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{"id":6812109635643,"title":"A Short History of Progress","handle":"a-short-history-of-progress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright’s #1 national bestseller, \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Progress\u003c\/i\u003e. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: Where will this growth lead? Can it be consolidated or sustained? 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In his new introduction to the fifteenth anniversary edition, Wright looks at the past fifteen years of human innovation — and asks whether we can still get the future right.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Fans of the Massey Lectures series will be eager to read this new introduction and own an anniversary edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Wright sifts the findings of archaeology and anthropology with thoughtful grace to build a potent argument.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"Impressive . . . for the evidence Wright assembles from his authoritative grasp of history, and for the skill and clarity with which he imparts information. He makes history, ecology, anthropology, and political science easy to read.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Associated Press","OtherText_Review_2":"Provocative . . . Already a bestseller in Canada, Wright is now making his biggest mark since his debut novel (A Scientific Romance, 1997) attracted wide attention… illuminating and disturbing, and expansively documented.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_3":"I don’t care if you have never read and will never read any kind of book at all, but you must read this one.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"An elegant and learned discussion of what the rise and fall of past civilizations predict about our own: nothing good.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"15th Anniversary edition of the #1 national bestseller featuring a new introduction from the author warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback 2nd edition","PublicationDate":"2004-10-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"15th Anniversary edition of the #1 national bestseller featuring a new introduction from the author warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.","Subtitle":"Fifteenth Anniversary Edition","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
A Short History of Progress
15th Anniversary edition of the #1 national bestseller featuring a new introduction from the author warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.
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{"id":6660407492667,"title":"No Stars in the Sky","handle":"no-stars-in-the-sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain.” — Amy Stuart \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteen stories in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e face life-altering circumstances that either shatter or make them stronger, albeit at a very high price. True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. With an unflinching hand, Bátiz explores the breadth of the human condition to expose silent tragedies too often ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-09-27T09:39:21-04:00","created_at":"2021-09-21T10:09:18-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Bátiz Martha","Feminist Reads","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-05-03"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39645093101627,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010027","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"No Stars in the Sky - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":274,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487010027","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39645094477883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010034","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"No Stars in the Sky - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010034","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243508518971,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain.” — Amy Stuart \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteen stories in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e face life-altering circumstances that either shatter or make them stronger, albeit at a very high price. True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. With an unflinching hand, Bátiz explores the breadth of the human condition to expose silent tragedies too often ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. With an unflinching hand, Bátiz explores the breadth of the human condition to expose silent tragedies too often ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487010027","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487010027\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"7","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Astoria","NumberOfPages":"300","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e offers wonderful, haunting writing that burrows deep into the reader’s heart. 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With a writing style so gorgeous and spare, Bátiz has a remarkable capacity to draw out moments both significant and small, to find the deepest meaning in little snippets of time. Each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain, turmoil and resilience, from the hills of inland Mexico to the streetcars of Toronto and beyond. A brilliant collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Amy Stuart, author of Still Mine, Still Water, and Still Here","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eThese are stories for the twenty-first century. Their geography is as vast as their violence. Bátiz has a powerful gift for empathy, entering the mind of a disappeared boy in Argentina, a fourteen-year-old girl exploited at the US\/ Mexico border, and female asylum seekers sharing their grief. The power of these stories comes from the writer’s understanding of the politics of exploitation and her refusal to look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin's Daughter and The Betrayal of Anne Frank","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully written, masterfully crafted collection that explores the trauma of loss. Its vivid characters stayed with me long after I finished the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eBrimming with unforgettable characters who find themselves in unimaginable circumstances \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e shines with brilliance and will leave you breathless. Bátiz’s prose sparkles against the dark background of heartbreaking choices and harsh realities, and lights up the senses. This book is meant to be read slowly and savoured.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Christina Kilbourne, author of Safe Harbour and The Limitless Sky","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e, Martha Bátiz travels across countries and cultures with confidence, humour, and an ear for the musicality of language. Her stories, both beautiful and terrifying, deal with loss, depression, injustice, and the need to love and be loved. 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No Stars in the Sky
A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.
