Droits du Canada 2020–2021: Non-Fiction

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A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

Par (auteur) Steven Earle
Catégories: Science

A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4. 6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming ...

Technologies of the New Real

Par (auteur) Arthur Kroker & Marilouise Kroker
Catégories: Social Science
Séries: Digital Futures

With astonishing speed and little public debate, we now live in a reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and surveillance are common. Synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence ...

Damaged

Par (auteur) Robert Maunder, MD & Jonathan Hunter, MD
Catégories: Medical

Through an honest retelling of interactions between a dedicated psychiatrist and his most challenging patient, Isaac, Damaged makes the inspiring case that health care would be both more compassionate ...

Undressed Toronto

Par (auteur) Dale Barbour
Catégories: History

While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing ...

Spílexm

Par (auteur) Nicola I. Campbell
Catégories: Biography & Autobiography

Through vivid short stories and rich poetry, Nicola I. Campbell deftly weaves an extraordinary memoir about what it means to be an intergenerational survivor of Indian Residential Schools. | Captivating ...

China Unbound

Par (auteur) Joanna Chiu
Catégories: Political Science

As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe, making dramatic moves to become a dominant power. In China Unbound, award-winning foreign correspondent Joanna ...

Out of the Sun

Par (auteur) Esi Edugyan
Catégories: Social Science
Séries: The CBC Massey Lectures

History is a construction. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, ...

Open Every Window

Par (auteur) Jane Munro
Catégories: Biography & Autobiography

Open Every Window reveals the pain and power inherent in loving and being loved. A poignant evocation for anyone who has experienced loss, it will entrance with its lyricism and comfort with the writer’s ...

On Foot to Canterbury

Par (auteur) Ken Haigh
Catégories: Travel
Séries: Wayfarer

Setting off on foot from Winchester, Ken Haigh hikes across southern England, retracing a traditional route that medieval pilgrims followed to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. ...

Power

Par (auteur) Richard Heinberg
Catégories: Science

Power traces how humans have come to overpower the earth’s natural systems and to oppress one another, with catastrophic consequences. We must rapidly re-learn the lessons of power self-limitation rooted ...