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Quest Biography 35-Book Bundle: Marshall McLuhan, Nellie McClung, René Lévesque and many more
By Ged Martin, Nathan Tidridge, Ray Argyle, Rosemary Sadlier, Peggy Dymond Leavey, Edward Butts, D T Lahey, Valerie Knowles, Julie H Ferguson, Nicholas Maes, Tom Henighan, Wayne Larsen, Andr Vanasse, Anne Cimon, Heather Kirk, Tom Shardlow, Deborah Cowley, Gary Evans, Francine Legar, Marguerite Paulin, Lian Goodall, Margaret Macpherson, Sharon Stewart, Roderick Stewart, Kathryn Bridge, John Wilson, Arthur Slade, Raymond Plante, T F Rigelhof, Kate Braid, Michelle Labr che-Larouche, Judith Fitzgerald. 1812
This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who…
have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of these figures are truly famous, while others were quietly influential. Among the wide variety of people we meet are: prime ministers (Mackenzie King, Macdonald, Laurier, and more); artists (Emily Carr, Tom Thomson); explorers (David Thompson, Samuel de Champlain), politicians (René Lévesque, Joey Smallwood), writers (Robertson Davies, Gabrielle Roy), entertainers (Emma Albani, Mary Pickford), activists (Nellie McClung, Louis Riel, Harriet Tubman), and many, many more. Let this series be your primer on the greatest figures in Canadian history. Includes Emma Albani Emily Carr George Grant Jacques Plante John Diefenbaker John Franklin Phyllis Munday Wilfrid Laurier William Lyon Mackenzie King René Lévesque Samuel de Champlain John Grierson Lucille Teasdale Maurice Duplessis David Thompson Mazo de la Roche Susanna Moodie Gabrielle Roy Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford Harriet Tubman Laura Secord Joey Smallwood Prince Edward, Duke of Kent John A. Macdonald Marshall McLuhanArtists and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Artists and Their Animal Friends
By Susie Hodge, Violet Lemay. 2017
Did you know that the great Pablo Picasso had many pets, including a white mouse and a goat? And that…
Andy Warhol loved his dachshunds, Salvador Dalí liked ocelots and anteaters, and Georgia O’Keeffe had a passion for chows and Siamese cats? Artists and Their Pets tells these stories and many more with full-color illustrations and a chirpy narrative that will delight both art buffs and pet enthusiasts. Lexile: 1140L100 Pablo Picassos
By Violet Lemay, Duopress Labs. 2015
Pablo Picasso is one of the most celebrated artists in the world, and this amusing book shows his life in…
a remarkably original way. By featuring 100 Pablo Picassos throughout the book, young readers will explore the artist life from his childhood, to his major contributions to modern art, and from his love for pets to his endless curiosity about life. The book also invites readers to count the Picassos all the way to a 100, adding an entertaining element to discover the life and work of the great Pablo Picasso.Guided Reading Level: N3Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
By Joyce Wallace Scott. 2016
The remarkable story of "outsider" artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with…
her sisterFrom birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what the other wanted and felt, despite the fact that Judy had Down syndrome, profound deafness, and never learned to speak or sign. But this idyllic childhood of color, texture, and feeling ended abruptly when, at age seven, Judy was taken from their shared bed while Joyce slept, not knowing that the wholeness they had known was being shattered.For the next three decades, Joyce is left without her other half and must grieve unexpected loss while navigating her relationship with an emotionally distant mother--alone. Even so, her life parallels her twin's in surprising ways. While in college, Joyce too is sent away, pressured to relinquish the secret daughter she bore in hiding to adoption.Decades later, Joyce resolves to reunite with her sister and fill their remaining years with joy. After winning the struggle to become Judy's legal guardian, she enrolls her in an art center for adults with disabilities in Oakland, California. Judy is hesitant at first, but after two years of uninterested painting and drawing, her untapped creativity suddenly ignites when she is introduced to fiber art, and she begins carefully and intentionally winding yarn and other materials around found objects. With unflagging intensity, Judy works five days a week for the next eighteen years, producing more than two-hundred astoundingly diverse fiber sculptures. Unconcerned with her growing fame, she remains fully immersed in her artistic vision until her death in 2005. Today, Judith Scott's work is displayed in museums and galleries around the world, in some of the most prestigious collections of contemporary art.Entwined is a penetrating personal narrative that explores a complex world of disability, loss, reunion, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Part memoir, part biography, it's a poignant and astonishing story about the art of embracing life.From the Hardcover edition.Integrating Social Media into Information Systems: Requirements, Gaps, and Potential Solutions (G - Reference,information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
By Parisa Roshan, Isaac Porche, Ryan Brown, Astrid Cevallos, Osonde Osoba, Joshua Mendelsohn, Douglas Yeung, John Bordeaux, Timothy Gulden, Laura Kupe, Luke Matthews, Katharine Sieck, Sarah Soliman. 2018
This report examines the technical challenges associated with incorporating bulk automated analysis of social media information into procedures for…
vetting people seeking entry into the United States The authors identify functional requirements and a framework for operational metrics for the proposed social media screening capabilities and provide recommendations on how to implement those capabilitiesThe Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden
By Johanna Silver, Marion Brenner. 2016
“For those of you—and your numbers are growing—gardening in drought-stricken parts of the country, The Bold Dry Garden will quench…