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With The Best Kind of People, Whittall has created an urgent and timely document, one that asks us to reflect on how we can best serve survivors of abuse and best support all of those who exist in its aftermath. With incredible empathy, and undeniable skill, this book is sure to spark much needed dialogue, vital debate, and richly deserved acclaim.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_9":"The Best Kind of People is all-of-a-piece and well worth the read not only for what it adds to the conversation about accusation and rape, but also for the pleasure it offers to those who like a good story.","OtherText_Quot_10":"Nuanced to the end, Whittall’s novel achieves something that’s rare in real-life cases of sexual violence. She gives a voice to the ones we never hear from: those who are collateral damage.","OtherText_Quot_11":"Fast-paced . . . but never melodramatic.","OtherText_Quot_12":"Whittall places the reader right at the centre of their pain. 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The Best Kind of People
From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family.
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I Am Because We Are
In this innovative memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria.
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This Is How We Love
From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?
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to 3
/ grades P
to 3
Night Cars
Teddy Jam's lyrical prose and Eric Beddows's detailed illustrations cast Night Cars in that magical light between sleep and waking.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
How to Bee
A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.
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The Malaise of Modernity
In his 1991 CBC Massey Lectures, philosopher Charles Taylor elucidates the modern concept of self-fulfilment.
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Good Morning, Sam
In this vibrant and humorous book in the Stella and Sam series, Sam gets the last laugh on his big sister.
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This story will appeal to many female comics fans...","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_14":"[Skim] is bringing kudos to Canadian children's book publisher Groundwood Books for its poignant and funny portrayal of a teenage girl...[Jillian Tamaki's] monochromatic ink drawings with their fluid lines add powerful cinematic storytelling to [Mariko Tamaki's] minimalist text...Jillian's ability to catch the gestures and body language of the private school girls in their plaid skirts and knee socks equals Mariko's well-attuned ear for dialogue. The combination of words and images makes Skim a fully rounded and memorable character struggling with a welter of confused feelings...we feel for her...[Jillian Tamaki] has won several awards. It seems a sure bet that Skim will garner her a few more.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Calgary Herald","OtherText_Review_15":"A gorgeous, poetic pen line and sharp dialogue bring this angsty story of a disaffected teenage girl to life.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_16":"Jillian Tamaki's illustrations perfectly match the rough edges and continuous movement of Skim's teenage characters and reveal humour in the agonizing minutiae of high school life...Mariko Tamaki's text blends teen-speak with eloquence and wry one-liners...blending colloquialisms and sharp observations into something profound...","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_17":"No medium can capture the sense of being plunged into another person's mind like comics can, and Skim is the perfect example, its words and pictures and storytelling so unified in conjuring Kim's world that it comes as a surprise to see it has two creators rather than one...The careful layering of perception, desire, and reality is handled so deftly that the effect is almost subliminal...The Tamakis have done the hardest and most rewarding thing an artist can do: they have captured the texture of real life and made it into something beautiful.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_18":"The Tamaki cousins in their first graphic novel take a huge fistful of high school story trappings and distill a beautiful and funny time capsule of real feeling... 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Jillian Tamaki has an especially expressive, loose style that lends itself beautifully to this slightly morose tale.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Bust","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_2":"...avoids all the cliches of a coming-of-age story...Original in every which way.","OtherText_Review_20":"This stunning coming-of-age novel will draw in not only GN buffs, who will appreciate the creative design and dramatic use of both illustration and narration, but also realistic-fiction fans who may not normally gravitate to the format but will find this a sympathetic standout.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_Review_21":"Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Jillian Tamaki stunningly entwine their acute dialogues and visual riches in brush, soft pencil and grey tones, illuminating this adolescent romance in all its conflicted depths. [Skim is the] most sophisticated and sensitive North American graphic novel debut of the year.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Paul Gravett","OtherText_Review_22":"A quietly moving graphic novel...sharply witty and incisive...Long, languid lines portray Skim's turmoil and angst with pitch-perfect resonance...Recommend this to fans of Daniel Clowes's Ghost World, who have been waiting for another graphic novel of teen angst and suburban ennui.","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Valerie D'Orazio","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Friends of Lulu","OtherText_Review_3":"...intelligent choice...a sensitive and caring portrayal of youth...universal...a complete success...[Jillian's] storytelling is solid...[and] her art is very atmospheric...","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Gay Comics List","OtherText_Review_4":"...traverse[s] the turbulent landscape of high school with tenderness and a keen eye for the yearning of adolescent girls...From the particularities of slang to the bigger concepts like fear and isolation, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki capture the subtle details that comprise this understated part of life...a world [in] which anyone who has ever been a teenager would be able to relate to at some level...Jillian Tamaki's use of line and shadow is effective in rendering the psychology of characters and the moody spaces they find themselves in...Formally, Skim is interesting for its varied approach to panel-use. 