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Smart love: The Compassionate Alternative To Discipline That Will Make You A Better Parent And Your Child A Better Person
By Martha Heineman Pieper, William Joseph Pieper. 1999
Staples, markets, and cultural change: selected essays (Innis centenary series)
By Daniel Drache, Harold A Innis. 1995
A selection of Harold Innis' most significant and representative writing. One of Canada's most influential thinkers, Innis was deeply interested…
in understanding how economic and social forces interacted and shaped the modern world. 1995.Some desperate glory: the World War I diary of a British officer, 1917
By Edwin Campion Vaughan. 1988
The journal of eight months in the life of a 19-year-old British officer during 1917. Vaughan's description of the Battle…
of Ypres tells of costly struggles for pillboxes, brief friendships that developed between enemies, and the wounded drowning in shell holes. 1980.Slowhand: the life & music of Eric Clapton
By Marc Roberty. 1991
"Slowhand" follows the life of Eric Clapton from his first guitar to his "24 Nights" concerts at Royal Albert Hall…
in 1991. Major events in Clapton's life and his career are highlighted and his musical style is explored in depth. 1991.Source readings in music history: the classic era (Source readings in music history .)
By W. Oliver Strunk. 1965
A selection of contemporary writings on the music of the classical period of the eighteenth century. Presented are letters to…
the editor, excerpts from musical instruction manuals, and treatises on the music of the era. Included are pieces by composers Leopold Mozart and C. P. E. Bach, and philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau. 1950, 1965. (Source readings in music history ; 6)Six months that changed the world: the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (The modern scholar)
By Margaret MacMillan. 2003
In this course, University of Toronto history professor Margaret MacMillan takes us back to Paris in 1919, when, for six…
months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Prime Minister George Clemenceau met to discuss the peace settlements that would end World War I. 2003.Shoptimism: why the American consumer will keep on buying no matter what
By Lee Eisenberg. 2009
Shout!: the true story of the Beatles
By Philip Norman. 1981
From the early days as ruffian teens riding the skiffle wave in the port town of Liverpool to presiding over…
the rise (and fall) of a global entertainment empire, Norman details the history of the Beatles, became one of the most famous bands in the world. 1981.Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through…
the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.Shakey: Neil Young's biography
By Jimmy McDonough. 2002
Life and times of rock musician Neil Young, who was born in Canada in 1945 and developed both polio and…
epilepsy as a child. Focuses on the years between 1966 and 1979, when the songwriter-guitarist worked with such influential bands as Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Explicit strong language. c2002.Shakin' all over: the rock'n'roll years in Canada
By Peter Goddard, Philip Kamin. 1989
Shadow child: an apprenticeship in love and loss
By Beth Powning. 2005
Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. At age twenty-four she…
became pregnant, but eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this exploration of motherhood and loss, we're taken on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal. National Bestseller. 2005.Secret ingredients: the brave new world of industrial farming
By Stuart Laidlaw. 2003
A vivid portrait of what modern industrial farming is, what it is doing to the environment, to farmers, to the…
plants and livestock we eat, and to us as consumers and as citizens. The author takes us from the dairy farms of Pennsylvania to Canada's prairie wheatfields, from the tomato greenhouses of southern Ontario to the potato fields of P.E.I. All along the way, he shows us food's secret ingredient - its hidden costs. 2003.Seeds of man: an experience lived and dreamed
By Woody Guthrie. 1976
Autobiography that mixes fact and fantasy of the legendary writer of folk songs and his search for a lost silver…
and gold mine in the big bend country of southern Texas. c1976.Schubert and his Vienna
By Charles Osborne. 1985
Searching for certainty: inside the new Canadian mindset
By Edward Greenspon, Darrell Jay Bricker. 2001
A comprehensive report on the new economic, social and cultural Canada, resulting from changes wrought by globalization and technological innovation…
over the last two decades. Canada has emerged from the late twentieth century a stronger and more dynamic society, with a mindset steeped in Canadian traditions of tolerance and community. A fact-filled account of how these changes affect us now and will determine how we feel and what we want tomorrow. 2001.Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few
By Robert B Reich. 2015
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.Sale of the century: Russia's wild ride from communism to capitalism
By Chrystia Freeland. 2000
Chrystia Freeland details the Russian transition from communism to capitalism and the ongoing repercussions. She takes us behind the scenes…
and shows us how a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers squandered a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. She argues that while their achievements were considerable, their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. 2000.Réinventer le Québec: [douze chantiers à entreprendre]
By Marcel Boyer, Nathalie Elgrably. 2014
" Un plaidoyer pour la liberté économique qui remet en question les vaches sacrées du modèle québécois, déboulonne plusieurs mythes…
et propose des réformes pour bâtir un Québec social-démocrate efficace et prospère. " -- 4e de couv.Rolling stoned (POPculture)
By Andrew Loog Oldham, Nikola Acin. 2006
Manager des Rolling Stones de 1963 à 1967, l'auteur retrace les débuts du groupe de rock : rencontre dans la…
petite boîte londonienne du Crawdaddy, création de l'image de voyous sexy du groupe, premières compositions originales, succès de la chanson '(I can't get no) Satisfaction'. Descriptions explicites de nature sexuelle, beaucoup de langage grossier, et quelques descriptions de violence. 2006. Titre uniforme: Stoned/2 Stoned.