-writing project in which the author is exploring the concept of form and meaning in the novel, and of the novel as a form of expression in the 21st Century. All of the published journals and notebooks are available for free download at www.johnpassfield.ca.The Making of Full of Scorpions is My Mind - a reflective journal This journal records the author's reflections on the process of the crafting of the novel as it evolved through the stages of planning, writing, editing and polishing. It constitutes an effort to be as conscious as possible of the process whereby the single idea that suggested the topic of the novel is expanded into a complex work of art. Topics range from the nuts and bolts of novel-building to the nature of the novel as an art-form.Planning Full of Scorpions is My Mind - a planning notebook During the writing of the novel, the author kept a hand-written notebook which records the day-by-day development of the novel as it found its shape and style. The notebook - now in print form - reveals how a vast cluster of thoughts was sifted, selected, structured and polished into novel-form.

Is there a purpose for the extra "p" in "shopped"? Does the letter "e" in "prince" have a function? Is there a reason for spelling "muscle" with a silent letter "c"? Why are the letters "cc" in "accident" and "account" pronounced differently? Why does the letter "e" in "bake" disappear from "baking"?These are just a few of the mysteries of English spelling that Trevor Schindeler, a lifelong student of the English language, explores in this unique book. He answers these questions and many others in a clear and understandable fashion by setting out the structures and conventions that govern English spelling.In this age of smartphones with spell checking capacities, some people question the need to learn about spelling. There are, however, benefits to understanding how spelling works beyond getting words typed out correctly. Spelling remains vital because it forms a foundation for both reading and writing. A good knowledge of our English spelling system is required to read accurately and to write proficiently. Spelling skills are fundamental to good communication, and open the door to vast stores of human knowledge.This book will be helpful to anyone who wants to improve their understanding of written English including teachers, English instructors, students seeking to master the English language, and general readers. It sets out, in a systematic and comprehensive manner, all of the spelling patterns found in written English. Becoming aware of a spelling pattern will help you to notice it when reading and, eventually, to apply it when writing. In time, reading and writing skills will improve, and a deeper appreciation of our complex spelling system will be acquired.This book also describes the structures and conventions that govern the spelling of words. While dictionaries tell us how to spell a word, this book explains why! MAJOR SECTIONS OF THE BOOKThe Structures of English SpellingLong Vowel Spelling PatternsShort Vowel Spelling PatternsOther Vowel Spelling PatternsConsonant Spelling PatternsConsonant BlendsPrefixesRoot WordsSuffixesGrammatical ConsiderationsPluralsPossessivesOnsets and RimesCompound and Hyphenated WordsContractionsAcronyms

This exciting new book explores some of the surprising connections found among mathematics, science, and art. Driven by theory and practice, by rigorous research and free experimentation, Sensing Geometry relates seemingly “unrelated” ideas and phenomena in new and intriguing ways. While abstract mathematical objects, progressively built from self-contained systems, might be said to exist only in the mind, this interdisciplinary study shows how mathematical and scientific concepts have also been adapted into various forms of artistic expression – architecture, poetry, painting, and sculpture – as examples of hybrid thinking and creative process. With Sensing Geometry, the author develops a network of common elements broadly connecting a new world-view of nature.Complementing the text are 123 illustrations and figures, including full-color reproductions of many famous works of art that embody and exemplify many of the concepts discussed in the text.

Every so often in business something comes along of which you need to take note: a new marketing channel, a new technology, a radical discovery. Primal Shopper is that radical discovery. Inspired by Myers-Briggs, Primal Shopper sets out the innate motivations guiding our shopping decisions. Think of these motivations as our shopper DNA. This DNA is predictable and persistent across brands and product categories. In Primal Shopper: Unlocking Shopper DNA to Power Your Marketing, author Eric Bowe explores this discovery and its impact on marketing effectiveness.Bowe begins the book by revealing the behavioral research applied to uncover the shopper DNA and explains the nature of the basic strands. He also reveals how the DNA strands are combined into eight primal shopper typologies defining our retail preferences and discusses the different hypotheses leading to the final survey, including those that fell by the wayside. Sample surveys are supplied so readers can determine their own shopper DNA within different product categories.The second part of the book explores the shopper psychology generated and influenced by the DNA strands. Bowe exposes the reader to 18 primal principles underlying shopping behavior. These principles provide insight into shopping preferences in the context of today's retail environment. The author examines the effectiveness of marketing tactics grounded in these shopper typologies. Drawing on this discussion, he explores different product categories, assessing the impact of tactics like advertising, digital marketing, social media, and loyalty programs on moving the shopper.The power of Primal Shopper is the ability to grow market share. As Bowe points out: "A person's shopper DNA determines whether your marketing tactics will break through or just blend into the retail white noise. By marketing to different shopper DNA combinations, you can increase your motivational share and ultimately your market share."In the book's final section, Bowe applies these learnings to such topics as the effect of advertising on shopper DNA and the difficult process of embedding an understanding of shopper behavior in a marketing organization's own DNA. The result is a book that will leave you looking at shoppers and their behavior in an exciting and productive new way.

