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Series: Cultural Dialectics "My Own Portrait in Writing" Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh Electronic book text, EPUB Patrick Grant 9781771990608 $27.99 LITERARY CRITICISM May 01, 2015

Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as literature. In this volume, Patrick Grant sets out to explore the question, “By what criteria do we judge Van Gogh's letters to be, specifically, literary?” Drawing, especially, on Mikhail Bakhtin’s conceptualization of self-awareness as an ongoing dialogu... + Read More
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Series: #IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada Electronic book text, Kindle Ken Coates 9780889773431 $17.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 04, 2015

Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identity in Canadian history. Thousands of Aboriginal people and their supporters took to the streets, shopping malls, and other venues, drumming, dancing, and singing in a collective voice. Idle No More lasted for almost a year before the rallies dissipated. Many observers described it as a spent force. It was anything but. Idle No More was the most profou... + Read More
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Series: “Here Is Hell” Canada's Engagement in Somalia Electronic book text, PDF Grant Dawson 9780774855099 $30.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2007

Grant Dawson’s analysis of political, diplomatic, and military decision making avoids a narrow focus on the shocking offences of a few Canadian soldiers, deftly investigating the broader context of the deployment in Somalia. He shows how media pressure, government optimism about the United Nations, and the Canadian traditions of multilateralism and peacekeeping all helped to determine the level, length, and tenor of the country’s operations. His findings will undoubtedly play a seminal role in informing scholarly debate about this important per... + Read More
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Series: 100 Things You Don't Know About Nova Scotia Electronic book text, EPUB Sal Sawler 9781771083782 $10.99 Feb 15, 2023

Did you know that the Halifax–Dartmouth ferry was once operated by a team of nine horses? Or that Babe Ruth used to visit Yarmouth regularly for hunting and fishing vacations? Enter journalist Sarah Sawler: your guide to discovering 100 fascinating things you don’t know about Nova Scotia—from robberies and murders to famous landmarks, events, and people.Inspired by the success of her popular Halifax Magazine column “50 Things You Don’t Know about Halifax,” Sawler has expanded her focus to include interesting anecdotes and facts about the social... + Read More
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Series: 12 Years a Slave: Now a Major Movie (Illustrated) Narrative of Solomon Northup Electronic book text, EPUB Solomon Northup 9781927970331 $9.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 12, 2014

Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker. This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery, including smallpox, lashings, and an attempted hanging. Solomon Northup was among a select few who were freed from slavery. His account describes the daily life of slav... + Read More
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Series: Life Writing 163256 A Memoir of Resistance Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Englishman 9781554586806 $12.95 HISTORY Jul 21, 2009

163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death time and again, committing daring acts of bravery to do what he thought was right—helping other prisoners escape and actively participating... + Read More
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Series: 20 Quick Strategies to Help Patients and Clients Manage Stress Electronic book text, EPUB Charlene Richard MSW 9781550596519 $29.99 MEDICAL Jan 12, 2016

Fast, effective strategies — each teachable in 10 minutes or less!Includes printable patient handouts and audio downloads for guided relaxation practices.Empower your patients quickly with tools that range from relaxation strategies to life skills. Teach patients to recognize their stress response and use proven techniques to reduce their exposure to stress. Each of the 20 strategies described in this practical guide includes a script to teach patients how to use the strategy and a printable patient handout. Patients can use the audio downloads... + Read More
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Series: 200 Years at St. John's York Mills The Oldest Church in Toronto Electronic book text, EPUB Scott Kennedy 9781459737600 $29.99 HISTORY Oct 22, 2016

The history of the oldest parish church in the Toronto area is also the history of North Toronto and a changing culture.The War of 1812 was barely over when the people of York Mills felled the trees that would become the first St. John’s Anglican Church. Built in 1816 on land donated by pioneer settlers Joseph and Catherine Shepard, the little log church was the first outpost of St. James Church in the Town of York and the first parish church in what would one day become the City of Toronto. The brick church that stands there today, high on the... + Read More
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Series: 25 Places in Canada Every Family Should Visit Electronic book text, MobiPocket Jody Robbins 9781771512022 $14.99 TRAVEL May 20, 2017

