This is the true story of the world of human trafficking in Canada. For years many people refused to believe that human trafficking was happening here in innocent, safe Canada to our very own Canadian girls. But they were wrong! It is estimated that between 12 and 27 million people are currently caught in human trafficking globally, and Canadian stats show that thousands are exploited for their labour or sexual services right across our own coun ...
It is possible to overcome barriers to minority success in Canada. The stance of this book is that new immigrants, refugees and international students do not have to settle for underachievement despite the cultural and structural disadvantages they face in Canada. The fact is, the unequal social structure of Canada has some cracks, and many minorities have used strategic resources to open up these cracks and achieved tremendous upward social mob ...
Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of documentarians around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in Durham, North Carolina, evoking an atmosphere described by The New York Times as “lazing out on the porch of a summer’s night and meditating to your favorite ball team.” For a printed version with photographs, please visit 978-0-9889831-6-8. ...
"A touching, contemplative chronicle of loss and self-discovery."<br><b><i>– Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>From the acclaimed biographer of Norway’s most treasured cultural icons, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch, comes a story of a migrant family in search of roots and for each other.</b><br><br> Ivo de Figueiredo’s lyrical and imagistic memoir navigates a difficult sear ...
Leslie D. Helm's decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family's 140 years in Japan, beginning with his great-grandfather, who worked as a military advisor in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family's poignant experiences of love and war help Helm overcome his cynicism and embrace his Japanese and American heritage. This is the first book to look at Japan across ...
Author published popular Rozek's newsletter in 1990s, which was called «antimedia media» by Wired and featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and on NPR's «Talk of the Nation.» Focus on dialogue to tell Lynzsea's story makes for easy reading. Reader is a fly on the wall listening to a twentysomething college student. Lynzsea Sky raises a lot of questions about drugs, divorce, the education system, sexual ...
There is evidence that the “knowing” of spirituality can be unified with the observations of science through two geometric symbols consisting of the triangle and the arc and their aspects. Author Carroll shows how, through the millenniums, religions have intuited the importance of these shapes and incorporated their symbolism throughout their beliefs, while these same shapes have been found by modern science to be the essence of life and the cos ...