your thirst for inspiration.” —New York Times Book Review Ruth Bancroft is a dry gardening pioneer. Her lifelong love of plants led to the creation of one of the most acclaimed public gardens, The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California. The Bold Dry Garden offers unparalleled access to the garden and the extraordinary woman responsible for it. In its stunningly photographed pages, you’ll discover the history of the garden and the design principles and plant palette that make it unique. Packed with growing and maintenance tips, profiles of signature plants for a dry garden, and innovative design techniques, The Bold Dry Garden has everything you need to create a garden that is lush, waterwise, and welcoming.The Roots of My Obsession: Thirty Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden
By Thomas C. Cooper. 2012
Why do you garden? For fun? Work? Food? The reasons to garden are as unique as the gardener.The Roots of…
My Obsession features thirty essays from the most vital voices in gardening, exploring the myriad motives and impulses that cause a person to become a gardener. For some, it’s the quest to achieve a personal vision of ultimate beauty; for others, it’s a mission to heal the earth, or to grow a perfect peach. The essays are as distinct as their authors, and yet each one is direct, engaging, and from the heart. For Doug Tallamy, a love of plants is rooted first in a love of animals: “animals with two legs (birds), four legs (box turtles, salamanders, and foxes), six legs (butterflies and beetles), eight legs (spiders), dozens of legs (centipedes), hundreds of legs (millipedes), and even animals with no legs (snakes and pollywogs).” For Rosalind Creasy, it’s “not the plant itself; it’s how you use it in the garden.” And for Sydney Eddison, the reason has changed throughout the years. Now, she “gardens for the moment.” As you read, you may find yourself nodding your head in agreement, or gasping in disbelief. What you’re sure to encounter is some of the best writing about the gardener’s soul ever to appear. For anyone who cherishes the miracle of bringing forth life from the soil, The Roots of My Obsession is essential inspiration.A Meeting of Minds
By Judith Skelton Grant. 2015
Opened in 1963, Massey College is a residential college for graduate students at the University of Toronto. The college was…
the brainchild of Vincent Massey, Canada's first native-born Governor General, who wanted to create an intellectually stimulating milieu like the one he associated with the long-established colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. Massey College's first master was the legendary Canadian novelist, playwright, and editor, Robertson Davies. Davies and his successors - Patterson Hume, Ann Saddlemyer, and John Fraser - fostered a dynamic community of students, scholars, and public intellectuals that thrives today under the mastership of Hugh Segal.Written by Judith Skelton Grant, A Meeting of Minds is the definitive account of the college's first fifty years, its many traditions, and the hundreds of fellows who have passed through its halls. Full of wonderful anecdotes about the college's notable fellows and alumni, this history of Massey College takes the reader into the heart of one of Canada's most important intellectual institutions.Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies
By Michael Wise. 2016
In Producing Predators Michael D Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting labor…
and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies By targeting wolves and other wild carnivores for extermination cattle ranchers disavowed the predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter representing it instead as productive work Meanwhile federal agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot Salish-Kootenai and other indigenous peoples of their so-called predatory behaviors through campaigns of assimilation and citizenship that forcefully privatized tribal land and criminalized hunting and its related ritual practices Despite these colonial pressures Native communities resisted and negotiated the terms of their dispossession by representing their own patterns of work food and livelihood as productive By exploring predation and production as fluid cultural logics for valuing labor rather than just a set of biological processes Producing Predators offers a new perspective on the history of the American West and the modern history of colonialism more broadlyGeorge Heriot: Postmaster-Painter of the Canadas
By Gerald Finley. 1983
George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy postmaster general…
of British North America from 1800 to 1816. He was also a travel writer (his Travels through the Canadas was published in 1807) and a poet. In this volume, a combination of biography and art history, Gerald Finley presents, for the first time, a rounded picture of Heriot, revealing his motives and ideals while also illuminating the texture of life in Canada during the early years of settlement. In describing Heriot's several roles as artist, administrator, patriot, spy, Finley presents a portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman whose superficial desires were for an active public life but whose deeper yearnings were for a life of contemplation. As a member of the gentry it was natural that Heriot found his way into public service, for which he was suited both by education and by upbringing. Nevertheless, his public career did not always run smoothly and it ended in frustration and sadness. However, through his writing and especially his art Heriot found welcome relief from the tensions of his public duties. Indeed, Heriot's chief importance lies in his art. Trained as a topographical artist, he was an important exponent of the picturesque landscape. As a mode of vision the Picturesque furnished him with a special way of looking at recording the Canadian scene – to him Canada possessed the qualities of Arcadia. This viewpoint served both as aesthetic consolation and as stimulus to inspiration. This volume serves to recognize Heriot's artistic achievement and to accord him the place he deserves in the history of Canadian art and of the country itself.In a partnership spanning four decades, Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have been the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic…
art. From Raw magazine to the New York, where she serves as art editor, Mouly and Spiegelman have revolutionized the art. In Love with Art profiles the pair and interviews Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Adrian Tomine and more.Army of Lovers: A Community History of Will Munro
By Sarah Liss. 2013
In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroes. Weaving together interviews and stories,…
Army of Lovers is a biography of Will Munro and a document of a galvanizing period when various subcultures - the queer community, the art scene, the independent music universe, the grassroots activist enclaves - came together.Called to Rise: A Life in Faithful Service to the Community That Made Me
By David O Brown, Michelle Burford. 2017
The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his response to the killing of five of his officers shares…
his personal story and his faith in America’s potential to unite communities through a dedication to transparency and trust. On July 7, 2016, protesters marched in the streets of Dallas to demonstrate against the killings of unarmed black men by the police. As the peaceful event drew to a close, a sniper opened fire, targeting white cops and killing five of them. Into this charged situation stepped Dallas police chief David O. Brown, who, with a historic new tactical approach, quickly ended the gunman’s siege and calmed his community and the nation. In this powerful memoir, Chief Brown takes us behind the scenes of that tragedy and shares intimate moments from his early life: his childhood, in which he was raised by a single mom in a neighborhood poor in resources but rich in love and faith; his college years—cut short when he felt called to save his hometown from its descent into drug-related violence; and, as he moved up the ranks, a series of deeply personal tragedies. His first partner on the job was killed in the line of duty; his younger brother was murdered by drug dealers; and during Brown’s first month as chief of police, his mentally ill son was killed by a cop after taking two other lives. Called to Rise charts how, over his thirty-three-year career, Brown evolved from a “throw ’em in jail and let God sort ’em out” beat cop into a passionate advocate for community-oriented law enforcement, rising from crime scene investigator to S.W.A.T. team leader to the head of a municipal police department widely regarded as one of America’s finest. Now retired, “America’s chief” wants to bring his hard-earned knowledge of Dallas—emphasizing outreach, accountability, and inclusion—to help encourage unity in the nation’s hurting communities. Chief Brown believes that we have to band together to engage in the kind of dialogue that can lead to solutions. In place of complaining, we all have to take action—and one first great step is to tune in to what is being said. Called to Rise explores the keys to that dialogue—trust, transparency, and compassion—that have made Brown a leader on the front lines of social change in America.Young Leonardo: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist, 1472-1499
By Christopher Heath Brown, Jean-Pierre Isbouts. 2017
Provocative and original, this fresh look at Leonardo da Vinci’s formative years in Florence and Milan provides a radically different…
scenario of how he created his signature style that would transform Western art forever.The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci’s career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Young Leonardo presents a very different view. It reveals how the young Leonardo struggled against the prevailing style of his master Verrocchio, was stymied in his efforts to produce his first masterpiece in Florence, and left for Milan on little more than a wing and a prayer. Once there, he was long ignored by Duke Ludovico, and enjoyed only tepid Sforza support after his great equestrian project came to nothing. Meanwhile, all the major Sforza commissions went to artists whose names are now forgotten. Isbouts and Brown depict Leonardo’s seminal years in Milan from an entirely new perspective: that of the Sforza court. They show that much of the Sforza patronage was directed on vast projects, such as the Milan Cathedral, favoring a close circle of local artists to which Leonardo never gained entry. As a result, his exceptional talent remained largely unrecognized right up to the Last Supper. The authors also explore a mysterious link between the Last Supper and the fresco of the Crucifixion on the opposite wall, a work that up to now has fully escaped public attention. Finally, they present a sensational theory: that two long-ignored, life-sized copies of the Last Supper, now in Belgium and the U.K., were actually commissioned by the French King Louis XII and painted under Leonardo’s direct supervision. Young Leonardo is a fascinating window into the artist’s mind as he slowly develops the groundbreaking techniques that will produce the High Renaissance and change the course of European art.Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
By Thomas Brennan, Finbarr O Reilly. 2017
A majestic book --Bessel van der Kolk MD author of The Body Keeps the ScoreA unique…
