Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspec...

Toda história de vida tem valor e potência. Um lugar de encontro, em que nos percebemos e encontramos. É isso o que 46 pessoas, homens e mulheres, contam aqui. Como ponto em comum, todos vivenciam algum tipo de dor causada por uma doença que ameaça a continuidade de suas vidas. Gente que se encontra sob "Cuidados Paliativos" expressão que por muito tempo gerou tabu e desconforto em quem não compreendia a extensão desse cuidado. Todos aqueles que enfrentam os desafios impostos por uma doenç...

Solitude des premiers salons du livre, erreurs sur la personne, séances de dédicaces interminables, cadeaux des lecteurs, témoignages émouvants, insultes et humiliations, séjours à l’étranger, fêtes et durs lendemains de veille, moments décisifs et consécrations, péripéties de tout acabit… Cinquante-huit auteurs, des plus grandes stars de la littérature française et québécoise aux auteurs encore méconnus, nous racontent des anecdotes de salons du livre cocasses et touchantes, véritables fe...

This book presents a global overview of the background to, and the current state of, crop protection and pest management in cotton crops. Cotton is one of the most economically important crops in the world and has been grown for centuries but maintaining high yields of good quality requires sophisticated approaches to pest management. The introduction and use of pesticides over the decades significantly increased cotton yields but lead to many adverse environmental impacts. Over time, new ...

Arthur Smith takes a trip down memory lane with celebrities including Miriam Margolyes, Tony Benn and Jack Vettriano'Charming' The TimesComedian and broadcaster Arthur Smith plays tour guide to fifteen well-known personalities, as they visit places that are meaningful to them and remember pivotal moments in their lives. Through genial chat, humorous banter and gentle probing, he discovers just what made these locations so special a...

Some argue existence is an exercise in futility. They claim there are no winners in life. Ultimately, we are insignificant in the face of vast cosmic intelligences that were old when the Universe began.The best minds gibber at the incomprehensibility of it all. Other minds lose themselves in strange geometries because they can't comprehend any alternative.Whatever. The rest of us have to get up in the morning, feed the cat, and go to work.The Cozy Cosmic contains 3...

Il y a cinquante ans cette année paraissait le numéro spécial « La sociologie au Québec » sous la direction de Jean-Charles Falardeau. Deux questions présidaient à cette entreprise : « comment on fait des sociologues; ce qu’ont fait les sociologues » (Falardeau, 1974a, p. 133). Les sociologues du Québec de langue française furent invités à parler de sociologie : « celle qui les a inspirés; celle qu’ils ont faite; celle qu’ils ont voulu communiquer » (Ibid.). Pour l’occasion, environ 400 so...

Pour la troisième année consécutive, nous vous emmenons à la rencontre des Ville Makers. De Paris à Grenoble en passant par Sète et Aix-en-Provence, les contributrices et les contributeurs réunis dans ce volume par Michel Mathieu, Directeur général de LCL, leader des banques urbaines, ont en commun de s’être appuyés sur la culture, pour mieux surmonter la crise Covid.Dans la ville du futur, résiliente, inventive, imaginative, l’art est un vecteur de lien, de coh sion. Une violoncel...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

• 2025 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award• Explores 5D tools and essential skills for transforming the world around you, including practices for thinking in 5D, accelerating your vibrational rate, transforming beliefs, and cleaning your 12 DNA strands• Includes meditations to help you upgrade your MerKaBa, anchor in 5D consciousness, and navigate the higher dimensions• Shares amazing events the author has witnessed since she expanded her consciousness into ...

Les réformes de la formation initiale et continue des enseignant·es qui ont vu le jour ces quarante dernières années en Europe se sont caractérisées, entre autres, par l’introduction de cours, d’ateliers ou de séminaires qui visaient à amener le·la (futur·e) enseignant·e à réfléchir sur sa pratique, ceci afin de mieux la comprendre pour, in fine, la réguler. Cet ouvrage tente de mieux cerner la notion de réflexivité sur et dans la pratique enseignante, et la place qu’occupent les écrits ré...

A grieving novelist fleeing Nazi-occupied Paris is forced to go on the run with a mysterious stranger after he kills two German soldiers to save her life. Hunted across war-torn France by a relentless Wehrmacht detective, the pair must fight to survive — even as a dangerous passion grows between them.Paris, 1941. As Nazi forces tighten their grip on occupied France, celebrated novelist Eleanor Gorton Clarke is left stranded and grieving after the death of her Frenc...