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Title: The health benefits of physical activity for girls and women: Literature review and recommendations for future research and policy
Author(s): Colleen Reid (author), Lesley Dyck (author), Heather McKay (author), Wendy Frisby (author)
Date: 2000
Abstract: There are many positive health benefits associated with regular physical activity, and the health risks of inactivity are equally clear. Most of the research on physical activity, however, has been contained within the sport, exercise and recreation disciplines. Studies on the implications of physical activity for disease prevention, management and rehabilitation are increasing but are still limited in number and scope. As well, the relationship between physical activity and the well-being of individuals and communities has not been adequately understood, and the linkages between disease, social and psychological well-being, and physical activity need to be explored more fully. Finally, it has been argued by feminist researchers that the biological, psychological, social and cultural experience of being female in our society has not been adequately addressed in much of the health and exercise literature. This literature review originated from the difficulties policy makers, practitioners, and programmers experienced in accessing diverse sources of research, and the challenges they faced while attempting to make sense of conflicting conclusions. Notwithstanding, the current health and well-being trends in the Canadian population provided an additional imperative for this project. Girls are less active than boys at most ages, women have been experiencing increasing rates of various diseases such as fibromyalgia, coronary heart disease and cancers, and both girls and women experience body image dissatisfaction, low self-esteem and eating disorders at a much higher rate than boys and men. This literature review tackled the complex relationship between health and physical activity in the context of girls and women’s lives through a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach. From this analysis, future research strategies and policy implications to support and improve the health and well-being of girls and women were identified.
Department: Therapeutic Recreation

Title: Karyotype
Author(s): Kim Trainor (author)
Date: 2015
Abstract: At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Karyotype's poems range from the title sequence, which explores the DNA and woven textiles of this woman and her vanished people (a karyotype is the characteristic chromosome complement of a species), to the firebombing of the National Library of Sarajevo, from an abecedarian hymn on the International Red Cross "Book of Belongings" to the experience of watching the televised invasion of Iraq in the dark of a Montreal night. The Beauty of Loulan becomes a symbol of the ephemerality of human genetic and cultural texts, and of our chances for survival. And then there was Liu Baiqiang sentenced to eighteen years for "Counter-Revolutionary Incitement" who attached words to the legs of locusts Tyranny! Long Live Freedom! and flung them over the walls of his prison, into the air. From publisher description.
Subject(s): Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Women authors
Department: English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: The outer harbour: stories
Author(s): Wayde Compton (author)
Date: 2014
Abstract: City of Vancouver Book Award Winner. "In his debut story collection, poet Wayde Compton explores the concept of place and identity in which characters and space merge to make narrative. These interconnected stories, imbued with the colour of speculative fiction, are towering in their conceits. As much as characters are revealed by what they do and say, in The Outer Harbour, places also speak, in the way that they shape us. One strand of stories follows the relationship between an artist obsessed with shipping containers and a drug-addicted student, each of mixed-race, who seek in art a response to unclear identities. Another set of stories follows the geological development of a volcanic island in Burrard Inlet--Vancouver's harbour--which becomes the site of a radical Indigenous occupation, and later, in increasingly absurd shadings, a real estate development, and then a detention centre for illegal migrants. And a final suite tells the story of Donald and Albert, biracial conjoined twins, and their father, an eccentric figure whose enigmatic expression divides them. Moving from 2001 through to 2025, The Outer Harbour is at once a history book and a cautionary tale of the future. Collectively, these stories condense and confound our preconceived ideas around race, migration, and home, creating a singular world in a city built on the legacies of racism and colonialism, hurtling towards a future both impossible and inevitable." --From publisher description.
Subject(s): City and town life--Fiction, Real estate development--Fiction, Race relations--Fiction, Vancouver (B.C.)--Fiction, Canadian fiction--20th century, Canadian fiction--21st century, Canadian fiction--Black authors, Canadian fiction (English)--20th century, Canadian fiction (English)--21st century, Canadian fiction (English)--Black Canadian authors
Department: Creative Writing, (Language, Literature and Performing Arts)

