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Selected columns from Canadian living
By Peter Gzowski. 1993
Selected from his popular column with "Canadian Living" magazine, Gzowski's comments range from food, family, and friends to peculiarly Canadian…
pastimes, like kissing the cod in Newfoundland and playing golf in the Arctic. 1993.Seeking Robinson Crusoe
By Timothy Severin. 2002
This work is an exploration in to the legend behind Daniel Defoe's classic novel, citing possible places where this famous…
character could have been marooned. It examines the claim that Crusoe was based on a real life castaway, Alexander Selkirk. Describing the tropical locals and the practicalities of island life, the text brings the fictional and the factual together, along the way exploding some enduring myths. 2002.Santé l'heure des choix
By Claude Castonguay. 2012
Celui qu'on désigne comme le père de l'assurance maladie examine notre système public de santé aujourd'hui et ne reconnaît plus…
son enfant. Toujours aussi attaché aux valeurs de solidarité, d'universalité et d'équité qui le guidaient dans les années 70, il invite ici à un constat très sévère sur la façon dont les soins sont prodigués au Québec. Force est de constater que notre système de santé connaît de sérieux problèmes. Il ne fonctionne pas comme il devrait eu égard aux besoins des Québécois et aux énormes ressources que nous y consacrons. Le Québec ne peut plus se permettre d'investir chaque année des dizaines de milliards, en fait pratiquement la moitié du budget du gouvernement, sans objectifs et sans obligation de résultats, sans progrès réels. 2012.Saveur du temps: chroniques
By Jean D' Ormesson. 2009
Same diff
By Donato Mancini. 2017
Influenced by documentary cinema, Dada poets, montage techniques, and a range of poets who are still writing, "Same Diff" explores…
the way social and economic histories become imprinted within language itself. The political and poetic melancholy of our moment is revealed in a long poem on climate change, particularly the disappearance of snow, while the real-life effects of fiscal austerity and poverty are voiced in fragments conveying social neuroses that stem from amplified, unfair competition for basic necessities. Each poem introduces a dominant motif that develops through repetition and incremental variations, sourcing language from newspapers, web sources, and overheard conversations to create an emotive effect, as felt in music. Bringing together research that spans the 15th century to the present day, Mancini searches for symbols that stand in for major social issues to articulate the nuances of living in a precarious time. 2017. Uniform title: Poems.Samson Agonistes
By John Milton. 1970
This dramatic poem deals with the last phase in the life of the Samson mentioned in the Book of Judges;…
he is blind and a prisoner of the Philistines. In prison he is visited by various people, including his scheming wife, Delilah. He is finally summoned to provide amusement by feats of strength for the Philistine lords with disastrous consequences for all. 1970.Saint-André-de-l'Épouvante: théâtre (Série QR ; no 91)
By Samuel Archibald. 2016
Ça fait deux jours qu'il mouille et les bêtes à l'étable s'ébrouent comme à l'approche d'un grand cataclysme. À Saint-André,…
des gens attendent au bar-salon Le Cristal que le temps se répare un peu. Au début, il n'y a que Loulou, la barmaid primordiale. Puis apparaît Rénald, très agité, nerveux comme un enfant qui a peur. Il y a un silence. Avec grand fracas entrent Martial, Mario et un inconnu, tous les trois détrempés. Prisonniers de la tempête, ils vont tour à tour raconter leur histoire et se confier leur peur la plus étrange, jusqu'à ce que chacun comprenne qu'il a un rôle à jouer dans une histoire plus terrible encore, et qui est toujours en train de s'écrire. 2016.Révolutions
By Nicolas Dickner, Dominique Fortier. 2014
Les révolutionnaires français ne se contentèrent pas de guillotiner le roi, de prendre la Bastille et de raccourcir bonne quantité…
d'aristocrates : ils renversèrent aussi le calendrier, créant douze nouveaux mois dont les noms étaient censés évoquer les divers moments de l'année. Deux siècles plus tard, Dominique Fortier et Nicolas Dickner, ont chargé un certain Reginald Jeeves, ingénieux majordome informatique, de leur envoyer quotidiennement le mot du jour qu'ils revisiteraient jusqu'à combler les 366 cases du calendrier. c2014.Rêves à vendre ou Troisième calepin du même flâneur
