A Robertson: 58 books
Engaging Readers
Supporting All Students in Knowledge-Driven Reading, Grades 4-8
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
An important goal of teachers is to get all students, especially those in the upper elementary and middle grades who struggle with academic work, engaged in reading. This book examines current research on instructional principles and actions related to engaged reading. It shows how teachers can translate...
by David A. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This haunting, emotionally resonant story delivers us into the world of Alice, a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up. Alice has never had an easy life, but has managed to get by with the support of her best friend, Gideon, and her family. When an unthinkable...
The Land of Os
John Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an ederly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay's land was taken by the government and given to the new settlers from Iceland...
Standing Up with G̲a'ax̱sta'las
Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
A must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Aboriginal studies, Canadian history, and collaborative research and for anyone interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest.
7 Generations
A Plains Cree Saga
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Edwin is facing an uncertain future. Only by learning about his family's past - as warriors, survivors of a smallpox epidemic, casualties of a residential school - will he be able to face the present and embrace the future. 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga follows one Indigenous family over three...
by Iskwé, Erin Leslie, David A. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible reality, she learns that there is strength in the...
The Dynamics of Strategy
Mastering Strategic Landscapes of the Firm
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
As the life span of business models reduces, firms have had to review their strategic intent, develop strategic initiatives in fast and imaginative ways, and engage in major reorganization. This book examines the dynamics of strategy and helps to make sense of the processes of strategizing and organizing...
“Moral Order” and The Criminal Law
Reform Efforts in the United States and West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
XIV Seen as a whole, however, I regard the work before us to be especially noteworthy precisely because of its illumination of both the social contexts surrounding the law and the ideas which underlie the efforts towards criminal law reform. An analysis of this kind has not appeared until now, to...
by David A. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother...
Betty
The Helen Betty Osborne Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially...
The Rebel
Gabriel Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
For Tyrese, history class is the lowest point of his school day. This is, until his friend Levi reveals a secret - a secret that brings history alive, in the form of one Gabriel Dumont. Through Dumont, a great Metis leader of the Northwest Resistance, the boys experience a bison hunt, a skirmish with...
The Scout
Tommy Prince
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
A search down a wooded path for a well-hit baseball turns into an encounter between Pamela and a veteran soldier standing in front of a monument. The statue commemorates the heroism of Sgt. Tommy Prince, the most decorated Aboriginal soldier in Canada. Pamela is curious, and the veteran is happy to...
The Ballad of Nancy April
Shawnadithit
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
When a mishap delays Jessie at the end of a school day, she takes a shortcut home. But the shortcut turns into an adventure, as Jessie is transported through time and space, to early 19th-century Newfoundland. There she meets Shawnadithit who, as the last surviving member of the Beothuk, has witnessed...
by J Pratley, A Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The role of agriculture and its impact on Australia's relatively fragile environment is a continuing source of unresolved concern. In the past, agricultural producers and the environmental movement have adopted polarised views on how the Australian landscape should be managed. Some environmentalists...