Title: Jewish feeling : difference and affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish women's writing
Author(s): Richa Dwor (author)
Date: 2015
Abstract: "Dwor argues that Midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts engage affect in a distinctly Jewish way. The book thus emphasises the theological function of literature and also the new opportunities afforded by nineteenth-century literary forms for Jewish women's theological expression. For authors such as Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889), feeling is a complex and overlapping category that facilitates the transmission of Jewish ways of thinking into English literary forms. Dwor reads them alongside George Eliot, herself deeply engaged with issues of contemporary Jewish identity. This sheds new light on Eliot by positioning her works in a nexus of Jewish forms and concerns. Ultimately, and despite considerable differences in style and outlook, Aguilar and Levy are shown to deploy Jewish feeling in their ethics of futurity, resistance to conversion and closure, and in their foregrounding of a model of reading with feeling"--From publisher description.
Subject(s): English literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism, English literature--Women authors--History and criticism, English literature--19th century--History and criticism, Jewish literature--19th century--History and criticism, Jewish literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Affect (Psychology) in literature, Affect (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Judaism, Judaism and literature--History--19th century, Midrash--Influence, Aguilar, Grace, 1816-1847--Criticism and interpretation, Levy, Amy, 1861-1889--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation
Department: English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: Sub Rosa
Author(s): Amber Dawn (author)
Date: 2010
Abstract: In this stunning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts and transgresses the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision not for the faint of heart. Sub Rosa's reluctant heroine is known as "Little," a teenaged runaway unable to remember her real name; in her struggle to get by in the world, she stumbles upon an underground society of ghosts and magicians, missing girls and would-be johns: a place called Sub Rosa. Not long after she is initiated into this family of magical prostitutes, Little is called upon to lead Sub Rosa through a maze of feral darkness, both real and imagined--a calling burdened with grotesque enemies, strange allies, and memories from a foggy past. Written with a kind of gasping urgency, Sub Rosa is a beautiful and gutsy allegory of our times, a fairy-tale-like fantasia imbued with a grave, unapologetic realness. From publisher description.
Department: Creative Writing, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: 49th parallel psalm
Author(s): Wayde Compton (author)
Date: 1999
Abstract: Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Now in its 2nd printing. "Wayde Compton's first poetry book: a stunning set of poems documenting the migration of blacks to Canada, specifically when the first black settlers-facing an increasingly hostile racist government-left San Francisco and travelled north to British Columbia beginning in 1858. With recurring themes of the unknowable, the crossroads, the trickster, and entropy, 49th Parallel Psalm jumbles history, time, and the Canadian black literary canon." (From publisher description)
Subject(s): African Americans--Migrations--History--19th century--Poetry, Black Canadians--History--19th century--Poetry, Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Black Canadian authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Black authors
Department: Creative Writing, (Language, Literature and Performing Arts)

Title: This is not a book: adventures in popular philosophy
Author(s): Michael Picard (author)
Date: 2007
Abstract: Revised and expanded as (The Bedside Book of) "Philosophy: Adventures in Thought and Reasoning" (2012). This book has been translated into 6 languages (French, Greek, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Estonian) and has sold 100,000 copies globally. This is Not a Book will stretch your mind, put your neurons through their paces and challenge the foundations of your opinions and of knowledge itself. Filled with philosophical puzzles that have intrigued great minds of many nations for centuries, insoluble logical paradoxes and moral dilemmas, This is Not a Book provides an intellect workout that will force you to confront the consequences of your beliefs. This is Not a Book is divided into four sections, reflecting the major fields of philosophy: Logic, Epistemology, Ethics and Metaphysics. Each section includes a subject overview and philosopher profiles, as well as quizzes, games and thought experiments which apply the tools of philosophy to ultimate questions and everyday life. Thought-provoking and logic-defying, This is Not a Book will test your view on reality.
Subject(s): Philosophy--Popular works, Philosophy--Introductions, Logic, Skepticism, Knowledge, Theory of, Spirituality, Metaphysics, Ethics, Infinite, Paradox
Department: Philosophy & Humanities

