A lavishly illustrated book that explores the complex behavioural characteristics of North America's largest land carnivores by examining the bear-human relationship from the bear's perspective. From the first moment Sarah Elmeligi came...
Pictorial works
- Author:Elmeligi, SarahSummary:
- Author:Wall, Kathleen, 1950-, Geminder, VeronicaSummary:
Visible Cities prompts readers to reconsider their relationship to the landscapes of cities. Poems explore streets in cities all over the world, while the photographs find beauty in back lanes, observe people taking their coffee breaks...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievements over 4,500 years, from festival performances in ancient Egypt to international, multicultural...
- Author:Loyie, Oskiniko Larry, Spear, Wayne K., Brissenden, ConstanceSummary:
For over a century, Canada removed more than 150,000 Aboriginal children from their families to attend church-run residential schools, often in remote locations far from home. This hidden history is told by award-winning author and...
- Author:Jennings, Neil L.Summary:
A full-colour field guide for the curious amateur naturalist, traveller, or hiker who wishes to learn to identify the flowering plants that may be encountered while in the outdoors on the Canadian Prairies during the usual blooming...
- Author:Jennings, Neil L.Summary:
A full-colour field guide for the curious amateur naturalist, traveller, or hiker who wishes to learn to identify the flowering plants that may be encountered while in the outdoors on the Canadian Rockies during the usual blooming...
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Spectacular imagery adorns this fascinating anthology of the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations stories and legends. The book is a unique commemorative collection that celebrates the four host First Nations...
- Author:Leach, NormanSummary:
Always remember . . . When the Canadians were called to the front line in the fall of 1917, the battle for Flanders had become a stalemate. Repeated assaults by Allied armies had gained nothing while costing tens of thousands of lives....
- Author:Hryniuk, MargaretSummary:
This highly-anticipated companion volume to the best-selling Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings, combines brilliant colour images of the buildings people worship in with the fascinating stories of those places and people....
- Author:Henry, RobertSummary:
Amber, Bev, Chantel, Jazmyne, Faith, and Jorgina are six Indigenous women previously involved in street gangs or the street lifestyle in Saskatoon, Regina, and Calgary. In collaboration with Indigenous Studies scholar Robert Henry (...
- Author:Powning, BethSummary:
Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, Beth Powning came to...
- Author:Zink, Valerie, Eaton, EmilySummary:
Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006-2014) and subsequent downturn in...
- Author:Olson, K. C.Summary:
Introduces numbers and subtraction as the reader counts construction equipment from ten to one.
- Author:Lawlor, AllisonSummary:
"A full-colour non-fiction book for young readers explores the Halifax Explosion from a child's perspective One hundred years ago, on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc collided with the Belgian relief vessel Imo in...
- Author:Mapes, LyndaSummary:
In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest...
- Author:Seesequasis, PaulSummary:
A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs - a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. The narrative essay...
- Author:Doak, AngelaSummary:
From Atlantic puffin to zooplankton, with lots of wild Atlantic Canadiana in between--like lobster, brown bat, moon jellyfish, porcupine, and more--Atlantic Animal ABCs is the perfect introduction for young ones to the region's wildlife...
- Author:Harrington, JenniferSummary:
A beautifully illustrated A to Z board book featuring Canadian animals.
- Author:Roeder, AnnetteSummary:
Introduces 13 famous buildings to children and tells the most important things about each and the architects who build them.