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Humanities & Social Sciences8 BILLION REASONS POPULATION MATTERS
The Defining Issue of the 21st Century
by Valorie M. Allen
The world is about to hit a population level of EIGHT BILLION people on one small planet. Through Allen’s analysis of the situation, the realization sets in that the fights by environmental and world aid groups are all for naught as every gain is soon overwhelmed by the pressures of more growth. Our planet's greatest threat is of too many people depleting the Earth's resources and contributing to climate change. Allen offers a thorough analysis of our environmental, social, political, and economic crises; then offers a treasure trove of solutions and success stories that we can all take to heart.
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March 2019Zum Teufel mit den fiesen Friesen
Ein Ostfriesen-Krimi
by Christiane Franke Cornelia Kuhnert
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The LEGO Engineer
by Jeff Friesen
In The LEGO® Engineer, you’ll explore how some of humanity’s greatest feats of engineering work, from towering skyscrapers to powerful rockets to speeding bullet trains. Then follow step-by-step instructions to build these marvels with LEGO® bricks as you experience the world of engineering in a fun new way. How do diesel and electric engines work together to drive massive freight trains? How does a container ship’s bow shape contribute to its fuel efficiency? How do cable-stayed bridges distribute weight differently than suspension bridges? You’ll learn the answers to these engineering questions and more as you build your way through over 30 models, all designed by LEGO® expert Jeff Friesen. Understanding the engineering principles behind these structures will not only help you better appreciate the world around you, but will also help you make your own LEGO® builds more realistic.
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December 2017Meet Me at Green Gables
by Michel Bourque
A true story of friendship : Gracie and Glenda dream of singing and dancing on stage. Their dream comes true in a musical inspired by the novel Anne of Green Gables ! Gracie Finley and Glenda Landry, two young girls from Charlottetown Prince Edward Island, both dream of being on stage. This is in the 1960's, just as the Confederation Centre of the Arts opens its doors in their hometown. Gracie and Glenda soon join the new theatre's company of actors and become best friends. To the delight of audiences, they take on the roles of kindred spirits Anne and Diana in the marvelous musical inspired by the novel Anne of Green Gables.
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January 2014La patate cadeau
ou la «vraie» histoire de la poutine râpée
by Diane Carmel Léger
Christian Treitz, le plus jeune enfant d’une famille allemande ayant immigré dans le Monckton Township, découvre que les blessures infligées par la Déportation sont encore fraîches. Les provisions manquent et la famille Treitz souffre cruellement de la faim et du froid. Heureusement, Christian va faire une rencontre qui bouleversera sa vie et celle des siens. Pierre Belliveau, bon vivant aux allures de Saint Nicholas, aurait bien des raisons d’abandonner les premiers habitants de Moncton à leur sort. Mais l’Acadien porte, dans sa besace pleine de patates, le germe d’un nouveau départ. Par-delà les obstacles, sur les rives de la rivière Petitcodiac, une amitié hors du commun va éclore.
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January 2017Ils sont...
by Michel Thériault
Les couples de même sexe ne furent pas toujours bien acceptés dans la société, mais l’amour et la beauté triomphent toujours! Deux garçons sont amis, deux garçons vieillissent ensemble, deux vieux messieurs sont...amoureux! L’auteur-compositeur et interprète Michel Thériault attache ici une nouvelle corde à son arc (de Cupidon?), et l’illustratrice Magali Ben séduit avec ses coloris exceptionnels!
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October 2013Ma maman toute neuve
by Josée Larocque
Mon papa et ma maman ont décidé de fabriquer à mon demi-frère, mes demi-sœurs et moi un petit frère sans nous demander la permission. Le presque bébé frère n’est pas encore là que déjà il me vole la vedette. Ma vieille maman est devenue trop grosse et trop fragile. Il m’en faut une neuve! Notre voisine Sandy serait parfaite ! C’est décidé, je déménage !
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January 2015La mystérieuse boutique de Monsieur Bottom
by Caroline Hurtut
Benoit, qui vit en face, épie régulièrement la boutique de Monsieur Bottom. Personne ne semble acheter quoi que ce soit, mais Monsieur Bottom ne semble pas malheureux non plus. Le jeune garçon va tenter d’élucider le mystère. Au final, c’est sa propre relation aux autres, sa vraie et juste place dans le monde, qui se trouvent au cœur de cette histoire aux enseignements insoupçonnés. Prenez place ! Vous ne verrez peut-être plus vos meubles de la même manière...
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June 2018Coquelicot sur un rocher
by Aurélie Resch
Carla, journaliste de guerre en Afghanistan, est en quête. Elle cherche quelque chose de signifiant, à ramener à son fils Théo. De son côté, Tom, un jeune Américain de dix-neuf ans, essaie de trouver un sens à cette guerre pour laquelle il s’est engagé sans savoir pourquoi. Sa mère se ronge les sangs en pensant à son fils. Laïla et Amir, habitants d’une Kaboul en poussière, ont été séparés par les conflits. Ces mères et ces jeunes sont liés par un seul et même combat, celui de l’amour.
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EducationHermeneutic Phenomenology in Education
Method and Practice
by Friesen, N.
Hermeneutic phenomenology is a combination of theory, reflection and practice that interweaves vivid descriptions of lived experience (phenomenology) together with reflective interpretations of their meanings (hermeneutics). This method is popular among researchers in education, nursing and other caring and nurturing practices and professions. Practical and adaptable, it can be at the same time poetic and evocative. As this collection shows, hermeneutic phenomenology gives voice to everyday aspects of educational practice –particularly emotional, embodied and empathic moments– that may be all too easily overlooked in other research approaches. By explicating, illustrating and demonstrating hermeneutic phenomenology as a method for research in education specifically, this book offers an excellent resource for beginning as well as more advanced researchers.