Silver prize-winning guidebook in the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism CompetitionNow is the perfect time to explore this vast country with your kids while finally experiencing the spectacular Canadian destinations you’ve been dreaming about.Planning a family getaway can be overwhelming, but award-winning freelance travel writer and blogger Jody Robbins puts you on the right path with savvy suggestions for families who are keen to explore Canada with their little loved ones. With the insight and enthusiasm of ... + Read More
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Series: 26 Feet to the Charlottes Exploring the Land of the Haida Electronic book text, MobiPocket June Cameron 9781926613901 $9.99 TRAVEL Mar 01, 2009

When June Cameron and Paul Holsinger set out in 1983 in Paul's ancient 26-foot wooden sloop, Wood Duck, to cross the perilous Hecate Strait and explore the weather-beaten west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (now known as Haida Gwaii), they knew they would face danger. But June had raced her own sailboat for years and Paul was a gifted mechanic, so they put trepidation aside and answered the call to adventure. 26 Feet to the Charlottes takes readers to remote beaches, uninhabited First Nations villages, abandoned mines and sheltered coves.... + Read More
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Series: 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick Ebook Electronic book text, EPUB Peter Manchester 9780864925480 $14.95 HUMOR Sep 30, 2011

From the days when proto-humans lashed animal jawbones to sticks and whacked wildebeest-poop slapshots in Olduvai Arena to today’s super-high-tech computer-assisted extravaganzas, one by-product of the hockey game has gone unnoticed and untapped. Until now . . . In 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transforms the agony of a fractured stick into the thrill of creation. Instructions and explicit cartoons show woodworkers of all abilities how to fashion items for outdoors, items for indoors, and items without any purpo... + Read More
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Series: A Baltic Odyssey War and Survival Electronic book text, PDF Jurgen von Rosen 9781552382899 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 28, 1996

Baroness Martha von Rosen, a Baltic German aristocrat, and her memories of the last year of the Second World War and the diary of her late husband, Baron Jürgen von Rosen, taken prisoner by the Allied forces during the war, together pay homage to the assertion that history can be a decidedly individual event. Martha von Rosen has written a moving and truly heroic account of her flight from Geppertsfeld, Poland. In his diary, the Baron gives a standing testimonial to the horrors of imprisonment. He chronicles an experience quite foreign to o... + Read More
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Series: A Beginner's Guide to Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies Electronic book text, MobiPocket Andrew Nugara 9781927330395 $11.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 12, 2012

Following the success of his first snowshoeing guide, Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies (RMB, 2011), Andrew Nugara has now written the ultimate guide for those finding themselves on snowshoes for the first time. A Beginner’s Guide to Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies describes over 40 great routes for new snowshoers. The trips extend from scenic Waterton in the far south to the breathtaking Columbia Icefield in the north section of Banff National Park. Stunning colour photos, maps and detailed route descriptions are provided for each trip,... + Read More
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Series: A Beginner's Guide to Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies Electronic book text, EPUB Andrew Nugara 9781771601856 $14.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Dec 15, 2018

Whether you are looking for an easy introductory day on flat terrain amid beautiful surroundings or getting to the summit of one of the Rockies innumerable stunning mountains, you will find it in this bestselling guidebook. This second edition of A Beginner’s Guide to Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies has almost doubled in content and now describes over 75 great treks for new or beginner snowshoers. In addition to the very easy routes tailored for those who find themselves on snowshoes for the first time, this edition features a number of new... + Read More
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Series: A Boy from Botwood Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919 Electronic book text, EPUB Bryan Davies 9781459736733 $11.99 HISTORY Jan 21, 2017

A proud Newfoundland soldier’s memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War.I’m going to tell my story. With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War memoir in motion. Like many Great War veterans, Manuel had never discussed his wartime life with anyone. Hidden in the Manuel family records until its 2011 discovery by his grandson David Manuel, Arthur’s story is now brought to new life. Determined to escape his impoverished rural Newfoundland existence, he enlis... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada A Brief History of Women in Quebec Electronic book text, EPUB Denyse Baillargeon 9781554589524 $17.99 HISTORY Sep 15, 2014

