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Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct.

Alexi is a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the war and enslaved by Odysseus himself, Alexi has a very different view of the conquering heroes of legend.

This first of its kind comprehensive guidebook explores the unique challenges facing thousands of families raising gender variant children.

An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming.

In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch.

John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a

What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education.

Chosen as a Globe 100 Best Book of the year in 2011! One of Canada's funniest writers tackles his mother's life and death in a profound, entertaining story.

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn-or worse.

When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened.

From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a house where they begin their lives again from scratch.

Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley.

Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her original dream (which she gave up in Anne of Green Gables) of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia.

One Thursday, just before lunchtime, Annet Beck goes out to mail a letter and doesn't return. After five days she returns insisting she has been gone for only two hours.

The Big Swim puts forward the idea that personal growth arises from facing both inner tensions and threats to the biosphere.