By Félix Leclerc. 1984
René Lévesque: 4. L'homme brisé, 1980-1987
By Pierre Godin. 2005
Ce quatrième et dernier volet de la grande biographie de René Lévesque s'ouvre le surlendemain du référendum perdu de mai…
1980. Cet échec, René Lévesque allait le payer très cher. Après leur face-à-face de novembre 1981, Pierre Trudeau lui impose une constitution si inacceptable qu'il refuse de la parapher. René Lévesque affronte ensuite un parti déboussolé qui enterre référendum et association avec le Canada. En 1984, il saisit la main tendue par le nouveau premier ministre canadien, Brian Mulroney. Il est prêt à donner une dernière chance au fédéralisme. C'est l'épisode du " beau risque " qui cristallise la scission à l'intérieur du parti. En janvier 1985, c'est le burnout et la détresse psychologique. À soixante ans, il paraît fini. Dans une ambiance de conspiration et de révolution de palais, il s'accroche jusqu'au jour où il jette l'éponge avant que le parti qu'il a mis au monde ne lui indique plus brutalement encore la sortie. 2005.Runaway dreams: poems
By Richard Wagamese. 2011
Novelist Wagamese presents a collection of poems, including descriptions of his life on the road when he repeatedly ran away…
at an early age, and the abuse he received when the authorities tried “to beat the Indian right out of me.” Yet even in the most desperate situations, Wagamese shows us Canada as seen through the eyes and soul of a well-worn traveller, with his love of country and his love of people. c2011.Sailing to Babylon: poems
By James Pollock. 2012
Poems of exploration and discovery from the pen of James Pollock. Here is a schoolboy’s fascination with the English teacher;…
the grandmother's old Bible; a Dantean-style extended account of a hiking adventure with a young son. Further out in time and geography, Pollock muses on figures from Canadian history, including explorer Henry Hudson, literary theorist Northrop Frye and pianist Glenn Gould. 2012.Biography of A.M. Nicolson who, along with T.C. Douglas and Stanley Knowles, established the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation and its successor,…
the New Democratic Party. As a young minister, Nicolson realized that the only way to alleviate the social injustices he witnessed was through political action. c1988.Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.Ruined by reading: a life in books
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz. 1996
A personal study of the role of books and literature in our lives. The author interweaves the story of her…
Brooklyn childhood with memories of special books and thoughts about how books shaped her world. 1996.Romeo and Juliet (SmartPass)
By William Shakespeare, Simon Potter, Phil Viner, Jools Viner. 2006
The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet,…
a Capulet, fall in love they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune. For senior high readers. 2006.Rogue tory: the life and legend of John G. Diefenbaker
By Denis Smith. 1995
Biography of John Diefenbaker, one of the most enigmatic public figues in Canadian history. The author charts Diefenbaker's career as…
a lawyer on the Prairies, his entry into politics, and his controversial years as Prime Minister. Some strong language. 1995.Roots of empathy: changing the world, child by child
By Mary Gordon. 2005
With violence, anti-social behaviour, bullying, and aggression among young children escalating, educator Mary Gordon devised the Roots of Empathy programme,…
which fosters each child's innate sense of caring and compassion. Bringing babies and children together in the classroom creates a symbiotic environment that reduces aggression while increasing tolerance and emotional literacy. 2005.Romantics, rebels and reactionaries: English literature and its background 1776-1830 (Opus Ser.)
By Marilyn Butler. 1981
This text sets the romantic literary movement back into its context of the nineteenth century. Marilyn Butler successfully divorces the…
works of writers such as Byron, Keats and Austen from their usual setting of the author's self-image, and places them against the wider background of Europe in the nineteenth century. A refreshing account of an era rich in English literature. 1981.Robert Frost in recital
By Robert Frost. 1992