Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, eighth edition, provides a current, comprehensive introduction to Native Studies. Using both the majority and minority perspectives, it chronicles the changes that have taken place over the past century and...
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Auteur:Wanjala, Barbara, Allfrey, Ellah WakatamaSommaire:Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection...
- Auteur:Hosseini, KhaledSommaire:
After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile...
- Auteur:Pamuk, OrhanSommaire:
Selling Turkish spirits on the street and dreaming of becoming rich in a rapidly developing Istanbul, street youth Melvut Karatas elopes with the wrong woman and builds a family over decades marked by a series of dead-end jobs and an...
- Auteur:Cooper, ArshaySommaire:
Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary MazzioThe moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high...
- Auteur:Markham, LaurenSommaire:
"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told - and told ourselves - in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order....
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"It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer The officials have arrived and the children must go." So began the school experience of many...
- Auteur:White, JerrySommaire:
Jerry White's London in the Eighteenth Century is an unrivalled, panoramic account of the city's dramatic century of rebirth by its leading expert. London in the eighteenth century had risen from the ashes. The city and its people had...
- Auteur:Ryan, SidSommaire:
Sid Ryan, one of Canada's most courageous and progressive union leaders, draws on the experience of his varied and colourful life to show what is right with the labour movement, what is wrong, and what has to change if it is to...
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Auteur:Lawson, JosephSommaire:In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first...
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A unique collection of narratives from women from all around the globe. These are stories of compassion and bravery, empowered by the vision of a better world for all life. They emphasize the need to empower the feminine and assure...
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Auteur:Ibsen, HenrikSommaire: - Auteur:Thrall, NathanSommaire:
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited...
- Auteur:Dumitrescu, AlinaSommaire:
This autobiographical novel traces the journey of a woman from her youth in Socialist Eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life in Romania is marked by the...
- Auteur:Lovell, W. GeorgeSommaire:
When A Beauty that Hurts was first published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world's most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of "peace" has come to the country, George Lovell revisits the land...
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Auteur:Lepage, RobertSommaire:As the 40th anniversary of La Nuit de la poésie in Montreal approaches, playwright Robert Lepage is invited to recite Michèle Lalonde's seminal poem "Speak White" from memory on the special night. After agonizing hours spent attempting...
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Auteur:Michel BrûléSommaire:Dans ce livre, Michel Brûlé, animé de l'ambition sincère d'améliorer le Québec, propose soixante-cinq mesures, voire davantage, puisque certaines idées ne sont encore qu'esquissées et s'inscrivent dans une...
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Auteur:Burns, EricSommaire:The Roaring Twenties is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our fascination with this era continues. From prohibition to immigration, the birth of jazz, and the rise of expatriate literature, 1920 was...
- Auteur:Deane, Lawrence, Silver, Jim, Morrissette, Larry, Comack, ElizabethSommaire:
With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the 'gang capital of Canada.' Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known...
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Auteur:Short, DonnSommaire:Recent cases of teen suicide linked with homophobic bullying have thrust the issue of school safety into the national spotlight. In "Don't Be So Gay!" Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe, Donn Short considers the effectiveness of...
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