Parmi toutes les expériences qui nous sont données à vivre, l'expérience culturelle est l'une des plus complexes et des plus passionnantes à appréhender. Elle est l'occasion vécue au cours de laquelle chacune et chacun reconsidère ses...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Poli, Marie-SylvieSummary: - Author:Dallaire, YvonSummary:
Si, malgré l'amour qui les lie, homme et femme ont de la difficulté à dialoguer, c'est que la femme envisage la communication en termes de liens intimes et d'expression émotive, alors que l'homme communique pour atteindre des objectifs...
- Author:Guilmaine, ClaudetteSummary:
Chaque famille est unique et reste toujours vivante en dépit d’une rupture conjugale ou d’un divorce. On est effectivement parent pour la vie peu importe le type de famille qu’on crée ou qu’on est appelé à recréer. La garde partagée a...
- Author:Watt, BruceSummary:
Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's hilarious adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too. When the newly married Watt moved there in 1948...
- Author:Mountain, AntoineSummary:
Antoine Mountain follows up his previous memoir From Bear Rock Mountain with the book Child of Morning Star: Embers of an Ancient Dawn. Child of Morning Star is a poetic collection of stories that draws on Antoine Mountain's travels and...
- Author:Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, Carr, EmilySummary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to...
- Author:Martinko, Katherine JohnsonSummary:
Screens are everywhere. Kids spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices daily with profoundly negative consequences. Childhood Unplugged takes a bold approach to regulating children's use of digital media, suggesting more...
- Author:Angus, CharlieSummary:
Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country's history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman George...
- Author:Hudson, AïdaSummary:
Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds of Middle-earth, Earthsea, or...
- Author:Armstrong-Reid, SusanSummary:
The Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) had a devastating impact on China’s population. Braving bandits and disease, the China Convoy – a Quaker-sponsored humanitarian unit – provided medical relief in the unoccupied territory of “Free China”...
- Author:Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Lajeunesse, Adam, Lasserre, Frederic, Manicom, JamesSummary:
China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese...
- Author:Qiu, Peipei, Zhiliang, Su, Lifei, ChenSummary:
Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the “comfort station” experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War. Through...
- Author:Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, (Edith Maude Eaton), Sui Sin FarSummary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to...
- Author:Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party featuring good food, lots of gifts and public parades, Chinese New Year is a snapshot of Chinese culture. Award-winning author...
- Author:Cyr, RenéeSummary:
La grossesse est une période de bouleversements qui soulève de nombreuses questions notamment sur l’alimentation. Est-il vrai qu’on doit « manger pour deux » ? Comment traiter les nausées ? De quelle façon composer des menus simples et...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Joelle Pouliot was a nurse with a comfortable life in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Then she volunteered for a 6-week stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. She arranged a temporary leave-of-absence from her...
- Author:Tate, Nikki, Wuthrich, BelleSummary:
With many jurisdictions considering whether or not to implement new assisted-death legislation, Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die is a timely look at the subject for teen readers who may not yet have had much experience with death and...
- Author:McWhinney, EdwardSummary:
Drawing on his experience as a two-term MP and former Parliamentary Secretary, Ted McWhinney addresses the need for modernization to meet the radically new demands of the plural, multicultural Canada of the 21st century and offers new...
- Author:Muchnick, IrvinSummary:
The Benoit murder-suicide in 2007 was one of the most shocking stories of the year, and a seminal event in the history of wrestling. It laid bare the devastating prevalence of steroids and its effects on users.
In order to tackle...
- Author:Mackintosh, JoeSummary:
From biographer Joe Mackintosh comes a second work of non-fiction, an inspirational and heart-rending story of an icon in the world of running. As an elite All-America runner from Oklahoma, Chris McCubbins won the gold medal in the 3000...
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