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By Virgil Thomson. 1981
An authoritative selection of critical writing distilled from the work of one of America's most influential twentieth-century musicians. Includes elegant…
reviews; portraits of such figures as Gershwin, Ives, and Gertrude Stein; and essays on subjects ranging from the nature of jazz to the nature of genius. National Book Critics' Award. 1981. Uniform title: Literary works.By Nancy Willard. 1981
By Bill Bryson. 2004
This book is Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization…
- how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? Some strong language. 2004.By Bill Bryson. 2008
In this new edition for younger readers, Bill Bryson covers the wonder and mysteries of time and space, the frequently…
bizarre and often obsessive scientists and the methods they used, the crackpot theories which held sway for far too long, the extraordinary accidental discoveries which suddenly advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction) and the mind-boggling fact that, somehow, the universe exists and, against all odds, life came to be on this wondrous planet we call home. Abridged. Grades 3-6. 2008.By Deborah Campbell. 2016
2007. Deborah Campbell, known for her "lion-hearted" reporting on international conflicts, travels undercover to Damascus to report on the exodus…
of Iraqi refugees into Syria following the fall of Baghdad. There she meets and hires Ahlam, a refugee working in Damascus as a "fixer"--providing Western media with information and trustworthy contacts to get the news out. Ahlam, a charismatic woman who fled to Syria after being kidnapped for her work running a humanitarian centre in Iraq, uses the income to support her husband and 2 children and to start a school for teenaged girls. But the Syrian Secret Police are watching, and they seize Ahlam. Campbell, fearing that her work with Ahlam has led to her friend's kidnapping, spends the months that follow desperately trying to find Ahlam--all the while fearing she could be next. Winner of the 2016 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Winner of the 2017 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. 2016.By Morley Torgov. 1974
An account of life in a small town community in Sault Ste. Marie in the late 1930's and early 1940's.…
Winner of the 1975 Stephen Leacock Award for humour. Strong language. 1974.By Pierre Ouellet. 2005
Beaucoup plus qu'un catalogue commenté de 65 oeuvres d'art (peintures, photographies, sculptures, dessins, vidéos, collages, etc.) qui constituent la "réserve…
d'oxygène" de l'auteur, ce bel album propose une somme d'aperçus et de réflexions sur l'art, sur les relations entre les arts, en particulier l'écriture et les arts visuels, sur l'omniprésence du corps dans les arts de représentation, etc. Prix du Gouverneur général 2006, catégorie études et essais. 2005.By Sylvain Darnil, Mathieu Le Roux. 2005
Les auteurs ont fait le tour du monde du développement durable et ont rencontré 80 hommes et femmes, qui ont…
imaginé des modes de production, de locomotion, de consommation ou d'habitation qui économisent les ressources naturelles. Ces entrepreneurs, qui ont une conscience sociale, construisent chaque jour un monde écologique, et qui plus est, sont à la tête d'entreprises florissantes. Prix littéraire des Droits de l'homme, 2005. 2006, c2005.By Tanya Lloyd Kyi. 2011
Why was the Mad Hatter mad? From working with mercury nitrate. It's a toxic world out there: poisonous snakes, toxic…
herbicides, noxious fumes - poisons in one form or another are all around us. An innocent-looking flower may be lethal, smog can make it impossible to breathe, poisons can be the death of us, but they can also cure disease. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2013 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. Grades 3-6. 2011. (50 questions series ; 2)By Jeremy Grimaldi. 2016
Jennifer Pan seemed to be fulfilling her immigrant parents' dreams: a straight-A student working towards a pharmacology degree. In reality,…
her golden life was a carefully cultivated facade, covering up an explosive secret life. When her deceptions started to unravel, Jennifer's desperate escape plan left a city in shock. Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2016.