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A collection of humourous and surprising essays which examine the scientific explanation for certain human behaviours, the scientific world's attempts…
to re-examine history, including the Salem witch trials, and some of the stranger questions tackled by scientists. Sections on human behaviour, curiosities of life, science and history, natural battles and how things work are included. 1998.Stolen continents: the new world through Indian eyes since 1492
By Ronald Wright. 1992
One dead Indian: the premier, the police, and the Ipperwash crisis
By Peter Edwards. 2001
On September 4, 1995, several Stoney Point Natives entered Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Sarnia, Ontario, and began a peaceful protest…
aimed at reclaiming a traditional burial ground. Within 72 hours, one of the protestors was dead, shot by an OPP officer. Six years later, Peter Edwards investigates the event. 2001.Flowers on my grave: how an Ojibwa boy's death helped break the silence on child abuse
By Ruth Teichroeb. 1997
In 1988, a 13-year-old Ojibwa boy named Lester Desjarlais committed suicide. Journalist Ruth Teichroeb covered the inquest into his death,…
which was scheduled for one day, but which lasted three months. She relates what happened to Lester as he left the Sandy Bay First Nations reserve and found himself in a maze of foster homes, mental hospitals, and treatment centres. Sexual content and descriptions of violence. 1997.Flint & feather: the life and times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake
By Charlotte Gray. 2002
An exploration of the many dimensions of Pauline Johnson's life. Complex and talented, she was a native rights advocate ahead…
of her time; a lyric poet who performed vaudevillian skits; a New Woman who wrote for The Mother's Magazine; and an incurable romantic who never married. 2002.Don't sweat the small stuff for teens: simple ways to keep your cool in stressful times
By Richard Carlson. 2000
This companion to "Don't sweat the small stuff" and others in the series for adults, advises teens on controlling stress…
in their lives. Includes one hundred tips on coping with such things as breakups, bad hair days, and peer pressure. For junior and senior high readers. Bestseller. 2000.Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other…
in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.Bitter embrace: white society's assault on the Woodland Cree
By Maggie Siggins. 2005
For over 200 years, the Cree community of Pelican Narrows has endured a torturous relationship with encroaching European culture, from…
the Hudson Bay factors and missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today. Author Siggins gives us the human face behind the newspaper headlines of Native issues, after years of research on a community she has known most of her life. 2005.Self matters: creating your life from the inside out
By Phillip C McGraw. 2001
"Dr. Phil" turns inward, expanding his philosophy of life begun in "Life Strategies" and "Relationship Rescue". Explores how to find…
one's "authentic self" via introspection and other key elements that will lead to a stronger self-concept and self-esteem. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.The heart of the soul: emotional awareness
By Gary Zukav, Linda Francis. 2002
Although developing emotional awareness is challenging and difficult because it requires becoming aware of our buried emotional pain, it is…
also enormously rewarding. This text shows us how to free ourselves from our compulsions, fixations, obsessions and addictions - such as anger, workaholism, obsessive eating, alcohol and drug abuse - that prevent us from living a fulfilling and meaningful life. 2002.The kids book of the Far North (Kids Books Of ...ser.)
