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Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age
By Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, Bettina Fabos. 2018
While we all use digital technology daily, many of us don't realize how text, audio, and visual media converge together…
to enhance our everyday experiences. The new edition of Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age enriches students' understanding of these experiences – a skill that has become more important than ever. Media & Culture starts with the digital world students know and then goes further, focusing on what these constant changes mean to them. Through new infographics, cross-reference pages, and a digital jobs feature, the book explains and illustrates how the media industries connect, interlock, and converge, Media & Culture brings together industry expertise, media history, and current trends for an engaging, exhilarating look at the media right now.A Struggle to Walk With Dignity: The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian
By Gerald A Archambeau. 2008
Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to…
Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age eighteen decided to join the railway as a passenger car porter. He worked for Canadian Pacific and Canadian National until the 1960s, when declining passenger rail traffic and the ascendence of air travel caused him to switch to a career with a major Canadian airline in Toronto. After his retirement from the airline, Gerald and his wife, Marion, settled in St. Catharines, Ontario.The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney
By Michael Dawson. 1998
Historian Michael Dawson digs deep into the written and pictorial record to reveal how the RCMP since its inception…
has constructed and zealously guarded its public image Drawing on previously untapped sources Dawson documents how consultants and entrepreneurs deliberately transformed and modernized the traditional symbolism of the Mountie His trenchant analysis extends to the ironies of the recent licensing of the hallowed Mountie image to the ultimate dream-merchants-DisneyMarshall McLuhan
By Judith Fitzgerald. 2001
Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan 1911-1980 predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964…
McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms like hot and cool media the global village and the medium is the messageSusanna Moodie
By Anne Cimon. 2006
Susanna Moodie was already a published author when she emigrated from England to Upper Canada with her husband and baby…
in 1832 The Moodies were seeking financial security and a better life in the colony but they found themselves struggling to make a living on a bush farm Despite her primitive life in the backwoods and the demands of caring for her children Susanna continued to write and publish In 1852 her best-known book Roughing It in the Bush was published in England A Canadian edition appeared in 1871 Roughing It in the Bush has endured both as a valuable social document of the Canadian pioneer experience and as a work of literatureJ.P. Bickell: The Life, the Leafs, and the Legacy
By Graham Maclachlan, Kevin Shea, Jason Wilson. 2017
He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow. A self-made mining magnate…
and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P. Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As one of the most important industrialists in Canadian history, Bickell left his mark on communities across the nation. He was a cornerstone of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which awards the J.P. Bickell Memorial Award to recognize outstanding service to the organization. Bickell’s story is also tied up with some of the most famous Canadians of his day, including Mitchell Hepburn, Roy Thomson, and Conn Smythe. Through his charitable foundation, he has been a key benefactor of the Hospital for Sick Children, and his legacy continues to transform Toronto. Yet, though Bickell was so important both to Toronto and the Maple Leafs, the story of his incredible life is today largely obscure. This book sets the record straight, presenting the definitive story of his rise to prominence and his lasting legacy — on the ice and off.The Great Gould
By Peter Goddard. 2017
A startling new portrait of Gould including never-before-seen material Glenn Gould s astonishing recordings deliver…
that unmistakable jolt of genius to each generation newly discovering the great Canadian pianist With the support of the Glenn Gould Estate Peter Goddard draws on his own interviews with Gould and on new and in some cases overlooked sources to present a freshly revealing portrait of Gould s unsettled life his radical decision to quit concertizing his career as a radio innovator and his deep response to the Canadian environment Sci-fi and hi-fi hockey and Petula Clark Elvis jazz chess the Beatles and sex all these inform this exploration of the pianist s far-reaching imagination There is even a touching account of the only piano lesson Gould ever gave This is the perfect gift for anyone new to classical music and those already immersed in it for those with an interest in Canadian music in Glenn Gould himself and in what led to The Goldberg Variations one of the greatest recordings in music historyCanadian Cultural Heritage 4-Book Bundle: Molly Brant / Louis Riel / Harriet Tubman / Simon Girty
By Edward Butts, Sharon Stewart, Peggy Dymond Leavey, Rosemary Sadlier. 2015
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series profiling prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these four books, we explore…
the cultural heritage at the roots of Canada’s present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman, Metis revolutionary Louis Riel, frontiersman Simon Girty, and aboriginal elder stateswoman Molly Brant, we discover that the struggle for inclusion and human rights has existed since the dawn of Canada’s modern history. Includes: Harriet Tubman Louis Riel Simon GirtyMolly BrantOn the Goose: A Labrador Métis Woman Remembers
By Josie Penny. 2014
A personal and inspiring story about a young Métis woman with a history of abuse who triumphed over a harsh…
