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This study, based largely on records held at the National Archives of Canada and the Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, examines the basic assumptions by which the English-speaking male officer was selected for the King''s Commission during the Second World War. It argues that such assumptions embodied a conception of the officer as a "military manager," one who, in Morris Janowitz''s conception is "concerned with the scientific and rational conduct of war."

"Archaeological detection of population replacements over large regions in the prehistoric record is difficult given that culture can be geographically transmitted in the absence of wholesale population movements. The development of methodologies to analyze DNA from human remains several thousand years old affords a direct examination of genetic relationships between pre- and posttransition populations. Three to five mitochondrial DNA restriction sites and one length polymorphism were typed in pretransition Paleo-Eskimos and posttransition Neo-Eskimos from the eastern North American Arctic. Frequency comparisons of the haplogroups these markers define yielded significant differences between the two groups. Combined with radiocarbon dates of each skeletal sample examined genetically, this indicates the archaeologically defined Paleo-to Neo-Eskimo transition represents a true population replacement. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses suggest the transition was accompanied by a change in foraging strategies from reliance on sealing to open-sea hunting of bowhead whale. Similar genetic and radiocarbon examinations of the craniometrically defined pretransition Paleo-Aleuts and posttransition Neo-Aleuts in the western North American Arctic yielded haplogroup frequencies that are statistically indistinguishable from each other and from the contemporary Aleut population. This indicates a long, continuous, single human occupation of the Aleutian Islands"--Leaf iv.

"In 1943, General Harry Crerar noted that there was still much confusion as to "what constitutes an ''officer.''" His words reflected the preoccupation of army officials to invent an ideal officer who would not only meet the demands of war but also conform to notions of social class and masculinity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and exploring the issue of leadership through new lenses, this book looks at how the army selected and trained its junior officers to embody the new ideal. It also sheds light on challenges these officers faced during the war--not only on the battlefield but from Canadians'' often conflicted views about social class and gender."--

On a topsy-turvy day, Patrick the bear is sick and cannot find his favorite toy, but he tries to bravely face a visit from the doctor.