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- Metropolis : a history of the city, humankind's greatest invention / by Wilson, Ben,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations. In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human culture to flourish. Beginning in 5,000 BC with Uruk, the world's first city, immortalized in The Epic of Gilgamesh, he shows us that cities were never a necessity, but that once they existed, their density created such a blossoming of human endeavour--producing new professions, art forms, worship and trade--that they kickstarted civilization itself. Guiding readers through famous cities over 7,000 years, Wilson reveals the innovations driven by each: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in 9th century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Epoque Paris. In the modern age, he studies the impact of verticality in New York City, the sprawl of LA and the eco-reimagining of 21st-century Shanghai. Lively, erudite, page-turning and irresistible, Metropolis is a grand tour of human endeavour"--- Subjects: Cities and towns;
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- Inspector Lewis. [videorecording] / by Fox, Laurence,actor.; Front, Rebecca,actor.; Holman, Clare,actor.; Whately, Kevin,actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.;
Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman, Rebecca Front.Inspector Robert Lewis steps out of the shadow of his mentor, Inspector Morse, in this highly acclaimed series of intricate mysteries. Together with his brooding, inscrutable partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, they take on the elite criminal underworld of Oxford, England, relying on Lewis' instinct and Hathaway's intellect to see past appearances and into the hearts of their upper crust foes.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Criminal investigation; Lewis, Robert (Fictitious character); Murder;
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- Edible economics : a hungry economist explains the world / by Chang, Ha-Joon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Economic thinking-about climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more-in its most digestible form. For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy-like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives. In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside anecdotes about food from around the world. Beginning each chapter with a menu, Chang uses the stories behind key ingredients-where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures-to explore economic theory. For Chang, strawberries are delicious with cream, but they also prophesise a jobless future; chocolate is a wonderful pudding, but more exciting are the insights it offers into post-industrial knowledge economies. Explaining everything from the hidden cost of care work to the misleading language of the free market as he cooks dishes like anchovy and egg toast, Gambas al Ajillo and Korean dotori mook, Ha-Joon Chang serves up an easy-to-digest feast of bold ideas. Myth-busting, witty and thought-provoking, Edible Economics shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: if we understand it, we can change it-and, with it, the world"--Publisher's description.- Subjects: Anecdotes.; Economics.; Food; Food.;
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- All our relations : finding the path forward / by Talaga, Tanya,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Every single year in Canada, one-third of all deaths among Indigenous youth are due to suicide. Studies indicate youth between the ages of ten and nineteen, living on reserve, are five to six times more likely to commit suicide than their peers in the rest of the population. Suicide is a new behaviour for First Nations people. There is no record of any suicide epidemics prior to the establishment of the 130 residential schools across Canada. Bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga argues that the aftershocks of cultural genocide have resulted in a disturbing rise in youth suicides in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. She examinees the tragic reality of children feeling so hopeless they want to die, of kids perishing in clusters, forming suicide pacts, or becoming romanced by the notion of dying - a phenomenon that experts call "suicidal ideation." She also looks at the rising global crisis, as evidenced by the high suicide rates among the Inuit of Greenland and Aboriginal youth in Australia. Finally, she documents suicide prevention strategies in Nunavut, Seabird Island, and Greenland; Facebook's development of AI software to actively link kids in crisis with mental health providers; and the push by First Nations leadership in Northern Ontario for a new national health strategy that could ultimately lead communities towards healing from the pain of suicide. Based on her Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy series, Tanya Talaga's 2018 Massey Lectures is a powerful call for action and justice for Indigenous communities and youth."--- Subjects: Native youth; Native peoples; Native youth; Native peoples; Native youth; Native peoples; Native youth; Native peoples;
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- Under assault : interference and espionage in China's secret war against Canada / by Molinaro, Dennis G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."National security expert Dennis Molinaro reveals the shocking details of Beijing's five-decades-long effort to influence and interfere in Canadian political life. From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the Cultural Revolution to the foreign-interference scandals that have shaken present-day Ottawa, this definitive book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time. Amidst heightened tensions between Western nations and China, Canadians have found themselves astonished by hostage crises, cyberattacks, harassment of members of our government, and theft of intellectual property worth untold billions of dollars. From Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's earliest journeys through the "Middle Kingdom" prior to his election to Parliament in the 1960s, the communist government of the People's Republic of China has perceived Canada as a staging ground for spying on and pressuring its ultimate target, the United States. As Canada's first tech giant, Nortel, was plundered of intellectual property by digital spies; as Canada was manipulated into advocating against the independence of Taiwan, infuriating our closest ally; and as Chinese Canadians were targeted in the country where they thought they'd escaped Mao's terrors, Canada's leaders have too often seen only what they want to see in China: an emerging market of inestimable value, and fertile soil for democratic change for a long-tyrannized people. Generations of Communist leadership have gladly allowed Canada to labour under these misapprehensions, even when the evidence of China's spying, theft, and harassment of Canadian citizens has been happening right before their eyes. The intelligence has always been available, but Canada has rarely allowed itself to believe what the rest of the world has long understood. Thoroughly researched and guided by the author's experience as a historian and China specialist in Canadian intelligence, and informed by numerous interviews with generations of Canadian politicians, diplomats and bureaucrats, as well as members of Canada's Chinese community who have endured this harassment for too long, Shadows of the Dragon is a timely, eye-opening account of a country compromised by its own illusions in a time of rising global conflict"--- Subjects: Espionage, Chinese;
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