By Jane Drake, Ann Love. 2000
The Far North is a beautiful but fragile world populated by many different plants, animals and people. This book is…
about the Arctic region, which is shared by eight countries. Inside you'll find amazing facts and fascinating stories, as well as ecological alerts. Grades 3-6. 2000.A guide for achieving personal serenity by altering perspective and practising a more relaxed lifestyle. Offers strategies and exercises for…
"letting go" of problems and following the path of least resistance.The Nuremberg interviews
By Robert Gellately, Leon Goldensohn. 2004
In 1946 Goldensohn, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, conducted a series of interviews with many of the defendants and witnesses at…
the Nuremberg war-crimes trials. Though most of the defendants didn't come across as monsters or even fanatics, they willingly played integral parts in a machine that practiced atrocities as a matter of routine. Their actions reveal how easily totalitarian systems can induce acquiescence to or even enthusiastic participation in evil. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference
By Malcolm Gladwell. 2000
A journalist proposes that fads are social epidemics in which little changes have big effects. He refers to the one…
dramatic moment during such a contagion, when everything can change all at once, as "the tipping point." Gladwell also analyzes trends to further explain his theory. Bestseller.Who will cry when you die?: life lessons from the monk who sold his Ferrari
By Robin S Sharma. 1999
The author shares 101 life lessons that will help the reader to simplify and enrich their life. The lessons range…
from starting a journal to waking up earlier to relieving stress midday by taking a mini-vacation in your office. 1999.Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads
By Ian Turner, Erica Fyvie. 2021
This amusing and engaging behind-the-scenes look at advertising and its influence will help kids decode the ads that surround them…
every day and make smart decisions. For children growing up in an advertising-saturated world, here's an eye-opening explanation of what advertising is, how it works and why that matters. The book covers the components of an advertising campaign, from slogans to logos, and the many ways marketers seek to influence behavior, from tapping into fears to using psychological pricing. It then brings these techniques and tools to life by taking readers through the creation of two fictional advertising plans. Along the way, there's information about the strategies that advertisers use to influence their audience, as well as valuable background on how digital technology allows companies to track people and what that means for privacy. It's a savvy look at the business of advertising that teaches children to pay better attention to ads and be more discerning about the messages they find. Award-winning author Erica Fyvie has geared this vital, comprehensive and entertaining look at advertising to children who are just beginning to notice and to be swayed by brands. By building media literacy and promoting critical thinking about all kinds of marketing tools --- from in-game ads to social media “kid influencers” --- the book empowers readers to analyze and respond to what they see every day. Relevant, child-friendly language and examples, along with bold and humorous illustrations by Ian Turner, keep the pages lively and interesting. There are direct curriculum links to language arts, visual arts, technology and social studies lessons. Also included are a glossary, index and selected bibliography.Core of my heart, my country: women's sense of place and the land in Australia and Canada, 1828-1950
By Maggie MacKellar. 2004
When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd…
landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.The philosopher's dog
By Raimond Gaita. 2002
The Philosopher's Dog is Raimond Gaita's most personal work to date. It's a mixture of story-telling, and philosophical reflections on…
the stories he tells, combining a love for animals with a love for fellow humans, and a thirst for knowledge. Many of the stories are about animals Gaita himself has known and loved: Jack the cockatoo, Gypsy the dog and Tosca the cat. These stories are interwoven with reflections on how animals think, hope, trust and feel. What does Gypsy think about when she sits on her mat gazing out to sea? Is it mistaken to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loyalty, grief, bravery or friendship to animals? Why do we care so much for some creatures and so little for others?Courage
By Maria M Tumarkin. 2007
"People care desperately about courage. For once, I am one of the people. Do you want to know what it…
means to care desperately? It means that I am prepared to give up dignity, talent and generosity for the attribute of courage. When I fantasise about what people will say after my death, I know what I want them to recall - whatever her flaws (too numerous to mention), she certainly had guts. Yet the courage I conjure up in my fantasies exists outside of the extremes of violence, endurance and fear. It is not primarily a virtuous ideal or an idea, but rather an expression of the human spirit-messy, explosive and morally ambivalent." Maria Tumarkin's view of courage contains no dead military heroes. Young, female, an immigrant from the crumbling Soviet states, she mines her own remarkable life story to produce a meditation on the courage we need to live our everyday lives, a hybrid of memoir and philosophy, of experience and ideas.What makes us tick?: the ten desires that drive us
By Hugh Mackay. 2010
The book that explains us to ourselves - from one of Australia's most admired authors. Why do we talk as…
if we're rational, but act as if we're not? Why do some people always want to take control? What is the true role of religion? Why do we seek change, yet resist it? Why do we want more of the things that have failed to satisfy us? Why are we so passionate about sport? Why do we fall out of love? As Australia's leading social researcher, Hugh Mackay has spent a lifetime of listening to people talk about their dreams, their fears, their hopes, their disappointments and their passions. In a series of bestselling books, he has documented the impact of the changes that have been radically reshaping our society. Now, he reflects on some of the things that don't change and identifies ten desires that drive us all. Insightful and engaging, What Makes Us Tick? reveals Mackay's formidable skills as a chronicler and interpreter of our motivations. In his exploration of why we do the things we do, he goes to the heart of some of life's big questions.