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The little details are wonderful...Highly recommended for high school graphic novel colelctions, especially those catering to girls.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kliatt","OtherText_Review_7":"...rendered delicately...Mariko's writing is assured...Skim's self-searching entries are wrenched off or lit up by the next image...Skim comes into its own, building a teenage girl mood that's struggling observant and shyly heartfelt by turns.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vue Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"[Skim] is a convincing chronicle of a teenage outsider who has enough sense to want to stay outside...All in all, Skim offers a startlingly clear and painful view into adolescence for those of us who possess it only as a distant memory. It's a story that deepens with successive rereadings. But what will teenagers think? 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MacMillan has proven that her love of gossip only adds to her credentials as an historian, and one can only hope that she continues to find further subjects to write about for a long time to come.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Qull and Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_11":"[History’s People] very enjoyably explores how individuals not only make history, but also record it.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_12":"MacMillan’s passion for the subject is clear and will certainly be passed on to anyone who reads this book.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Parry Sound North Star","OtherText_Review_13":"History comes alive when Margaret MacMillan writes it, and here she gives readers her own selection of people of the past, ranging from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Samuel de Champlain.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_14":"It’s a rare history book that makes it to the top of the charts, and this collection of profiles is definitely in its own class… MacMillan is a friendly but intelligent writer. Her profiles are interesting and they keep you reading, but they’re also chock full of details and historical information that place these personalities in history.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"She is one of those rare scholars who can write for a larger audience without becoming bogged down in academic jargon. In her latest book, MacMillan shows this talent again in five absorbing lectures about a wide range of historical actors—from Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to Samuel Champlain and Elizabeth Simcoe—offering insight into their personal motivations and historical significance… With the federal election campaign underway, the party leaders could help themselves by heeding MacMillan’s words of wisdom.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Allan Levine","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"MacMillan draws on an astonishing well of scholarship…The house of history is vast, and as the Massey Lectures come to a close, two voices sound a very different, and more urgent, note: the observers Harry Kessler, born in 1868, the wealthy son of a German banker, and Viktor Klemperer, born in 1881, a German-Jewish professor in Dresden. Through their diaries, Kessler and Klemperer attempt to keep hold of their particular way of observing and thinking, which is to say, their souls. MacMillan powerfully recreates the era; she brings to life not simply their personalities, but their personhood.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Through this series of lectures, MacMillan demonstrates in rich and provocative detail, how history is an important tool for understanding our own world - as well as the world of others.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The History Eduation Network","OtherText_Review_5":"this book is an inspiring one, and the lives of the people included have lessons for all of us.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Dave Obee","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Victoria Times Colonist","OtherText_Review_6":"Margaret MacMillan rightly is a darling of Canadian letters, an acclaimed historian of international stature, a superb writer and author of several award-winning bestsellers. Her talents and intellect are so formidable she can do no professional wrong -- if she writes something it is worth reading, no question. This has been true of everything she has turned her mind to, and it is true of her latest work, History's People…the stories -- in the end is what is so richly rewarding about reading History's People. If the personal stories command MacMillan's interest, it goes without saying that they will command the attention of her readers, too.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Gerald Flood","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"wonderful… History’s People urges us to see the past in another way. MacMillan has provided us with a brilliantly guided tour through a dramatic and emotionally penetrating account of the human beings who by accident or design (and often through the luck of good timing) created the world we live in. She encourages us to see the human qualities, the frailties and passions of men and women who make history… Many readers of MacMillan’s book will want to give a copy to young people whose brains have been deadened by textbooks.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Robert Fulford","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_8":"Margaret MacMillan doesn’t just document the past; she brings it to life","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Readers' Digest","OtherText_Review_9":"Avoiding arid timelines, MacMillan, an Oxford professor , instead provides intimate human encounters. She seems to love sifting through the revealing details. “I want to gossip,” she confesses — and so do we.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2015-09-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","Subtitle":"Personalities and the Past","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
History's People
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.
