Product Description: Whose Culture Is It Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities extends the project, begun in The Small Cities Book: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities, by examining the cultural dynamics of the small city in a wide ranging context, now looking at activities in an array of geographies, economies, and cultural settings, as well as particularities such as the inner city, brownfield sites, an online conference on the art of engagement, and cultural indicators...read more

Product Description: Coffee has never been better, or more interesting, than it is today. Coffee producers have access to more varieties and techniques than ever before and we, as consumers, can share in that expertise to make sure the coffee we drink is the best we can find...read more

Product Description: There is something quintessentially Western Canadian that distinguishes and separates living in this region from all other parts of Canada. But what does it mean to be Western Canadian ? What meanings do the terms the West and being a Westerner invoke? To answer these questions, the authors lay out a variety of approaches and unique research initiatives, with a novel focus on the following: - small urban centres - rural education - regional representations and identities - theatre - literature and film - visual representations, and - quality of life issues Informed by the contributions of noted Canadian academics, the ten varied works in this collection cumulatively offer a unique panoramic understanding of Western themes...read more

Product Description: James Hoffman, George Ryga’s biographer, provides a brilliant guide to the reader of this collection, with a compelling reappraisal of Ryga’s fiction as far ahead of its time. The three short novels included here—Hungry Hills, Ballad of a Stonepicker and Night Desk—draw from the same large canvas of rural, depression-era Alberta...read more

Product Description: The published version of George Ryga’s hit play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is widely available as a best-seller. Yet the work of one of Canada’s best known playwrights, canonized by critics and studied by students world-wide, remains largely absent from the Canadian stage; Ryga’s very reputation as a dramatist is an anomaly...read more

Product Description: Double the learning fun with this engaging combination of CD-ROM and workbook. Practicing test taking at home can help create a more positive school testing experience for your child. On the CD-ROM, Flash offers test-taking tips as your child practices important reading and math skills...read more

A young bear dresses as a bee and tries to fly into a hive, hoping to get more of his beloved honey

Bumble Bear builds a beehive and places it next to his house, hoping to attract bees so he can be closer to a supply of his beloved honey

Product Description: Bumble Bear books feature the delightful, humorous adventures of a bear obsessed with the honey. Bumble Bear tries just about everything to outsmart the bees and find the honey pot at the end of the rainbow, but the bees outwit him every time!

A wreath made of scraps by Santa's chief elf becomes transformed when a hungry polar bear finds it around his neck and tries to work it loose.

Since the children are tired of cafeteria food, Calvin makes a number of delightful if unlikely suggestions for improvements, and when the principal arrives to find out what is going on, Calvin outdoes himself with his flattering recipe for Principal Pie. Calvin suggests improvements in the cafeteria food, and when the principal arrives, Calvin outdoes himself with his recipe for Principal Pie

Product Description: Book by Hoffman, James