Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a book for medical educators, practitioners, students and those in the allied health professions who wish to learn how the arts can contribute toward a more caring and empathic approach to medicine....
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Auteur:McLean, Cheryl L.Sommaire: - Auteur:Kelly, RobertSommaire:
Creativity and innovation have become an educational imperative for 21st century educational practice. Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention explains how this can be accomplished...
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As more people travel the world than ever before, smaller communities have a unique opportunity to develop creative, culturally sustainable tourist industries that provide unparalleled experiences for visitors. Tourists are travelling...
- Auteur:Page, JoannaSommaire:
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of...
- Auteur:Absolute XPressSommaire:
Writers everywhere were issued a challenge—write an epic flash fiction story in under 1000 words. But there was a twist, it couldn’t be just any story. It had to tell the tale of a creature that haunts the night; one that lurks in the...
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Recent efforts to solve the problems of education-created by neoliberalism in and out of higher education-have centred on the use of technology that promises efficiency, progress tracking, and automation. The editors of this volume...
- Auteur:Fabijancic, TonySommaire:
In his travels through Croatia, Tony Fabijancic saw a world of peasants, shepherds and fishermen irrevocably giving way to the new reality of a modern European state. With a deft and sure touch, he records moments that capture the...
- Auteur:Soderlund, Walter C., Soderlund, Walter C., Brin, Colette, Brin, Colette, Miljan, Lydia, Miljan, Lydia, Hildebrandt, Kai, Hildebrandt, KaiSommaire:
This is the first in-depth analysis of major French- and English-Canadian news companies to show the impact of cross-media ownership on the diversity of new content. Surprisingly, the study lays to rest fears over content convergence of...
- Auteur:Einsiedel, Edna F., Timmermans, FrankSommaire:
Technologies of the life sciences offer tremendous possibilities but also numerous challenges. Crossing Over : Genomics in the Public Arena looks at the social and ethical issues around the new biology, particularly genomics and...
- Auteur:Holmes, Tori, Gleeson, PaulSommaire:
Acting on self-assured determination and an ever-growing sense of adventure, Tori Holmes, a 21-year-old from Alberta, Canada, and Paul Gleeson, a 29-year-old financial advisor from Limerick, Ireland, embraced the dream of rowing a tiny...
- Auteur:Frolick, LarrySommaire:
For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt has shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the land share intimate bonds. In this compelling book, Larry Frolick takes the reader deep into one of the...
- Auteur:Panofsky, Ruth, Kellett, KathleenSommaire:
“Notwithstanding their differing approaches—digital, archival, historical, iterative, critical, creative, reflective—the essays gathered here articulate new ways of seeing, investigating, and apprehending literature and culture.” – From...
- Auteur:McCallum, PamelaSommaire:
In the past decade, Jane Ash Poitras, a First Nations woman from northern Alberta, has emerged as one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation. Raised by a German widow who powdered her dark skin and tried to make her...
- Auteur:MacLaren, I. S.Sommaire:
Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In...
- Auteur:Swart, Laura, 1963-Sommaire:
If your writing needs a pick-me-up, here's a triple espresso. You don't have to be a grammar whiz to improve your writing. This quick guide delivers maximum results with minimum pain. If you're a student, Cut it Out will help you write...
- Auteur:Langford, DanSommaire:
With over 15,000 copies sold, Cycling the Kettle Valley has proven to be a remarkable resource for anyone interested in the stunning abandoned railbed located in the southern interior of British Columbia. One of the premier rail trails...
- Auteur:Gupta, AshisSommaire:
It is the story of a youth growing up in today's Warsaw, Poland, and his interactions with one of the survivors of the Holocaust.
- Auteur:Acorn, JohnSommaire:
With iridescent blues and greens, damselflies are some of the most beautiful flying insects as well as the most primitive. As members of the insect order Odonata they are related to dragonflies but are classified in a separate suborder...
- Auteur:Stocks, CassieSommaire:
WINNER OF THE 2013 Stephen Leacock Award for Canadian Humour Writing!
Twenty-seven-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter; in front...
- Auteur:Kilpatrick, NancySommaire:
This anthology is the most unusual and original collection of stories you’ll ever read! It is a literary version of Danse Macabre "Plague art". Twenty-six literary reflections that embody those themed, classical artworks devoted to the...
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