Title: Ledi
Author(s): Kim Trainor (author)
Date: 2018
Abstract: Ledi, the second book by Vancouver poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman's carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods were also discovered-rosehips and wild garlic, translucent vessels carved from horn, snow-white felt stockings and coriander seeds for burning at death. The archaeologist who discovered her, Natalya Polosmak, called her 'Ledi' - 'the Lady' - and it was speculated that she may have held a ceremonial position such as story teller or shaman within her tribe. Trainor uses this burial site to undertake the emotional excavation of the death of a former lover by suicide. This book-length poem presents a compelling story in the form of an archaeologist's notebook, a collage of journal entries, spare lyric poems, inventories, and images. As the poem relates the discovery of Ledi's gravesite, the narrator attempts simultaneously to reconstruct her own past relationship and the body of her lover. From publisher description.
Subject(s): Ice mummies--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Excavations (Archaeology)--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry--21st century
Department: English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: The desirable sister
Author(s): Taslim Burkowicz (author)
Date: 2019
Abstract: Published work by a Douglas College Student Alumni. Gia and Serena Pirji are sisters, but as the first-generation born in Canada to immigrant parents, their lives play out in different ways because of their skin tone. Gia's fair skin grants her membership to cliques of white kids as a teen, while Serena's dark skin means she is labelled as Indian and treated as inferior. This superficial difference, imposed by a society obsessed with skin colour and hierarchy, sets the sisters into a dynamic that plays out throughout their lives. In a world where white skin is preferable, the sisters are pitted against each other through acts of revenge and competition as they experience adultery, ruined friendships, domestic abuse, infertility and motherhood. Taslim Burkowicz's vivid, sensory-rich writing style brings readers to the party scene in Goa, suburban supermarkets in Vancouver and a safari in Africa, where Gia and Serena navigate through the highs and lows of a tumultuous, loving relationship. The Desirable Sister reveals the bitter games of treachery women are forced to play to achieve the ranks of beauty and success, and ultimately shows the strength of love between sisters. From publisher description.
Subject(s): Children of immigrants--Family relationships--Canada, East Indians--Canada, Sisters--Canada, Sibling rivalry--Canada, Families--Canada, Race discrimination--Canada, Human skin color--Social aspects--Canada, Women--Canada--Conduct of life, Women--Family relationships--Canada, Canadian fiction (English)--21st century, Canadian fiction--21st century

Title: Political candidate selection: Who wins, who loses, and under-representation in the UK
Author(s): Jeanette Ashe (author)
Date: 2020
Abstract: The 'secret garden of politics' where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids and why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail has been an enduring puzzle within political science. This book solves this puzzle by proposing and applying a universally applicable multistage approach to discover the relationship between selection rules, selectors' biases, aspirants' attributes, and selection outcomes. Rare party and survey data on winning and losing candidates and insider views on what it takes to win a selection contest at multiple selection stages are compared and used to reveal the inner workings of the secret garden. With a primary focus on the British Labour party over several elections, the findings challenge many long-held assumptions about why some aspirant candidate types are successful over others and provides real-world and controversial solutions to addressing women's and other marginalised groups' descriptive underrepresentation. As such, it provides a much-needed fresh look at party selection processes and draws new conclusions as to why political underrepresentation occurs and should inform policies to remedy it. Part of the "Routledge studies on political parties and party systems" series. From publisher description.
Subject(s): Political candidates--Selection and appointment, Political candidates--Great Britain, Nominations for office--Great Britain, Great Britain. Parliament--Elections, Conservative Party (Great Britain), Labour Party (Great Britain), Representative government and representation, Women political candidates, Women--Political activity
Department: Political Science, Humanities and Social Science

Title: Freedom and nature in Schelling's philosophy of art
Author(s): Devin Z. Shaw (author)
Date: 2010
Abstract: Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom. From publisher description.
Subject(s): Art--Philosophy, Idealism, German, Philosophy, German, Philosophy, German--18th century, Philosophy, German--19th century
Department: Philosophy and Humanities, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: Leviathan - Dies irae
Author(s): Jon-Paul Henry (author)
Date: 2019
Abstract: In a relatively energy-poor future, Earth’s engineers have built an orbital Station that captures sunlight and transforms it into petawatts of microwave power, which is then beamed down to the planet and transformed into electrical energy. To lower costs, the Station has been designed to be autonomous, maintained and repaired by an army of robots, and needing no assistance from humans. When the Station slides off-beam, its enormous power makes it a potential threat, a potential that is quickly actualized. Chief operating engineer Graciella Ch’Ou, Chinese-American daughter of the man who built the Station, Major-General Ethain Rigsby, is the only person with the knowledge and skills to fix the problem. But to do so, she must battle not only her own father, but as well a US Army space combat mission, tasked to destroy the Station, a group of mercenaries determined to capture the facility for their own purposes, and the Station itself, which has a built-in means of defense--the horde or robots, which sustain it. Graciella’s chief enemy, however, is space itself, a hostile and unforgiving environment where the slightest mistake spells death. Racing against time and implacable enemies, Graciella must shut down the Station before it triggers a die ira--a day of wrath from heaven--an apocalypse which will destroy the Earth. Provided by publisher.
Subject(s): Space stations, Satellite solar power stations, Autonomous robots, Space warfare, Women engineers, Science fiction
Department: English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: Cultivating empathy: Inspiring health professionals to communicate more effectively
Author(s): Kathleen Stephany (author)
Date: 2015
Abstract: "Research demonstrates that even if empathy - the capacity to perceive or share emotions with other beings or objects - is not part of a person's communication skill set, it can be taught. Empathy can, therefore be viewed as an acquired communication skill. Cultivating and practicing the skill of empathy among health care providers enhances the quality of care experienced by their patients which, in turn, can even improve work satisfaction for health care providers. Many communication textbooks or manuals for care giving professions primarily focus on specific communication skills and techniques. Cultivating Empathy takes a different approach; the book sets empathy as the foundation of all therapeutic interactions and teaches the reader to learn the art of empathy by using constructive approaches and research findings from social sciences and neuroscience. Cultivating Empathy is ... for any student or practicing health care professional who has felt that there was an absence of rapport when interacting with clients or patients and their families. Real case narratives, dynamic interactive exercises and simulation techniques are also provided in this text to assist helpers to learn how to be more empathetic. Readers will gain awareness about human and emotional aspects of patient care, which will hopefully make a positive contribution to their professional practice."--Provided by publisher.
Subject(s): Empathy, Professional-Patient Relations, Communication, Health communication, Medical personnel and patient, Communication in medicine
Department: Nursing

