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Veil of Secrecy
An ambitious young woman who dreams of leaving her small town to follow her dreams learns the heartbreak of reckless love. As a young woman trapped in the confines of her small Newfoundland fishing village, sixteen-year-old Julie dreams of someday making her way out into the world and becoming a journalist. The daughter she gave up at birth must learn the same lesson, but will she follow in her mother's footsteps and give up her dreams? What happens when a daughter, given up at birth, makes the same tragic mistake as the mother she never knew? In 1950 Julie was deceived in love and had to give up not only the child of that union, but her dreams of escaping her small fishing village to become...
A Bastion of Empire
In the late summer of 1809, Louis Cloutier, 18, is aboard the "Nancy," a schooner of the North West Fur Company, sailing from Fort Amherstburg on a journey of 400 miles, and heading for Fort St. Joseph, the furthest northern British outpost. This is a small fort, located in the wilderness, isolated from the outside world, particularly during the long hard winters. Forty soldiers garrison the fort. The British Indian Department has a post there, where Louis' father is employed as the new store keeper; the Department assists the traders in their dealings with the Indian tribes; also, to ensure the continued allegiance of the Indians to the British crown. The fur trading companies have faciliti...
Improving Organizational Interventions For Stress and Well-Being
This book brings together a number of experts in the field of organizational interventions for stress and well-being, and discusses the importance of process and context issues to the success or failure of such interventions. The book explores how context and process can be incorporated into program evaluation, providing examples of how this can be done, and offers insights that aim to improve working life. Although there is a substantial body of research supporting a causal relationship between working conditions and employee stress and well-being, information on how to develop effective strategies to reduce or eliminate psychosocial risks in the workplace is much more scarce, ambiguous and...
Que reste-t-il de nos voyages?
Voir du pays, ça change quoi? C'est la question que s'est posée Marie-Julie Gagnon, une vingtaine d'années après avoir mis le voyage au cœur de sa vie. À la façon d'un documentaire, elle rencontre des voyageurs aux parcours variés et des experts de différentes disciplines pour tenter de mieux comprendre l'impact du voyage à court, moyen et long terme. Pourquoi est-ce si difficile de résister à l'appel de l'ailleurs après y avoir succombé une première fois? Comment un séjour à l'étranger peut-il influencer la vision du monde? Le voyage est-il une fuite, une quête ou une thérapie? Des vacances d'une ou deux semaines peuvent-elles mener à des changements durables?...
