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Trailer Park Shakes
$22.95The poems in Trailer Park Shakes are direct and vernacular, rooted in community–a working-class Métis voice rarely heard from.
These poems, while dreamlike and playful, bear unflinching witness to the workings of injustice–how violence is channeled through institutions and refracted intimately between people, becoming intertwined with the full range of human experience, including care and love. Trailer Park Shakes is a book that seems to want to hold everything–an entire cross-section of lived experience–written by a poet whose courage, attention, and capacity to trace contradiction inspire trust in her words’ embrace. Dion-Glowa’s poems are quietly philosophical, with a heartfelt, self-possessed politic.
“Dion-Glowa’s voice crackles with frank, startling insight.”–Sachiko Murakami, author of Render
“A collection that should and will rattle your cage and shine a light where it is needed.”–John Brady McDonald, author of Kitotam
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Trails of Fredericton
$12.95The beautiful little city of Fredericton has always welcomed walkers, but now that it’s crisscrossed with abandoned railway lines turned into groomed trails, it’s a paradise for the self-propelled. As well as being a guide to these paths, Trails of Fredericton conveys the essence of the city in historical vignettes, anecdotes, and photographs.
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Trails of Greater Moncton
$14.95Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview are some of the fittest areas in New Brunswick. And, no wonder, these cities have one of the best-developed trail systems in the province and people in these cities are keeping fit, without even noticing.
Trails of Greater Moncton, a book by Riverview resident and freelance writer Kate Merlin orients residents and visitors alike in this hiker’s paradise. Many of the trails are easy, suitable for anyone with a couple of hours to spare. A few will challenge the adventurous.
A 2001 survey indicated that 98% of Dieppe respondents knew about their community’s TransCanada Trail, and of the 80% who had used it, more than half enjoyed its benefits at least once a week. Throughout the three cities, people use the trails vigorously, enjoying nature, keeping fit, and chatting with friends they know and friends they’ve just met. The TransCanada Trails links all three cities, winding along the banks of the Petitcodiac. It offers a ringside view of the famous Tidal Bore and, at low tide, the river’s hauntingly beautiful red mudflats.
All of the trails described in Trails of Greater Moncton are on public land. They include a mixture of groomed trails, wood roads, and rugged footpaths that allow hikers to move instantly from city streets to wild nature, giving hikers the opportunity to view old-growth trees, rare bog plants, and wildlife, ranging from raccoons to coyotes and sometimes a black bear.
Trails of Greater Moncton includes 25 carefully described walks and helpful hints for enjoying a Moncton walkabout. Each trail is accompanied by synoptic information, a map, and photographs, and sidebars on plants, animals, historic sites, and other landmarks. With a Trails-at-a-Glance chart and helpful hints for enjoying a Moncton walkabout, Trails of Greater Moncton is the indispensable companion for walkers, cyclists, and cross-country skiers of all ages and abilities.
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Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality, 2nd Edition
$16.95Featuring five new trails (three of which lead into Wilderness Protected Areas), newly added trailhead GPS coordinates, cellphone coverage details, hiking tips, and extra sidebar notes on flora, fauna, and historic sites that you’ll encounter along the way, the new edition of Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality is the essential guide to hiking in Nova Scotia’s most picturesque city. What’s more, each trail in the guide is graded to ensure that the route you select best suits your level of hiking experience.
The regional municipality of Halifax offers some of the best coastal hiking trails in the east, with breathtaking wilderness trails less than 30 minutes from the middle of the city. Some routes traverse the region’s protected areas, while others cross inner-city parks and venture on the islands in Halifax harbour. Winding around lakes, along the ocean, in regional parks, and even through the middle of the city, Halifax’s trails offer fascinating routes for visitors, families, and serious or Sunday hikers.
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Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality, 3rd Edition
$27.95A comprehensive hiking guide to Atlantic Canada’s largest urban space, Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality, 3rd Edition, marks the arrival of a new compendium by the East Coast’s most accomplished hiker, Michael Haynes. Featuring 50 new and revamped trails, this updated edition contains Haynes’s latest recommendations for recreation within a city that’s seen significant changes to its landscape through both urban development and climate change.
Featuring short, medium, and long trails (including several specifically recommended for winter hiking), Haynes’s latest trail guide holds the secret to a perfect Halifax daytrip for everyone from those looking to break in their first pair of hiking boots to experienced hikers. This family-friendly volume marks the first update to Haynes’s seminal Halifax trail guide series since 2010.
