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The baby's table: over 100 easy, healthy and homemade recipes for the pickiest, most deserving eaters on the planet
Par Brenda Bradshaw, Lauren Donaldson Bramley. 2004
Shadow child: an apprenticeship in love and loss
Par Beth Powning. 2005
Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. At age twenty-four she…
became pregnant, but eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this exploration of motherhood and loss, we're taken on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal. National Bestseller. 2005.In search of sleep: straight talk about babies, toddlers, and night waking
Par Bonny Reichert. 2001
In a society that equates a sleeping baby with a good baby, night waking has become one of the most…
emotionally charged parenting issues. The author, a mother of two, reviews popular sleep-training techniques and the science of sleep cycles, explores the myths that surround night waking, and offers tips for coping. 2001.I'll be the parent, you be the kid: the hot button topics in parenting
Par Paul Kropp. 1998
Dad alone: how to rebuild your life and remain an involved father after divorce
Par Phil Clavel. 2003
A guide to help men fulfill their role as fathers in the aftermath of a broken marriage. Helps dads deal…
with their feelings and situations, so that they may remain involved fathers following a divorce. 2003.Disarming Iraq
Par Hans Blix. 2004
Blix reluctantly came out of retirement in 2000 to lead the U.N. weapons inspections team in Iraq because he was…
the only man everyone could agree on for the job. Three years later, those clamouring for military intervention grumbled at his inability (or, as they saw it, refusal) to present evidence of weapons of mass destruction, but he reminds readers that his assignment was to assess and report on the available evidence. A play-by-play account of the months of diplomacy and inspection efforts leading up to the Iraq war. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan
Par Michael Griffin. 2001
Griffin chronicles the rise of the Taliban from their first appearance in 1994, examines their place in the context of…
Afghanistan's political instability, and discusses the significance of their brand of Islamic fundamentalism. 2001.The island of seven cities: the discovery of a lost Chinese settlement in the Americas
Par Paul Chiasson. 2006
2002. Architect Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain on Cape Breton and found an old wide, well-made road, once flanked by…
walls. After two years of study, he believed that these ruins were originally built by the Chinese, as part of a large colony that thrived on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery. Chiasson addresses how the colony was abandoned and forgotten except in the storytelling and culture of the Mi'kmaq, whose written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs and legends expose deep cultural roots in China. 2006.The mother of all baby books: an all-Canadian guide to your baby's first year
Par Ann Douglas. 2001
The sequel to "The mother of all pregnancy books." Contains chapters on preparing for the early weeks of parenthood, getting…
to know your new baby, coping with the most common new parent worries, and much more. 2001.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
Par Hamida Ghafour. 2007
In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.Tenderly taming teenagers
Par Liz Cowan. 2004
Written for parents and teachers by an experienced parent herself, who has lived with and worked with teenagers. It addresses…
the common concerns and issues that face most parents and teenagers. Using certain topics and themes, Cowan takes parents on a guided tour of the developmental tasks and challenges that teenagers undergo. The author relates her own and her children's experiences while suggesting useful, common sense hints and tips for raising confident, happy and responsible teenagers. 2004.The last governor: Chris Patten and the hand over of Hong Kong
Par Jonathan Dimbleby. 2000
Children of Cambodia's killing fields: memoirs by survivors
Par Dith Pran, Kim DePaul. 1997
India: a history
Par John Keay. 2001
Accommodating Pakistan and Bangladesh and other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab, Muslim Kashmir and Assam, this text examines…
the legacy of the 1947 partition, and looks at the colonial era from the overall context of Indian history. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state.Kids are worth it!: giving your child the gift of inner discipline
Par Barbara Coloroso. 1994
Coloroso presents her approach to parenting, based on three ideas -- kids are worth the effort parents give to raise…
them well, parents should treat children in a way that they themselves would want to be treated, and parents should act in a way that preserves the dignity of both parent and child. 1994.Beds in the East
Par Anthony Burgess. 1959
Burgess dissects the racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the chaotic upheaval of independence. Through a succession of…
colourful characters he delineates the conflict and confusion arising from the enforced mingling of cultures.Letters from Burma
Par Aung San Suu Kyi. 1996
Since 1995, Aung San Suu Kyi has been writing a column in a Japanese newspaper in which she gives her…
impressions of the political, cultural and social scene in Burma today. Subjects range from what the Burmese have for breakfast, through a description of her first visit after release from house arrest to a national shrine, to overt political pieces on the repression in the country.Bigger than the sky: disabled women on parenting
Par Michele Wates, Rowen Jade. 1999
This is the first anthology by disabled women to explore the issue of parenting. They challenge rigid, limiting views of…
what it means to be a disabled woman, and of what a parent is and does. They describe having to fight for the right to become pregnant, the poignant pleasures of teaching children the benefits of having a "different" mother, and the sheer delight of involving themselves in a child's life.Letters to Judy: what kids wish they could tell you
Par Judy Blume. 1986
This compilation of childrens letters has been put together by the author for parents who want to understand their children.…
These letters deal with many of the embarrassing issues that young people face in adolescence, from loneliness to first love, death, drugs, boyfriends, death and depression.Brothers at bat: the true story of an amazing all-brother baseball team
Par Steven Salerno, Audrey Vernick. 2012
Recounts the 1938 formation of a semi-pro baseball team by the twelve Acerra boys in their New Jersey hometown. Describes…
the team's disbanding when six brothers went off to fight in World War II, and its revival after their return. For grades K-3