The craft of craft, the art of craft - here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organized a wildly successful symposium on...
Essays
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Author:Johnson, JeanSummary: - Author:Churchill, WardSummary:
In this volume of incisive assays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and film, delineating a history of cultural progaganda that has served to support the continued colonization of Native America...
- Author:Solomon, AndrewSummary:
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award-and one of the most original thinkers of our time-"Andrew Solomon's magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays" (...
- Author:Barnetson, Bob, 1970-, McDonald, Shirley Ann, 1953-Summary:
Farm workers are the faceless multitudes driving agriculture production. Many workers--men, women, and children--are injured and even killed at work. In nine essays, contributors to Farm Workers in Western Canada look at the origin,...
- Author:La Cerva, Gina Rae, Gracie, JessicaSummary:
A writer and anthropologist searches for wild foods-and reveals what we lose in a world where wildness itself is misunderstood, commodified, and hotly pursued. Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was found in the wild...
- Author:Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth, Johnston, Richard, Kymlicka, Will, Myles, JohnSummary:
Until the 1990s social policy played an integrative role in Canada, providing a counter-narrative to claims that federalism and diversity undermine the potential of social policy. Today, however, the Canadian model is under strain,...
- Author:Smith, ZadieSummary:
Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers but also a brilliant and singular essayist. Arranged...
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This women's studies reader brings together theory and praxis, so that feminist discourse interacts as a partner with the lived experience of women's social action. The selections combine classics in feminist thought with work from...
- Author:Carstairs, Catherine, Janovicek, NancySummary:
In the late 1970s, feminists urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, women's and gender historians continue to take up the challenge, not only to interrogate...
- Author:Koestenbaum, WayneSummary:
Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, poet, artist,...
- Author:Eisenstein, SergeiSummary:
Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein's film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Jay Leyda;...
- Author:Monture, Patricia A., Mcguire, Patricia D.Summary:
A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the...
- Author:Braem, MegSummary:
World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the building while they plan a grand...
- Author:Roye, SusmitaSummary:
A collection of essays on the writer who “after Rudyard Kipling . . . was the most famous nineteenth-century British author to depict India” (Nineteenth-Century Literature).
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of...
- Author:Heintzman, Andrew, Solomon, EvanSummary:
The twenty-first century has been dominated by two major global crises: a scarcity of food and fuel. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy. Combining...
- Author:Steves, RickSummary:
Rick Steves knows Europe inside and out, and has made a career of inspiring people to explore, connect, and step outside their comfort zones. With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, this...
- Author:Ferrante, ElenaSummary:
Consisting of over twenty years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, this collection provides unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing.
- Author:Gray, PeterSummary:
Psychologist Peter Gray suggests that it's time to stop asking what's wrong with our children, and start asking what's wrong with the system.
- Author:Pearl-McPhee, StephanieSummary:
This paperback edition of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's popular Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again reminds us of the joy we felt upon first encountering her hilarious and poignant collection of essays surrounding her favorite...
- Author:Theroux, PaulSummary:
Internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux adds Fresh Air Fiend, named a New York Times Notable Book, to his highly praised travel writings. A collection of essays, this intimate and fascinating book explores five continents and many...
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