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Bad Judgment — Revised & Updated
The Myths of First Nations Equality and Judicial Independence in Canada
John Reilly’s second book, Bad Judgment, details the author’s battle with the Canadian justice system and the difficulties he faced trying to adapt Eurocentric Canadian law for the benefit of First...
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Bad Medicine — Revised & Updated
A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community
John Reilly’s first book, Bad Medicine, was an immediate sensation and Canadian bestseller that sparked controversy and elicited praise nationwide for its honest portrayal of First Nations tribal c...
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With You By Bike
One Couple’s Life-Changing Journey Around the World
After many years together Katrina and Mike's marriage has unravelled. In a quest to mend their relationship they embark on a year long, 13,000 kilometre cycling tour with the hope of strengthening ...
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In My Own Moccasins
A Memoir of Resilience
Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, interge...
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Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss
Life and Death at the Birth of Free-Climbing
Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature Shortlisted for the 2019 Boardman Tasker Award An intriguing biography of the renowned Austrian alpinist Paul Preuss, wh...
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Restraints in Dementia Care
A Nurse’s Guide to Minimizing Their Use
Your best tool to optimize patient care by minimizing restraint use Frontline nurses face fraught decisions every day about whether and how to use restraints in dementia care. They need to conside...
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Tiny Lights for Travellers
Why couldn’t I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here...
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Say Something!
Writing Essays that Make the Grade
Stop boring your professors with tedious, predictable essays. Get better grades! How do you write a great essay? It’s not about five paragraphs filled with quotations from experts—you need to disco...
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West Coast 123s
Hooray! Time for a new and colourful 123 adventure with bestselling children's author and illustrator Jocey Asnong, along the remarkable west coast of Canada. Jocey Asnong’s vibrant and whimsical ...
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When Trains Ruled the Rockies
My Life at the Banff Railway Station
When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962. Drawn from Terry Gainer’s personal memories and experiences from his years living and working...
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Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid
A remarkable and profound collection of reflections by one of North America’s most important Indigenous leaders. My name is Wa’xaid, given to me by my people. ‘Wa’ is ‘the river’, ‘Xaid’ is ‘good’...
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Family Walks and Hikes in the Canadian Rockies - Volume 1
Bragg Creek - Kananaskis - Bow Valley - Banff National Park
Family Walks and Hikes is an exciting new series of books written specifically for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. These accurate, attractive guides feature expertly curated routes, ...
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The Man Who Lived with a Giant
Stories from Johnny Neyelle, Dene Elder
Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and to accept what has to happen. The Man Who Lived with a Giant presents traditional and personal stories told by...
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Popular Day Hikes: Kananaskis Country — Revised & Updated
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established s...
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Popular Day Hikes: South-Central Okanagan — Revised & Updated
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a bestselling series of books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established s...
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Popular Day Hikes: Canadian Rockies — Revised & Updated
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established s...
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Popular Day Hikes: Northern Okanagan — Revised & Updated
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established s...
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Popular Day Hikes: Vancouver Island — Revised & Updated
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established s...
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Perception
Artist KC Adams’s Perception Photo Series first appeared on billboards, in storefronts, in bus shelters, and projected on Winnipeg’s downtown buildings. The photographs confronted common stereotype...
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry w...
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What You Take with You
Wildfire, Family and the Road Home
We stopped to watch the helicopters swoop down to fill the water baskets, like hummingbirds at a feeder. That was when we saw a new plume of smoke rising to the southwest. Four years after Therese...
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From Turtle Island to Gaza
With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabe writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared under...
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Stuck!
Learn to Love Your Screenplay Again
Maybe you have a great idea for a movie, and you’re thinking to yourself, “Man, if I only knew how to write a screenplay.” Maybe you’ve started your screenplay already, but you get to a certain poi...
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Alice at Naptime
A beautifully poetic exploration of being both a new mother and an artist, told using her own unique graphic novel and fine art approach.When Alice was born her mother only found time to draw her w...
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In the News, 3rd edition
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Now in its third edition, In the News is the standard Canadian textbook on media relations, used across the country. The authors provide an introduction to media relations, grounded in both communi...
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Government Information in Canada
Access and Stewardship
Public access to government information forms the foundation of a healthy liberal democracy, but because this information can be precarious, it needs stewardship. Government Information in Canada p...
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The Creation of iGiselle
Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games
The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in th...
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Most of What Follows is True
Places Imagined and Real
In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business. Most of What Follows Is T...
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Bogart Creek
Collecting the best of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden’s laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. Similar in style to The Far Side, Bogart Creek is a perfect book for washr...
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Strategies for the MCCQE Part II
Mastering the Clinical Skills Exam in Canada
The one resource you absolutely need for the MCCQE Part II. Up to date with the MCC’s 2018 exam revisions. Prepare to ace the Medical Council of Canada’s clinical skills exam, the MCCQE Part II. T...
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Implicating the System
Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women
Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and t...
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Entryways to Criminal Justice
Accusation and Criminalization in Canada
To understand why prisons are frequently overcrowded and expanding, we need to recognize the processes that populate them. How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse s...
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The Spine Chillers
The Spine Chillers is an episodic comic strip relating to the little known story about the time the world's greatest writers shared a small boarding house, living together to create some of the mos...
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Indigenous Education
New Directions in Theory and Practice
For Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading scholars in contemporary Indigenous education from North Americ...
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No Surrender
The Land Remains Indigenous
Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultu...
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The Stories Were Not Told
Canada’s First World War Internment Camps
From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly imprisoned as “enemy aliens,” some with their famili...
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The Unexpected Cop
Indian Ernie on a Life of Leadership
The cop who blew the whistle on Saskatoon’s notorious “Starlight Tours,” Ernie Louttit is the bestselling author of two previous “Indian Ernie” books. He demonstrates in this latest title that bein...
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John Rae, Arctic Explorer
The Unfinished Autobiography
John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae’s accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,55...
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Weird Cars
Super Explorers want to show you some of the weirdest cars in the world, from a car shaped like a shoe to a dragon car, and an amphibious car to one powered by steam: • Some tiny cars have three w...
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Castles & Knights
Super Explorers takes you back in time to the Middle Ages when people lived in castles, and knights wore suits of armor and chain mail: • Many castles were surrounded by large water-filled moats. •...
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