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...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Fortin, SylvieSummary: - 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...
- Author:Bryan, LizSummary:
In her third book of off-the-beaten-track explorations of western Canada, Liz Bryan travels scenic roads of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. From country routes winding through the Fraser Valley to forest roads on...
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A collection of stories and recipes from chefs, farmers, and other food producers who are making their mark in Prince Edward County.
- Author:Parsons, Robert C.Summary:
Courage at Sea: Newfoundland Sailors in the Great War is a collection of more than forty World War I stories involving the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve and the Newfoundland merchant seamen who delivered goods to Europe in...
- Author:Crysdale, JoySummary:
Ten biographies of women reformers from around the world who have made a difference in the realms of politics, social equality, disability, and women’s rights. From the work of abolitionist Sojourner Truth and women like South Africa’s...
- Author:Polley, SarahSummary:
Alors qu'elle souffre depuis plusieurs années des séquelles d'une commotion cérébrale, Sarah Polley rencontre un médecin spécialiste qui lui recommande, pour guérir, de pratiquer les activités mêmes qui déclenchent ses...
- Author:Parsons, Robert C.Summary:
This is a collection of true Newfoundland and Labrador stories about crime and punishment on land and sea. Included here are tales of murder, mutiny, and smuggling on the high seas, as well as riots, assaults, and frauds perpetrated in...
- Author:George, ThomasSummary:
A creature of myth and magic emerging from the mist-shrouded forests of the Northwest, Coyote appears as a creator, messenger, hero, trickster, fool or shapeshifter. Always on the lookout for fun, mischief or the opportunity to help...
- Author:Roberts, Joan M.Summary:
2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights...
- Author:Wiebe, Joe.Summary:
A thirst-quenching guide to B.C.'s craft brewers and their beers from the province's favourite beer writer. Canada's microbrewing movement began in British Columbia with the founding of Horseshoe Bay Brewing in 1982. Three decades later...
- Author:Gustafson, PaulaSummary:
The series of Craft Perception and Practice volumes gives recognition to the exciting new developments in contemporary craft practice and scholarship. This second volume brings together 22 essays and critical commentaries by 19...
- Author:Gustafson, PaulaSummary:
Canada's ceramists, tapestry weavers, and other craft artists are recognized amongst the world's finest artisans. Craft Perception and Practice celebrates the excellence of Canadian crafts by bringing together twenty-four essays and...
- Author:Gustafson, Paula, Gustafson, NisseSummary:
This third and final volume in the Craft Perception and Practice series features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the range of critical thought about craft as...
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