A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals to the twenty-first century to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transformations in their lives.Themes explored include demography, such as marriage, fecundity, and immigration; women’s work outside and inside the home, including motherhood; education, from elementary school to post-secondary and access to the professions;... + Read More
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Series: A Business History of Alberta Electronic book text, PDF Henry C. Klassen 9781552383001 $19.95 HISTORY Nov 30, 1999

Businesses large and small have always been an integral part of Alberta's identity and growth. Exploring the evolution of business growth in Alberta, this comprehensive and unique study examines the role businesses have played in the economic, political, and social development of the province.
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Series: Wayfarer A Canadian Girl in South Africa Maud Graham’s Experiences as a Teacher in the South African War Concentration Camps Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB E. Maud Graham 9781772120530 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 16, 2015

As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration camps. Highly educated, hard working, and often opinionated, E. Maud Graham joined the Canadian contingent of forty teachers. Her eyewitness account reveals the complexity of relations and tensions at a controversial period in the histories of both Britain and South Africa. Graham presents a lively historical tra... + Read More
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Series: Wayfarer A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage Digital original Electronic book text, EPUB Elizabeth Robins Pennell 9781772120929 $23.99 TRAVEL Feb 17, 2016

A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. “You have a good horse,” he then said; “it eats nothing.” —from An Italian Pilgrimage The 1880s was an exhilarating time for cycling pioneers like Elizabeth and her husband Joseph. As boneshakers and high-wheelers evolved into tandem tricycles and the safety bike, cycling grew from child’s play and extreme sport into a leisurely and, importantly, literary mode of transportation. The illustrated travel ... + Read More
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Series: A Century of Grant MacEwan Selected Writings Electronic book text, MobiPocket Grant MacEwan 9781926972008 $9.99 HISTORY Feb 01, 2011

August 12, 2002 would have marked the 100th birthday of one of Western Canada's most beloved, exemplary, idiosyncratic and admired citizens, the Hon. J.W. Grant MacEwan. A Century of Grant MacEwan: Selected Writings is published to mark the centenary of the author's birth, and showcases the writing achievements of this remarkable man. From his first foray into historical writing, The Sodbusters (1948), to Watershed: Reflections on Water (2000), this collection offers a fascinating selection drawn from the nearly fifty books that won him a place... + Read More
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Series: Canadian History and Environment Series A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 1st edition Electronic book text, EPUB Alan MacEachern 9781552385586 $34.95 HISTORY Aug 27, 2012

"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important... + Read More
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Series: Africa: Missing Voices A Common Hunger Land Rights in Canada and South Africa Electronic book text, PDF Joan G. Fairweather 9781552383131 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 13, 2013

Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and dispossession, share a hunger for land and human dignity. Based on extensive research carried out in both countries, A Common Hunger is a comparative work on the history of indigenous land rights in Canada and post-apartheid South Africa. Joan Fairweather has constructed a balanced examination of the... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism A Common Written Greek Source for Mark and Thomas Electronic book text, EPUB John Horman 9781554583430 $48.95 RELIGION Feb 25, 2011

This book uncovers an early collection of sayings, called N, that are ascribed to Jesus and are similar to those found in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a document believed to be a common source, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke. In the process, the book sheds light on the literary methods of Mark and Thomas. A literary comparison of the texts of the sayings of Jesus that appear in both Mark and Thomas shows that each adapted an earlier collection for his own purpose. Neither Mark nor Thomas consistently gives the original or earliest form of t... + Read More
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Series: A Companion to Under the Volcano Electronic book text, PDF Lawrence J. Clipper 9780774857574 $34.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 01, 2007

An item-by-item discussion of the innumerable, often obscure details of Malcolm Lowry's novel, this book comprises 1,600 notes covering some 7,000 specific points. The notes are keyed to page numbers in the Penguin paperback and the two standard hardback editions. The appendices include a glossary, bibliography, maps of the region, and an index of motifs. In their comprehensive but unpedantic commentary on the novel's complexities, the authors' emphasis is on the narrative level. All points of obscurity are followed by an interpretation of fac... + Read More
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Series: A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau Traditional Stl'atl'imx Resource Use Electronic book text, PDF Brian Hayden 9780774854139 $34.95 NATURE Nov 01, 2007

