Assembled for the first time is a complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's science fiction stories. These sixteen tales include Poe's only novel 'Arthur Gordon Pym', which is filled with...
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Author: Poe, Edgar Allan, Rackham, ArthurSummary:Genre: Science fiction, Short stories
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Author: Kahane, AdamSummary:
Adam Kahane has worked on some of the toughest, most complex problems in the world. He started out as an expert analyst and advisor to corporations and governments, convinced of the need to...
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Author: Dressler, Larry, Schwarz, RogerSummary:
High-heat meetings seem to be happening in more and more organizations these days. Situations where participants are polarized, angry, fearful, confused. If you facilitate meetings for a living,...
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Author: Martin, AnnaSummary:
As a teenager, Robert McKinnon left his native Scotland and moved to America. That was 16 years ago, and Professor McKinnon has never quite settled in his new home or found his place this side of...
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Author: Blair, Tony, Hitchens, ChristopherSummary:
Intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens goes head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world’s most openly devout political leaders,...
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In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite. This apparent dichotomy ignores the interdependence...
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Author: Moncrieff, HelenaSummary:
Examining the roots and fruits of the urban foodscape
Our cities are places of food polarities — food deserts and farmers’ markets, hunger and food waste, fast food...
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Author: Spiegel, Jennifer Beth, Choukroun, Benjamin OrtizSummary:
Amidst epidemics of youth alienation and cultural polarization, community-based artistic practices are sprouting up around the world as antidotes to policies of austerity and social exclusion....
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Author: MacLaren, EliSummary:
The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books were a landmark achievement in Canadian poetry. Edited by Lorne Pierce, the series lasted for thirty-seven years (1925-62) and comprised two hundred titles by writers...
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Author: Elmeligi, SarahSummary:
A lavishly illustrated book that explores the complex behavioural characteristics of North America's largest land carnivores by examining the bear-human relationship from the bear's perspective....
Genre: Pets and animals, Illustrated works -
Author: Pirk, WendySummary:
"From strange behaviour to interesting prey-vs.-predator relationships to fantastical creatures, the animal world is full of fascinating facts about our furry, feathered and scaly friends:*The...
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Author: Bailey, TessaSummary:
Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to their small Napa town. When...
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Author: Fabry, ChrisSummary:
A charming and engrossing novel for fans of Southern fiction and the recent hit memoir Hillbilly Elegy about a lush and storied coal-mining town-and the good people who live there-in danger of...
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Author: Henstra, SarahSummary:
The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut novel by a powerful new voice. A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The...
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Author: Dean, JoannaSummary:
Animal Metropolis includes a diverse array of work on the historical study of human-animal relations in Canada. In doing so, it aims to create a starting point for an ongoing conversation about...