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Seventy-five articles selected from the popular magazine's 109-year existence. Although heavily illustrated, the periodical contains scholarly articles about the planet…
and its people. Contributors include Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Lindberg, Maya Angelou, Tad Szulc, and Shelby FooteEssays by thirteen former Peace Corps volunteers who were asked to return to their countries of service or countries in…
which they had lived and to write about them from the perspective of prior experience and current insights. Countries include Ecuador, Kenya, Peru, Somalia, Japan, Cameroon, Grenada, Hungary, and Tanzania. Each account is preceded by a brief survey of the author's service and published booksGreat vacations for you & your dog, USA
Par Dorris Martin. 1995
State-by-state listing of U.S. facilities that accept dogs. Categories include ranches, dog camps, resorts, hotels, lodges, cabins, inns, and camping.…
Each entry gives a description, the dog policy, and the 1995 rates. Includes suggestions for vacationing with a dog in five major cities and general tips on traveling with dogsFodor's 97, Great Britain
Par Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.. 1996
Tips on dining, shopping, sightseeing, accommodations, and recreational activities in Great Britain. Specific chapters highlight London, the Channel Islands, the…
Thames Valley, the heart of England, Lancashire and the Peaks, Yorkshire, East Anglia, Wales, Scotland, the South, the Southwest, the Southeast, and the NortheastFrommer's 96 Mexico
Par Marita Adair, Herb Felsted, Carla Martindell Felsted, Maribeth Mellin. 1996
Tips on dining, shopping, accommodations, and recreational activities in the most popular places in Mexico: Mexico City, Baja California, Copper…
Canyon, Guadalajara, Acapulco, Veracruz, Puerto Vallarta, Tarascan country, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Cozumel, Merida, and the Mayan citiesLouisiana: a guide to the State (American guide series)
Par Us History Publishers. 1940
Guidebook written by the Federal Writer's Project in 1940. Part one is an overview that looks at history, government, commerce,…
agriculture, arts, and literature. Part two focuses on sixteen cities and towns. Part three provides details for over forty tours of regions throughout the stateThis travel guide to enjoying Australia provides an overview of the country's history from ancient to modern. Gives detailed information…
on present-day Sydney, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania. Also includes sections devoted to travel facts, hotels, and restaurantsThis guidebook to enjoying Japan provides an overview of the country's history from ancient to modern. Gives detailed information on…
present-day Tokyo, Central Honshu, Kyoto, Western Honshu and Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa, Northern Honshu, and Hokkaido. Also includes sections devoted to travel facts, hotels, and restaurantsThis guidebook to enjoying Israel provides an overview of the country's history from ancient to modern. Gives detailed information on…
present-day Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Coast, Galilee and the North, Judaea and Samaria (the West Bank), and the South. Also includes sections devoted to travel facts, hotels, and restaurantsLists more than 650 college campuses in the U.S. and overseas that provide comfortable accommodations for less than twenty-five dollars…
per day. Guide includes information for people over sixty and for students, tips for obtaining free travel materials, and health hints for travelersAccounts about the centuries-long struggle to forge a sea passage through Arctic ice. Narratives connect these selections from the journals…
of explorers and navigators, including Frobisher and Henry Hudson. The book is primarily a human story, with enough historical and geographical detail for perspective, about the men who searched for the Northwest Passage. Volume one of the Top of the World TrilogyLa société de provocation: essai sur l'obscénité des riches (Lettres libres)
Par Dahlia Namian. 2023
Bernés par les prestidigitations des ultrariches, nous regardons ceux-ci, stupéfaits, dilapider les ressources de la planète. Dans son roman Chien…
blanc, Romain Gary appelle "société de provocation" cet ordre social où l'exhibitionnisme de la richesse érige en vertu la démesure et le luxe ostentatoire tout en privant une part de plus en plus large de la population des moyens de satisfaire ses besoins réels. Ce pamphlet cinglant énumère et analyse les mille façons qu'ont les ultrariches de nous nuire, et invite à rompre avec cette société de provocationNotre dernier voyage
Par Jean-Marie Lapointe. 2023
Même si on la sait inévitable, la mort fait peur. Comment changer notre attitude face à elle ? Alors qu'il…
était confronté à la fin imminente de son père, Jean Lapointe, Jean-Marie Lapointe se sentait en paix, malgré les émotions qui affluaient. Est-ce sa démarche spirituelle influencée par le bouddhisme tibétain qui a fait la différence ? Ou son expérience des vingt dernières années auprès des jeunes en fin de vie ? L'auteur relate ce dernier voyage, avec simplicité, douceur et bienveillanceThe war below: Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our future
Par Ernest Scheyder. 2024
An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder. A new economic…
war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital building blocks. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change and powering crucial technologies. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of necessary materials, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder, whose exclusive access to sites around the globe has allowed him to gain unparalleled insights into a future without fossil fuels. The War Below reveals the explosive brawl among industry titans, conservationists, community groups, policymakers, and many others over whether some places are too special to mine or whether the habitats of rare plants, sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous holy sites, and other places should be dug up for their riches. With vivid and engaging writing, Scheyder shows the human toll of this war and explains why recycling and other newer technologies have struggled to gain widespread use. He also expertly chronicles Washington's attempts to wean itself off supplies from China, the global leader in mineral production and processing. The War Below paints a powerfully honest and nuanced picture of what is at stake in this new fight for energy independence, revealing how America and the rest of the world's hunt for the "new oil" directly affects us allstay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming black freedom
Par Khodi Dill. 2024
An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present…
danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives readers tools to understand how racism impacts their lives. From dismantling internalized racism, decolonizing schools, joining social justice movements and more, Dill lays out paths to personal liberation and social transformation. Vibrant, dramatic collages by stylo starr complement Dill's propulsive voice. Fueled by joy and hope as much as by rage and sorrow, this groundbreaking book empowers racialized young people to be confident in their identities and embrace the fullness of their futuresLoss: Poems to better weather the many waves of grief
Par Donna Ashworth. 2023
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEW For those cast adrift in the lonely sea of…
grief, this collection offers solace for when the water gets rough. Donna Ashworth's poetry reminds us that love and grief are intertwined, and life's true treasure lies in those we hold most dear. Intended to rejuvenate weary souls; these poems are a must for anyone who has lost someone. Readers are cherishing Loss - 'Emotional and beautifully written poems that reach out and speak to you.' ***** Amazon - 'I had to take multiple breaks just so I could read through my tears! It was so heartbreakingly beautiful that I just have no words!' ***** NetGalley - 'Simply WOW! Donna Ashworth's words touched my soul.' ***** NetGalley - 'Emotional and beautifully written poems that reach out and speak to you.' ***** NetGalleyOur Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
Par Gregor Craigie. 2024
An urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie Prize finalist and CBC…
Radio host Gregor Craigie, Our Crumbling Foundation offers real-life solutions from around the world and hope for new housing innovation in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles.Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appear to have topped out in early 2023, new housing isn’t coming onto the market quickly enough. Rising interest rates have only tightened the pressure on buyers, and renters, too, as rising mortgage rates cost landlords more, which are passed along to tenants in rent increases. Even with the recent federal budget commitment to bring more housing online by 2030, there will still be a shortfall of 3.5 million homes by 2030.Gregor Craigie is a CBC journalist in Victoria, one of the highest-priced housing markets in the country. On his daily radio show On The Island he's been talking for over 15 years to local experts and to those across the country about housing. Craigie has travelled to many of the places he profiles in the book, and in his interviews with Canadians he presents the human face of the shortfall as he speaks with renters, owners and homeless people, exploring their varying predicaments and perspectives. He then shows, through comparable profiles of people across the globe, how other North American and international jurisdictions (Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Helsinki, Singapore, Ireland, to name a few) are housing their citizens better, faster and with determination—solutions that could be put into practice here.With passion, knowledge and vigour, Craigie explains how Canada reached this critical impasse and will convince those who may not yet recognize how badly our entire country is in need of change. Our Crumbling Foundation provides hope for finding our way out of the crisis by recommending a number of approaches at all levels of government. The prescription for how we’re going to house ourselves and do so equitably, requires not just a business solution, nor simply a social solution.A Year of Last Things: Poems
Par Michael Ondaatje. 2024
One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje…
returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is.Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived here since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a "mongrel," someone born out of diverse cultures. Here, rediscovering the influence of every border crossed, he moves back and forth in time, from a childhood in Sri Lanka to Moliere’s chair during his last stage performance, from icons in Bulgarian churches to the California coast and loved Canadian rivers, merging memory with the present, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery, love and loss. At first sight it is a glittering collection of fragments and memories – but small, intricate pieces of a life are precisely what matter most to Ondaatje. They make an emotional history. As he writes in the opening poem: "Reading the lines he loves / he slips them into a pocket, / wishes to die with his clothes / full of torn free stanzas / and the telephone numbers / of his children in far cities". Poetry – where language is made to work hardest and burns with a gem-like flame – is what Ondaatje has returned to in this intimate history.The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
Par Laura Trethewey. 2023
A Globe and Mail Top 100 SelectionFive oceans cover approximately seventy per cent of the earth, yet we know little…
of what lies beneath them. Now, the race is on to completely map the oceans’ floor. Scientists, investors, militaries, and private explorers are competing in this epic venture to obtain an accurate reading of this vast terrain and understand its contours and environment. In The Deepest Map, Laura Trethewey chronicles this race to the bottom. Following global efforts around the world, she documents Inuit-led crowdsourced mapping in the Arctic as climate change alters the landscape, a Texas millionaire’s efforts to become the first man to dive to the deepest point in each ocean, and the increasingly fraught question of whether and how to mine the deep sea. A true tale of science, nature, technology, and extreme outdoor adventure, The Deepest Map both illuminates why we love — and fear — the earth’s final frontier and contributes to increasingly urgent conversations about climate change.100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One Summer
Par Heidi Lm Jacobs, Dale Jacobs, Heidi Lm Jacobs. 2021
From sandlots to major league stands, two fans set out to recapture their love of the game. For most of…
their lives together Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs couldn’t imagine a spring without baseball. Their season tickets renewal package always seemed to arrive on the bleakest day of winter, offering reassurance that sunnier times were around the corner. Baseball was woven into the fabric of their lives, connecting them not only to each other but also to their families and histories. But by 2017 it was obvious something was amiss: the allure of another Sunday watching their Detroit Tigers had devolved to obligation. Not entirely sure what they were missing, they did have an idea on where it might be found: in their own backyard. Drawing a radius of one hundred miles around their home in Windsor, Ontario, Dale and Heidi set a goal of seeing fifty games at all levels of competition over the following summer. From bleachers behind high schools, to manicured university turf, to the steep concrete stands of major league parks, 100 Miles of Baseball tells the story of how two fans rediscovered their love of the game—and with it their relationships and the region they call home.