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Against All Odds
For readers of The Boys in the Boat, the remarkable story of the unlikely Canadian hockey team that clinched Olympic gold in 1948 The announcement was shocking—Canada, the birthplace of hockey, would not be sending a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics in Switzerland. Outraged, a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader, Sandy Watson, quickly assembled a team of air force hockey players who were “amateur enough” to complete under the Olympic guidelines. Sergeant Frank Boucher was recruited to coach the team and begin the cross-Canada search for players. Hubert Brooks, a decorated flying officer and serial escapist from POW camps, was another early recruit. Andy Gilpin joined from the RCAF...
Beauty in a Box
One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair. The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media—newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources—that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. The author explains the role local black community media has played in the promotion of African American–owned beauty products; how the segmentation of beauty culture (i.e., the sale of black beauty products on store shelves labelled “ethnic hair care”) occurred i...
Il carnefice
C'è un uomo a Bariloche, ai piedi delle Ande, che ogni mattina raggiunge la scuola tedesca dove insegna, fa lezione ai ragazzi e per pranzo torna a casa dalla moglie. Vive lì da quasi cinquant'anni, è perfettamente integrato, rispettato, ha una solida rete di amicizie. Un giorno, fuori dalla porta trova ad attenderlo una troupe televisiva americana. «Signor Priebke?» gli chiede un giornalista. «Lei era nella Gestapo nel '44, giusto? A Roma?» L'uomo rimane impassibile, sembra non capire. Poi annuisce. Come ha fatto Erich Priebke, il capitano della polizia tedesca che il 24 marzo 1944 chiamava i nomi dei 335 uomini da condurre all'interno delle Fosse Ardeatine per essere fucilati, a fug...
Mondes profanes : Enseignement, fiction et histoire
Les bandes dessinées, chansons, films, jeux vidéos, musées, reconstitutions, romans, séries télévisées et voyages occupent de plus en plus de place dans la vie des élèves. Comment exploiter en classe ces biens, loisirs et services culturels d'histoire pour que les élèves posent de mieux en mieux certains actes mentaux que les historiennes et historiens doivent effectuer lorsqu'elles et ils adoptent leur pratique ? Pour répondre à cette question, les auteures et auteurs de cet ouvrage explorent les usages scolaires possibles et souhaitables des produits qui ne sont pas associés à l'histoire savante et sur l'exploitation didactique de ce que la Loi québécoise sur les biens culturels désigne comme «?une oeuvre d'art, un bien historique, un monument ou un site historique, [...] une oeuvre cinématographique, audiovisuelle, photographique, radiophonique ou télévisuelle?». Les auteures et auteurs s'intéressent à des oeuvres qui ne sont pas créées pour l'école, mais qui peuvent néanmoins servir aux enseignantes et enseignants pour faire apprendre l'histoire aux élèves.
Mondes profanes. Édition augmentée et mise à jour
Édition augmentée et mise à jour Postface de Micheline Dumont Amateur·rice·s de Civilization VI, de jeux de rôles «grandeur nature», de La trilogie berlinoise, du Trône de fer, de l’œuvre de Tolkien ou de Satrapi ; chroniques enflammant la médiasphère à propos de productions culturelles évoquant des évènements ou phénomènes advenus ou rémanents (Assassin’s Creed Unity, SLĀV et Kanata, Autant en emporte le vent); tribuns opposant des argumentaires irréconciliables quant à la décolonisation et la réconciliation, à ce qui doit être commémoré (ou déboulonné) ou à l’élimination de la brutalité policière et du racisme: chaque jour, de multiples discours et p...
Tessa and Scott
Tessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story — now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair’s stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic Games and beyond. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated figure skaters in the history of the sport, and are widely celebrated by peers and fans alike for their superior athleticism, one-of-a-kind partnership, and generosity of spirit. In these pages, they share their incredible story with the world. Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold offers an intimate and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the iconic du...
Square Cat
From debut author Elizabeth Schoonmaker, Square Cat shows us it's hip to be square!
Hockey
Now in paperback, updated with a new final chapter! Lavishly illustrated, beautifully designed, impeccably researched, and wonderfully written, Hockey: A People’s History is the altogether irresistible companion book to the CBC-Television series of the same name, airing in Fall 06. A must-have for every fan! Hockey is not just Canada’s national game, it is part of every Canadian’s psyche, whether we like it or not. Watching it, playing it, coaching it, and talking about it are up there with eating on the list of the top ten things Canadians do most. In the first half of the last century it mirrored our increasing confidence as a nation and in the last years of the 1900s, which saw an a...
Gold Medal 'Misfits'
Rare interviews with some of the original players and key people behind the scenes are skilfully woven into a breathtaking story of scorn, triumph and redemption. This is sports writing at its finest. Macadam breathes life into his characters and keeps our heart rates soaring as he skilfully helps us relive hockey history and builds tension to the breaking point. For sports fans everywhere. Its the untold story of a team cobbled together at the last minute that was so severely trounced in an exhibition match that many Canadians were against sending them to the Olympics for fear of embarrassment. With little financial support, the team stayed in fleabag hotels and were widely ridiculed -- until they hit Olympic ice and made hockey history.
Klondikers
For readers of The Boys in the Boat and Against All Odds Join a ragtag group of misfits from Dawson City as they scrap to become the 1905 Stanley Cup champions and cement hockey as Canada’s national pastime An underdog hockey team traveled for three and a half weeks from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The Klondikers’ eagerness to make the journey, and the public’s enthusiastic response, revealed just how deeply, and how quickly, Canadians had fallen in love with hockey. After Governor General Stanley donated a championship trophy in 1893, new rinks appeared in big cities and small towns, leading to more players, teams, and leagues. And more fans. When Montre...
