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  • V6A

    Writing from Vancouvers Downtown Eastside

    Modifié par John Mikhail Asfour, Elee Kraljii Gardiner ...
    An anthology that refracts the experience of writers, new and established, who have been part of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside in some way. Their work reappropriates the coding of the area and recasts the neighborhood as a site of creative energy and human dignity. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

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    One of the Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of the Year: "Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny" (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world's most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    par David S. Landes ...
    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Startle and Illuminate

    Carol Shields on Writing

    par Carol Shields ...
    Shimmering with her unique style, sense, humour, vision and wit, Startle and Illuminate is a book of advice and reflections on writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields that is destined to become as valued and essential as Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.An essential work from one of Canada's finest ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • $2.00 A Day

    Living on Almost Nothing in America

    par Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThe story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention." (The New York Times)Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • All God's Children

    par Rene Denfeld ...
    James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group -- they called themselves a "family" -- was arrested for a string of violent murders.While Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to ... En savoir plus

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  • Let's Explore Canada (Most Famous Attractions in Canada)

    Canada Travel Guide

    par Baby Professor ...
    Collections series Children's Explore the World Books
    This picture book features amazing Canada. It is a wonderful tourism material that is highly educational and fun to go over too. Do you know that picture books may have only about 500 words but are effective in language development? That's right! They break language down by using evocative pictures that are highly engaging. Go, grab a copy today! ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Blaming the Victim

    par William Ryan ...
    The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor.Here are three myths about poverty in America:– Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.”– African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal.– Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest ... En savoir plus

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  • Ten Canadian Writers in Context

    Modifié par Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie, Jason Purcell ...
    Collections series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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    Everything You Wanted to Know About Vancouver and Were Going to Ask Anyway

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    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • In Their Own Hands

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    Two and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can’t reach them; savings groups can.In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund to each other for their short-term needs. Jeffrey Ashe and Kyla Neilan illustrate how these savings ... En savoir plus

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  • Preventing the Future

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    par Tom Garvin ...
    Between the years of the mid-thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation – especially the depression of the thirties and the Second World War – Preventing the Future argues that the situation was aggravated by internal ... En savoir plus

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