Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) ranks among the greatest film directors and has had a worldwide impact on filmmaking as a screenwriter, producer, film critic, and founding member of the French New Wave.
By the time Al Purdy succumbed to lung cancer at his waterfront home in Sidney BC on April 21, 2000, he was universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest writers Canada has produced. In five deca
In distant prehistory, along a branch of the Tigris River, a group of humans lived in a community ?on the threshold of the Neolithic Revolution.” Near their open village at the rivers, Shanidar Cave,
Little Beaver Builds a Bed is an illustrated children's book that was created to introduce young children to the craft of woodworking and the importance of making things with their hands, and teamwork
A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada’s most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and in
Advanced Mechanics of Materials bridges the gap between elementary mechanics of materials courses and more rigorous graduate courses in mechanics of deformable bodies (i.e., continuum mechanics, elast
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences glob
Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience.? Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban
