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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.L'échappée des discours de l'oeil
Par Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska. 1990
Empruntant à l'anthropologie, à la mythologie, à la psychologie, à la sémiologie, à la littérature, à l'histoire, l'auteur évoque des…
problèmes fondamentaux: rôle de la femme, organisation de l'univers, fonction des sexes, création littéraire, etc. 1990.L'intolérance: une problématique générale
Par Lise Noël. 1989
L'intolérance et l'oppression peuvent prendre des visages multiples. On n'avait pas encore tente jusqu'ici de dresser un tableau d'ensemble qui…
montre comment s'articulent les rapports dominants/dominés autour des paramètres que sont l'âge, le sexe, la condition physique et mentale, l'appartenance ethnique, la langue ou l'orientation sexuelle. C'est ce que l'on trouve dans ce livre. 1989.The mummy congress: science, obsession, and the everlasting dead
Par Heather Anne Pringle. 2001
After covering a conference of mummy experts, science reporter Heather Pringle became so intrigued with mummies that she spent a…
year circling the globe, visiting leading scientists in the field. She also investigated preserved Italian saints, Scandinavian mummies in bogs, and frozen Inca princesses. Pringle researched Egyptian embalmers, the past public craze for mummy unwrappings, and the Russians' attempts to preserve Stalin, and along the way learned what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.The right cheek: an autobiography (The French writers of Canada series)
Par Claire Martin. 1968
In the second part of her autobiography, the author describes her adolescence and early womanhood in her father's house, one…
of gloom and oppressive brutality. The attitudes of the times towards sex and women are bitterly attacked and ridiculed. Sequel to "In an iron glove" (DC00901). 1975, c1968. Uniform title: Dans un gant de fer, v. 2, La joue droite.The land of Ulro
Par Czeslaw Milosz. 1984
The author contends that the spirit of the 1980s, molded by mass media and political manipulation, is as immoral as…
the 1930s when various fanaticisms held sway. Ulro, Blake's mythical realm of spiritual pain, is used as a metaphor. Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. 1984. Uniform title: Ziemia Ulro.The Inuksuk book
Par Mary Wallace. 1999
Inuksuks are stone monuments, built by the Inuit people of Canada's arctic. They can show where food is stored, leave…
a route to follow, or tell about a good hunting or fishing area. Learn about the different kinds of inuksuks, the people who build them, and the land where they are found. Includes instructions on building your own inuksuk. Grades 3-6. 1999.The ingenuity gap: How Can We Solve The Problems Of The Future?
Par Thomas F Homer-Dixon. 2000
Can we create ideas fast enough to solve the very problems - environmental, social, and technological - we have created?…
Homer-Dixon calls the gap between our need for practical and innovative ideas to solve our complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas the "ingenuity gap". He argues that as the gap widens, political disintegration and violent upheaval can result and suggests ways to overcome these real problems before it is too late. Winner of the 2001 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2000.The unconscious civilization (CBC Massey lectures)
Par John Ralston Saul. 1995
Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist, claims that 20th century ideologies have promoted truisms that undermine the acquisition of knowledge…
and reason and the quest for the public good. Instead, managers and technocrats are seen as gods, passive and conformist politics abound, and only salesmanship, style and fashion are seen as meaningful. Saul argues that the average citizen must rise above a smothering bureaucracy and today's mindless devotion to "corporatism" to pursue knowledge and active, publicly interested civic engagement. Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Le lieu de l'homme: la culture comme distance et mémoire
Par Fernand Dumont. 1968
L'hypothèse fondamentale de l'essai pourrait se ramener à cette proposition: la culture est avant tout un dédoublement de la signification…
du monde. L'homme vit à la fois dans deux mondes parallèles, celui du changement, soumis à l'érosion inéluctable du temps et celui de la culture, qui vise à rétablir l'homogénéité sans cesse compromise pour assurer la continuité. À partir de cette hypothèse, Dumont s'intéresse précisément à la façon dont l'homme s'y prend pour construire son lieu. 1971, c1968.Pushcart Prize XL: best of the small presses, 2016 (Pushcart Prize #40)
Par Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 2016
Collection of sixty-nine poems, stories, essays, and memoirs originally published by small presses. Contains pieces by Zadie Smith, Anthony Doerr,…
Joyce Carol Oates, and James Hannaham. Includes an introduction from the series editor reflecting on forty years of publication. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2016Once upon an alphabet: Short Stories for All the Letters
Par Oliver Jeffers. 2014
Series of interconnected stories and characters explore the alphabet, from an astronaut with a fear of heights, to a parsnip…
with puzzled thoughts, to a robot who doesn't like rain clouds, and more. For preschool-grade 2. 2014Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 2013 / XXXVII (Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses #37)
Par Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 2013
Collection of sixty-five works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selected for the annual Pushcart Prize. In "Helen Keller Answers the…
Iron" Andrew Hudgins reflects on his youthful love of jokes and his adult perspective on the ones that mock tragedy, disability, and death. Strong language and some violence. 2012A treasury of Curious George: Colección de oro Jorge el curioso (Curious George)
Par Margret Rey, H. A. Rey. 2011
A collection of eight tales about a mischievous but loveable monkey named George. Includes Curious George Visits a Toy Store,…
Curious George Goes Camping, and Curious George Visits the Library. For grades K-3 and older readers. English/Spanish language. 2011Annual anthology of stories, essays, and poems published by small presses. In "We Don't Deserve This" married, globe-trotting physicians Jake…
and Sarah, who haven't seen their kids in years, discover that the two young teens are child pornographers. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2011Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop: 'tis the season to be deadly : stories of mistletoe and mayhem from 17 masters of suspense
Par Otto Penzler, Perseus. 2010
Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 2011 / XXXV (Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses #35)
Par Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 2011
Anthology of short stories, poems, and essays selected from literary magazines, journals, and small presses. In Amanda Rea's "A Dead…
Man in Nashville," a graduate student helps her brother move to Tennessee so he can promote their singer/songwriter father. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010The best of George Ade
Par George Ade, A. L. Lazarus, John T. McCutcheon, Arnold Leslie Lazarus. 1985
Rose royal: Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
Par Nicolas Mathieu. 2020
Rose a la cinquantaine, une vie derrière elle, avec ses joies, ses déveines, des gosses, un divorce. Et des mecs…
qui presque tous lui ont fait mal. Chaque soir, en sortant du boulot, elle se rend au Royal, un bar où elle a ses habitudes. Là, elle boit. De temps en temps, elle y retrouve sa grande copine Marie-Jeanne. Puis, elle rentre chez elle et le lendemain tout recommence. Mais une nuit, Luc débarque au Royal et Rose se laisse prendre une dernière fois à cette farce du grand amour. Sauf qu'elle s'est juré que plus jamais un mec ne lui ferait du mal. Rose Royal, court et cinglant, se distingue par son portrait d'une époque, saisissant de réalisme. Une prouesse littéraire, lue avec pudeur et maîtrise par l'auteur, lauréat du Prix Goncourt en 2018 pour Leurs enfants après eux (Actes Sud)The great tug of war and other stories
Par Beverley Naidoo, Piet Grobler. 2006
Eight trickster rabbit tales from South Africa. In the title piece, Mmutla the hare claims to be stronger than Tlou…
the elephant and Kubu the hippo. He proposes a tug-of-war contest with each of them to prove it. For grades 3-6. 2006