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  • Contours of the Nation

    Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945–1970

    de Deborah McPhail ...
    The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not solely a medical condition to be managed. In Canada, the discourse on obesity emerged during a time of social upheaval in the postwar period.Contours of the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Obesity in Canada

    Critical Perspectives

    Edición de Deborah McPhail, Wendy Mitchinson, Jenny Ellison ...
    Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be “prevented” and “managed.”Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book’s ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Acquired Tastes

    Why Families Eat the Way They Do

    de Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman, Josée Johnston, Deborah McPhail, Elaine M. Power, Helen Vallianatos ...
    Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices – whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal – serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the case that our food habits say more about where we come from and who we would like to be.This intimate portrait of eating habits and attitudes ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Great Depression

    1929-1939

    de Pierre Berton ...
    Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation.The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • They Called Me Number One

    de Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Chilcotin Yarns

    de Bruce Watt ...
    Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's Chilcotin adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too. The wildlife, landscape and quirky, down-to-earth people captivated Bruce, and despite the hard work and challenging conditions, the Watts put down roots, raising a family, alongside herds of cattle and horses.A ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Tragedy in the Commons

    Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy

    de Alison Loat, Michael MacMillan ...
    In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada.Though Canada is at the top of international rankings of democracies, Canadians themselves ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Great Halifax Explosion

    A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

    de John U. Bacon ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER * by the author ofThe Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldThe "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes“Enthralling. ... Gripping. ... A captivating and emotionally investing journey.” —Pittsbur... ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Canada

    de Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    The Great White North is revealed as the Great Weird North in this entertaining tome from the best-selling Bathroom Reader series.Did you know that Canada was almost called Hochelaga? That’s just one of thousands of wacky facts awaiting readers in Uncle John’s quirky celebration of Earth’s second largest country. You’ll find page after page of bizarre history (like why the beaver was once ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • La Place de la Concorde Suisse

    de John McPhee ...
    La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Reconciliation Manifesto

    Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

    de Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein ...
    In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau

    The Gang Of Eight And The Fight For Canada

    de Ron Graham ...
    Series series History of Canada
    Between the morning of Wednesday, November 4, and the morning of Thursday, November 5, 1981, a fateful drama unfolded that changed Canada forever.In one last attempt to renew the constitution with the consent of the provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in Ottawa with the ten premiers. It was the culmination of more than five decades of constitutional wrangling, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD