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Our Vanishing Glaciers

Par (auteur) Robert William Sandford
Catégories: Tourisme et voyage

Written by one of the most respected experts in water and water-associated climate science and featuring photography collected over the past four decades, Our Vanishing Glaciers explains and illustrates ...

Radical Transformation

Par (auteur) Kevin MacKay
Catégories: Engagement politique

Drawing on a vast knowledge of history, human evolution, philosophy, and modern complexity theory, MacKay tells a story that recognizes the marvels of human civilization while revealing its dark tendency ...

Little Red River Cree Nation Nature Guide

Par (auteur) Kevin Kuipers
Catégories: Histoire naturelle

The First Nations communities of western Canada have a rich heritage in their knowledge of the aspects of nature and have for generations recognized the vast diversity of plants that help to nourish and ...

Plants of the Rocky Mountains

Par (auteur) Linda Kershaw, Andy MacKinnon & Jim Pojar
Catégories: Flore sauvage

Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are included, ...

Tar Wars

Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental ...

Peace in Peril, The

Par (auteur) Christopher Pollon
Photographies de Ben Nelms
Catégories: La Terre

Christopher Pollon is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, and the Globe and Mail. Ben Nelms is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Maclean’s ...

Plants of Coastal British Columbia

Par (auteur) Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon
Illustré par Author Various
Catégories: Flore sauvage

This easy-to-use field guide features 794 species of plants commonly found along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and ...

Articulating Dinosaurs

Par (auteur) Brian Noble
Catégories: Histoire des sciences

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how specimens and humans create dinosaurs together. He examines the resurrection of two of the most iconic and gendered dinosaurs: ...

Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada

Canada is home to a vast diversity of plants that have helped nourish and heal our people for thousands of years. Find out about: * First Nations uses of plant species * Gathering and preparing wild plants ...

The World Won't Wait

Édité par Roland Paris & Taylor Owen
Catégories: Politique et gouvernement
Séries: UTP Insights

The World Won’t Wait is the clearest and most comprehensive collection of progressive thinking on Canadian international policy available today. ”Adam Chapnick, Royal Military College of Canada ...