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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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: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.
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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.
- Auteur:Ridley, MattSommaire:
Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience...
- Auteur:Mohr, MelissaSommaire:
Holy Sh*t tells the story of two kinds of swearing--obscenities and oaths--from ancient Rome and the Bible to today. With humor and insight, Melissa Mohr takes readers on a journey to discover how "swearing" has come to include both...
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Auteur:Cavanagh, Sarah RoseSommaire:We have always been a social species, and the advent of social media has amplified these tendencies. This can be positive, but it can also create political polarization and promote conspiracy theories. Cavanagh leaves no stone unturned...
- Auteur:Azoulay, DanSommaire:
What was romance like for Canadians a century ago? What qualities did marriageable men and women look for in prospective mates? How did they find suitable partners in difficult circumstances such as frontier isolation and parental...
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In GUSH, more than 100 women and nonbinary writers from Canada and around the world take apart the bloody instruction of menstruation: its cultures, its lessons, its equipment, and its lexicon. Co-edited by Ariel Gordon, Tanis MacDonald...
- Auteur:Steinman, JonSommaire:
Makes a compelling case for how food co-ops, as alternatives to corporate grocery giants, are spurring the creation of delicious local food economies and stronger communities, while changing the global food system for the better. 2019...
- Auteur:Vee, JimmySommaire:
Marketing gurus Jimmy Vee and Travis Miller team with Infotainment maven Joel Bauer to provide listeners a breakthrough program for attracting new customers with minimal effort. It's impossible to get new customers without hard-selling...
- Auteur:Brock, Deborah R.Sommaire:
Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized - it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other...
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