The introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied by much fanfare and public debate. This book does not celebrate the Charter; rather it offers a critique by distinguished scholars of law and...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Kelly, James B., Manfredi, Christopher P.Summary: - Author:Roberts, JoSummary:
2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize — Nonfiction Runner Up The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel’s future possibilities for peace. 1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust...
- Author:Fram, Mark, Weiler, JohnSummary:
"[Continuity with Change] seeks to document and demonstrate that middle positions between Change and Continuity are possible and desirable." — Canadian Architect "[Continuity with Change] is well produced with a large...
- Author:Dwyer, PhilSummary:
The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this uncomfortable truth, but Dr. Larry Librach...
- Author:Nesbitt, BruceSummary:
This collection presents all of Earle Birney’s known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney’s letters and literary writings...
- Author:Giovanni Caboto ClubSummary:
A cookbook unlike any other. Featuring ten recipes from each of Italy's twenty regions, Cooking with Giovanni Caboto is an exhaustive tour of traditional Italian cuisine, with all 200 dishes tested and approved by the chefs at the Club'...
- Author:Rowe, Dwayne W., Scission, Hal C.Summary:
Crude, rude, and pathetic are the adjectives that best describe these
reminiscences from the 1940s and 1950s. The authors recall a string of
trivial, and usually unpleasant, incidents from their disaster-prone
... - Author:Schneiderman M.D., GeraldSummary:
"A common sense guide for all age groups on how to live with the loss of a loved one." Dr. Gerald Schneiderman is on the staff of the Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children and is an Assistant Professor of...
- Author:Reid, Bill, Bringhurst, Robert, Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSummary:
« Avant qu’il y ait quoi que ce soit au monde, avant que les eaux recouvrent tout puis se retirent, avant qu’il y ait sur la terre des animaux, dans l’air des oiseaux, dans la mer des poissons, des baleines et des phoques, il y avait un...
- Author:Hunt, RobertSummary:
Corner Boys is Robert Hunt’s memoir of growing up on the mean streets of St. John’s in the 1950s and ’60s. Within the working-class neighbourhoods that are central to this tale, trouble seemed to lurk behind every corner, ready...
- Author:Brownlee, Jamie, Hurl, Chris, Walby, KevinSummary:
"Corporatizing Canada is an impressive collection by activist scholars focusing on the commercialization by stealth of the public sector. Its accessible style is well integrated around three dimensions of corporatization that...
- Author:Berman, RachelSummary:
Corridor Talk contains contributions from feminist scholars from across Canada from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. When the anthropologist Paul Rainbow coined the term, ‘corridor talk,’ he used it to refer to...
- Author:Fortin, SylvieSummary:
Sans emballage, sans conservateurs, écoresponsables, faciles à transporter et à utiliser, les cosmétiques solides ont tout pour plaire. On peut maintenant se les procurer dans les boutiques spécialisées, parfois au prix fort, mais on...
- Author:Ross, JamesSummary:
The comfort food of cottage life books — satisfying, unforgettable, and inevitably nostalgic. Cottage Daze celebrates life at the cottage where the cottage is the main character, and family, friends, pets, and fellow cottagers are the...
- Author:Ross, JamesSummary:
This special bundle contains both of James Ross’ essential companion volumes to the great Canadian tradition of life at the cottage. Who doesn’t remember sitting in a frigid lake, trying to help a youngster get up on water skis for the...
- Author:Brouillette, DanielSummary:
L'auteur de la série à succès Bine récidive avec un troisième tome de la collection Couche-toi moins niaiseux, un livre pour permettre de discerner le vrai du faux dans les mythes et fausses croyances véhiculés par les...
- Author:Betts, GregorySummary:
In 1914, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--the founders of Vorticism--undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence...
- Author:Betts, Gregory, Hjartarson, Paul, Smitka, Kristine, Surette, Leon, Lamberti, Elena, Hammond, Adam, Welch, Adam, Tiessen, Paul, Monk, Philip, Irvine, Dean, Morra, Linda, Wershler, DarrenSummary:
In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of...
- Author:Anderson Penno, EllenSummary:
When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her partner in a climbing accident while they were ascending Mount Baker in Washington's Cascade Range. The avalanche hid his body in a crevasse just weeks before Penno was...
- Author:Bryan, LizSummary:
Experience Alberta's heritage and the outdoors in Country Roads of Alberta, an intriguing photographic guidebook that takes you to places off the beaten track. Alberta's scenery is as diverse as its topography. Fringed along its western...
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