Early hunter/gatherer societies have traditionally been considered basically egalitarian in nature. This assumption, however, has been challenged by contemporary archaeological and anthropological research, which has demonstrated that many of these societies had complex social, economic, and political structures. This volume considers two British Columbia Native communities – the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion – and traces their development into complex societies. The authors explore the relation between resource char... + Read More
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Series: A Cowherd in Paradise From China to Canada Electronic book text, MobiPocket May Q. Wong 9781926972411 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2012

In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada’s head tax laws in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story of one such family. The book chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902–1983) and Jiang Tew Thloo (1911–2002). Ah Dang was born into an impoverished family and sold as a child. In 1921, his adoptive father paid a five-hundred-dollar head ta... + Read More
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Series: A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden Electronic book text, EPUB Stephen Reid 9781927068366 $11.95 Oct 01, 2012

Stephen Reid has grown old in prison and seen more than his share of its solitude, its vicious cycles, and its subculture relationships. He has participated in the economics of contraband, the incredible escapes, the intimacies of torture, the miscarriages of justice, and witnessed the innocent souls whose childhood destinies doomed them to prison life. He has learned that everything is bearable, that the painful separation of family, children, and friend is tolerable, and that sorrow must be kept close, buried in a secret garden of the self, i... + Read More
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Series: A Culture's Catalyst Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada Electronic book text, EPUB Fannie Kahan 9780887555060 $25.00 MEDICAL May 06, 2016

In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada. Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice of peyotism. They enlisted the help of Hoffer’s sister, journalist Fannie Kahan, and worked closely with her to document the religious ceremony and write a histor... + Read More
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Series: A Daughter's Deadly Deception The Jennifer Pan Story Electronic book text, EPUB Jeremy Grimaldi 9781459735262 $9.99 TRUE CRIME Nov 12, 2016

2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — WinnerA sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets. From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But there was a dark, deceptive side to the angelic young woman. In reality, Jennifer spent her days in the arms of her high school sweetheart, Daniel. In an attempt to lead the life she dreame... + Read More
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Series: Issues in Distance Education A Designer's Log Case Studies in Instructional Design Electronic book text, EPUB Michael Power 9781897425466 $29.99 EDUCATION Sep 01, 2009

Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model for transforming courses from single-mode to dual-mode instruction, making this designer’s log a unique contribution to the field of online learning.
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Series: A Doyle Reader Writings From Home and Away Electronic book text, EPUB Marjorie Doyle 9781927099193 $9.95 TRAVEL Jul 25, 2013

A Doyle Reader is a lively collection of personal writings, columns, and commentaries from a nationally known Newfoundland-born author and broadcaster. Doyle tackles a range of topics without pulling punches: her St. John’s girlhood, Confederation, music, culture, and travel (whether as a sullen 10-year-old or an exhausted English teacher). Through it all is Doyle’s distinctive voice: patriotic, passionate, and relentlessly funny.
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Series: Sustainability and the Environment A Dynamic Balance Social Capital and Sustainable Community Development Electronic book text, PDF Ann Dale 9780774851411 $34.95 NATURE Jan 01, 2006

A Dynamic Balance illuminates the importance of understanding the social dimension of sustainability as it examines the links between social capital and sustainable development within the overall context of local community development. Looking at case studies in both Australia and Canada, it draws upon lessons that can be learned to reconnect large urban centres and smaller communities. Given the number of small communities in both countries struggling to diversify from single-resource economies in a context of increasing globalization, the ana... + Read More
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Series: A Family by Any Other Name Exploring Queer Relationships Electronic book text, MobiPocket Bruce Gillespie 9781771510554 $9.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 08, 2014

Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT AnthologyWinner of a 2015 Silver Independent Publisher Book AwardAt no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. A Family by Any Other Name recognizes and celebrates this advance by exploring what “family” means to people today. The anthology includes a wide range of perspectives on queer relationships and families—there are stories on coming out, same-sex marriage, adopting, having biological kids, poly... + Read More
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Series: A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders Electronic book text, EPUB Caroline O'Grady RN, MN, PhD 9780888689160 $12.99 Mar 31, 2007

