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After anchoring their boat, they explore the beach, discover the many sea creatures that live there, hear the sputtering of clams and look closely at the reef. They reflect on the people who built the wall long ago, as well as those who have maintained it over the years. After digging for clams, they tidy up the beach, then return home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn author’s note provides further information about sea gardens (also known as clam gardens), which yield a reliable food source and have been traditional places of learning. They have been found along the Pacific coast, from Alaska to British Columbia to Washington State, and some of these gardens are being restored today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript has been vetted and approved by the scientists of the Clam Garden Network and Kwaxsistalla Wathl’thla Clan Chief Adam Dick. 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If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden
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Rochdale
The fascinating story of Rochdale's rise and fall is told in this well-researched, entertaining book.
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Night Runners
A pack of wolves chases a stag through the woods, but what seems scary proves surprising in this magical wordless picture book by Geraldo Valério.
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Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White
A child’s joy on a snowy day finally helps her mother feel at home in their new country.
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Lake: A See to Learn Book
Lake: A See to Learn Book, the second book in the See to Learn series, is designed to inspire scientific curiosity, appreciation of beauty and connection to the natural world, through gentle questions and vibrant illustrations.
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The Elsewhere Community
In his 1997 CBC Massey Lectures Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere.
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Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
This ecstatic long poem of hope and creeks and cats and rain is a translation of Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem O Guardador de Rebanhos.
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Latin America
In his 1984 CBC Massey Lectures, Carlos Fuentes traces Latin America's unique tensions and calls for an end to foreign interference.
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{"id":6819092561979,"title":"Democracy on Trial","handle":"democracy-on-trial","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes -- yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:55-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:28:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Elshtain Jean Bethke","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 1993-11-08","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":40249731317819,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887845451","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Democracy on Trial - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887845451","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249797836859,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848544","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Democracy on Trial - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848544","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249799213115,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896055","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Democracy on Trial - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896055","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324588310587,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":2386,"width":1495,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633"},"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":2386,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633","width":1495}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIs democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes -- yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Democracy on Trial
In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.
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Highly recommended for music fans and lay people alike.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_11":"Insightful [and] engaging...Eric Siblin puts us in touch with the joy of discovering a new passion in life.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_12":"It's not often that one begins reading a book with mild interest and then can't put it down, which happened to me with this beautiful book.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Diana Athill","OtherText_Review_13":"This is one of the most extraordinary, clever, beautiful, and impeccably researched books I have read in years. A fascinating story deftly told - and, for me at least, ideally read with Bach's thirty-six movements playing softly in the background: a recipe for literary rapture.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Simon Winchester","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_2":"[The Cello Suites is] a delightful whirlwind tour through two different ages of musical history...Siblin's research is remarkably comprehensive...and his prose is amiable, at times charming...As Siblin inevitably concludes, 'Every age reimagines Bach on its own terms.' We're lucky that we have a writer this skilful and creative to do the work.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Walrus","OtherText_Review_3":"Compelling and fascinating. As an historian, Eric Siblin does a good job describing both Bach's life and Pablo Casals' discovery of the Suites; it's spine-tingling stuff. This is quirky nonfiction that the reader really learns something from. You immediately want to go out and learn some more.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Lynn Tompson, Bookseller","OtherText_Review_4":"Eric Siblin's new book is at once a study of music, a work of history, and a passionate tribute...Meticulous in his research, Siblin makes convincing connections and offers possible answers to the questions surrounding the suites...If Siblin is correct that Bach is what you make of him, then The Cello Suites has made him, if possible, yet more legendary.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_5":"In Siblin's world, Bach and Casals have real, beating hearts; these are not the fusty dead practitioners of a desiccated art form. 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The Cello Suites
The #1 national bestselling work about the incredible story of one of the world's most beloved and haunting pieces of music.
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Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.
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Lessons from Mother Earth
A gentle, beautifully illustrated story demonstrating the First Nations' tradition of taking care of Mother Earth.
