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Bestselling author of "The Automatic Millionaire" (DC27883) urges women, regardless of age or marital status, to secure their financial futures.…
Offers plans for investing, teaching kids about money, spending wisely, and aligning resources with personal values. Revised edition of the 1999 original includes success stories and Internet strategies. 2003.Skulking for the King: a loyalist plot
Par J Fraser. 1985
Skyscrapers hide the heavens: a history of Indian-white relations in Canada
Par J. R Miller. 1989
Beginning with the arrival of Jacques Cartier at Gaspé, Miller presents a chronological history of relations between the Native and…
white populations of Canada. He notes that relations were amicable until the mid-19th century, when the government began to force Natives to adopt white culture. In the 20th century, however, Native Canadians became politically active, leading to the current land claims negotiations and the movement to self-government. c1989.Significant incident: Canada's army, the Airborne, and the murder in Somalia
Par David Jay Bercuson. 1996
Historian David Bercuson explores the problems in the Canadian Armed Forces which have been exposed in the wake of the…
murder of Shidane Arone in Somalia at the hands of Canadian soldiers. Bercuson discusses the recent history and changes within the army, how this has affected what its soldiers do, and how this resulted in the problems of the Somalia mission and made Arone's death possible. 1996.Seventh generation: contemporary native writing
Par Heather Hodgson. 1989
Shadows of the buffalo: a family odyssey among the Indians
Par Adolf Hungry Wolf, Beverly Hungry Wolf. 1983
The true story of a man and his Indian wife who are determined to cross cultural barriers and return to…
the old ways of the Blackfoot Indian tribe. Presents vivid portraits of elder Indians, traditional ceremonies, and life among people who are holding on to their past. 1983.Shakespeare's words: a glossary and language companion
Par David Crystal. 2002
A glossary including every word which presents the reader with difficulty. A scene-setting caption puts the quotation in its dramatic…
context and helps to clarify the meaning. The text also collates the way characters are named, the names of people and places they talk about, and the foreign languages that some of them use. Each play has a conventional plot synopsis and list of dramatis personae. 2002.Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
Par Germaine Greer. 1984
Beginning with a simple comparison between the parent-child relationship in the affluent West and the villages in the Third World,…
the author leads the reader to ask some disturbing questions about our pre-conceived ideas of the nuclear family. Some descriptions of sex. 1984.Searching for certainty: inside the new Canadian mindset
Par Edward Greenspon, Darrell Jay Bricker. 2001
A comprehensive report on the new economic, social and cultural Canada, resulting from changes wrought by globalization and technological innovation…
over the last two decades. Canada has emerged from the late twentieth century a stronger and more dynamic society, with a mindset steeped in Canadian traditions of tolerance and community. A fact-filled account of how these changes affect us now and will determine how we feel and what we want tomorrow. 2001.Satanic purses: money, myth, and misinformation in the war on terror
Par R. T Naylor. 2006
Naylor exposes the post 9/11 global War on Islamic Terror as based on myth, misinformation, and even deliberate disinformation -…
all of it premised on misguided notions about the nature of terrorist financing and the structure and organization of terrorist groups. Naylor believes that the secret agendas behind, and the private interests that profit from, an illusory War on Terror may be far more dangerous than the events that led to it. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.Saqiyuq: stories from the lives of three Inuit women (Mcgill-queen's Native And Northern Ser. #Vol. 19)
Par Nancy Wachowich. 1999
Saqiyuq is the Inuit word for a strong wind that suddenly shifts direction. This story of three consecutive generations of…
women reveals the contrasts of the ever-changing nature of life in the new territory of Nunavut. Appia deals with traditional life. Daughter Rhoda is part of the transitional generation and grand-daughter Sandra copes with modern times. 1999.Salvador: An Anthology
Par Joan Didion. 1983
In 1982 the author went to El Salvador. She describes the situation from the government's standpoint since she was unable…
to spend time with the guerrillas. Even so, the picture of terrorism emerges with fear and political repression. 1983.Sacrées grands-mères!
Par Christiane Collange. 2007
Grâce à leur nouvelle longévité et à leur forme physique, les grands-mères actuelles représentent une source de disponibilité, de présence,…
d'affection, de transmission qui a changé l'équilibre des familles. Après une longue enquête, Christiane Collange dresse un portrait lucide et tonique de cette génération prête à beaucoup se décarcasser sans pour autant se sacrifier. 2007.Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil
Par Andrew Nikiforuk. 2002
Dutch-born Wiebo Ludwig, former leader of a Christian Reformed Church in Goderich, Ontario, and his entourage, which consisted of his…
ever-growing family and a few sympathizers, decamped for Alberta in 1985 and bought a place called Trickle Creek - in oil country. What ensued was a long, nasty, and often violent conflict between Ludwig and the oil and gas industry over its legal right to drill on private land, regardless of landowners' concerns over the contamination of air and water by the pollutants that spew out of the wells. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2002.Rogue diamonds: the rush for northern riches on Dene land
Par E Bielawski. 2003
Diamonds were first discovered on the Barren Grounds near Yellowknife in 1991. in 1996 Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin gave…
Canada's first diamond mine conditional approval, subject to "significant progress in sixty days" on agreements between various companies. Ellen Bielawski was there. 2003.Russian: The complete course II; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
Par Paul Pimsleur. 1998
Russian: The complete course I; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
Par Paul Pimsleur. 2001
Russian: The complete course II; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
Par Paul Pimsleur. 1998
Russian: The complete course I; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
Par Paul Pimsleur. 2001
Roots of empathy: changing the world, child by child
Par Mary Gordon. 2005
With violence, anti-social behaviour, bullying, and aggression among young children escalating, educator Mary Gordon devised the Roots of Empathy programme,…
which fosters each child's innate sense of caring and compassion. Bringing babies and children together in the classroom creates a symbiotic environment that reduces aggression while increasing tolerance and emotional literacy. 2005.