start in life. Josie Penny’s life as part of a loving Métis family in an isolated corner of Labrador changed dramatically when she was taken away to a residential school. Abused by the students, Josie became increasingly angry and isolated from her family and community as she grew into her teens. At seventeen she left for Goose Bay to make her fortune and start her own life.On the Goose is the story of how Josie came to terms with her feelings of helplessness and isolation as she began to understand why she could not feel or express love. Josie Penny’s memoir is an inspiring true story of how love and hard work helped one woman triumph over adversity.Tokyo, My Everest: A Canadian Woman in Japan
By Gabrielle Bauer. 1995
Don't Tell My Mother: How to Fight War on Your Own Terms
By Raymond Eagle, Peter Duggan-Smith. 1997
Peter Duggan-Smith was born in 1916 to an actress mother. As she was always on the move he was brought…
up by two maiden aunts until he was accepted to train for a sea-going career on the cadet ship H.M.S. Conway. It was on the last of several voyages to New Zealand as a Merchant Navy apprentice that his life of adventure began — though it did not always turn out as he had planned! The one constant in Peter’s life was his love of flying; by the end of his final flight in Cambodia in 1974, he had racked up more than 17,000 flying hours–in no less than 70 types of piston-engine aircraft. Peter was small in stature, but a giant among adventurers, with a rare ability to take the reader along with him through his many escapades. Raymond Eagle, FSA Scot., is a historian with a particular interest in Scottish and military history. His early years were spent in Eastleigh, Hampshire where, at the age of ten, he had a grandstand view of the Battle of Britain. This gave him a life-long interest in aviation and a great respect for his boyhood heroes, the aircrews of the RAF and Dominion air forces. In 1949 he joined the British army as a national serviceman and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery, spending two years in Hong Kong before continuing in the Territorial Army (Militia). Arriving in Canada in March 1967 with his wife and two young sons, he worked for twenty years in executive positions with various medical charities, writing purely as a hobby. Articles published included such areas as history, environment, health and travel. In November 1991, Eagle’s first book was published in Scotland by Lochar Publishing of Moffat, Seton Gordon — The Life and Times of a Highland Gentleman, a biography of the well-known Scottish naturalist, historian and photographer, who wrote 27 books on the Highlands and Hebrides.Mean Streets: Confessions of a Nighttime Taxi Driver
By Peter Mcsherry. 2002
Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average…
person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada’s largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, snakes, politicians, celebrities . . . he’s experienced them all. McSherry serves up his stories with forthrightness, humour, and the occasional dash of cynicism. In this well-written and street-smart book, the author tells the rest of us about a world we can only imagine - if we dare.To Experience Wonder: A Life
By Veronica Ross. 2003
Canada’s foremost cookbook author began her career, not as a cook, but as a journalist writing for Canadian magazines. She…
was 60 when she turned her attention to food. Food That Really Schmecks immediately became a best-seller, and continues to sell 35 years later. It’s more than a book of wonderful recipes - it also describes the Mennonite way of life. The success of that book led to two more Schmecks books and many other cookbooks. Edna has received the Order of Canada among many other awards. Over the years, Edna developed longstanding friendships with many of Canada’s greatest writers, including Margaret Laurence, W.O. Mitchell, Sheila Burnford, and Pierre Berton. In 1991 she established The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction to recognize the first or second book of a Canadian writer. To Experience Wonder is the first book to explore behind the scenes of this successful writer’s life. At the age of 97, Edna leads an active life at her cottage on Sunfish Lake, where she writes, reads, and welcomes the many aspiring writers who come to visit.Riposa nei luoghi del mondo: viaggio post-vita di mio padre
By Paola Gatto, Marlayna Glynn Brown. 2013
Gli affezionati lettori di Marlayna sanno già che il padre ha dedicato la sua vita all'alcol: riuscirà mai a trovare…
rendenzione e perdono per mano della figlia? Il viaggio dell'autrice per disperdere le ceneri del padre nei luoghi del mondo che lui non aveva mai potuto vedere, è l'allegoria di un viaggio spirituale e catartico, a tratti condiviso con i figli, nel tentativo di recuperare il rapporto con lui che non aveva mai vissuto e di trovare l'equilibrio interiore che ogni vera madre e persona realizzata deve avere. La narrazione, che si apre con la celebrazione di ciò che non esiste più, si svolge lungo le tappe di un viaggio tanto magnifico quanto ricco di sorprese, che agevolano il passaggio dei giovani figli dalla vita adolescenziale alla vita adulta e la maturazione personale di nuove consapevolezze, da cui può prendere finalmente le mosse una nuova vita.New Wave Vision
By Hayden Cox. 2016
Hayden Cox started his surfboard brand Haydenshapes at the age of 15 while still at school taking on a…
fickle industry where few succeed beyond local reach Today he is an award winning designer and entrepreneur who took his passion young ideas and vision for doing things differently and created a bestselling brand all over the world New Wave Vision is experience driven not a how-to without glossing over the harsh realities lessons and challenges faced when backing yourself and building from the ground up It shares Hayden s story spanning almost 20 years as a young person in business - with the work far from finished His modern approach and passion for progression within an industry led directly to his invention of a patented technology FutureFlex and a global best selling surfboard Through his brand Hayden has also collaborated on notable and exclusive projects with some of the biggest names and designers across a number of industries - unconventional to what might be expected in surf Beautifully designed and with real insight and stories from some of the world s most influential creative business minds like skater and