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By Royden Loewen. 2016
Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas…
about the impact of the modern world on their lives. This book records their responses and strategies for resisting the very things--ease, technology, upward mobility, consumption--that most people today take for granted. Loewen's subjects are drawn from two distinctive groups: 6,000 Old Order Mennonites, who continue to pursue old ways in highly urbanized southern Ontario, and 60,000 Old Colony Mennonites, whose history of migration to protect traditional ways has taken them from the Canadian prairies to Mexico and farther south to Belize, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Whether they live in the shadow of an urban, industrial region or in more isolated, rural communities, the fundamental approach of "horse-and buggy" Mennonites is the same: life is best when it is kept simple, lived out in the local, close to nature. 2016.By Josepha Sherman, T. K. F Weisskopf. 1995
In three sections: "Getting Down to Basics," "Dealing with Authority," and "The Commercial World", the authors explore a variety of…
songs, insults, jokes, and rhymes invented by or passed around among children. 1995.By Richmond P Hobson. 1951
In the fall of 1934, three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch made their way from peaceful…
Wyoming to the harsh, uncharted territory of the British Columbian interior. In conditions as challenging as any encountered by the western frontier pioneers of a hundred years earlier, the three men and their equipment-laden horses conquered the tortuous miles over narrow passes and mountain summits, hewed their first cabin from virgin timber, and attempted to carve out a space for themselves on the unforgiving landscape. Followed by "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 1951.By Jen Sookfong Lee. 2017
From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party…
featuring good food, lots of gifts and public parades, 'Chinese New Year' is a snapshot of Chinese culture. Award-winning author and broadcaster Jen Sookfong Lee recalls her childhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and weaves family stories into the history, traditions and evolution of Chinese New Year. Grades 3-6. 2017.By Diana Carey, Judy Large. 1982
This is a resource book for exploring the festivals scattered round the year which children love celebrating. Each festival has…
its own chapter and there are over 650 songs to sing, games for fun, food to make, stories, poems and things to do. The festivals are grouped into four main seasons with sections on birthdays, hungry teatimes, rainy days, convalescence, extra touches and a birthday calendar. 1982.By Peggy Post, Emily Post. 2004
First published in 1922, this seventeenth edition, by Post's granddaughter-in-law and etiquette columnist for "Good Housekeeping" magazine, offers updated guidance…
on manners geared to current social situations and problems. Resolves such concerns as dealing with rudeness, on-line dating, noxious neighbours, road rage, cell phone courtesy, raising respectful children, and travel etiquette in the post 9/11 world. 2004.By Deborah Fallows. 2010
Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and travelling around the world, but nothing prepared her for the…
surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs with Mandarin provided clues to deciphering the behaviour and habits of its people. As her knowledge increased, bits of the language became windows into understanding romance, humour, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China. c2010.By Ian Kerner. 2006
Introduces us to the DSI team, a top-secret unit within the FBI (that's the Federal Bureau of Intimacy) whose sole…
mission is to investigate dating dilemmas and equip you with the skills you need so you're never again a dating victim. Through humorous and engaging case studies, you'll read about boyfriends who might be gay, gamers who won't step up to the plate, and wimps who won't go down for the count. 2006.By Emily Urquhart. 2015
Like any new mother, Emily Urquhart is thrilled when her first child, a daughter, is born. Sadie is healthy and…
stunningly beautiful, with snow white hair and fair skin. Even the doctors and nurses can’t help a second look at this magical child. But soon a darker current begins to emerge - something is amiss. After three months of testing, Sadie is diagnosed with a rare genetic condition, albinism. Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part genetic travelogue, "Beyond the Pale" is a brave, intimate investigation into the secret histories that each of us carries in our genes and an inspiring memoir about parenting a child with a disability - and building a better future for that child. 2015.By Philip Smith. 2001
An overview of contemporary cultural theory, covering the major thinkers - like Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas and Giddens - and key…
concepts of the last century - including symbolic interactionism, structuralism and psychoanalysis. An ideal guide for any student with an interest in the theoretical study of culture and society. 2001.By Pierre Clastres, Paul Auster. 1998
A study of surviving members of a dwindling population in the forests of Paraguay, originally published in 1972. Written by…
a French anthropologist who lived with this small group in 1963 and 1964, it portrays rituals surrounding birth, initiation, and death, as well as social customs involving food and cannibalism.1998. Uniform title: Chronique des Indiens Guayaki.By Robert Collins. 1980
The author recalls the joys and sorrows of his childhood in rural Saskatchewan in the 1920s and the 1930s. His…
vivid imagination helped him to survive the loneliness of homestead life and the dreariness of the barren prairies. Followed by "The long and the short and the tall". 1980.By Heather Mallick. 2007
Heather Mallick is sorely disappointed - the world has not turned out quite the way she had hoped it would.…
But rather than retreat from it, she takes the world head on in her columns, cataloguing the many situations and items in our daily lives that we are told we should fear, teaching us how to cope with people we just can't stand, or writing about the valuable life lesson to be learned from one of her childhood heroes: Mrs. Tittlemouse, the original domestic goddess. 2007.By Michael Wex. 2006
A Yiddish-speaking professor and translator examines the features of Jewish life and faith that contributed to the development of Yiddish…
over the past thousand years. Covers subjects such as food, sex, death, kvetching (complaining), and humour to provide the context for understanding colourful Yiddish words, idioms, expressions, and metaphors. 2005.By John E Miller. 1998
Biography of the woman who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. Examines how the child who lived those…
experiences evolved into the mature author who wrote about them. Discusses the role of her daughter Rose in encouraging and editing her novels. 1998.By Paul E Young, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost. 1983
This affectionate, humorous look at range life during the early part of the century is written by an old cowhand…
from Utah. An authentic picture of life in the real west. c1983.By Jan Wong. 2017
Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking…
in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the locals teach them how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who are part of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting--and occasionally clashing--over their mutual love of cooking. 2017.By Andy Russell. 1998
By Chantal Ringuet. 2011
Au début des années 1900, Montréal est, avec New York, l’une des deux capitales du monde yiddish en Amérique du…
Nord. Venus des confins de l’empire russe, fuyant les pogroms et les persécutions, des milliers de Juifs ashkénazes arrivent dans le Nouveau Monde, animés par l’espoir d’une vie meilleure. Ces derniers sont alors les dépositaires d’une culture yiddish très vivante qui trouve, à Montréal, un lieu d’expression privilégié. Ce monde n’est plus. Il a disparu, mais il s’est aussi transformé, non sans laisser un héritage le plus souvent méconnuc. Ceci est leur histoire. 2011.By Frank Jackson, Sheila Douglass. 1977
Frank Jackson was born in England in 1890, but came to the Peace River, British Columbia region as a teenager.…
The book recounts his struggle against the wilderness to establish a homestead and cattle business. It also describes the colourful characters he encountered through the years. 1977.