With the many dynamic changes going on in today's world, a new prototype of the human personality is needed to guide people's future actions, behaviour, lifestyles, and overall development. This new prototype is the cultural personality. It is grounded in the belief that people should be holistic, centred, creative, altruistic, and humane if they are to achieve more happiness, fulfillment, and spirituality in their own lives as well as live in harmony with other people, cultures, species, and the natural environment as a whole.In this enlightening book, author D. Paul Schafer explores the background, ramifications, and promise of this exciting new personality concept. In Chapter One, an assessment is made of the context within which people find themselves in the world today. In Chapter Two, the cultural personality is examined as a concept, largely by juxtaposing the two interdependent concepts of "culture" and "personality." In Chapter Three, the main characteristics of the cultural personality are revealed. In Chapter Four, the cultivation of the qualities and abilities that are most required to constitute the cultural personality are provided. And in Chapter Five, attention is given to the way the cultural personality can function most effectively in the world in practical terms."In his latest book, The Cultural Personality, Paul Schafer offers a most introspective diagnosis of the two traditional personalities that we are quite familiar with, namely the 'economic personality' and the 'specialist personality'. He argues that both are breaking down. The former is breaking down because 'it treats people as producers and consumers of goods, services, and material wealth at a time when these practices are having a devastating effect on the natural environment and not bringing the satisfaction and happiness people expected to find in them.' The second is breaking down because we have encouraged people to develop only a single skill and occupation at a time when change is accelerating so rapidly that their skills are, or soon will be, out of date or obsolete due to developments in digital technology, ever more rapid communications, and the introduction of artificial intelligence. To address these challenges, Schafer suggests we should pay more attention to what he describes as the 'cultural personality'. As he sees it, we need to cultivate a person who is able to live life as an 'ordered whole'. This is a person who is capable of functioning in a disordered world of increasing complexity, frustration, and anxiety, such as the world we are currently experiencing. He supports his arguments with a wide range of valuable and thoughtful quotations. While this is a challenging book, I highly recommend it, as it is filled with practical advice on how human beings can function most effectively, both now and in the increasingly complex world of our children and grandchildren." -- John Hobday, former director, Canada Council for the Arts

A one-legged boy, Terry Fox, sets himself the task of running a marathon a day across the length of Canada, the second-largest country in the world, in aid of cancer research, because the children are crying with pain in the cancer wards and somewhere the hurting must stop.Together this novel and the accompanying journal and notebook comprise the nineteenth installment in an ongoing novel-writing project in which the author is exploring the concept of form and meaning in the novel, and of the novel as a form of expression in the 21st century. All of the accompanying journals and notebooks, as well as more information on the project itself, are available on the author's website, www.johnpassfield.ca.The Making of Somewhere the Hurting Must StopThis journal records the author's reflections on the process of the crafting of the novel as it evolved through the stages of planning, writing, editing and polishing. It constitutes an effort to be as conscious as possible of the process whereby the single idea that suggested the topic of the novel was expanded into a complex work of art. Topics range from the nuts and bolts of novel-building to the nature of the novel as an art form.Planning Somewhere the Hurting Must StopDuring the writing of the novel the author kept a handwritten notebook which records the day-to-day development of the novel as it found its shape and style. The notebook, now in print form, reveals how a vast cluster of thoughts was sifted, selected, structured and polished into novel form.

The Upper Canadian Anglican Tory Mind: A Cultural Fragment by Robert W. Passfield is the most comprehensive elaboration of the beliefs, values and worldview of Anglican Toryism since the works of the Anglican divine, Richard Hooker, at the English Reformation, to which has been added the Tory concept of the 18th Century balanced British Constitution and the Tory view of the ultimate purpose of education, within the context of the politics of an English colony: the Province of Upper Canada.

