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  • The medium is the monster : Canadian adaptations of Frankenstein and the discourse of technology
    Author:
    McCutcheon, Mark A.
    Summary:

    Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel...
  • The Metabolism of Desire
    Author:
    Cavalcanti, Guido
    Summary:

    The fact that Cavlacanti’s friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti’s own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the “sweet new...
  • The Missing Link
    Author:
    Banks, Sydney
    Summary:

    This book illuminates and creates an appreciation for the mystical link between the psychological and spiritual nature of life. It reveals a simplicity beneath the complex workings of the mind and the principles behind the creation of...
  • The Necromancer Candle
    Author:
    McCharles, Randy
    Summary:

    A collection of three new novellas by Canadian Speculative Fiction author Randy McCharles. The collection includes: The Necromancer Candle Cassidy’s family has a secret. An ancient, ugly candle passed down through the...
  • The One and the Many
    Author:
    Tagore, Rabindranath
    Summary:

    This elegant volume of Tagore's poems, translated, is copiously illustrated by colour photographs from John Berridge, Professor of Religion at Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada. William Radice, who has translated Tagore for...
  • The orchard keepers
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  • The Painter's Craft
    Author:
    Statham, Susan
    Summary:

    A mystery set around an artist’s studio in Toronto. A Toronto artist finds herself in the unlikely role of amateur sleuth as she sets about unraveling the strange death of her mentor, a renowned artist, through the tangle of...
  • The Paradise Engine
    Author:
    Campbell, Rebecca
    Summary:

    While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to the rhetoric of an itinerant street mystic. Almost a century earlier, Liam, a tenth-rate...
  • The Peace-Athabasca Delta : portrait of a dynamic ecosystem
    Author:
    Timoney, Kevin P.
    Summary:

    "In the delta, water is boss, change is the only constant, and creation and destruction exist side by side." The Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern Alberta is a globally significant wetland that lies within one of the largest...
  • The People Who Own Themselves
    Author:
    Devine, Heather
    Summary:

    The search for a Métis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. The People Who Own Themselves reconstructs 250 years of Desjarlais family history across a substantial...
  • The Picture of Nobody
    Author:
    Maharaj, Rabindranath
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Tommy lives with his family in Ajax, a small town close to Toronto. His parents are Ismaili Muslims...
  • The Politics of Access
    Author:
    Anyanwu, Ogechi E.
    Summary:

    Through analysis of exceptionally rich data obtained from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, and from Nigeria’s national archives, author Ogechi Anyanwu demonstrates how the pursuit of mass university education not only...
  • The Prairie Short Season Yard
    Author:
    Penner, Lyndon
    Summary:

    Creating and maintaining the perfect yard on the prairies isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To...
  • The prairie west as promised land
    Author:
    Francis, R. D.
    Summary:

    So the emblem of the West Our bright Maple Leaf is bless'd To its children of the goodly open hand; All the nations of the earth Are now learning of its worth And are flocking to this wealthy, promised land. - The Sugar Maple Tree Song...
  • The Puzzle Box
    Author:
    McCharles, Randy
    Summary:

    An intriguing anthology where reality is transient and the puzzle box holds the key to the meaning of life. Archeology Professor Albert Mallory understands reality. He knows the way the world works. When he steals an ancient puzzle box...
  • The real thing : the natural history of Ian McTaggart Cowan
    Author:
    Penn, Briony
    Summary:

    The Real Thing is the first official biography of Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010), the “father of Canadian ecology.” Authorized by his family and with the research support and participation of the University of Victoria...
  • The Red Wraith
    Author:
    Wisseman, Nick
    Summary:

    Magic awakens in early America. The Red Wraith is born. Cast into exile by his clan for being a spawn of human and spirit, Naysin is lost in a world of change as pale men from the sea arrive to plunder the riches of the New World....
  • The reindeer botanist : Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977
    Author:
    Dathan, Wendy
    Summary:

    The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of...
  • The Remarkable Chester Ronning
    Author:
    Evans, Brian L.
    Summary:

    Scholar and diplomat Brian L. Evans gives us the first English-language biography of Chester A. Ronning (1894-1984): diplomat, politician, educator, and one of Canada's major public figures. This fascinating story depicts Ronning,...
  • The river of history
    Author:
    Farrugia, Peter
    Summary:

    Does history matter any more? In an era when both the past and memory seem to be sources of considerable interest and, frequently, lively debate, has the academic discipline of history ceased to offer the connection between past and...

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