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Trails of Prince Edward Island
$24.95This new guide features more than 50 trails for hiking and cycling on Prince Edward Island, Canada’s own emerald isle, included in the book are new trails in Prince Edward Island National Park and the just-completed Confederation Trail, the final (or initial, depending on which way you’re facing!) leg of the Trans-Canada Trail.
Michael Haynes hiked and mapped each trail and provides detailed maps, trail descriptions, and GPS coordinates, as well as information on time, length, difficulty, and facilities available on each route. He also includes photographs, charts, tips for hikers and cyclists, and sidebars on historical, cultural, and natural subjects.
Whether you’re planning a months-long trek from one coast of Canada to the other, or a picnic on the beach within view of a lighthouse, Trails of Prince Edward Island is the hiker’s best companion, an authoritative and entertaining guide to this gem of Confederation.
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Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian
$26.95The global pandemic has completely disrupted how, where, and when we work and added tremendous pressure to individuals and their families. Learn how to refocus and achieve your full potential from one of the world’s top mental performance coaches. In Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian, Jean François Ménard provides the skills necessary to:
- Remain focused in the face of distractions
- Overcome negative self-talk and replace it with a constructive mindset
- Recover quickly and learn from setbacks
- Be comfortable with the uncomfortable
Elite athletes need to deal with multiple distractions, manage their stress levels, and have robust self-confidence to deliver podium-worthy performances. In our current work-from-home reality, these pressures are also experienced by those of us who are asked to do more with less and work longer hours with fewer distinctions between work and private lives. The pressure to perform at your best and be on the mark is always present, and let’s face it, being consistently great in an environment like this is easier said than done. Whether your performance realm is the playing field, the workplace, the home office, or the classroom, mental strength is no longer simply an asset. It’s an absolute necessity.
Thriving at work and in life doesn’t happen by accident: there are teachable skills that can help you stay positive, stay focused, and unleash your full potential. This book will give you exclusive access to techniques and strategies that help Cirque du Soleil artists, Olympians, and pro athletes become the best in the world.
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Traitors of Camp 133, The
$16.95Captain Mueller is dead. Hanged, apparently by his own hand. But ex-police officer and war hero Sergeant August Neumann doesn’t think it’s quite so simple. How could it be with blackshirts, legionnaires, and communist sympathisers vying for control of the camp?
Now Sergeant Neumann must navigate these treacherous cliques to find the truth while under the watchful eyes of his Canadian captors.
Wayne Arthurson manages to hook you on the first page of this masterful mystery. The Traitors of Camp 133 is historical fiction at its best, a wonderful achievement, and a thoroughly entertaining read.
–David Swinson, author of The Second GirlThe Traitors of Camp 133 is a murder mystery that delivers. Wayne Arthurson wraps his mystery in a fascinating subculture: German POWs in a Southern Alberta camp shortly after the Allies invade Normandy. It’s a great read.
–Todd Babiak, author of Come Barbarians and Son of FranceThe joy of this book is in the meticulously researched details; watching the way Arthurson’s August Neumann navigates the peculiar society within the barbed wire (and without) is fascinating stuff, and the solid, satisfying mystery is the cherry on top.
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Tranquility Lost
$21.95In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed by the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources planning for the future of the residents and the ministry’s stated intention to use newly tabled legislation to terminate Tranquille employees without cause and avoid any other collective agreement obligations to employees. Consequently, BCGEU members decided to sit-in and occupy the institution by expelling management, running the institution themselves and publicly advocating for quality community care for people with intellectual disabilities. They did so for nearly a month.Tranquility Lost chronicles the political and public policy conditions leading up to the occupation, the day-to-day activities of the occupation itself, the challenges faced by the workers and negotiations leading to an agreement. Steeves’s account profiles the courage of Tranquille employees and their unprecedented use of collective bargaining as a tool to address conditions faced by government clients as well as government employees themselves.
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Transcona Fragments
$14.95transcona fragments is Jon Paul Fiorentino’s second collection of poems. The book’s point of departure is the suburban community of Transcona, a railway town that has been stitched to the city of Winnipeg.
The poems move from vivid imagistic fragments that capture the essence of Transcona, to explorations of familial history, to sensitive, self-referential engagement of the “lyric I” – a voice made up of melancholy, anxiety and psychotropic experience. These are poems that offer the reader unique notions of home, memory, and self.