entrepreneur Tony Hawk fashion visionary Karen Walker Oakley and Red Digital Cinema founder Jim Jannard Google Maps co-founder Noel Gordon Aesop founder Dennis Paphitis and entrepreneur Paul Naude New Wave Vision spotlights the crucial principles that help inspire and create groundbreaking products and businesses Now more than ever young people are creating things taking risks and starting new ventures New Wave Vision is not about reaching a destination but everything in between and the great discontent that keeps you searching Praise for Hayden Cox and Haydenshapes A young Australian inventor who has reshaped surfboard technology for the better - GQ Magazine A hip quantum physicist He buzzes with numbers degrees fibre weaves parabolas - Surfing Magazine Hayden has become one of the most prolific shapers and ideas men in the country But he s not finished yet - Stab Magazine FutureFlex is like a Ferrari - Tom Carroll World Champion Surfer Hayden Cox s surfboards are world leaders -- The Sydney Morning Herald An Aussie surf star -- Elle MagazinePlay Like a Girl: How a Soccer School in Kenya's Slums Started a Revolution
By Ellie Roscher. 2017
Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by…
women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, mother, and grandmother and having a daughter himself, he felt that he needed to make a difference. In 2002, Abdul started a soccer team for girls called Girls Soccer in Kibera (GSK), with the hope of fostering a supportive community and providing emotional and mental support for the young women in the town. The soccer program was a success, but the looming dangers of slum life persisted, and the young women continued to fall victim to the worst kinds of human atrocities. Indeed, it was the unyielding injustice of these conditions that led Abdul to the conclusion that soccer alone was not enough to create the necessary systemic change. In 2006, after much work, the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA) was established with their first class of 11 girls and 2 volunteer teachers. Today, KGSA is composed of 20 full-time staff, provides a host of artistic and athletic programs for more than 130 students annually, and continues to expand. By providing academics inside and outside of the classroom along with artistic and athletic opportunities, KGSA inspires the young women of Kibera to become advocates for change within their own communities and for Kenya as a whole. Play Like a Girl tells the KGSA story through Abdul’s voice and vision and the stories of key staff and students. It is written by Ellie Roscher who spent 2 summers doing research at KGSA and several years writing this book.Alaska Bears: Shaken and Stirred
By Jake Jacobson. 2017
ALASKA BEARS: Shaken and Stirred is a collection of 24 stories describing Jake's personal experience hunting and guiding for all…
the species of bears in Alaska. Bear biology, hunting techniques, cabin depredations and avoidance thereof, and other aspects of bear pursuits are detailed. These are true stories except for the names of some of the hunting guests from Jake's fifty years of living and hunting in Alaska.Drama High
By Michael Sokolove. 2013
Friday Night Lights meets Glee the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the…
lives of thousands of students and inspired a town Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown Pennsylvania to see a high school production of Les Mis rables To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School run by its legendary director Lou Volpe Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows like Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation Volpe s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers entertainment executives newscasters and community-theater founders Michael Sokolove a Levittown native and former student of Volpe s chronicles the drama director s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theaterAn illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals •…
Featuring artwork from the upcoming High Society exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, one of the world’s greatest medical history collections • Explores the roles drugs play in different cultures as medicines, religious sacraments, status symbols, and coveted trade goods • Reveals how drugs drove the global trade and cultural exchange that made the modern world • Examines the causes of drug prohibitions a century ago and the current “war on drugs” Every society is a high society. Every day people drink coffee on European terraces and kava in Pacific villages; chew betel nut in Indonesian markets and coca leaf on Andean mountainsides; swallow ecstasy tablets in the clubs of Amsterdam and opium pills in the deserts of Rajastan; smoke hashish in Himalayan temples and tobacco and marijuana in every nation on earth. Exploring the spectrum of drug use throughout history--from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals--High Society paints vivid portraits of the roles drugs play in different cultures as medicines, religious sacraments, status symbols, and coveted trade goods. From the botanicals of the classical world through the mind-bending self-experiments of 18th- and 19th-century scientists to the synthetic molecules that have transformed our understanding of the brain, Mike Jay reveals how drugs such as tobacco, tea, and opium drove the global trade and cultural exchange that created the modern world and examines the forces that led to the prohibition of opium and cocaine a century ago and the “war on drugs” that rages today.Man on a Mission: The David Hilmers Story
By Rick Houston, David Hilmers. 2013
“I floated toward one of the windows as Atlantis sailed high over the coast of Africa, unprepared for the incredible…
view that was about to unfold right before my eyes.” Being an astronaut wasn’t enough. Dr. David C. Hilmers has launched into space four times as part of NASA space shuttle crews. But God had more planned for Dr. Hilmers. The beauty of the Earth from orbit reminded Hilmers of his first dream to become a doctor. He went to medical school, became a pediatrician, and has since launched into countless missions and disaster relief trips around the world. Dr. Hilmers’ extraordinary life and work as a missionary will inspire you to reach even higher than the stars.