Title search results
Showing 161 - 180 of 158077 items
Claiming the future: the inspiring lives of twelve Canadian women scientists and scholars
By Elizabeth May. 1991
The rez sisters: a play in two acts
By Tomson Highway. 1988
Seven women attempt to beat the odds by winning the biggest bingo in the world and escaping their tortured lives.…
Winner of the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for the Governor General's Award. 1988.Firewater: how alcohol is killing my people (and yours)
By Harold Johnson. 2016
Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, the author challenges readers to change…
the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names—booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative “firewater.” Confronting the harmful stereotype of the “lazy, drunken Indian,” and rejecting medical, social, and psychological explanations of the roots of alcoholism, Johnson cries out for solutions, not diagnoses, and shows how alcohol continues to kill so many. Bestseller. 2016.Beyond fate (CBC Massey lectures)
By Margaret Visser. 2002
The author investigates what fate means to us, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes…
from. By observing how fatalism expresses itself in one's daily life, in everything from table manners to shopping to sport, the book proposes ways to limit its influence. 2002.Virtual clearcut: or the way things are in my hometown
By Brian Fawcett. 2003
Prince George, a once-thriving city of 80,000 in British Columbia, has experienced an accelerating virtual clearcut that has undermined its…
economic and social culture over the past 40 years. In four carefully drawn portraits of the city sketched over a decade, the author, who grew up there and has tracked its steady decline, shows that in the face of globalization Prince George has lost its ability to control its own destiny, and is losing its will to care. 2003.Apprentissage de la grammaire du français écrit: méthode pratique : module 2 : Corrigé des exercices
By Claire Asselin, Anne McLaughlin. 1993
Apprentissage de la grammaire du français écrit: méthode pratique : module 2 : Exercises
By Claire Asselin, Anne McLaughlin. 1993
Apprentissage de la grammaire du français écrit: méthode pratique : module 2 : Généralisations et remarques
By Claire Asselin, Anne McLaughlin. 1993
Apprentissage de la grammaire du français écrit: méthode pratique : module 2 : Corpus
By Claire Asselin, Anne McLaughlin. 1993
Apprentissage de la grammaire du français écrit: méthode pratique : module 2 : Guide d'observation
By Claire Asselin, Anne McLaughlin. 1993
Apprentissage de la grammaire du français écrit: méthode pratique : module 1 : Corrigé des exercices
By Claire Asselin, Anne McLaughlin. 1989
Apprentissage de la grammaire du français écrit: méthode pratique : module 1 : Corpus
By Claire Asselin, Anne McLaughlin. 1989
Sick in the head: conversations about life and comedy
By Judd Apatow. 2015
Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At 16, he…
was hosting a show for his local high school radio station — a show that consisted of Q&As with his comedy heroes, from Garry Shandling to Jerry Seinfeld. They talked about their careers, the science of a good joke, and their dreams of future glory. Thirty years later, Apatow is still that same comedy nerd—and he’s still interviewing funny people about why they do what they do. Here are 30 years' worth of Apatow’s most memorable and revealing conversations in one hilarious, wide-ranging, and incredibly candid collection that spans not only his career but his entire adult life. 2015.The rules do not apply
By Ariel Levy. 2017
In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured…
it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love to a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.' Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply; that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy; that gender and sexuality are fluid; that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. This is a story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. Bestseller. 2017.Between the world and me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015
Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race", a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily…
on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? In a letter to his adolescent son, the author shares the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Bestseller. Winner of the National Book Award. 2015.When breath becomes air
By Paul Kalanithi. 2016
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi…
was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality. Bestseller. 2016.Why not me?
By Mindy Kaling. 2015
Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at…
work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behaviour modification whatsoever, or believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantly reminded that no one looks like you. Bestseller. 2015.The path: creating your mission statement for work and for life
By Laurie Beth Jones. 1996
This book provides inspirational and practical advice to lead readers through every step of both defining and fulfilling a mission.…
Proffering information for both business and life projects, the author discusses the three key elements of a successful mission statement. 1996.The Canadian writer's workplace: building writing skills
By John A Roberts. 2007
A complete grammar and composition text designed as a flexible resource for writers who need to improve their writing skills.…
It provides instructors with a wealth of grammar exercises and writing opportunities, and gives students a solid foundation for grammar mastery and the development of different styles and approaches to writing. 2007.You don't have to say you love me: a memoir
By Sherman Alexie. 2017
When his mother passed away at the age of seventy-eight, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he…
wrote. Featuring seventy-eight poems and seventy-eight essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine--growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. Bestseller. 2017.