Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (Stevenson Lisa)(Paperback)

Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (Stevenson Lisa)(Paperback)

In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way,

Life in the Arctic (Giulieri Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Arctic Life (Callery Sean)(Paperback)

Who lives in the Arctic? This photographic information book by Sean Callery explores the Arctic and looks at how the animals and people that inhabit this frozen landscape survive

Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town (Robertson Leslie)(Paperback)

Imagining Difference is an ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC - a coal-mining town transforming into an international ski resort. Focusing on diverse experiences of people from the European diaspora, Robertson analyzes

Hummingbird (Hughes Tristan)(Pevná vazba)

Beside a lake in the northern Canadian wilderness, fifteen year old Zachary Tayler lives a lonely and isolated life with his father. His only neighbours are a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire, and an expert in

Arctic: Life Inside the Arctic Circle (Martin Claudia)(Pevná vazba)

Arctic: Life Inside the Arctic Circlepresents a snapshot of what life is like in the frosty world of this wintry paradise, its challenges far removed from those of our own more temperate climate. The Arctic may be cold and remote, but it is far from being a barren wasteland; in fact, it is teeming

CANADIAN PACIFIC IN THE ROCKIES (IAN LOTHIAN)(Paperback)

The Canadian Pacific Railway was built to unite all the Canadian Provinces with a transcontinental line running from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Many obstacles were encountered during construction including the Rocky Mountains, a formidable range of mountains in Western Alberta and Eastern British

Tom Thomson: An Introduction to His Life and Art (Silcox David)(Paperback)

An introduction to the life and works of Tom Thomson, one of the most important artists in Canadian

In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile (Davies Dan)(Paperback)

Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67 (Ives Jack D.)(Paperback)

A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the 'golden age' of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of

Imagining the Holocaust (Schwarz Daniel R.)(Paperback)

In Imagining the Holocaust, Daniel R. Schwarz examines widely read Holocaust narratives which have shaped the way we understand and respond to the events of that time. He begins with first person narratives-- Wiesel's Night and Levi's Survival at Auschwitz --and then turns to searingly realistic

Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in the 1970s (Fogle Bruce)(Paperback)

Arriving in 1970s' London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world's best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make

Unfinished Business (Hocknell Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The Life Assistance Agency finds itself at a loss after returning from their latest adventures in Europe. Ben intends to stay away from anything involving Angels but pressing rent demands in London forces the agency to accept an invitation to write the biography of a self-deluded singer from

One Day (Nicholls David)(Paperback)

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Dexter and Emma must face the nature of love and even life itself in this page-turning story filled with 'heart-melting romance' (Elle). One of the most 'emotionally riveting love stories you'll ever encounter' (People).It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have

Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions (Higgs Joy)(Paperback)

Clinical reasoning lies at the core of health care practice and education. Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, therefore, occupies a central place in the education of health professionals, the enhancement of professional decision making of individuals and groups of practitioners with

Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (Stevenson Ian)(Paperback)

Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu countries of South Asia, among the Shiite peoples of Lebanon and Turkey, the tribes of West Africa, and the American northwest. Stevenson has collected over 2,600

The Comfort of People (Miller Daniel)(Paperback)

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and the Amateur Emigrant (Stevenson Robert Louis)(Paperback / softback)

In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a

Waterlily (Deloria Ella Cara)(Paperback)

'Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction.'--KirkusWhen Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their

Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic (Danielsen Finn)(Paperback)

Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, nonetheless still has untapped potential

A Season in the Snow (Dickenson Lisa)(Paperback)

Escape to the mountains this Christmas...Alice Bright loves her life. She has a job she adores, a devoted family, and friends she'd lay down her life for.So when tragedy strikes, bringing with it Bear - a rapidly-growing puppy in need of a home - it turns Alice's whole world upside down. She

The Language of Sycamores (Wingate Lisa)(Paperback)

When a woman's whole life falls apart, she finds refuge in the home she left behind in this touching novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours. Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her

The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive (Stevenson David S.)(Paperback)

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be

Trekking in Greenland - The Arctic Circle Trail: The Arctic Circle Trail (Dillon Paddy)(Paperback)

A comprehensive guidebook for hiking the Arctic Circle Trail, which crosses the largest ice-free area of West Greenland, 25-30 miles north of the Arctic Circle. At just over 100 miles long, and taking 7 to 10 days to complete, this splendid backpacking route runs from Kangerlussuaq to Sisimiut -