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Hard light
Par Michael Crummey. 1998
Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking…
through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love. Some descriptions of violence. 1998.When Cremo's book "Forbidden Archaeology" was published in 1993, the scientific world was shocked by its extensive evidence for extreme…
human antiquity - pushing the origin of the human race back tens of millions of years. "Forbidden Archeology's Impact" documents the explosive reactions to his controversial book. 1998.Hello Halifax (Canada rainbow series)
Par Elma Schemenauer. 1986
"G" is for Grafton: the world of Kinsey Millhone
Par Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay. 1997
Two professors present a "biography" of Kinsey Millhone, the fictional private detective of Sue Grafton's popular alphabetical mystery series. Millhone…
was first introduced in "A is for alibi." The authors compiled this work using the collection and Grafton's working journals. Some strong language and some violence. 1997.Houseboat chronicles: notes from a life in Shield country
Par Jake MacDonald. 2002
Part memoir, part reportage, MacDonald's book reflects on his lifelong fascination with the Canadian Shield. MacDonald spent years working in…
and exploring this area. He writes of his travels, the people who make their living there, his interest in Native culture, and the Shield's wildlife. 2002.Ghosts of Vesuvius: a new look at the last days of Pompeii, how towers fall, and other strange connections
Par Charles R Pellegrino. 2004
Weaving together accounts of ancient authorities with research by forensic archaeologists, Pellegrino captures the final hours of Pompeii and Herculaneum.…
In the flash-fossilized remains of victims, he sees reminders of the abiding human hope to understand a brutal universe. Those hopes live both in the science Pellegrino uses to interpret historic volcanic explosions as the distant consequence of the Big Bang, and in the startling connections he makes between the two cities buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE and the Twin Towers destroyed by terrorists in 2001. 2004.Eternal chalice: the Grail in literature and legend (The modern scholar)
Par Monica Brzezinski Potkay. 2006
In this course, College of William & Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay provides an overview of the many different ways…
writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. 2006.Drifting home: A Family's Voyage Of Discovery Down The Wild Yukon River
Par Pierre Berton. 1973
Echoes of the ancient skies: the astronomy of lost civilizations
Par E. C Krupp. 1983
Doors open Toronto: illuminating the city's great spaces
Par John Sewell. 2002
This book introduces Toronto's greatest spaces, from architectural jewels to buildings that were witness to some of the city's most…
important moments. Former mayor John Sewell takes us on a tour of the Toronto places every citizen and visitor should see, such as Osgoode Hall, the old Don Jail, and the Chapel of St. James-the-Less. 2002.Discovering the iceman: what was it like to find a 5,300-year-old mummy? (I was there)
Par Shelley Tanaka. 1996
In 1991, two hikers discovered the remains of a Stone Age Man over 5,000 years old in the Alps. Be…
transported back to the Iceman's ancient world - find out who he was, how he lived, and how he died on a mountain ridge. Grades 3-6. 1996.Deep water, ancient ships: the treasure vault of the Mediterranean
Par Willard Bascom. 1976
Creation and recreation (Canadian university paperbooks ; #254)
Par Northrop Frye. 1980
City hall & Mrs. God: a passionate journey through a changing Toronto
Par Cary Fagan. 1990
This personal portrait of a city in upheaval shows a polarized social structure which characterizes the new Toronto. The author…
shows a city divided into the powerful and the powerless, the outrageous and the outraged. 1990.Canada made me
Par Norman Levine. 1993
In 1956 writer Norman Levine, seven years an expatriate in England, returned for an unsentimental journey through his homeland. Drawn…
toward the bottom rungs of Canadian society - the beer parlours, the bunkhouses filled with immigrant miners, the cheap flophouses - he wrote an account so bitter that it didn't find a Canadian publisher for more than 20 years. Levine, now considered one of Canada's finest short story writers, maintains "my writing starts with this book." 1993, c1958.Chilcotin and beyond
Par Paul H St. Pierre. 1990
Beyond Forget: rediscovering the prairies
Par Mark Abley. 1986
Body music
Par Dennis Lee. 1998
In this collection of essays, Lee explores the experience of "body music": the dance of energy that poems arise from.…
He also describes the process of writing verse for children and pays tribute to a variety of Canadian poets. 1998.Biographia literaria, or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions: [part work] (Bollingen Ser. #Vol. 75)
Par Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Jackson Bate, James Engell. 1984
Biographia Literaria has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics…
of English literature. Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the psychology of art. Following the text of the 1817 edition, the editors offer the first completely annotated edition of the highly allusive work. 1984.Bones: discovering the first Americans
Par Elaine Dewar. 2001
With Native American activists, white supremacists, DNA experts, and anthropologists all vying for control of ancient remains, Dewar explores the…
ambiguous terrain left behind when a long-standing paradigm is swept away by new discoveries. Presents stories that rarely find their way into scientific journals or newspapers - stories of mysterious deaths, of the bones of evil shamans, and the shadows that fall on the lives of scientists who've pulled them from the ground. 2001.