This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Rennie walked into the house. He took one step and stopped dead in his tracks. The house was empty...
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- Auteur:Reiff, TanaSommaire:
- Auteur:Harris, ColinSommaire:
One educator's story detailing a cross-Canada run to inspire students and teachers to get outside and experience the benefits and beauty of nature. You'd think starting a non-profit organization aimed at getting young people to spend...
- Auteur:Wheeler, AnneSommaire:
Laced with humour and revelation, Anne Wheeler's creative non-fiction stories tell of her serendipitous journey in the seventies, when she broke with tradition and found her own way to becoming a filmmaker and raconteur. Join this...
- Auteur:Legault, StephenSommaire:
A veteran of burnout himself, Legault looks at the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the environmental conservation movement, and dissects how to manage our own time, energy, and...
- Auteur:Robertson, SheilaSommaire:
In an extensive and frank exploration, leaders in women's coaching discuss the values women bring to the coaching profession, their quest for equal access, ways career aspirations and motherhood are juggled, how to negotiate contracts,...
- Auteur:Martel, LynnSommaire:
Since moving to the Rockies of western Canada in 1984, Lynn Martel has spent countless hours and days exploring the mountain wilderness with her many experienced friends as well as some of the best known and well-informed professional...
- Auteur:Grisenthwaite, G. A.Sommaire:
Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be...
- Auteur:Bradshaw, G. A.Sommaire:
This is an intimate portrait of Charlie Russell's philosophy of nature. Accompanied by stunning photography, the book is written in narrative form, the way Charlie spoke and shared his stories and knowledge with others. Each of the...
- Auteur:Scollard, RoseSommaire:
Three plays, all beautifully written and astonishingly original in viewpoint and structure, depict different interpretations of the theme of women moral making choices. The first play, Tango Noir takes place in October 1917, shortly...
- Auteur:Radford, Thomas J.Sommaire:
When the Tantamount is contracted to deliver medical supplies, Nel Vaughn and her misfit crew become embroiled in instellar politics.
- Auteur:Takach, GeoSommaire:
Tar Wars offers a critical, inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate the escalating tensions between the need for continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As...
- Auteur:Horne, Christine RehderSommaire:
In a flash, everything changes. After a group of radical environmentalists breaks into the house of a prominent oil company executive and holds him and his family hostage, the stage is set for a popular movement to coalesce around the...
- Auteur:Dron, Jon, Anderson, TerrySommaire:
Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools...
- Auteur:Melrose, Sherri, Park, Caroline, Perry, BethSommaire:
Teaching Health Professionals Online: Frameworks and Strategies is a must-read for professionals in the health care field who strive to deliver excellence in their online classes. Intended for a wide range of professionals, including...
- Auteur:Vaughan, Norman D., Cleveland-Innes, Martha, Garrison, D. RandySommaire:
Teaching in Blended Leaning Environments provides a coherent framework in which to explore the transformative concept of blended learning. Blended learning can be defined as the organic integration of thoughtfully selected and...
- Auteur:Young, CleaSommaire:
In Teardown, Clea Young navigates the whitewater of relationships - familial and romantic, between friends new and old. Her stories seize on instances that, at the outset, appear benign - a woman encountering an old boyfriend on a BC...
- Auteur:Oakley, RyanSommaire:
In the commodified future the consequences of a failing society are brought to bear upon one man’s ambition and his attempt to escape his own socio-economic hell. The world’s ecosystems have been destroyed by...
- Auteur:Denton, Peter HarveySommaire:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. The developed world is increasingly obsessed with two things: electronic gadgets and our changing...
- Auteur:Denton, PeterSommaire:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. The developed world is increasingly obsessed with two things: electronic gadgets and our changing...
- Auteur:Carrière, Marie J.Sommaire:
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary...