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How does the process of learning music impact our brain? To what extent does it foster curiosity, attention and enhance memory? How is it linked with reading, learning languages, or mathematical th...
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“A system is viable only if it combines speed and slowness,” write Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly. “Nature’s cycles tell us that viability requires a combination of these dynamics—fast and slow, in...
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Since 2015, the cross-border movement of migrants and refugees has reached unprecedented levels. War, persecution, destitution, and desertification impelled millions to flee their homes in central ...
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What is heritage ? This is the most fundamental but difficult question to be answered in heritage studies. It has been addressed many times, but singular definitions always seem to come up short. T...
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In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-stand...
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In these 12 short stories, scurrying insects and luminous jellyfish reveal a predatory world of childhood fairy tales, lurking shadows, and unrelenting fevers. Individuals are swallowed up by citie...
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Nicole Fortin is on the cusp of realizing a long-held dream when her life takes a sudden turn. Instead of participating in the Olympic Games, she finds herself struggling to master the challenging ...
This book is intended for anyone who wants to study the principles of writing code. The important thing is to think well before programming. After a brief history of the development of calculators ...
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Ensure children of all backgrounds can thrive with an intercultural approach to early childhood educationIn a multicultural society such as Canada’s, early childhood educators work with children an...
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La Charte de la langue française, communément appelée loi 101, a profondément changé le Québec. Introduite en 1977, la loi décrète la primauté du français dans les ministères et organismes, dans ce...
“Sophie Love's ability to impart magic to her readers is exquisitely wrought in powerfully evocative phrases and descriptions….This is the perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enth...
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The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. It ...
Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary Spanish American Literature
Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual ...
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Sailing After My Father
Shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his father After a 25-year break from boating,...
Standing Tall in Two Worlds
From the award-winning author of Unsettling Canada: A National Wake Up Call and Reconciliation Manifesto comes an inspiring memoir of assassination attempts, poverty, hard work and success. In the...
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Winner of the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award Boat lovers of all ages and people who enjoy the scenery of BC’s coast will delight in this charming gift book, a...
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Do you ever look back and wonder, What if...? Meet Sylvie -- funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can't always count on herself to make good choices. Like all of us, Sylvie must make decisions that...
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It’s a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that’s the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him ...
"With my jingle in your brain, Allow the Bridge to arch again" How are we to understand Leonard Cohen’s plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? In search of an answer to thi...
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Long Division is a book of poetic commentary that plots a steady course of disillusion. Working in explicit dialogue with Dada, the surrealist poets, spiritual writing, and drawing on midrash as a ...
Former pro wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to en...
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Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They ar...
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The definitive guide to Interior BC wineries, covering the Okanagan, Similkameen, Thompson and Kootenays. With updated maps and travel tips, it’s your ultimate glove-box guide, now in a newly expan...
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People come to me and ask how they can love themselves more, how they can feel good about themselves or simply how to feel better, happier. What I always answer is that they need to get rid of thei...
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A Critical Edition
Published in 1929, and almostinstantly censored by the Toronto City Police, They Have Bodies has beencompletely overlooked by generations of scholars and writers interested in theCanadian avant-gar...
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The most comprehensive resource of macroscopic images of human diseases With more than 1000 macroscopic images of common human diseases, Gross Morphology of Common Diseases is an indispensable res...
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17 Roadblocks to Self-Determination, and One Chief’s Thoughts on Solutions
Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-gover...
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After publishing the Quebec Major Junior hockey League: from Lafleur to Lemieux and Crosby, in 2012, authors, Jean-Pierre D’Auteuil (right) and Jean-Philippe Otis (left), present The Game Is Not Ov...
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The Hudson's Bay Company and Its North American Workforce, 1668–1786
"[Stephen] offers fresh insight into the path a historic fur trading business took to become one of Canada's most recognizable retailers." —Literary Review of Canada In Masters and Servants, Scott...
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Written by Ariane Hébert, psychologist
An indispensable tool for parents, childcare professionals, and children! Beatrice is troubled to learn that her ailments have a cause: anxiety. With the help of a zootherapy psychologist and her ...
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Written by Ariane Hébert, psychologist
Leo is nine years old when he's diagnosed with ADHD. "I have WHAT?" he asks himself, somewhat confused. How to answer that question? There’s nothing better than an illustrated story to explain to...
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A Study in Historic Relationships. Expanded and Revised Edition
Ce livre est publié en anglais. À la suite de la rédaction de ses deux romans les plus importants, Guerre et paix et Anna Karénine, l’auteur russe Léon Tolstoï a vécu une crise spirituelle qui l’a...
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A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall
Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In Air Salt Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation. A memoir written by an amnesiac, this collectio...
How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency
Separate but Unequal provides an in-depth critique of the ideology of parallelism—the prevailing view that Indigenous cultures and the wider Canadian society should exist separately from one anothe...
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How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency
Separate but Unequal provides an in-depth critique of the ideology of parallelism—the prevailing view that Indigenous cultures and the wider Canadian society should exist separately from one anothe...
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Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being
"I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here. That is how you stay alive." —Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged demonstrates how traditional knowledge, Indigenous approaches to ...
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition: Mountain Image Award An astounding collection of photographs and essays celebrating the grandeur of Canada’s most remote regions located along the th...
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Living our dreams
Lino Saputo’s life story is both extraordinary and profoundly inspiring. It is the tale of a young immigrant who, though only a teenager, set about building a world where his father and his loved o...
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Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada
From the bestselling author of Bad Medicine and its sequel Bad Judgment comes a wide-ranging, magisterial summation of the years-long intellectual and personal journey of an Alberta jurist who went...
An important and timely book that addresses the new reality of the Anthropocene and what we should be doing about it.In what is now being heralded as the Second Copernican Revolution, Earth scienti...
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