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Canada - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & CultureHave a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar...
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En la casa de mis Abuelos: In my Grandparent's homeEn la casa de mis abuelos es un libro lleno de recuerdos en nuestra casa familiar. En muchas familias Mexicoamericanas hay más de una generación viviendo bajo el mismo techo... Alguna vez te has preguntado cómo es eso?Este es un libro de memorias creadas...
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Canada West Marco Polo Pocket GuideLet Marco Polo Canada West guide you around this beautiful region.Explore Western Canada with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the region's trendiest places, and get tips on shopping and what to do on a limited...
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Los Años Sabandijas / The Scoundrel Years«Detrás de cada game over, siempre hay otro play again. Esta es la historia de una gran amistad. Tanto Rubén (el Ruby) como Lamberto (el Roxy) son íntimos amigos de lo ajeno y tienen mucha prisa por devorarse la Ciudad de México al ritmo...
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A Pocketful of StarlightA Pocketful of Starlight is a collection of twenty-three vignettes of the human condition, beautifully supported by the magical water-colours of Denise Williams. Some are wrapped in the genre of fairy tale, and the trappings of times past; some border on the fringes of...
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Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico: Puebla de Los Ángeles, Sixteenth to Eighteenth CenturiesArchitecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, the...
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Bea's Outdoor AdventureBea is scared to go outside into mother nature. Everything seems scary and dangerous. However, with a little help from her mum and dada she learns to explore and try new things. Even if things seem a little scary at first, they can be...
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Moon Canadian Rockies: See Wildlife, Hiking & Skiing (Banff Travel Guide)Your passport to the most current, up-to-date recommendations on what to see and avoid, as well as what undiscovered gems are waiting for you, is Banff, Jasper, and Glacier National Parks. Together with your dependable travel partner, hike the Skyline Trail, keep an eye...
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Reckoning WavesAfter fleeing from Panic River four years earlier, Corey Flanagan has now changed virtually everything in his life-where he lives, how he creates art, his routines for work and play, and even his last name. The only true constants are his best friend Billy,...
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage"Masterful." Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound change. Fourteen years...
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All of Baba's ChildrenThe story of one womans personal discovery of her Canadian-Ukrainian cultural origins and the impact of that invigorating discovery on her life. A must-read for those interested in the history of all the peoples who helped shape and enrich Canada with their unique cultures....
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Vancouver: A Visual HistoryAbsolutely unique in its presentational style, Vancouver: A Visual History is a delightful and important book. This stunning, full-colour historical atlas brings to life Vancouver's first fourteen decades, beginning with a map of the 1850s depicting the land use, economy and settlement patterns of...
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Pathways of Reconciliation: Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the Trc's Calls to ActionSince the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: "How can I/we participate in reconciliation?" Recognizing that reconciliation is not only an ultimate...
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Rural Life: Portraits of the Prairie Town, 1946In the 1940s, the Manitoba Royal Commission on Adult Education investigated directions for the modernization of the province in the post-war era of change. It was charged particularly with looking at rural Manitoba's cultural, educational, and leadership opportunities in the wake of new technologies,...
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Imagining Winnipeg: History Through the Photographs of L.B. FooteIn an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city's pre-eminent commercial photographer. Documenting everything from royal visits to deep poverty, from the building of the landmark Fort Garry Hotel to the turmoil of the 1919...
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The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870Among the most dynamic Aboriginal peoples in western Canada today are the Ojibwa, who have played an especially vital role in the development of an Aboriginal political voice at both levels of government. Yet, they are relative newcomers to the region, occupying the parkland...
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The Kingdom of New MexicoThe story of the colonization of Northern New Mexico and one of its leading "parajes" (El Camino Real campsite) will fascinate anyone interested in the history of the American Southwest. For example, what cultures were there when the colonists arrived in 1598? What military...
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Black River Road: An Unthinkable Crime, an Unlikely Suspect, and the Question of CharacterShortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardIn 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities suspected foul play, but the identities of the victims...
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Beaverbrook: A Shattered LegacyWinner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardWere the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock...
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Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern MexicoIn Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file...
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