Goddard: 383 books

Heritage Toronto Book Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Book Illuminates Toronto’s early history through its small heritage museums. A portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie stares from a mural at Queen subway station, his face as round and orange as a wheel of cheese. He served as Toronto’s...

The story of one of the vilest murders in Canadian history. One glorious autumn day in 1894, a drifter attacked thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith so violently that people thought Jack the Ripper must be loose in rural Ontario. To solve the crime, the government called in Detective John Wilson...

Les souvenirs peuvent parfois être aussi irréels que l'imagination. Été 1981. Alors qu'il attend à la terrasse d'un café, David Umber est témoin d'un fait divers qui va bouleverser son existence. Trois jeunes enfants qui se promenaient avec leur baby-sitter sont victimes d'une terrible...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...

This powerful book reveals how and why the power of faithful prayer works in a very real way and how it is the answer to the world's problems.  This powerful book reveals how and why the power of faithful prayer works in a very real way and how it is the answer to the world's problems.  This...

This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.

The Basis of Her Poetry She has shown her photographic work in solo and group shows and has written several poetry chapbooks that have been combined to make this volume. The themes of these poems include the mysteries of existence, consciousness, memory, illness, and death; feelings of loss and disappointment; and the wonders and beauties of life.

This manuscript focuses on the development of hybrid city-country (penurban) landscapes around large urban areas which mesh stylized countryside with functional links to the cities. These landscapes are central to American mindsets as they combine the dreams, expectations, and experiences of the nation...

In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen’s inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australia’s immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a broad-ranging investigation into immigration detention, and the operations...

Things have changed. In 1969 when the Convention for the Conservation of the Vicuña was drafted, in an attempt to save the vicuña from its tumbling decline towards extinction, both the science and the philosophy of wildlife conservation were radically different. It is thus a tribute to the prescience...

In this volume, thoughtful and experienced Latter-day Saints tell how the scriptures have lifted them from earthly struggles to heavenly solutions for their personal and family lives. Whether we are dealing with loneliness or contrary children, these authors show that a perfect Father has provided us the answers in the scriptures and the sweet whisperings of His refining messenger, the Holy Ghost.

The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

I LOVE LAOTZU! That is the reason I offer an-other interpretative translation, and try to print and bind it attractively. I want you to appreciate this wise and kindly old man, and come to love him. He was perhaps the first of scholars (6th century B.C.) to have a vision of spiritual reality, and he...

Representing a brave and insightful shift away from narrow perspectives on behaviour management, this book draws practitioners towards a more holistic understanding of ourselves and how we impact on children’s learning and behaviour. The authors’ brilliant new conceptual model of ‘whole-brain’...