After the terrifying experiences recounted in Island Curse, Selma and Gerry move to a small northern Ontario mining town to start a new life together. An enormous lode of gold ore has just been discovered and the town is booming. But gold isn't all that's waiting to be found in Canada's deepest mine shaft, and soon the entire town is threatened by an ancient evil more monstrous than anything Selma and Gerry could have imagined. Just as they did on Bornay Island, Selma, her family and friends confront forces bent on their annihilation. Can they stop unspeakable evil from destroying everything they love?Help from an unexpected and unearthly source comes to their aid once more-but this time it may not be enough…

Inspired by Rousseau, and in need of a maid, the Baroness sets herself the task of transforming a "pure, unsullied creature" into a presentable maid. But learning how to set a table is one thing; Emily's unforeseen traumas are quite another.What moral imperatives differentiate instinctive behaviour from rational behaviour? What chance have the Baroness' enlightened plans for Emily in the messy human world that is their reality?Published in cooperation with the Shaw Festival, this edition of The Baroness and the Pig includes a foreword by Artistic Director Tim Carroll and an essay by Resident Scholar Leonard Conolly. It also includes information on the Festival's 2018 production of The Baroness and the Pig, directed by Selma Dimitrijevic and designed by Camellia Koo.Based on characters created by Catherine Fitch and Marion Day

The Counterintuitive Writer takes a new perspective on academic writing, encouraging readers to follow the road "less travelled" as they figure out what they want to write and how to write it.Using easy-to-understand examples, practical exercises, and innovative approaches that apply to various types of writing, this text guides the reader on how to:• Overcome writer's block • Develop a focused topic • Organize essays, reports and research papers • Apply the principle of "predictable structure and unpredictable content" to capture - and hold - readers' attention • Craft a compelling introduction and conclusion • Write concise, coherent paragraphs • Summarize key points; and • Avoid common writing pitfalls, including logical fallacies, unintentional plagiarism, and grammatical errors.

A young Canadian doctor, Norman Bethune, sets up a practice which he hopes will lead to money and prestige; however, his social conscience takes him on a journey through the Canada of the Great Depression, the Spain of the Spanish Civil War, and the China of the Chinese Civil War and Japanese invasion. Ultimately, the journey becomes a quest to understand the world in which Bethune finds himself living, to develop a compassionate response to that world, and to discover the essence of himself as a human being.Also AvailableThe Making of The Only Person Alive in the World - a reflective journalThis journal records the author's reflections on the process of the crafting of the novel as it evolved through the stages of planning, writing, editing and polishing. It constitutes an effort to be as conscious as possible of the process whereby the single idea that suggested the topic of the novel was expanded into a complex work of art. Topics range from the nuts and bolts of novel-building to the nature of the novel as an art-form.Planning The Only Person Alive in the World - a planning notebookDuring the writing of the novel, the author kept a hand-written notebook which records the day-by-day development of the novel as it found its shape and style. The notebook - now in print form - reveals how a vast cluster of thoughts was sifted, selected, structured and polished into novel-form.The ProjectTogether, this novel, journal and notebook comprise the eighteenth installment in an on-going novel-writing project in which the author is exploring the concept of form and meaning in the novel, and of the novel as a form of expression in the twenty-first century. All of the published journals and notebooks are available for free download at www.johnpassfield.ca.

Two brutal slayings-dubbed the "Millennial Murders" by the media-have shocked residents of Steeltown. But that's only the beginning …In this new novel, Peter Abbot, author of Librarian and Voice of the Lord and himself a long-time resident of Canada's tenth largest city, explores the meaning of hope, despair, and redemption-and introduces readers to a number of Hamiltonians they won't soon forget.

"I am a flat chested teenybopper and nobody likes me. At least not today. Maybe if I'm lucky someone will like me tomorrow." That's how I started my project on family and community that Mrs. McKinney gave us for our first grade eight assignment. Pathetic, eh? It's not really true, I guess. Just feels like it most days.…And so begins Jenny Grant's account of the trials and tribulations of her final year of elementary school. Along the way Jenny finds her world rocked by a family crisis, breaks the leg of one of the most popular girls in school, and discovers (can it be?) true love. By turns hilarious and heartwrenching, When Am I Supposed to Sleep? is guaranteed to prevent readers from getting to sleep themselves as they wait to find out how Jenny's grade 8 year will turn out.