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Exploring Toronto: A Guide to 28 Unique Public SpacesA full-colour guide to dozens of unique outdoor spaces that highlight Toronto as a sustainable, liveable city.Toronto is rich in public spaces -- deeply incised ravines, lively neighbourhoods, lush gardens and parks, iconic bridges, even repurposed industrial silos and undercrofts of elevated highways. Urban...
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Easy Spanish Phrase Book New Edition: Over 700 Realistic Phrases for Everyday UseThis bilingual Spanish phrase book is a perfect companion for all travelers and expats in Spain and Latin America! This inexpensive and practical reference tool is written as an easy-to-use travel and study guide, offering fast, realistic day-to-day communication necessary to deal in all...
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Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British ColumbiaThe subject of wildlife both unites and deeply divides British Columbians. From concern over dwindling orca populations to deeply political debates over hunting and harvesting, questions surrounding fish and wildlife harvest rights and methods, and the effects of industrial resource extraction, tourism, and residential...
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Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and FeminicideIn Sonic Strategies, author Christina Baker highlights the tactics employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violence surrounding the nation's War on Drugs. The introduction opens with a description of the 2007 reenactment of the Grito, or "cry," of independence,...
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Justin Trudeau: Prime Minister of CanadaIntroduces readers to the political career of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Engaging infographics, thought-provoking discussion questions, and eye-catching photos give the reader an invaluable look into Canada and the office of its current leader.Author: J. J. StewartPublisher: Focus ReadersPublished: 01/01/2018Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in MexicoSince the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenced thousands more. Such high levels of violence and corruption question one of the fundamental assumptions of modern societies, that democracy and press freedom are...
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Guide to the Canadian Family Medicine Examination, Second EditionPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The FIRST - and most comprehensive - review available for the Canadian Family Medicine Licensing Exam - enhanced...
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First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st CenturyThe definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future. First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere...
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Explorer's Guide San Miguel de Allende & Guanajuato: A Great DestinationNow in its second edition, this favorite guide has been restyled and is illustrated with full-color maps and photos throughout. Distinctive for their accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the diverse travel guides in our Explorer's Great Destinations series meet the conflicting demands of the...
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CanadaUnimaginably large, Canada's untamed wilderness consists of shimmering glaciers, dramatic ocean vistas, and forests of fiery maple trees. Urban Canada also offers plenty to explore, from the dynamic buzz of Vancouver to the gleaming skyscrapers of Toronto.Whether you want to hike along exhilarating trails...
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A Queer History of NewfoundlandThere have always been queers in Newfoundland and Labrador. The powerful story of queer community-building and activism in Canada's most easterly province has never been told in comprehensive book form - until now. A QUEER HISTORY OF NEWFOUNDLAND provides an unprecedented glimpse into this...
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Wallpaper* City Guide TorontoThe fast-track guide for the smart traveller.Your passport to global style, Wallpaper* City Guides present an insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Under slick Pantone covers, these pocket-sized travel bibles unearth the hippest nightlife, the buzziest...
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The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of YucatanThe Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original...
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Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central role...
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Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of GoldFrom the bestselling author of Born to Be Hanged comes a transporting account of the obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan England's political intrigues and the rival Spanish conquistadors vying for El Dorado's treasure. As early as 1530,...
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Our Three New Years!Tory and Andy are five-year-old twins who celebrate not one, not two, but THREE different New Years! See how the twins and their family celebrate Lunar New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the end of the calendar year-especially the different yummy foods they eat. Meet...
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NextOne of the great Canadian actors of his generation, Gordon Pinsent has worked in theatre, and on film and television, for more than six decades. In this compelling and candid, engaging and entertaining memoir, Pinsent shares career highlights - including roles in Quentin Durgens,...
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Hoping to Hear from You Soon: Canadian War Letters, 1940-1945Born in 1948, Sheila Cornett grew up in a time when almost everyone's father had served in the Second World War. Like many veterans of that conflict, her own father did not talk about his wartime experiences. Six decades later and after her mother's...
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Gang Gang and Baboomba Bear: Lessons Learned from a Funny-Looking BearLessons Learned from a Funny-Looking BearThe stories in Gang Gang and Baboomba Bear go back to when my grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Underhill, whom I called Gang Gang, would put me on his knee and tell me story after story about a very special bear...
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Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and WarIn this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women-preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter-and the elites' desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy.The three key figures of nineteenth-century Mexico-Antonio López de...
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