Concurrent substance use and mental health problems affect the person experiencing the problems, and also his or her family members and friends. Families need help to deal with the impact of concurrent disorders, but families are also a key to finding effective solutions. This guide can help families to support their family member with concurrent disorders, and also to support themselves. Based on materials developed for a family education support group at CAMH, The Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders includes: • information about substance u... + Read More
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Series: A Family Heritage The Story and Songs of LaRena Clark Electronic book text, PDF Edith Fowke 9781552383377 $27.95 MUSIC Jun 30, 1994

New folk music and folk-song materials in this comprehensive study are particularly important for singers, folk music enthusiasts, ethnomusicologists, comparative and cultural studies scholars, and those interested in Canadian culture. LaRena Clark was a great singer and knew many fine songs. Her wide repertoire covers almost the complete range of types and topics of traditional Anglo-Canadian songs. Comparison with other collections in Canada, the United States, the British Isles, and Australia indicate just how unique and far-reaching it wa... + Read More
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Series: A Flawed Freedom Rethinking Southern African Liberation Electronic book text, EPUB John S. Saul 9781771131513 $9.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 15, 2014

Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S. Saul explores the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context. Saul looks at how initial optimism has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana. With chapters on South Africa, Tanzania, and Mozambique, Saul investigates the reality of southern Africa’s post-“liberation” plight, drawing on the insights of Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral, and assessing claims that... + Read More
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Series: A Force Such as the World Has Never Known Women Creating Change Electronic book text, EPUB Sharon Mijares 9781771330572 $19.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2013

A Force Such as the World Has Never Known: Women Creating Change is a unique collection of narratives from women from all around the globe. These are stories of compassion and bravery, empowered by the vision of a better world for all life. It emphasizes the need to empower the feminine and assure gender balance and human rights for all. This accumulation of women’s stories reveals the role of women in creating needed changes in areas of health and nutrition, supporting efforts toward sustainable environments, promoting political and social ri... + Read More
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Series: A Forgotten Legend Balbir Singh Sr., Triple Olympic Gold & Modi’s New India Electronic book text, EPUB Patrick Blennerhassett 9781988098159 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 07, 2016

Imagine you’re one of India’s most decorated athletes, a country of more than a billion people. You were largely responsible for your homeland’s first Olympic gold medal as an independent nation after a violent, murderous Partition, yet you walk the streets anonymously, and your contributions have been all but forgotten. What if your statistics, awards, and accolades spoke for themselves, but no one was speaking for you? In November of 2014, Canadian journalist Patrick Blennerhassett set out for India. In investigating the mystery of Balbir Sin... + Read More
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Series: A Gillnet's Drift Tales of Fish and Freedom on the BC Coast Electronic book text, EPUB W.N. Marach 9781927527726 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2014

One Friday morning in the spring of 1972, an ad in the Vancouver Sun caught Nick Marach’s eye: GILLNETTER FOR SALE. A young architect who had just returned to the west coast from a yearlong motorcycle trip abroad, Marach was not looking for a change of career—but he was looking for a boat to live on, and the price of the old gillnetter was cheap. A Gillnet’s Drift takes the reader back to a time when the salmon runs on the BC coast were strong, and all it took to call oneself a commercial fisher was a boat, a net, and a licence. No experience w... + Read More
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Series: A Good Ending A Compassionate Guide to Funerals, Pastoral Care, and Life Celebrations Electronic book text, EPUB David Sparks 9781551342177 $10.95 RELIGION May 09, 2014

Wow, that was a good funeral. Comments like this are not an accident but the result of care and planning, contends David Sparks in A Good Ending. This practical book gives advice and ideas for every step along the way, from supporting the dying person, to planning a funeral, life celebration, or memorial, and to being with those left to mourn. Whether you are a new or seasoned worship leader looking for fresh insights or ideas or someone looking for guidance to support a dying loved one, you'll find this an indispensable resource. Practical hel... + Read More
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Series: A Grammar of the Kabardian Language Electronic book text, PDF John Colarusso 9781552383568 $19.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Dec 30, 1992