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FictionJuly 2014Mary Lou's Brew
by Jennifer Craig
When Mary Lou stirs up her brew, she spells trouble for the Dean of the Academy of Sophists: just one more problem when the future of the Academy is in jeopardy, faculty members vanish, an assistant causes a unique traffic jam, lab creatures escape, and a disenchanted junior professor tries to alter the Dean’s Gravity Quotient. Rooted in ancient Greek culture, the Dean’s Academy of Sophists contributes to humanity in its own whacky way, using ancient practices similar to witchcraft, but with a scientific basis. Although Sophistry and witchcraft parted ways in the fifteenth century, the Dean must defend the Academy against those who see these goings-on as decidedly witchy--with hilarious results. Mary Lou’s Brew is a humorous social and academic commentary for adults of all ages and is not to be taken seriously. It is written by a Yorkshire woman who knows her science and her brews.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceOctober 2016Visiting with the Ancestors
Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
by Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown
In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums was, however, only one part of the project undertaken by Laura Peers and Alison Brown. Prior to the installation of the exhibits, groups of Blackfoot people—hundreds altogether—participated in special “handling sessions,” in which they were able to touch the shirts and examine them up close. The shirts, some painted with mineral pigments and adorned with porcupine quillwork, others decorated with locks of human and horse hair, took the breath away of those who saw, smelled, and touched them. Long-dormant memories were awakened, and many of the participants described a powerful sense of connection and familiarity with the shirts, which still house the spirit of the ancestors who wore them. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum’s institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the experience described both by the authors and by Blackfoot contributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserve objects for posterity. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. For Blackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one that evokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot cultural heritage. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/1ZT7e56
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2018American Labour’s Cold War Abroad
From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945–1970
by Anthony Carew
During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) set a strong example for labour organizations overseas. The AFL–CIO cooperated closely with the US government on foreign policy and enjoyed an intimate, if sometimes strained, relationship with the CIA. The activities of its international staff, and especially the often secretive work of Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown—whose biographies read like characters plucked from a Le Carré novel—exerted a major influence on relationships in Europe and beyond. Having mastered the enormous volume of correspondence and other records generated by staffers Lovestone and Brown, Carew presents a lively and clear account of what has largely been an unknown dimension of the Cold War. In impressive detail, Carew maps the international programs of the AFL–CIO during the Cold War and its relations with labour organizations abroad, in addition to providing a summary of the labour situation of a dozen or more countries including Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Greece, and India. American Labour’s Cold War Abroad reveals how the Cold War compelled trade unionists to reflect on the role of unions in a free society. Yet there was to be no meeting of minds on this, and at the end of the 1960s the AFL–CIO broke with the mainstream of the international labour movement to pursue its own crusade against communism. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/1ZT7e56
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2016Spark of Light
Short Stories by Women Writers of Odisha
by Edited by Valerie Henitiuk and Supriya Kar
Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these stories offer a multiplicity of voices—some sentimental and melodramatic, others rebellious and bold—and capture the predicament of characters who often live on the margins of society. From a spectrum of viewpoints, writing styles, and motifs, the stories included here provide examples of the great richness of Odishan literary culture. In the often shadowy and grim world depicted in this collection, themes of class, poverty, violence, and family are developed. Together they form a critique of social mores and illuminate the difficult lives of the subaltern in Odisha society. The work of these authors contributes to an ongoing dialogue concerning the challenges, hardships, joys, and successes experienced by women around the world. In these provocative explorations of the short-story form, we discover the voices of these rarely heard women. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/1ZT7e56
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October 2020From the Roots Up
by Spillett, Tasha
Dez and Miikwan’s stories continue in this sequel to Surviving the City. Dez’s grandmother has passed away. Grieving, and with nowhere else to go, she’s living in a group home. On top of everything else, Dez is navigating a new relationship and coming into her identity as a Two-Spirit person. Miikwan is crushing on the school’s new kid Riel, but doesn’t really understand what Dez is going through. Will she learn how to be a supportive ally to her best friend? Elder Geraldine is doing her best to be supportive, but she doesn’t know how to respond when the gendered protocols she’s grown up with that are being thrown into question. Will Dez be comfortable expressing her full identity? And will her community relearn the teachings and overcome prejudice to celebrate her for who she is?
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October 2020Breakdown
by Robertson, David A.
Acclaimed writer, David A. Robertson, delivers suspense, adventure, and humour in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel continuation of The Reckoner trilogy.After the events in Wounded Sky, Cole and Eva arrive in Winnipeg, the headquarters of Mihko Laboratories. They are intent on destroying the company once and for all, but their plans are thwarted when a new threat surfaces. When Cole becomes mired in terrifying visions, Eva must harness her newly discovered powers to investigate Mihko without him. Are Cole’s visions just troubled dreams or are they leading him to a horrible truth?Perfect for fans of superheroes, The Bloodhound Gang returns in this all-new graphic novel series, The Reckoner Rises.
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2019The Grizzly Mother
Mothers of Xsan series
by Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
To the Gitxsan people of northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it. Follow mother bear as she teaches her cubs what they need in order to survive on their own. The Mothers of Xsan series uses striking illustration and lyrical language to bring the poetry of the Xsan ecosystem to life. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/32KX00d
