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The As it happens files: radio that may contain nuts
By Mary Lou Finlay. 2008
For eight years, Mary Lou Finlay had the pleasure of being the co-host of one of CBC Radio's most enduring…
institutions. On any given day she and Barbara Budd interviewed people on subjects varying from the Air India investigation to a man who invented a suit that would withstand an attack from a grizzly bear to a cheese-rolling contest in Cheshire. 2008.The $12 million stuffed shark: the curious economics of contemporary art
By Donald N Thompson. 2008
Delves into the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world - artists, dealers, auction houses, and wealthy collectors. If…
it's true that 85 percent of new contemporary art is bad, why were record prices achieved at auction in 2006 and 2007? Explores money, lust, and the self-aggrandizement of possession in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work of art valuable while others are ignored. 2008.Show time!: music, dance, and drama activities for kids
By Lisa Bany-Winters. 2000
Introduces the concepts of music, dance, and acting, suggesting how to create a musical production through games and role-playing, and…
describing all aspects of a show from auditions to curtain call. Grades 4-7. 2000.Stormy weather: the life of Lena Horne
By James Gavin. 2009
Biography of African American singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917 Brooklyn, who first performed at Harlem's Cotton Club at age…
sixteen. Interprets Horne's multiracial family background in the pre-civil rights era as the reason for emotional conflicts in both her personal and professional lives. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2009.Information about the eyes; sections on nutrition, herbal therapies, and homeopathic remedies. Discusses disorders of the eye and visual system,…
conventional treatments and self-treatments, eye care techniques, and refractive surgeries and vision therapies. c2011.Glaucoma: the complete guide : a patient handbook
By Tina T Wong. 2011
One of the world's leading experts helps you navigate through glaucoma from diagnosis to the many treatment options. This landmark…
patient handbook stands out as both authoritative and readable, providing the critical information necessary to help patients. 2011.Et si la beauté rendait heureux
By Pierre Thibault, François Cardinal. 2016
La beauté attire le regard. Elle fascine. La beauté des gens, mais aussi celle des lieux, des maisons, des rues…
et des villes. Il est étonnant de constater la force de l'émotion vécue devant un paysage à couper le souffle, dans une maison superbe ou sur une place publique ouverte et accueillante. Et si la beauté rendait heureux? Si elle était nécessaire au bonheur? C'est la conviction que partagent l'architecte Pierre Thibault et le journaliste François Cardinal. Ils en font la démonstration dans un dialogue pénétrant qu'ils mènent dans cinq lieux où beauté et bonheur se côtoient et se nourrissent. Quatre de ces espaces ont été créés ou aménagés par Pierre Thibault. Le cinquième, Copenhague, est une ville réputée pour son innovation en architecture et design urbain. Ce livre inspirant donne envie de côtoyer la beauté au quotidien et de bâtir un environnement où l'on puisse se poser, se réjouir et vivre ensemble. 2016.Ici était Radio-Canada
By Alain Saulnier. 2014
Le 22 février 2012, Alain Saulnier, directeur général de l'information à Radio-Canada, est convoqué au bureau du vice-président Louis Lalande…
qui lui apprend que Radio-Canada met fin à son emploi. Comme journaliste et dans divers postes de responsabilité, Alain Saulnier était dans la maison depuis vingt-cinq ans. Pourquoi la direction a-t-elle décidé, après plusieurs autres mises à pied de cadres, de le remercier à son tour ce jour-là ? Le président Hubert T. Lacroix avait-il des comptes à régler ? Était-ce une décision politique voulue par le gouvernement conservateur ? Le Canada, pays qui a plus de géographie que d'histoire, s'est construit grâce aux communications, ferroviaires au XIXe siècle, audiovisuelles depuis. Que serait devenu le Québec sans la création, en 1936, de la Société Radio-Canada ? On sait l'importance des séries dramatiques, de la chanson, des émissions musicales ou de variétés dans la culture québécoise. On connaît aussi l'apport essentiel des émissions d'affaires publiques et d'information dans notre connaissance du monde. Pourquoi, depuis la Révolution tranquille, le gouvernement du Canada voit-il les activités de Radio-Canada comme celles d'un serpent en son sein?... Alain Saulnier raconte, dans Ici ÉTAIT Radio-Canada, l'histoire de la construction et de la déconstruction de notre radiotélévision publique. Est-il trop tard pour sauver cette institution essentielle à notre démocratie? 2014.Blind vision: the neuroscience of visual impairment
By Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi. 2011
Italian researchers examine the effects of blindness on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. They demonstrate the…
ways other senses evolve to help compensate for the absence of sight. 2011.Mosque
By David Macaulay. 2003
Tells how a sixteenth-century Ottoman admiral hires an architect to build, near Istanbul, a large mosque, its associated religious college,…
a soup kitchen, and public baths, as well as the admiral's own tomb. For grades 5-8. 2003.High noon: the Hollywood blacklist and the making of an American classic
By Glenn Frankel. 2017
The revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created. It's…
one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Yet what has been often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist. In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. Refusing to name names, he was eventually blacklisted and fled the United States. 2017.Not One of These Poems Is About You
By Teva Harrison. 2020
In this remarkable, frank, and gut-wrenching mix of words and images, Teva continues on her journey, grappling with what it…
means to live with metastatic breast cancer. She plunges deep into her inner world, shadowing the progression of the disease. Reality takes on sharp edges: the swell of cancer and its retreat with chemo. Her inner corporeal reality versus her outer manifestation of health, vitality, and femininity. Holding fast to the great love of her life, while preparing to leave him behind. Contemplating who she was before cancer, and who she is now.Starkly honest and wholly profound, Not One of These Poems Is About You distills life to its essence. Teva Harrison continues to gift the world with her clear-eyed insight and her open heart.Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