joint memoir by a U S Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and soulsWar tears people apart but it can also bring them together Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side by side in the desert It deepened after Sergeant T J Brennan was injured during a Taliban ambush and both returned home Brennan began to suffer from the effects of his injury and from the fallout of his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan But war correspondents experience similar rates of posttraumatic stress as combat veterans The causes can be different but guilt plays a prominent role in both For Brennan it s the things he s done or didn t do that haunt him Finbarr O Reilly s conscience is nagged by the task of photographing people at their most vulnerable while being able to do little to help and his survival guilt as colleagues die on the job Their friendship offered them both a shot at redemption As we enter the fifteenth year of continuous war it is increasingly urgent not just to document the experiences of the battlefield but also to probe the reverberations that last long after combatants and civilians have returned home and to understand the many faces trauma takes Shooting Ghosts looks at the horrors of war directly but then turns to a journey that draws on our growing understanding of what recovery takes Their story told in alternating first-person narratives is about the things they saw and did the ways they have been affected and how they have navigated the psychological aftershocks of war and wrestled with reforming their own identities and moral centers While war never really ends for those who ve lived through it this book charts the ways two survivors have found to calm the ghosts and reclaim a measure of peaceLaw & Disorder: Inside the Dark Heart of Murder
By Mark Olshaker, John Douglas. 2013
It is mankind's most abominable crime: murder. No one is better acquainted with the subject and its wrenching challenges than…
John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, and the model for Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs. In this provocative and deeply personal book, the most prominent criminal investigator of our time offers a rare look into the workings not only of the justice system--but of his own heart and mind. Writing with award-winning partner Mark Olshaker, Douglas opens up about his most notorious and baffling cases--and shows what it's like to confront evil in its most monstrous form.Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Canada
By Bathroom Readers' Institute. 2013
Did you know that Canada was almost called Hochelaga That s just one of thousands of wacky facts awaiting…
readers in Uncle John s quirky celebration of Earth s second largest country You ll find page after page of bizarre history like why the beaver was once classified as a fish plus head-scratching news items like the crook who returned to the Tim Hortons he d just robbed to tip the workers odd places to go like Mr Spock s birthplace in a town called Vulcan and crazy eats like the restaurant that makes you eat in complete darkness So whether you live in Come By Chance Joe Batt s Arm Starvation Cove or anywhere else inside or outside of Canada yukon count on Uncle John to deliver a world of weirdness from all over this great country For example - Cow-patty bingo in Alberta Rule 1 Wear gloves - How to enforce the new Quebec law that requires dogs to be bilingual- The sea of Molson Golden that once shut down an Ontario freeway- The mystery of the mini earthquakes in a New Brunswick town- Why it s illegal to kill a sasquatch in British Columbia- The Nova Scotia company that makes mattresses for cowsAnd much moreBeing Prime Minister
By J.D.M. Stewart. 1911
Behind the politics, discover the lives of Canada's leaders. “What a life it is to be prime minister!” — John…
Diefenbaker Canada has had twenty-three prime ministers, all with views and policies that have differed as widely as the ages in which they lived. But what were they like as people? Being Prime Minister takes you behind the scenes to tell the story of Canada’s leaders and the job they do as it has never been told before. From John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau, readers get a glimpse of the prime ministers as they travelled, dealt with invasions of privacy, met with celebrities, and managed the stress of the nation’s top job. Humorous and hard working, vain and vulnerable, Canada leaders are revealed as they truly were.The Many Rooms of this House: Diversity in Toronto's Places of Worship Since 1840
By Roberto Perin. 2017
Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with…
each other on a regular basis. These places are also rallying points for immigrants, helping them make the transition to a new, and often hostile environment. The Many Rooms of this House is a story about the rise and decline of religion in Toronto over the past 160 years. Unlike other studies that concentrate on specific denominations, or ecclesiastical politics, Roberto Perin’s ecumenical approach focuses on the physical places of worship and the local clergy and congregants that gather there. Perin’s timely and nuanced analysis reveals how the growing wealth of the city stimulated congregations to compete with one another over the size, style, materials, and decoration of their places of worship. However, the rise of individualism has negatively affected these same congregations leading to multiple church closings, communal breakdown, and redevelopments. Perin’s fascinating work is a lens to understanding how this once overwhelmingly Protestant city became a symbol of diversity.Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage…
and long term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how the making of P.C. 1003 in 1944, a wartime order that forced employers to the collective bargaining table, involved real people with conflicting personalities and competing agendas. Each chapter of Power, Politics, and Principles begins with a quasi-fictional vignette to help the reader visualize historical context. Hollander pays particular attention to the central role that Mackenzie King played in the creation of P.C. 1003. Although most scholars describe the Prime Minister’s approach to policy decisions as calculating and opportunistic, Power, Politics, and Principles argues that Mackenzie King’s adherence to moderate principles resulted in a less hostile legal environment in Canada for workers and their unions in the long run, than a more far-reaching collective bargaining law in the United States.