Canada

  • The future of sustainability education at North American universities

    Abstract

    This collection explores sustainability education in the North American academy. The authors advocate for a more integrated approach to teaching sustainability in order to help students address the most pressing problems of the world, embrace experimentation, and foster more meaningful involvement with the communities in which universities are located. Throughout, they remain focussed on identifying opportunities for sustainability in higher education and suggesting specific strategies and tactics to achieve them.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Edmonton, Alberta]

    University of Alberta Press

    Non spécifié
  • Building inclusive communities in rural Canada

    Abstract

    This collection challenges misconceptions that rural Canada is a bastion of intolerance. While examining the extent and nature of contemporary cultural and religious discrimination in rural Canadian communities, the editors and contributors explore the many efforts by rural citizens, community groups, and municipalities to counter intolerance, build inclusive communities, and become better neighbours. Throughout, scholars and community leaders focus on building new understandings, language, and ways of thinking about diversity and inclusion that will resonate with rural people.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    University of Alberta Press

    Non spécifié
  • Innovation nation : how Canadian innovators made the world smarter, smaller, kinder, safer, healthier, wealthier and happier

    Creator

    Johnston, David

    Abstract

    This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a way to celebrate our history and world contributions on Canada's 150th birthday. Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces — insight, necessity and simple luck.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Tundra Books

    Non spécifié
  • Far and near : on days like these

    Creator

    Peart, Neil

    Abstract

    Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers. Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist's life as he celebrates seasons, landscapes, and characters, travels roads and trails, receives honors, climbs mountains, composes and performs music.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    ECW Press

    Non spécifié
  • Going back home

    Creator

    Hess, Marie

    Abstract

    Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools confinements has affected Indigenous communities over several generations and has contributed to many social problems that continue to exist today.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    BookLand

    Non spécifié
  • Prologue to love

    Creator

    Ostenso, Martha

    Abstract

    Autumn Dean unexpectedly returns home from Europe to her father's ranch in the Okanagan Valley, where she reconnects with Bruce Langdon, a stoic childhood friend grown into an accomplished rancher. Autumn and Bruce's budding romance is halted by the revival of an intergenerational grudge between their two families that is shrouded in mystery. Autumn is insistent on uncovering the root of the hostility: a forbidden romance between her mother and Bruce's father that had devastating consequences.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Picton, Ontario

    Invisible Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • Glycerine : Detective Lane, book 7

    Creator

    Ryan, Garry

    Abstract

    With the traumatic events of Foxed behind him, Detective Lane has been promoted to the head of the Calgary Major Crimes Unit, a position that brings new responsibilities, as well as a new partner in the form of headstrong rookie Nigel Li. Lane and Li's first case, an investigation into the death of a migrant worker, points them in the direction of John A. Jones, the leader of a fractured community in northern Alberta, who has been suspected of bombing oil and gas pipelines.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Edmonton, Alberta

    NeWest Press

    Non spécifié
  • NoMeansNo : going nowhere

    Creator

    Black, Mark

    Abstract

    Invisible Publishing's Bibliophonic Series returns, this time focusing on unsung Canadian punk rock heroes NoMeansNo. NoMeansNo: Going Nowhere, will look at a band whose career has spanned three decades, 14 albums and produced an alter ego that's become as much a part of the Canadian consciousness as SCTV. Through interviews with band members, bit players and fans, the book will explore how one punk band from Victoria, B.C. influenced musicians across the world and continue to be force in punk rock.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Halifax & Toronto

    Invisible Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • The ambitious city

    Creator

    Thornley, Scott

    Abstract

    If a local biker war isn't enough - 7 corpses are found buried on a farm - MacNeice receives a desperate phone call from the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his mini rust belt of a city, when 6 more bodies turn up at the bottom of the lake, and 2 of them, encased in concrete, are fairly fresh. The mayor wants MacNeice to fix things fast, but theres another "visionary" on the loose in Dundurn - a serial killer who wants to rid the city of high-achieving young women of colour.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Random House Canada

    Non spécifié
  • Blood red summer : Leo Desroches, book 3

    Creator

    Arthurson, Wayne

    Abstract

    During a mosquito-infested summer in Edmonton, Métis journalist Leo Desroches, who has just been released from jail, is called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city. Some white rocks spill out of the body bag. They are not crack cocaine, as Leo first thinks, but rough diamonds. The victim was not a drug user, but a worker at one of the new diamond mines above the Arctic Circle. Leo is led to investigate a smuggling ring and a deadly, billion dollar conflict between Native groups, rival gangs, and international mining conglomerates. 2015.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Stony Plain, Alberta] : Eschia Books Inc., 2015 320 pages

    Toronto

    Center for Equitable Library Access

    Non spécifié