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In this remarkable book, noted cultural scholar D. Paul Schafer examines the great cultural awakening that is taking place all across the world---an awakening that is opening the doors to a cultural age. Schafer begins by considering the importance of culture, as well as discussing how culture has been defined by a variety of thinkers. He then turns to an examination of the vast constellation of cultures that exist in the world before moving p...

In this moving novella, Peter Abbot has penned a moving meditation on what it means to live --- and to die. In short order, Derrick deals with the passing of his Auth Martha, home from South Africa to die, the loss of his best friend "Pip", the implications of hundreds of children's graves newly found at former residential school sites, and the grisly end of his long-lost uncle, gunned down on the sidewalk outside Derrick's house. What does it...

The Tuneful Voice: Selected Libretti presents a collection of works by Eugene Benson, professor, novelist, playwright, and editor, written over a fifty-year period. The volume includes adaptations of the writings of such prominent authors as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde as opera, operetta, musical theatre, and oratorio. The death of Canadian painter Tom Thomson is probed in the oratorio The Mystery of Canoe Lake, and the extra...

For decades David J. Forsyth has researched his ancestors' stories, assembling an enormous cache of records and anecdotes. Although history is filled with the tales of the great and the powerful, much less is known about the lives of ordinary people. Forsyth's goal in his research and in the writing of Alice and the Machine Gunner is to address that gap. Alice and the Machine Gunner is a conscientious blend of fact and fiction, a multigenerati...

The terrifying Wîhtikow Rex takes centre stage in this exciting second book in the Lukas Encounters series. The mysterious creature-a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that Lukas and his cousin KC accidentally bring to life-is described in Cree mythology as a ravening monster that grows as it consumes its victims. The adventures begin when Lukas and KC meet paleontologist Mekwen Calf Robe at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. From Mekwen they learn that Dry ...

One thing most people want more of is confidence. Consider this your how-to guide to feel and project confidence in all situations. Flaunting requires you to notice your wins, feel proud of them, and share them out loud with others. To do that, you need to overcome barriers by quieting the voices that quiet you (including your own), looking at language that helps or hinders how you're perceived, and applying your new, confident self to challen...

Professor Hair draws on a lifetime of scholarship and teaching in this brief yet insightful introduction to Charles Dickens's novel Little Dorrit. Both readers coming to the novel for the first time and those returning to it will find their enjoyment and understanding enhanced by his analysis of how Dickens uses character, plot and atmosphere to drive home his message of social protest. And that message is as relevant today as it was when Litt...

At the end of 2019, Aron Lee decided to live 2020 without access to the internet. He would interact with the world in what we have already come to think of as the "old-fashioned" way --- taking calls and texting on a flip phone, paying bills by cheque (and receiving them by snail mail), and writing actual pen-on-paper letters to friends and family, all the while continuing his doctoral work at McGill University. Along the way he discovered a g...

In this poignant memoir, anthropologist and author David Turner tells of how he played the yiraga --- a musical instrument played by the aboriginal peoples of Australia --- for his friend and former partner Alexa, following her death in 2020. Turner describes the meaning of the yiraga within Australian aboriginal culture, and how he learned to play the instrument over the course of several decades living with and learning from indigenous peopl...

With contributions by Kim Blanchette and Colleen Killingsworth Introduction by Daniel Granger This book was created to assist entry-level communicators in learning how to develop successful campaigns, as well as to provide more seasoned practitioners with a refresher on the elements of an effective communication plan. It covers: the creation of executive summaries using the RACE formula, research and analysis, the setting of goals and obj...

Following in the tradition of Mark Twain's cherished classics Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Time and The Place is a poignant story of a boy's coming of age in the America of the 1940s. Despised by his father, David --- known to all as Junior --- finds solace in his summers at his grandparents' farm, "The Place, " where he confronts death, loss, love, and the tangled web of family history. Will Goede's previous novel, Quantrill, was a finali...

Glenn Gould's life as a musician begins as a fairy-tale, as his very first recording --- the Goldberg Variations --- skyrockets the young Canadian to the top of the music world, as a must-see and must-hear concert-pianist with sold-out performances all around the world. And then, at the height of his powers and his popularity, he makes a decision about his music and his life which splits the music world right down the middle, and remains contr...

In this updated edition of a brief yet remarkable book, David Turner draws on a lifetime of experience to explore the beliefs of the Indigenous peoples of Australia. Those beliefs, he observes, form the foundation for a pan-continental way of life based not on the principle of unity but on a complex inter-relationship of interdependent parts. And that worldview has much to offer the rest of the human world as it searches for a path to a sustai...

In this charming collection of stories, John Steckley describes the (mainly) imaginary adventures of his granddaughter Mia. Whether it's foiling bullying at school or a robbery at a restaurant, investigating a case of baby-snatching carried out by aliens, or saving a pair of orphaned bear cubs, Mia's adventures are sure to entertain readers young and old. I was very fortunate to have been able to spend a lot of time with my grandfathers when...

As the author notes in his introduction, this fascinating and insightful book is "family history with a context." Placing the lives of his parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative, Dr. Hair explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario, that great peninsula of fertile farmland lying between Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Dubbed "Souwesto" in the 1960s by artist Greg Curnoe and playwright James Reaney, the reg...

June was a trying month for Lukas-a month of endless waiting. Once school was done for the year, Lukas would join his cousin KC on "The Farm" where his father and his Uncle Ben had grown up. Uncle Ben had just bought a new horse named Nugget. Now both KC and Lukas had a horse to ride, and a summer full of adventure beckoned. But then KC told Lukas about something new. A "ghost train" had been sighted, running on the branch line not far from Th...

Dakota may be small and furry, but she's also a mouse with big dreams! Join her as she dreams of being a DJ ... a ballet dancer ...even a pilot! Readers young and old will enjoy this whimsical look at what it means to "love being me.

In this unique book, John Steckley discusses and catalogues the various names of the Indigenous people known as the Wyandot, including clan names, nicknames, differences in naming conventions by gender, and the names the Wyandot gave to the European settlers they encountered. Following first contact with Europeans in the early 17th century, the Wyandot were forced to move several times, first from their homeland in what is now Ontario, then fr...

From the author of John Passfield: Saturday Morning, shortlisted for the ReLit Awards in the novel category, 2022 With the contribution of eight hundred cows, the tiny village of Ingersoll, Ontario, has not only produced the world's largest block of cheese, it has also nurtured the epic poet who can rapturously sing its praises. Now, if only Queen Victoria can be persuaded to take a hearty bite and add her majestic voice to the poet's ecstat...

June was a trying month for Lukas-a month of endless waiting. Once school was done for the year, Lukas would join his cousin KC on "The Farm" where his father and his Uncle Ben had grown up. Uncle Ben had just bought a new horse named Nugget. Now both KC and Lukas had a horse to ride, and a summer full of adventure beckoned. But then KC told Lukas about something new. A "ghost train" had been sighted, running on the branch line not far fro...