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Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior's rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism. But her predominant tone is the verbal equivalent of a pair of wide-open arms.

Cecil Harris outlines the personal and professional battles as well as the victories of such hockey pioneers as Herb Carnegie and Willie O'Ree--men whose determination, skill and sheer love of the game smoothed the way for black players to follow.

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Set in the 1980s, when images of missing children first occupied the mass media, is/was explores one town's complex emotional reaction to the brutal rape and murder of a child within its bounds. It is October 1983 and eight-year-old Abigail Wren has disappeared from a tiny Ontario town. In the crosscuts and fragments of each day's news, word of her abduction filters into the troubled Fitch family household. Roland Fitch becomes unhinged by lon...

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Exchange traded funds have been called the next generation of mutual funds. Essentially, ETFs are low cost, tax-efficient mutual funds that trade on a stock exchange. In 2000, there were 30 ETFs trading on North American stock exchanges with assets of US$36.5 billion. Three years later, despite the worst equity bear market in 70 years, ETFs number 130 and assets have soared to over US$100 billion. Canada was home to the first successful ETF in...

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Benj Gallander has among the highest short and long-term returns in North America. Author of the best-selling "The Uncommon Investor" and "The Uncommon Entrepreneur", co-editor of Contra the Heard Investment Letter, and investment columnist for national newspapers and magazines, Gallander's approach to the stock market has the investment world buzzing. Standing fast to his decidedly contrarian position, Gallander does not believe in buying and...

Life is about getting what you want, and sales skills can improve your life. In Life Is Sales, Gary Ford and Connie Bird share their unique perspective on success. Most people resist spelling out what they want, but those who know what they want and know how to ask for it are far more successful in all aspects of life. This book highlights the psychology behind getting people to do what you want and to say yes by using concrete day-to-day exam...

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The story of the world's number-one adventure runner.

An evaluation of cultural and political changes that we are now facing, including the conflict between Islam and Christianity.

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Susan Sontag and Jonathan Lethem's illegitimate love child.