By Shayda Kafai. 2021
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has…
come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears. Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of colour can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival. Grounded in the disability justice framework, Crip Kinship investigates the revolutionary survival teachings that disabled, queer of colour community offers to all our bodyminds. From their focus on crip beauty and sexuality to manifesting digital kinship networks and crip-centric liberated zones, Sins Invalid empowers and moves us toward generating our collective liberation from our bodyminds outward. Includes a foreword by Patty Berne, co-founder, and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid.Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
By Sandra B. Tooze. 2020
A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm––the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of the Band. He sang the anthems of…
a generation: "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," and "Life Is a Carnival." Levon Helm's story––told here through sweeping research and interviews with close friends and fellow musicians––is the rollicking story of American popular music itself. In the Arkansas Delta, a young Levon witnessed "blues, country, and gospel hit in a head-on collision," as he put it. The result was rock 'n' roll. As a teenager, he joined the raucous Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, then helped merge a hard-driving electric sound with Bob Dylan's folk roots, and revolutionized American rock with the Band. Helm not only provided perfect "in the pocket" rhythm and unforgettable vocals, he was the Band's soul. Levon traces a rebellious life on the road, from being booed with Bob Dylan to the creative cauldron of Big Pink, the Woodstock Festival, world tours, The Last Waltz, and beyond with the man Dylan called "one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation." Author Sandra B. Tooze digs deep into what Helm saw as a devastating betrayal by his closest friend, Band guitarist Robbie Robertson––and Levon's career collapse, his near bankruptcy, and the loss of his voice due to throat cancer in 1997. Yet Helm found success in an acting career that included roles in Coal Miner's Daughter and The Right Stuff. Regaining his singing voice, he made his last decade a triumph, opening his barn to the Midnight Rambles and earning three Grammys. Cancer finally claimed his life in 2012. Levon is a penetrating, skillfully told tale of a music legend from Southern cotton fields to global limelight.The crayon man: the true story of the invention of Crayola crayons
By Steven Salerno, Natascha Biebow. 2019
A biography that celebrates the inventor of the Crayola crayon, Edwin Binney. After inventing dustless chalk and a black wax…
crayon, the employees at Binney & Smith created and tested pigments and ingredients for a special crayon perfect for kids! For grades K-3. 2019Pottery for beginners: projects for beautiful ceramic bowls, mugs, vases and more
By Kara Leigh Ford. 2021
"If you ever daydream about delving into pottery but aren't sure where to begin, this is your book. Professional potter…
Kara Leigh Ford will be your personal pottery guide, helping you to overcome any doubts about your abilities. All you need are curiosity and a few simple tools to mold stunning stoneware with confidence. Inspiring projects and primers on equipment, technique, clay types and setting up a workspace make pottery approachable for complete newcomers, as well as budding potters who want to hone their skills. Plus, gorgeous photos from Kara's studio offer visual guidance every step of the way. Enter the wonderful world of ceramics with hand building, the meditative method behind your next mug, spoon set or soap dish. When you're ready for the wheel, easy-to-follow instructions cover the foundations of throwing bowls, plates, vases and other beginner-friendly kitchenware like a pro. Each stand-alone piece builds upon a skill introduced in the previous project: Craft all ten and you've learned pottery's fundamentals! Tutorials on glazing and decorative techniques will help you discover your own unique style and understand the basics of the firing process--whether in your own kiln or at a community studio--ensuring beautifully finished pieces. Kara's can-do approach brings handmade ceramic creations fully within reach. Whether you want to make charming home décor or thoughtful gifts for loved ones, you'll find all you need to embark on your pottery journey." -- Provided by publisherStranger faces (Undelivered Lectures)
By Namwali Serpell. 2020
Professor of English at Harvard University presents five essays--intended for lectures--meditating on faces, the presentation of self in physical and…
digital spaces, and perceptions of meaning. Topics include Joseph Merrick, Hannah Crafts, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Grizzly Man, and the term e-faced. Some violence and some strong language. 2020My heart is not blind: on blindness and perception
By Michael Nye. 2019
Profiles of forty-five people who are blind or have low vision, including Larry Johnson, a longtime DJ in Mexico, and…
Michael Hingson, a 9/11 survivor who wrote about his lifesaving guide dog in Thunder Dog (DB 73300). Natalie Watkins, who has retinitis pigmentosa, is profiled twice, six years apart. 2019The senses: design beyond vision
By Ellen Lupton, Andrea Lipps. 2018
Museum curators present a manifesto for inclusive, multisensory design practice through a series of eighteen essays. Presents ideas and principles…
for extending the sensory input of products, environments, and media. 2018The story of movie star: Anna May Wong (The story of)
By Paula Yoo, Lin Wang. 2019
Recounts the story of Anna May Wong (1905-1961), a Chinese American actress who advocated for authentic depictions of Asians in…
film during the early years of Hollywood. Includes a timeline, glossary, and sidebars on related topics. For grades 3-6. 2018