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Author:Reist, Michael
Summary:Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Brown, Bern Will
Summary:A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.
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Author:Green, Lyndsay
Summary:The Perfect Home for a Long Life responds to the anxieties of boomers and seniors about where to live when they grow old and their fears about ending up in a nursing home.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Gordon, Mary
,Fullan, Michael
Summary:Roots of Empathy — an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon — has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan,
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Green, Lyndsay
Summary:The digital revolution has left many parents feeling intimidated by the world their teens inhabit and they worry that they lack the experience to parent effectively.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Brown, Ian
Summary:Are the men you know obsessed with strange details? Do they sometimes seem to have less interest in you than they do in box scores and the history of the bolo tie?
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Smith, A.J.M.
,Gnarowski, Michael
,Roberts, Charles G. D.
,Polk, James
Summary:Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Clarke, Austin
Summary:2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted 2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first
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Author:Coates, Ken S.
,Morrison, Bill
Summary:Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.” For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career succ
Genre: Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Shimo-Barry, Alex
Summary:When freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan, a fly-in, northern Ontario reserve, to investigate rumours of a fabricated water crisis and document its deplorable living conditio
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Author:Parley, Kay
Summary:Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met.
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- Running Time: 11:46:40Narrator: Multiple ReadersPublisher: Crane Library,
Author:Anderson, Mark Cronlund
Summary:Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history.
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Author:Kurzman, Charles
Summary:Through interviews and eyewitness accounts, declassified security documents and underground pamphlets, Kurzman documents the overwhelming sense of confusion that gripped pre-revolutionary Iran, and
Genre: Political science, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Scheidel, Walter
Summary:Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes.
Genre: History and geography, Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Kidder, Tracy
Summary:This is a frontline report from the trenches of American education. It chronicles a fifth grade class and its remarkable teacher.
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- Running Time: 28:40:00Narrator: George GuidallPublisher: Recorded Books,