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  • Through Feminist Eyes
    Author:
    Sangster, Joan
    Summary:

    Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions...
  • Throwing the Diamond Hitch
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  • Time machines repaired while-u-wait
    Author:
    Bedford, K. A.
    Summary:

    In the future, Aloysius "Spider" Webb will journey to the End of Time. For now, Spider must be content with repairing broken time machines, rebuilding his life and avoiding the lunatic antics of his boss, Dickhead McMahon....
  • Time to Talk
    Author:
    Reiff, Tana
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. The Hot Summer Race is only a week away. Bob's car is not ready. So he starts calling in sick....
  • tis pity
    Author:
    Bateman, David
    Summary:

    Part memoir, part creative non-fiction, part poetic score without music, part off-Broadway show without a cast, part bungalow for gender -dysphoric bachelorettes, ’Tis Pity is furnished with poems that dart lyrically in and...
  • To Be a Cowboy
    Author:
    Holliday, Barbara
    Summary:

    During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-...
  • To Keep a Secret
    Author:
    Chapman, Brenda
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Anna Sweet’s PI business partner, Jada Price, has gone missing. Anna and new hire Nick...
  • Tod Inlet : a healing place
    Author:
    Curry, Gwen
    Summary:

    Tod Inlet has been a place of refuge for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, but few are aware of its history. This tiny fjord, less than a half hour from downtown Victoria, is part of Gowlland/Tod Provincial Park and is accessed by a...
  • Too bad : sketches toward a self-portrait
    Author:
    Kroetsch, Robert
    Summary:

    A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much&#...
  • Tools for teaching social studies : a how-to handbook of useful ideas and practical solutions
    Author:
    Parsons, Jim, Schroder, Mariah
    Summary:

    Engage your students AND keep your sanity with classroom-tested tools. Tools for Teaching Social Studies delivers a wealth of practical solutions for classroom success — all grounded in solid educational philosophy. A...
  • Tools of the trade
    Author:
    Wilkins, Jayne, Anderson, Kirsten
    Summary:

    Tools of the Trade: Methods, Techniques and Innovative Approaches in Archaeology presents a collection of academic papers from the 2005 Chacmool archaeological conference, which includes a wide range of contributions from international...
  • Touch
    Author:
    Froese, Gayleen
    Summary:

    Anna Gareau has a secret. Unwanted visions of strangers' lives haunt her when she touches certain objects. What she wants most is a normal life but Anna is far from normal. Travelling through Victoria, BC, Anna gets an unwelcome...
  • Tough crimes
    Author:
    Evans, C.D., Shyba, Lorene
    Summary:

    We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them? We’ve all lamented the fate of a person who we think was wrongfully accused, but...
  • Toward. Some. Air.
    Author:
    De'Ath, Amy, Wah, Fred
    Summary:

    Toward. Some. Air. is a landmark collection of profiles of contemporary poets, statements, essays, and conversations about contemporary poetry and poetic practice, and a few exemplary poems selected by up-and-coming poet and scholar Amy...
  • Trade negotiations in agriculture : a future common agenda for Brazil and Canada?
    Author:
    Gaisford, James D., Kerr, William
    Summary:

    In the current age of globalization, collaboration between nations is paramount. In September 2003, a group of academics, government officials, and business leaders gathered at the University of Calgary under the auspices of its Latin...
  • Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path
    Author:
    Johnson, Leslie Main
    Summary:

    Trail of Story examines the meaning of landscape, drawn from Leslie Main Johnson’s rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en of northwestern British Columbia, the...
  • Transboundary policy challenges in the Pacific border regions of North America
    Author:
    Loucky, James, Alper, Donald K., Day, John C.
    Summary:

    Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America responds to a growing interest in borderlands environmental policy by highlighting significant transboundary research and practices being undertaken within...
  • Transparent lives
    Author:
    Bennett, Colin J., Haggerty, Kevin D., Lyon, David, Steeves, Valerie
    Summary:

    "Although most Canadians are familiar with surveillance cameras and airport security, relatively few are aware of the extent to which the potential for surveillance is now embedded in virtually every aspect of our lives. We cannot walk...
  • Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis
    Author:
    Ellis, Miriam Green
    Summary:

    Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the modernist sphere for over four decades and who refused to be confined to the "women...
  • Treasure Island
    Author:
    Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Summary:

    The adventure story told in Treasure Island has become a part of popular folklore. John Sutherland discusses the novel’s place in Stevenson's biography and oeuvre in his learned and lively critical introduction to this...

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