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Canadian sayings: 1200 folk sayings used by Canadians
By Bill Casselman. 1999
Folk sayings are passed down by word of mouth in small communities where life and work are shared. There are…
1,200 Canadian sayings presented here, listed in categories such as All is well, All is not well, Clumsiness, Liars, Weakness, Wealth, and Work. Descriptions of sex, some violence and explicit language. 1999.Christmas in Quebec: heartwarming legends, tales, and traditions (Amazing stories)
By Megan Durnford. 2004
Christmas is a time for celebrating with friends and family and for sharing stories, memories, and good cheer. This compilation…
brings to life the very best holiday stories from across Quebec. From the early days of exploration to the modern day, and from heartwarming inspirational tales to dangerous escapades, this is a collection to treasure for many years to come. 2004.Christmas is a time for celebrating with friends and family and for sharing stories, memories, and good cheer. This compilation…
brings to life the very best holiday stories from across Prairies. From the early days of exploration to the modern day, and from heartwarming inspirational tales to dangerous escapades, this is a collection to treasure for many years to come. 2004.Christmas in Atlantic Canada: heartwarming legends, tales, and traditions (Amazing stories)
By Joyce Glasner. 2004
Christmas is a time for celebrating with friends and family and for sharing stories, memories, and good cheer. This compilation…
brings to life the very best holiday stories from across Atlantic Canada, from the early days of exploration to the modern day, and from heart-warming inspirational tales to dangerous escapades. 2004.Christmas in Ontario: heartwarming legends, tales, and traditions (Amazing stories)
By Cheryl MacDonald. 2004
Christmas is a time for celebrating with friends and family and for sharing stories, memories, and good cheer. This compilation…
brings to life the very best holiday stories from across Ontario. From the early days of exploration to the modern day, and from heartwarming inspirational tales to dangerous escapades, this is a collection to treasure for many years to come. 2004.Atom land: a guided tour through the strange (and impossibly small) world of particle physics
By Jon Butterworth. 2018
From a top physicist at CERN comes the first guide to the fundamental units of matter and the forces that…
act on them--particle physics--since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model, leading the listener from basic concepts to the cutting edge. 2018.Astrophysics for people in a hurry
By Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2017
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit…
within us? Few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos, so Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While waiting for your morning coffee to brew, or while waiting for the bus, the train, or the plane to arrive, "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe. Bestseller. 2017.From here to eternity: traveling the world to find the good death
By Caitlin Doughty. 2017
Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for…
their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning--including a glowing Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre--and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals. Bestseller. 2017.Horse-and-buggy genius: listening to Mennonites contest the modern world
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.Greasy grimy gopher guts: the subversive folklore of childhood
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.How did we find out about the speed of light? (How did we find out--series.)
By Isaac Asimov. 1986
Chinese New Year: a celebration for everyone (Orca origins.)
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.Festivals, family and food: Guide To Seasonal Celebration (Lifeways Ser.)
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.Fearful symmetry: the search for beauty in modern physics
By A Zee. 1987
Emily Post's Etiquette: 17th edition
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.Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin lessons in life, love, and language
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.DSI--date scene investigation: the diagnostic manual of dating disorders
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.Beyond the pale: folklore, family, and the mystery of our hidden genes
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.Cultural theory: an introduction (21st Century Sociology Ser.)
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.Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (Zone Books)
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.