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The ingenuity gap: How Can We Solve The Problems Of The Future?
By Thomas F Homer-Dixon. 2000
Can we create ideas fast enough to solve the very problems - environmental, social, and technological - we have created?…
Homer-Dixon calls the gap between our need for practical and innovative ideas to solve our complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas the "ingenuity gap". He argues that as the gap widens, political disintegration and violent upheaval can result and suggests ways to overcome these real problems before it is too late. Winner of the 2001 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2000.Douces colères: journal
By Gil Courtemanche. 1989
Avec une verve piquante et souvent corrosive, l'auteur exprime ses opinions sur la société, sur la politique et les hommes…
politiques, sur le journalisme et les médias d'information, sur le syndicalisme, sur la langue, sur l'éducation, etc. Malgré certains jugements excessifs, cet ouvrage comporte beaucoup d'éléments intéressants qui plairont à certains et en irriteront d'autres, selon les idéologies personelles de chacun.Coal dust in my blood: the autobiography of a coal miner (Heritage record. #9.)
By Bill Johnstone. 1980
The author began mining in England in 1921, at age thirteen. After moving to Canada, he farmed on the Prairies,…
enduring the Depression, and later mastered mining, even studying engineering and becoming a coal mine Superintendent near Cumberland, B.C. The book presents a unique picture of the life of coal miners. 1980. (Heritage record; 9)The flower and the nettle: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936-1939 (A helen And Kurt Wolff Bk.)
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1976
Covers the European years of the Lindberghs, a period of happiness clouded by accusations of pro-Nazism against Col. Lindbergh. Records…
visits with the Bullitts, Kennedys, Lady Astor, George Bernard Shaw, and Gertrude Stein. Sequel to "Locked rooms and open doors" (RC16036). Prequel to "War within and without."A positively final appearance: a journal 1996-98
By Alec Guinness. 1999
Following the success of his diary, Sir Alec has written something between a commonplace book and a diary - longer…
pieces on anything that takes his fancy, loosely related to his daily activities but not as rigid as a daily diary.Joyful noise: poems for two voices
By Paul Fleischman. 1988
Canadian Tire was founded by A.J. and John Billes in 1922 and grew to become a national institution. In 1986,…
one of A.J.'s sons decided to sell his company shares to a group of Canadian Tire dealers, sparking a feud with his sister, Martha. 1990 winner of the National Business Book Award. Strong language.Canada: a story of challenge
By J. M. S Careless. 1991
A brief history of Canada, covering the period from Cartier and Champlain to the arrival of Pierre Elliott Trudeau on…
the political scene. It covers the major historical events and the forces which have shaped our country. Originally written in 1953, this is the updated 1970 version. Winner of the 1953 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Northrop Frye: a biography
By John Ayre. 1989
Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.…
In this biography, Ayre describes Frye's impoverished childhood and traces the progression of his work. Nominated for the City of Toronto and Trillium Awards.Dear Marian, dear Hugh: the MacLennan-Engel correspondence
By Christl Verduyn, Marian Engel, Hugh MacLennan. 1995
Falling leaves return to their roots: the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter
By Adeline Yen Mah. 1997
Adeline Yen Mah's childhood in China during the civil war was a time of fear, isolation and humiliation. The cause…
was not political upheaval but systematic emotional and physical abuse by her stepmother and siblings and rejection by her father. This is the story of her determination to survive the pain of a lonely childhood. 1997.Letters home, 1926-1945
By Barry Johnston, Brian Johnston. 1998
Brian Johnston was one of Britain's best loved broadcasters for close to 50 years. By the time of his death…
in 1994 he had officially become, along with The Queen Mother and Red Rum, a national treasure. This collection of letters, written to his mother from his time as a boy at Eton in the 1920s right through until he was demobbed after World War II in 1945, will do nothing to diminish that elevated status. The collection is edited by Johnston's son Barry and the voice that comes off the page is very much the same as the one that captivated listeners to his broadcasting.Galileo's daughter: a drama of science, faith and love
By Dava Sobel. 1999
The story of the relationship between Galileo and his illegitimate daughter, Virginia. As a nun, she wrote 120 letters to…
her father, from 1623 to her death from exposure and malnutrition ten years later. 1999.The annals of Chile
By Paul Muldoon. 1994
Dearest Émilie: the love-letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Madame Emilie Lavergne
By Wilfrid Laurier, Emilie Lavergne, Charles Fisher. 1989
Laurier was Prime Minister of Canada for 15 years. It was Emilie, the wife of his law partner in a…
small Quebec town, who planned his transformation from talented bumpkin to influential statesman. Their affection is displayed in these 40 letters from Wilfrid to Emilie.100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka: a memoir
By Arthur Schaller. 1998
Arthur Schaller was eleven years old when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, a time when the reward for turning in…
a Jew was 100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka. Separated from his family in the Warsaw Ghetto, Arthur managed to escape to the other side of the Ghetto wall, and posed until the end of the war as a Catholic orphan. Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.The siren years: a Canadian diplomat abroad, 1937-1945 (Macmillan paperbacks ; #19)
By Charles Ritchie. 1974
A volume from the author's published diaries which takes the reader through the diplomatic corridors and drawing rooms of prewar…
Washington, wartime England, and Europe. Ritchie's observations of world events include insights into the ins and outs of the diplomatic world, portraits of politicians, socialites, and literary lions, and candour about his own enthusiasms. Winner of the 1974 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Land to light on
By Dionne Brand. 1997
Brand writes about Canada as it is seen by an outsider and about the outsiders who have come here over…
and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English poetry.Drumblair: memories of a Jamaican childhood
By Rachel Manley. 1996
Poet Rachel Manley, granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica's national leaders, tells the story of the brilliant, artistic Manley…
family, and the house that nurtured them: Drumblair. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1996.Sand dance: by camel across Arabia's great southern desert
By Bruce Kirkby. 2000
In the winter of 1999, three Canadians and three Omani Bedu set out across Arabia's great southern desert in an…
attempt to authentically recreate the 1947 crossing by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Here they share the adventures and misadventures they experienced while crossing the vast, desolate desert. Winner of the 2001 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award.