L'ouvrage propose trois axes de réflexion sur le concept de transfert. Dans la première partie du volume, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink évoque les changements contemporains qui augmentent les communications interculturelles. Walter Moser...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Gin, Pascal, Goyer, Nicolas, Moser, WalterSummary: - Author:Bourré, Jean-SébastienSummary:
Ce livre jette un regard sur l’histoire et l’évolution des droits des personnes trans au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde. Il dépeint la naissance du mouvement, les changements de mentalités à travers des témoignages inspirants et les...
- Author:Mancini, Stephanie, Mancini, JosephSummary:
The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the...
- Author:SlySummary:
A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that delves into what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-...
- Author:von Flotow, Luise, Nischik, Reingard M.Summary:
In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the...
- Author:Ballantyne, Emily, Dvořák, Marta, Irvine, Dean, Sullivan, Andrew F., Clément, Marc-AndréSummary:
Translocated Modernisms is a collection of ten chapters partitioned into sections and framed by an introduction by the editors and a coda by Kit Dobson, which is interested in those who thronged to the vibrant streets, cafés, and salons...
- Author:Watson, AllisonSummary:
When Allison Watson awoke that day, she knew she was in a hospital bed. That's all. She had no idea how much time had passed since she had seen her family. When she tried to focus, her vision was blurry, and when she tried to wave...
- Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary:
Humans have always generated garbage, whether it’s a chewed-on bone or a broken cell phone. Our landfills are overflowing, but with some creative thinking, stuff we once threw away can become a collection of valuable resources just...
- Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary:
This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-grades shows how people all over the world are working to keep our planet from drowning in a sea of garbage.
- Author:Brett, BrianSummary:
An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Beginning naked in darkness, Brian Brett moves from the tending of...
- Author:Peart, NeilSummary:
The music of Frank Sinatra, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and many other artists provides the score to the reflections of a musician on the road in this memoir of Neil Peart's travels from Los Angeles to Big Bend National Park. The...
- Author:Peart, NeilSummary:
Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring,...
- Author:Eigenbrod, RenateSummary:
In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues that politically correct silence is...
- Author:Gísli PálssonSummary:
Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples. His three expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the early 1900s, as well as his expertise in northern anthropology...
- Author:Mason, Roger BurfordSummary:
In 1842 at York Factory, the English-born missionary James Evans built a lightweight tin canoe that glittered and shone in the sunlight. Wherever he went, Native peoples called the canoe his "Shining Island" or "His...
- Author:Laxer, JamesSummary:
In this Anansi Digital Publication, James Laxer takes the pulse of America from the vantage point of Southern California at a time when the United States is riven with debates about immigration, guns, and how to tackle the economic...
- Author:Cross, L. D.Summary:
It is said that the sparkle from Canadian diamonds mimics the awesome and seductive radiance of the northern lights. Yet until 1991, no one thought diamonds could even be found in Canada—no one except Chuck Fipke and Stu Blusson, who...
- Author:Borins Ash, IreneSummary:
Irene Borins Ash captures the vitality of senior citizens in a series of photographs with biographical sketches and life philosophies. The fifty people featured represent a cross-section of the population, ranging from the famous to the...
- Author:Samuel, Alan, De Visser, JohnSummary:
This tome is an extensive record of Canadas treasures including art, architecture, historical sites, and spots of natural beauty.
- Author:Worth, LizSummary:
Treat Me Like Dirt captures the personalities that drove the original Toronto punk scene. This is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with other bands (B-Girls, Curse,...
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