Firefly: 180 books
Wind Power
20 Projects to Make with Paper
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
A beginner's guide to wind power and an invitation to experiment with wind and its potential as an energy source. Wind-powered generators are now used worldwide as a reliable source of "green" energy. How does wind create power? What is wind? What scientific characteristics make pinwheels,...
Animal Hospital
Rescuing Urban Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Our cities are already filled with a huge variety of wildlife. As urban areas expand, they impinge on the natural habitats of animals that would not otherwise find themselves in an urban setting, including birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, as well as rare, threatened and even endangered wildlife....
Toronto Between the Wars
Life in the City 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Winner of Heritage Toronto's Award of Excellence, Book category in 2005. The pace of life in Toronto picked up after 1919 and never slowed down again. During the 1920s and '30s, Toronto went through massive changes that affected the physical and the social life of the city. In these two decades...
The Molsons: Their Lives and Times: 1780-2000
Their Lives and Times: 1780-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
This is the true story of a remarkable family as told by a direct descendant of John Molson. Through generations, we follow their saga. We see the Molsons cope with change and opportunity in business, and we watch them deal with personal triumphs, private tragedies, and the everyday aspects of life....
by Tony Aspler
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The story of Canada's entry into the world of world-class vintages. In the late 1980s, the Canadian wine industry embarked upon a radical transformation. Faced with free trade, the end of government subsidies and Ontario legislation that banned native grape varieties from table wine, vintners...
The Woodcut Artist's Handbook
Techniques and Tools for Relief Printmaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Praise for the first edition:
"An indispensable guide for those who make art out of the contrast between light and dark. And, it's a sheer pleasure for everyone else, thanks to its many wonderful illustrations."
-- Artsforum
"Walker's instruction is so clear and well organized...
Dream Catchers
Legend, Lore and Artifacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
An investigation into the symbol of Native heritage. In Ojibwe (or Chippewa in the United States) culture a dream catcher is a hand-crafted willow hoop with woven netting that is decorated with sacred and personal items such as feathers and beads. The Native American tradition of making dream...
Five-minute Mysteries 3
Another 40 Cases of Murder and Mayhem for You to Solve
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
40 more felonies to solve. Here is the perfect book for when you have a few minutes to kill. Test your powers of deduction with 40 of the best quick-read whodunits in the third installment of the popular Five-minute Mysteries series. Here's the idea: take about five minutes and read...
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need.
Praise for the second edition:
"Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes readers to the edge of a world of grueling realities not known by most...
Orca
The Whale Called Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
"Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville."
(Discover Magazine)
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Ivory, Horn and Blood
Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Meticulous research, chilling facts.... an important and much needed book. -- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute If it is understanding you seek, turn these pages. -- Virginia McKenna, OBE, Founder, The Born Free Foundation If you care about elephants and...
Captain Paul Watson
Interview With a Pirate
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist.
Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of eleven, in 1962. When trappers killed a beaver that Paul had befriended, he systematically and efficiently...
My Ambulance Education
Life and Death on the Streets of the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
The brutally honest story of an emergency medical technician.
At 18, Joseph Clark started working as an ambulance attendant to pay his way through college. For the next seven years he worked New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods as an emergency medical technician (EMT), dealing with...
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
"Trauma Junkie gives us a view over the flight nurse's shoulder from liftoff until the patient is delivered to the hospital and the agonizing minutes in between. These fascinating true stories are impossible to put down." -- James M. Betts, MD, Chief of Department of Surgery and Director...