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Cities and the wealth of nations: principles of economic life
Par Jane Jacobs. 1984
Big Bear (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par Rudy Wiebe. 2008
Big Bear was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of…
the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big Bear himself was arrested and imprisoned. 2008.As long as the rivers flow
Par Oskiniko Larry Loyie, Connie Brissenden. 2005
It is Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school, a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an…
abandoned baby owl, watches his grandmother make winter moccasins, helps the family prepare for a hunting and gathering trip. But soon, a truck comes to forcibly take Lawrence and his siblings away to their new school, which would try to erase their traditional language and culture. Grades 3-6. 2002.Back on the rez: finding the way home
Par Brian Maracle. 1996
Forty years after moving away to the city, Mohawk writer Brian Maracle returned to the Six Nations Grand River Territory…
where he grew up. He writes about his first year "back on the rez," and the challenges of adapting to a way of life he had not known for decades. He tells of the search for his cultural and spiritual roots, and of the problems in a deeply divided community. c1996.An odyssey in time: the dinosaurs of North America
Par Dale A Russell. 1989
All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism
Par Linda McQuaig. 2001
Explains the mired history of social and economic thinking that has culminated in the new capitalism. McQuaig argues that instead…
of shaping our society to fit the economy, we must shape the economy to fit the society we want. 2001.Albertosaurus: death of a predator (Discoveries in palaeontology, #1)
Par Monique Keiran. 1999
Some 75 million years ago, one dinosaur ended its life. The dinosaur was an Albertosaurus -- distant cousin to the…
ferocious, meat-eating predator Tyrannosaurus Rex. But its death was also a beginning -- the start of its transformation into a fossil, which lay undiscovered for millennia until the forces of erosion brought the young dinosaur, once again, to light. Grades 4-7. 1999.A world of three zeros: the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emissions
Par Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber. 2017
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who invented microcredit, founded Grameen Bank, and earned a Nobel Prize for his work in…
alleviating poverty, declares that it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. 2017.Ada Blackjack: a true story of survival in the Atlantic
Par Jennifer Niven. 2003
Ada Blackjack was an unskilled 23-year-old Inuit woman from Nome, Alaska, who signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret…
expedition to the far North, to colonize desolate Wrangel Island. When the expedition went wrong, Ada was left on her own but managed to return home, only to be tricked, exploited and hounded by journalists and others. A true story of a woman who survived a terrible time in the wild only to face a different ordeal in civilization. 2003.A two-spirit journey: the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder (Critical studies in Native history ; #18)
Par Ma-Nee Chacaby, Mary Louisa Plummer. 2016
As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills…
from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people. 2016.A stranger at home: a true story
Par Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. 2011
10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement - it's been two years since her parents delivered her to the…
school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. But Margaret soon realizes that she's an outsider in the Arctic - she's forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can't even stomach the food her mother prepares. As she struggles to reclaim her way of life, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people - and to herself. Sequel to "Fatty legs". Grades 4-7. 2011.A short history of financial euphoria (Whittle Ser.)
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1993
In an essay originally written for the financial community, Galbraith humorously discusses the major financial fiascos of the past three…
hundred years beginning with Tulipomania in Holland in 1636. He warns that history repeats itself and outlines the conditions necessary for another stock market crash while cautioning that human nature will never change. 1993.A line in the tar sands: struggle for environmental justice
Par Steve D'Arcy. 2014
Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents - fighting a powerful international…
industry - are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are muzzled; and public hearings are concealed and rushed. Despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. 2014.A first-class catastrophe: the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
Par Diana B Henriques. 2017
Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. For thirty years, investors, regulators, and…
bankers have failed to heed the lessons of 1987, even as the same patterns have resurfaced, most spectacularly in the financial crisis of 2008. This book offers a new way of looking not only at the past, but at our financial future as well. 2017.11 brefs essais contre l'austérité: pour stopper le saccage planifié de l'État
Par Ianik Marcil. 2015
Un ouvrage à la fois pédagogique et critique, qui montrera au lecteur que la vision des principaux partis politiques au…
Québec et au Canada sont tous contaminés par une idéologie ultralibérale et trempés de mesures dites d'austérité - et que ces politiques ont des effets néfastes sur tous les citoyens et ont en réalité comme objectif le démantèlement des institutions publiques, voire de l'État. Ce livre s'inscrira dans la réalité contemporaine du Québec et du Canada, sachant qu'en 2015, le gouvernement du Québec présentera un budget qui continuera de mettre à mal les missions de l'État, et qu'il y aura des élections au niveau fédéral qui opposeront essentiellement le PC et le PLC. 2015.A boy called Slow: the true story of Sitting Bull
Par Joseph Bruchac. 1994
In the 1830s, parents in the Lakota Sioux tribe gave their children childhood names like Runny Nose and Hungry Mouth.…
Later when the child had grown and proven himself, he earned a new name. Returns Again named his boy Slow because he never did anything quickly. Slow hated his name and tried hard to earn a better one. At fourteen, Slow had a chance to show his bravery. Grades K-3. 1998, c1994.The nature of economies
Par Jane Jacobs. 2000
Jacobs examines the similarities between the growth and change that occurs within an economy, and the growth and changes that…
occur within nature. She argues that through the study of systems found in nature we can better understand economic development.The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
Par Naomi Klein. 2007
Klein assails economist Milton Friedman's free-market precepts, as their exponents have applied them to a series of formerly state-dominated economies…
since 1975. She condemns reform programs of the last three decades that have aimed to separate the state from the economy; the process of market liberalization has created a "disaster capitalism complex," consisting of corporations that thrive on catastrophe. Some descriptions of sex and strong language, descriptions of violence. 2007.The reason you walk: a memoir
Par Wab Kinew. 2015
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a…
year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. “The Reason You Walk” spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. 2015.Mainmise sur les services: privatisation, déréglementation et autres stratagèmes
Par Claude Vaillancourt. 2006
Aujourdhui, tout se vend. Même les services. Mais jusquà quel point pouvons-nous abandonner aux entreprises des secteurs aussi vitaux que…
la santé, leau, léducation, la culture ? À lheure des grands accords de commerce internationaux et de la mode des PPP, Claude Vaillancourt nous éclaire sur la privatisation progressive de tout le bien public dans cet essai de vulgarisation. Nos dirigeants nous répètent quà lère de linévitable déréglementation, les services publics seront épargnés. Est-ce vrai? Comment savoir? -- 4e de couv.