Best Selling Books by Andrew Young

Based on the premises that Quebecers vote for independence in a referendum and Canada accepts this result, The Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada is a timely examination of the implications of separation for Quebec and the rest of Canada.

First selection of Andrew Young''s best-known short poems and the long mystical poem Into Hades. The volume is illustrated by Joan Hassalal''s powerful wood-engravings.

Young (political science, U. of Western Ontario) follows his analysis of the Quebec situation in The Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada, written in mid-1994, with an update of developments since then. He describes the prelude to the 1995 referendum campaign on Quebec secession, and analyzes the arguments deployed by federalists and sovereignists, seeking to explain why the Yes forces gained ground in 1995 and almost won. He then assesses the fallout of the referendum and describes how the sovereignists and federalists are maneuvering around the prospect of another referendum. He provides predictions on what would happen after a Yes vote. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

When you look over the skyline of Atlanta, Georgia...you see Oscar. When you walk through Atlanta''s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport...you see Oscar. When you travel through Metropolitan Atlanta''s Rapid Transit Authority stations, including the world''s tallest escalator...you see Oscar. When you see the springing rings of water and sparkles of light from Centennial Olympic Park...you see Oscar. All of this and much more, represent the vision, dream and accomplishments of one of the greatest architects in modern history, Oscar L. Harris, Jr. in a no-holds barred new book, "Oscar: The Memoir of a Master Architect". In his more than 40 years of experience, Oscar tells all of his time in a field where few, particularly African Americans, have succeeded. Oscar frankly explains how he went from a rambunctious child to a pioneer creator of some of the most prominent works of architecture in the country. Many of the stories are very raw and real, but reflect the passion, aspirations and determination of a true artist who turned his creative energies into tangible works of beauty and substance. Oscar gives you the behind-the-scenes candor of what it took to make it in an era and a time when African Americans were denied and insulted. He explains how he built his business, Turner Associates, from nothing to one of the most successful and diverse firms in America. Oscar lays it all on the table as he gives insight into what it took to revitalize Underground Atlanta, rebuild major government buildings and justice centers, retail centers, create "the look" of the 1996 Olympic Games and so much more. But, it doesn''t end there; Oscar reveals what he envisions for the future and what it is going to take to get us there. He offers revolutionary solutions to issues, and presents them with compassion and understanding. After reading this book, you will know why there is only one Oscar!

This book addresses the policy implications for all current participants in the Space Station''e Era. Naturally cooperation on such scale engenders myriad legal difficulties. This book divides its discussion of these into three parts, dealing with a constitutional perspective of the treaty-making process in the space field, the optimum framework for management of the US/International Space Station and a presentation of the range and complexity of the commercial issues involved. The third part of the book deals with the macrocosm within which space station as specific suites of hardware must operate.

Andrew''s almost lifelong obsession with wild flowers - never cultivated ones - was to culminate in the two whimsical, colourful, anecdotal, amusing ''flower'' books: A Prospect of Flowers (1945) and A Retrospect of Flowers (1950).He called himself a ''botanophil'' rather than a botanist, as he was an inspired - but very well-informed - amateur. In the Retrospect he said that he was too lazy to study botany, but that ''so great is my respect, I should always want to take off my hat to a botanist''.

This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from south-west England. At the centre of the narrative is a succession of well-preserved buildings spanning the late 10th to the 14th centuries A.D. forming the nucleus of a Domesday manor and its Late Saxon precursor. Detailed analysis of the structural sequence offers a new regional perspective on pre-Conquest earthfast timber architecture and its subsequent (12th-century) replacement by masonry traditions. Culminating in a richly preserved 14th-century farmhouse, including a very complete assemblage of structural and domestic objects, the structural archaeology provides an unusually refined picture of the internal organisation of later medieval domestic space within a rural farming setting. Detailed analytical attention is given to the abundant artefactual and environmental datasets recovered from the excavations (including prolific assemblages of medieval pottery and palaeonvironmental data) with a nuanced appraisal of their interpretative implications. Anyone with an interest in the dynamics and regional complexity of medieval rural communities will find this a stimulating and enlightening read.

"This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from south-west England. At the centre of the narrative is a succession of well-preserved buildings spanning the late 10th to the 14th centuries A.D. forming the nucleus of a Domesday manor and its Late Saxon precursor. Detailed analysis of the structural sequence offers a new regional perspective on pre-Conquest earthfast timber architecture and its subsequent (12th-century) replacement by masonry traditions. Culminating in a richly preserved 14th-century farmhouse, including a very complete assemblage of structural and domestic objects, the structural archaeology provides an unusually refined picture of the internal organisation of later medieval domestic space within a rural farming setting. Detailed analytical attention is given to the abundant artefactual and environmental datasets recovered from the excavations (including prolific assemblages of medieval pottery and palaeonvironmental data) with a nuanced appraisal of their interpretative implications. Anyone with an interest in the dynamics and regional complexity of medieval rural communities will find this a stimulating and enlightening read."--