This is the first comprehensive grammar of a non-Indo-European language from the Northwest Caucasian family in a language other than Russian. Kabardian is complex at every level. The language treated is not the literary standard, but Kabardian as it was found in texts and in the mouths of Kabardians. This study is an advance over grammatical sketches of related languages in that it gives a complete account of the phonology and morphology of the language, accounting for what were previously known as "random variants." A Grammar of the Kabardian... + Read More
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Series: A Great Restlessness The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen Electronic book text, PDF Faith Johnston 9780887553066 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 30, 2006

Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canadaís House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940. But despite her remarkable career, until now little has been known about her.From her youth in London during World War I to her burial in 1980 in a heroís cemetery in China, Nielsen lived through tumultuous times. Struggling through the Great Depression as a homesteaderís wife in rural Saskatchewan, Nielsen rebelled against the poverty and injustice that surrounded her, and found like-mind... + Read More
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Series: A Green Reef The Impact of Climate Change Electronic book text, EPUB Stephen Henighan 9781927535288 $6.95 NATURE Sep 28, 2013

In spite of its disturbing implications, the impact of climate change on our physical environment can be difficult for us to understand or imagine. Moving from a memoir of a journey through an abundant yet fragile natural world to the daunting scientific evidence that climate change will lead to the degradation of nature and upheaval within society, this essay offers a lucid personal approach to the pivotal dilemma of our time. In a wide-ranging discussion that embraces science, history, art, language and identity, A Green Reef offers the reade... + Read More
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Series: A Gut Reaction A True Story About a Mother's Struggle to Save her Son's Life and his Amazing Recovery from Crohn's Disease Electronic book text, EPUB Sky Curtis 9781771330817 $9.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 2013

A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of two unusual doctors, one in Canada and the other in Australia, she and her son, who was in his early twenties, finally find a regime of fecal infusions that replaces the bacteria that had ulcerated his gut with a healthy flora donated by his mother. The manuscript details their a... + Read More
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Series: A Halifax Boyhood Growing up on the city's outskirts in the 1940s and 50s Electronic book text, EPUB Malcolm MacLeod 9781459503298 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 17, 2014

Anyone who grew up in the late 1940s and 50s will recognize themselves and their experiences in this story of a Halifax boyhood. Whether its the thrill of skating while holding someones hand for the first time, waiting for a Saturday matinee in the raucous din of a movie theatre full of kids, or exploring a building left temporarily unsupervised, Malcolm MacLeod brings back the sights, sounds, and feelings of the era. Photographs from the same period show a city replacing old ways with the new world of big cars, suburbs, and fast food. This ... + Read More
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Series: A Healthy Society How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy Electronic book text, EPUB Ryan Meili 9781895830675 $22.00 MEDICAL Apr 16, 2012

Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient stories to explore health determinants and democratic reforms that could create a truly healthy society. By synthesizing diverse ideas into a plan for ... + Read More
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Series: A Heart at Leisure from Itself Caroline Macdonald of Japan Electronic book text, PDF Margaret Prang 9780774854566 $32.95 HISTORY May 07, 1997

A truly remarkable person, Caroline Macdonald (1874-1931) was a Canadian woman who spent almost her entire working life in Japan and who played a significant role there in both the establishment of the YWCA and in prison reform. A native of Wingham, Ontario, she was one of the first women to attend the University of Toronto, where in 1901 she graduated with honours in mathematics and physics. But rather than follow an academic career, she opted in 1904, through her connections with the Presbyterian Church and the YWCA in Canada and the United S... + Read More
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Series: Northern Lights A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939 Electronic book text, EPUB Gordon W. Smith 9781552387764 $39.95 HISTORY Nov 17, 2014

Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on “The Historical and Legal Background of Canada’s Arctic Claims” remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter “Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem,” in R. St. J. Macdonald’s The Arctic Frontier. This work is the first in a project to edit and publish Smith’s unpublished opus - a manuscript on “A Historical and Lega... + Read More
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Series: A History of Antisemitism in Canada Electronic book text, EPUB Ira Robinson Ph.D 9781771121682 $38.99 RELIGION Oct 16, 2015

This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light of history and considers particularly the influence of antisemitism on the social, religious, and political history of the Canadian Jewish community. ... + Read More
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Series: A History of Domestic Space Privacy and the Canadian Home Electronic book text, PDF Peter Ward 9780774852258 $39.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2007

