Margaret Thompson: 11 books
Adrift on the Ark
Our Connection to the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Adrift on the Ark is a collection of personal essays by Margaret Thompson that offers a straightforward study of the complex relationship between human beings and the natural world. The essays look at a wide range of beings—from spiders to peacocks—and cover issues such as our irrational phobias,...
by Margaret Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her four-year-old son, Daniel, disappeared. Armed with a few clues...
Step by Step Help for Children with ADHD
A Self-Help Manual for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Raising a child with ADHD can be distressing and exhausting for the whole family. But given the appropriate knowledge, and the right tools, parents can intervene to manage their child's behaviour, leading to improved relationships at home and, it is hoped, a more successful time at school. This simple,...
Inside the Closed World of the Brain
How brain cells connect, share and disengage--and why this holds the key to Alzheimer's disease
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Brain Science for Beginners: Understand dementia of old age by first learning how a normal human brain is organizedIf you struggle to understand media talk about the human brain and dementia of old age, then don't miss this book. Before something broken can be fixed, there is a need to know...
Luminous Ink
Writers on Writing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...
Waiting
An Anthology of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption....
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Back in America, little was known of my life in Jamaica,” wrote Errol Flynn.In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940’s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. After a long...
The True History of Paradise
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
It is 1981. Jean Landing secretly plans to flee her beloved Jamaica–the only home her family has ever known, a place now rife with political turmoil. But before she can make her final preparations, she receives devastating news: Lana, her sister, is dead. The country’s state of emergency leaves...
The Practical Side of Teaching
A Handbook for New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
If you are looking for techniques for behavior management, transitional periods, first day of school, managing your time, parent-teacher conferences, and other issues, then The Practical Side of Teaching is for you. Its not about the academics. Its all about the topics that are often not discussed...
Weaving the Cradle
Facilitating Groups to Promote Attunement and Bonding between Parents, Their Babies and Toddlers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expectant and new parents by helping them to become more attuned, sensitive and empathic towards their child.
Contributors bring together a range of...
Pan African Spaces
Essays on Black Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those...