Discursive works

  • Co-Parenting from the Inside Out Voices of Moms and Dads

    Creator

    Kristjanson, Karen L.

    Kruk, Edward

    Abstract

    Karen L. Kristjanson shares the stories of a variety of divorced and separated couples who co-parent. Effective co-parenting, or sharing significant parenting time with an ex-spouse, is one of the best gifts separated parents can give to their children. The interviews in Co-Parenting from the Inside Out are with real moms and dads in diverse circumstances, showing them making choices, sometimes struggling, and often growing. Their stories offer insights into wise decision-making, as well as practical strategies that strengthen families.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

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  • Literary Titans Revisited The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties

    Creator

    Urbancic, Anne

    Abstract

    Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian literature, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Al Purdy, captured in Toppings’s interviews and readings, give intimate and compelling views of their developing prose and poetry, in their own words.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Foreign Voices in the House A Century of Addresses to Canada's Parliament by World Leaders

    Creator

    Boyer, J. Patrick

    Abstract

    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 Unique views from John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, and dozens of other world leaders reveal Canada and Canadians through their eyes. During the First World War, foreign leaders began addressing Canadians in our House of Commons and, ever since, have continued influencing how we think about our role in global affairs.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Through the Eyes of Serial Killers Interviews with Seven Murderers

    Creator

    Fezzani, Nadia

    Abstract

    Journalist Nadia Fezzani spent years probing the minds of serial killers in search of answers to unsettling questions: What went on in their heads as they prepared for their next crime? What drove them to murder not once, but habitually? Were they born killers, or had they begun as normal individuals and been somehow transformed into predators? Fezzani conducted groundbreaking, uncensored interviews with multiple-murderers behind bars. The account she pieces together from interviews, psychological research, criminal profiling, and genetic studies, is as unsettling as it is undeniable.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • The Dead Philosophers' Café : an exchange of letters for children and adults

    Creator

    K., Nora

    Abstract

    Eleven-year-old Nora K. received Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World as a birthday present, and in it she read about Plato’s theory of ideas. One problem especially intrigued her: What about the platonic idea of the dinosaur? Ideas are timeless and cannot die. The dinosaurs, however, became extinct ages ago. Does the idea of the dinosaur still exist all the same? Could it even be that the material world is a dream and time an illusion? Moreover, is there such a thing as free will, or is everything predetermined? Is the soul eternal? Do animals have a consciousness? Is the universe infinite?

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2000

    Non spécifié
  • The idea of Canada : letters to a nation

    Creator

    Johnston, David

    Abstract

    From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston's frank, informed, and novel thoughts about Canada.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto : Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, 2016

    Non spécifié
  • Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow

    Creator

    Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

    Abstract

    Through interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members as well as those who resisted the movement, explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people that by the time he became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth.

    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria Park

    Association for the blind of Western Australia

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