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Transferral
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Transformations
$17.95John Reibetanz captures the ordinary details of life — family and friendship, birth and death — and transforms them into the extraordinary. His seventh book of poetry is a masterful collection, finely crafted with wit, warmth and affection.
Transformations is divided into four parts, each providing a different perspective on the main theme. Choosing not to confront but to explore, he allows for subtle revelations of a deeper truth which hover just beneath the surface, turning the world upside down and right side up again with his poetic “transformations.” The result is nothing short of magical.
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Transformations: The Life of Margaret Fulton
$18.95Raised on a Manitoba farm in the 20s and 30s, Margaret Fulton, like many women of her time, became a teacher. Strongly influenced by thinkers like Thomas Carlyle and Virginia Woolf, Fulton diverged from the traditional career path. She forged her way to become the only female president of a coeducational university in Canada, when she took on that role at Halifax’s Mount St. Vincent University in 1978.
A feminist, teacher, theorist of education, public speaker, and advocate of social and political reform, Fulton has received the Order of Canada, a Governor General’s Award and more than a dozen honourary degrees in recognition of her life’s work. In Transformations: The Life of Margaret Fulton, James Doyle explores her life, formative experiences, and widely respected ideas on education. Written with Fulton’s blessing, this biography celebrates her lifelong commitment to positive change and her role as an important catalyst in the ongoing process of social transformation.
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Transgression
$10.99In the summer of 1946 a Canadian farmer in Paris, Ontario finds a severed finger lying in his field. It points to a grisly murder that occurred nearby. It also points back in time to a young French woman, sixteen year old Adele Georges, the daughter of a well-respected doctor in war-torn France. Living in German-occupied France and with her beloved father missing in action, Adele meets a young German clerk called Manfred Halder who tries to help her and she makes the mistake of falling in love. They carry on a clandestine affair. Adele is terrified that her secret will be discovered by her brother who is fighting in the French underground and that she’ll be exposed as a collaborator. In their youthful naivete Adele and Manfred agree to run away together, but before they can put their plan into action the Allies land on the beaches of Normandy and Manfred is swallowed up in the raging battle that ensues.
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Transit Progress Derailed:
$29.95In the early 1900s, electricity was THE booming technology, and with it, electric railways. Almost all electric power was privately-generated, and the continent’s street railways delivered significant profits to their private shareholders. Although he was a prosperous London, Ontario manufacturer (while simultaneously the Mayor and the Conservative member of Ontario’s provincial Legislature), Adam Beck believed in the benefits of a publicly-owned electricity grid (‘Power at Cost!’). He was opposed to privately-owned companies whose high rates inadequately served public needs. Beck was convinced that government-ownership would result in lower costs, to be passed on to the public, causing the use of electric technology to spread well beyond the privileged elite. His political acumen and connections resulted in the 1906 creation of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission, Ontario Hydro, the world’s first publicly-owned utility. Premier Whitney appointed Beck as Chairman while also sitting as the government’s ‘Power Minister’. Hydro would advocate a municipally-owned hydro-electric system, funded by the Province, generating electricity from Niagara Falls as well as other Ontario lake and river sources. The utility would thus spur economic development by bringing cheap public power to Ontario’s many energy-hungry municipalities. It would only be a short time after the first public power flowed through the wires to Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener-Waterloo) in October 1910 that Beck had delivered the first step in his grandiose plan to place Hydro at the centre of the province’s economic, political and social agenda. Two years later, at a Brantford, Ontario meeting, he mused aloud that what the Province really needed was a series of electrically-powered railways. He was knighted by King George V in 1914 for his promotion of electricity and development of transmission lines, but, with the 1915 introduction of legislation outlining his network of long-distance electric interurban railways (also known as ‘radials’) scheme, Beck had unknowingly created the process that would cost him his career.
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Transitions of a Still Life
$32.95Tam Irving, ceramic artist, has lived in British Columbia for the past 50 years and during this time he has been at the heart of the changing social, political and cultural relationships that have informed the development of studio ceramics in this province. This beautifully illustrated book examines Tam?s craft as a unique cultural activity: one that combines both art and science to express the subtle content and sensuous tactility of vessel and sculpture. The core of the publication is about recording excellence and providing a stimulating legacy document for future scholars, artists and researchers. This book will recognize the contributions that Irving has made to the development of the ceramic medium within the province and to the larger Canadian and international ceramic community.