November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience all the unimaginable...
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- Auteur:Spufford, FrancisSommaire:
- Auteur:Rouaud, JeanSommaire:
Ils sont morts à quelques semaines d'intervalle : d'abord le père, puis la vieille tante de celui-ci, enfin le grand-père maternel. Mais cette série funèbre semble n'avoir fait qu'un seul disparu : le narrateur...
- Auteur:Methot, SuzanneSommaire:
Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities--and strategies for healing--with provocative prose and an empathetic approach. Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes, and other...
- Auteur:Daley-Clarke, DonnaSommaire:
Daley-Clarke entwines the street-smart stories of one black family facing racism and loss in 1970s London. With his father in jail, his mother passed on, and his comic book idols outgrown, lazy-eyed teenager Geoffhurst must find a new...
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This text is a collection of readings, with front and back matter written by Brian Burtch and Nick Larsen. The readings cover a range of topics that illustrate a Canadian perspective on law making and legal conflicts. It is divided into...
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During the past twenty years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. What this signals, more than thriving financial or production infrastructures,...
- Auteur:Floca, BrianSommaire:
Caldecott Award winner Brian Floca gives a heartfelt thank you to the essential workers who keep their cities going during COVID-19 quarantine in this tenderly illustrated picture book. We are here at home now, watching the world...
- Auteur:Wooldridge, Connie NordhielmSommaire:
Follows the development of roads in the United States--and the new forms of transportation that used them--from the National Highway of 1805 through railroads and paved roads for bicycles and automobiles to the interstate system.
- Auteur:Katz, Jon.Sommaire:
Katz presents the story of two dogs that profoundly affected his life and work. Skittish border collie Izzy pushes him into rewarding work with Hospice. And black lab Lenore's gentle spirit helps remind him why he wanted to work with...
- Auteur:Fiddler, Teri Redsky, Hay, TravisSommaire:
Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty...
- Auteur:Ellis, JimSommaire:
How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the...
- Auteur:Hulko, Wendy, Wilson, Danielle, Balestrery, JeanSommaire:
Dementia is on the rise around the world, and health organizations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand are responding to the urgent need - voiced by communities and practitioners - for guidance on how best to address memory...
- Auteur:Roth, SolenSommaire:
Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. But what happens when local communities become more involved in this cultural marketplace?...
- Auteur:Kaiser-Derrick, ElspethSommaire:
"Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of...
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"Drawing on the expertise of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including voices from the front lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, this book examines child welfare practices in kinship care, FASD, homelessness, aging out of...
- Auteur:Swingle, Mari K.Sommaire:
Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing...
- Auteur:Waugh, Thomas, Arroyo, BrandonSommaire:
In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the...
- Hype : how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over the internet--and why we're followingAuteur:Bluestone, GabrielleSommaire:
Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem and pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season.
- Auteur:Smil, VaclavSommaire:
In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly...
- Auteur:Byrne, DavidSommaire:
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.