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Auto/biography in Canada

Auto/biography in Canada

Critical Directions
edited by Julie Rak
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tagged : communication studies, canadian

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on cr …

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The Summer of Apartment X

The Summer of Apartment X

by Lesley Choyce
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Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It's the fateful summer between high school and university, early 1970s version. Equipped with two barely mobile cars and a seized-up MG …

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The H Factor of Personality

The H Factor of Personality

Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone
by Kibeom Lee & Michael C. Ashton
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tagged : personality, applied psychology, interpersonal relations

People who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. The “H” in the H factor stands for “Honesty-Humility,” one of the six basic dimensions of the human personality.

It isn’t intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility go hand in hand, and until very recently the H …

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Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Historical Perspectives
edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
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tagged : popular culture, gender studies, health care issues

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires …

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The World of Niagara Wine

The World of Niagara Wine

edited by Michael Ripmeester; Phillip Gordon Mackintosh & Christopher Fullerton
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tagged : wine & spirits, human geography, popular culture

The World of Niagara Wine is a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry that celebrates and critiques the local wine industry and situates it in a complex web of Old World traditions and New World reliance on technology, science, and taste as well as global processes and local sociocultural reactions.

In the first section, contribu …

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Living Recovery

Living Recovery

Youth Speak Out on “Owning” Mental Illness
by JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey
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Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness through the recovery model ELAR—emergence, loss, adaptation, and recovery. The …

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Indian Country

Indian Country

Essays on Contemporary Native Culture
by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
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tagged : native american studies, popular culture, cultural

Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and po …

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The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland

The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland

The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization
by Leenco Lata
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Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata demonstrates that conflicts within and between states tend to connect seamlessly in the …

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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

by Daniel Heath Justice
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tagged : indigenous studies, books & reading, native american

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.

In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, t …

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From Sugar to Revolution

From Sugar to Revolution

Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
by Myriam J.A. Chancy
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tagged : women's studies, caribbean & latin american

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies—the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Myriam Ch …

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Cabbagetown Diary

Cabbagetown Diary

A Documentary
by Juan Butler & Tamas Dobozy
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Robert Fulford called it “a remarkable glimpse of the underbelly of Toronto,” but the reviews that greeted the publication of Cabbagetown Diary in 1970 were decidedly mixed. The novel’s rowdy concoction of grit and violence and rooming-house sleaze had a strongly polarizing effect on its readers. Many admired the frankness of Butler’s depic …

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Love and War in London

Love and War in London

A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942
edited by Robert W. Malcolmson, by Olivia Cockett
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tagged : historical, women, personal memoirs

Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged edition of her candid and evocative diary.

Love and War in London: A Woman’s …

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Borrowed Tongues

Borrowed Tongues

Life Writing, Migration, and Translation
by Eva C. Karpinski
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tagged : translating & interpreting, women, feminist

Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulat …

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Anne of Tim Hortons

Anne of Tim Hortons

Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
by Herb Wyile
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Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture, and history, author Herb Wyile highlights how thes …

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Figuring Redemption

Figuring Redemption

Resighting My Self in the Art of Michael Snow
by Tila L. Kellman
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tagged : criticism & theory, canadian, contemporary (1945-)

Can visual art help redeem one’s sense of self, damaged by technological society?

Michael Snow’s work is often described as self-referential, meaning that it “talks” about the relationships between its materials and images, largely ignoring relationships beyond the “frame.” However, since the work also encompasses the way in which the i …

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Unravelling Encounters

Unravelling Encounters

Ethics, Knowledge, and Resistance under Neoliberalism
edited by Caitlin Janzen; Donna Jeffery & Kristin Smith
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This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement, and racism inform and shape our practices, pedagogi …

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Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India

Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 10
edited by Gérard Vallée
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tagged : india & south asia, social history, social work

Social Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale’s more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health in India, was top-down reform, notably in the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, this book documents concrete proposals for s …

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Antonin Artaud’s Alternate Genealogies

Antonin Artaud’s Alternate Genealogies

Self-Portraits and Family Romances
by John C. Stout
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tagged : french, entertainment & performing arts, drama

Most readers know Antonin Artaud as a theorist of the theatre and as a playwright, director and actor manqué. Now, John C. Stout’s highly original study installs Artaud as a writer and theorist of biography.

In Alternate Genealogies Stout analyzes two separate but interrelated preoccupations central to Artaud’s work: the self-portrait and the …

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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

by Christine Baldacchino, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
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age: 4 to 7
Grade: p to 2
Reading age: 4 to 7
tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance, clothing & dress, friendship

Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves his classroom’s dress-up center and its tangerine dress.

Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. He dreams about having space adventures, paints beautiful pictures and sings the loudest during circle time. But most of all, Morris loves his classro …

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Revelación

Revelación

(Exposure)
by Patricia Murdoch
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance, bullying, values & virtues

Julie está cansada de que la atormenten en la escuela, harta de no encajar en ninguna parte y de ser el centro de las bromas. Un día, su hermano trae a casa una cámara con imágenes de su principal torturador en una situación comprometida y Julie ve la oportunidad de igualar las condiciones del juego. Pero cuando su intento de voltear las cosas …

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Mud City

Mud City

by Deborah Ellis
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age: 10 to 14
Grade: 5 to 9
Reading age: 10 to 14
tagged : middle east, self-esteem & self-reliance, girls & women

The third book in the internationally bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey and My Name Is Parvana.

Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France.This is th …

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Ni un dia más

Ni un dia más

(Kicked Out)
by Beth Goobie
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : parents, self-esteem & self-reliance, coming of age

Dime tiene 15 años y siempre está enojada. Sus padres no la comprenden y su hermano quedó paralizado por un accidente. Cuando las peleas y las acusaciones la sobrepasan, Dime se muda con su hermano. Pero los problemas la siguen. Si Dime no entiende que debe comenzar a responsabilizarse de sus actos, nada va a cambiar.

Dime is fifteen and always a …

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Night Street Repairs

Night Street Repairs

by A.F. Moritz
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To read A.F. Moritz is to find out what it means to be alive at this juncture of history. These poems are mansions, both derelict and opulent. Wander in with the mind open and hear what the ages, humanity, and the myth of progress have wrought.

Night Street Repairs contains necessary meditations on time, modernity, and our current situation as a soc …

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Hot New Thing

Hot New Thing

by Laura Langston
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : film, self-esteem & self-reliance, non-classifiable

Lily is discovered by a big-name director when she’s auditioning for a role in a toothpaste commercial.

He wants her for his new movie, which is great except for the fact that it’s shooting in Los Angeles and Lily lives in Vancouver. With the help of her Chinese grandmother, she convinces her parents to let her go to LA with her agent as a chape …

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Boy O'Boy

Boy O'Boy

by Brian Doyle
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age: 11 to 13
Grade: 6 to 8
Reading age: 11 to 13
tagged : multigenerational, sexual abuse, canada

Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, and an ALA Notable Books List selection

Martin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant mother and father fight all the time and his twin, Phil, is completely incapacitated. Martin is the one his mother cou …

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Respira

Respira

(Breathless)
by Pam Withers
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : dating & sex, water sports, eating disorders & body image

Beverly está en Hawaii ayudando a su tío en su tienda de submarinismo, aprendiendo a bucear y tratando de bajar de peso y conseguir novio. Cuando Garth, un excelente buzo, se interesa por ella, Beverly está feliz, hasta que resulta que a Garth no le interesa más que una cosa. Cada vez más débil por la drástica dieta que se impuso ella misma, …

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