This is a history of domestic space in Canada. Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped – and been shaped by – these changing spaces. A fundamental element of daily life for individuals and families is domestic privacy, that of individuals and that of the family or household.
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Series: A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand Electronic book text, PDF Larry Prochner 9780774816618 $32.95 EDUCATION Jan 01, 2010

In the early nineteenth century, governments introduced kindergartens and infant schools to give children a head start in life. These programs hinged on new visions of childhood that origin-ated in England and Europe, but what happened when they were exported to the colonies? This book unwinds the tangled threads of this history, from early infant schools in England to three Commonwealth countries – Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – where systems of educating young children were transplanted but adapted to suit local ideas, politics, and pop... + Read More
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Series: A History of Kitchener, Ontario Electronic book text, EPUB W.V. (Ben) Uttley 9781554588084 $16.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 1975

William V. Uttley's outline of Kitchener's growth from the 1840's into 20th century [is] shot through with a reassuring consistency and integration of purpose .... The complex of life as we still know it—social freedom and social restraint, economy and ecology—has its genesis here in the account compiled by William Uttley. His work comes as close to a personal anecdotal history of the city as we can hope to retrieve, a spotted chronicle of a community that can never exist again, and one in which almost every reader will find a point where past ... + Read More
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Series: A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 Electronic book text, PDF Jonathan Wagner 9780774854979 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2007

Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration.
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Series: Legacies Shared A History of the Edmonton City Market 1900-2000 Urban Values and Urban Culture Electronic book text, PDF Kathryn Chase Merrett 9781552383636 $29.95 HISTORY Aug 30, 2001

Kathryn Chase Merrett celebrates 100 years of the Edmonton City Market in this groundbreaking local history. Richly textured with archival photographs, drawings, maps, and anecdotes by vendors and customers of the city market, this book reveals how the market managed to thrive in the heart of a city that grew from a frontier outpost to a high-rise metropolis. In this original study, Merrett sheds light on the turbulent relationship between a city's cultural and agricultural values and the civic aspirations of the city's officials. A History of ... + Read More
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Series: U of M Icelandic Series A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth Islendinga Saga Electronic book text, PDF Jon Johannesson 9780887553318 $25.00 HISTORY Jan 15, 2007

The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. This pioneering work of historiography provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth in 1262.
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Series: A House Divided Watching America's Descent into Civil Conflict Electronic book text, EPUB James Laxer 9781770894242 $1.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 28, 2013

In this Anansi Digital Publication, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict. At a time when American society is roiled by deep divisions over immigration, guns, the role of the state, and the economic crisis, Laxer makes the case that serious conflict is likely to be generated from the right of the American political spectrum, from the forces he refers to as "Old America." Laxer poses the provocative question: Is the United States once again "A House Divided" to use Lincoln’s famous phrase on the eve of the Ame... + Read More
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Series: Classics West Collection A Journey to the Northern Ocean Electronic book text, EPUB Samuel Hearne 9781926971070 $9.99 HISTORY Feb 01, 2011

Widely recognized as a classic of northern-exploration literature, A Journey to the Northern Ocean is Samuel Hearne's story of his three-year trek to seek a trade route across the Barrens in the Northwest Territories. Hearne was a superb reporter, from his anguished description of the massacre of helpless Eskimos by his Indian companions to his meticulous records of wildlife, flora and Indian manners and customs. As esteemed author Ken McGoogan points out in his foreword: Hearne demonstrated that to thrive in the north, Europeans had to apprent... + Read More
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Series: A Karenina Companion Electronic book text, EPUB C.J.G. Turner 9781554588060 $32.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 30, 2010

Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal that has previously not been available in English, for the scholarly and literary appreciation of this great novel. Chapter 1 is a biographical introduction and Chapter 2 an examination of the way in which the novel was composed. In Chapter 3 the author... + Read More
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Series: A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin Electronic book text, EPUB Richard J. Preston 9781554587681 $48.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 05, 2010

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people’s ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District Métis, his determination to take peoples experience se... + Read More
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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation A Knock on the Door The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged Electronic book text, EPUB Phil Fontaine 9780887555381 $8.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 15, 2015

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to share their experiences of residential schools and released several reports based on 7000 ... + Read More