Title: This book does not exist: adventures in the paradoxical
Author(s): Michael Picard (author), Gary Hayden (author)
Date: 2009
Abstract: Revised and expanded as (The Bedside Book of) "Paradoxes" (2013). Translated into multiple European languages, it has sold over 70,000 copies worldwide. 'If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception - except this one.' Welcome to the world of the paradox - something that appears to be true and yet contradicts itself. From Galileo's Fan to the Cone of Democritus, and from the impossibility of motion to the infinite staircase, these mind-bending thought experiments, optical illusions and logical deceptions are on of the most interesting and accessible facets of philosophy. This Book Does Not Exist will stretch your mind, put your neurons through their paces, and challenge the foundations of your knowledge and opinions. You'll discover that you can't even trust your own senses - even though they may be all you have. Filled with puzzles that have intrigued the greatest philosophers, this fascinating collection of insoluble logical paradoxes will give your intellect a workout that you can't help but enjoy.
Subject(s): Paradox, Psychological recreations, Philosophy, Philosophers
Department: Philosophy & Humanities

Title: After Canaan : essays on race, writing, and region
Author(s): Wayde Compton (author)
Date: 2010
Abstract: "Written from the perspective of someone who was born and lives outside of African American culture, it riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or "Canaan") encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (also known as "passing"), the failure of urban renewal, humor as a counterweight to "official" multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself."--Provided by publisher.
Subject(s): Post-racialism--Canada, Multiculturalism--Canada, Race in literature, Canada--Intellectual life--20th century
Department: Creative Writing, (Language, Literature and Performing Arts)

Title: SPSC 1151: Biomechanics of human movement
Author(s): Karine Hamm (author), Hannah Gustafson (author), Gillian Hatfield (author)
Abstract: Part 1. Chapters 1-4: Prerequisite skills for biomechanics -- Anatomy basics -- Linear kinematics in one-dimension -- Linear kinematics in two-dimensions. Part 2. Chapters 5-10: Angular kinematics -- Linear kinetics -- Work, power, and energy -- Angular kinetics -- Muscle-tendon mechanics. Two volumes.
Subject(s): Biomechanics, Kinesiology, Human anatomy, Kinematics
Department: Sport Science

Title: Intermediate accounting. Volume 1
Author(s): Kin Lo (author), George Fisher (author)
Abstract: Fundamentals of Financial Accounting Theory -- Conceptual Frameworks for Financial Reporting -- Accrual Accounting -- Revenue Recognition -- Cash and Receivables -- Inventories -- Financial Assets -- Property, Plant, and Equipment -- Intangible Assets, Goodwill, Mineral Resources, and Government Grants -- Applications of Fair Value to Non-Current Assets. From publisher content.
Subject(s): Revenue, Accounting, Accounting--Canada, Financial statements
Department: Accounting, Commerce and Business Administration

Title: Experience research social change: methods beyond the mainstream
Author(s): Sandra Kirby (author), Lorraine Greaves (author), Colleen Reid (author)
Date: 2006
Abstract: Experience Research Social Change: Methods Beyond the Mainstream discusses the issues emerging within contemporary social science research. Based on their extensive applied research experience, the authors build the important theoretical framing and methodological (practical and analytical) steps, enabling those new to social science approaches to undertake social research oriented toward social change. Experience Research Social Change also captures the emerging issues and debates, particularly those concerning research ethics, working in research teams, and doing interdisciplinary and collaborative work. This new edition is an essential book for a whole new generation of students, researchers, and lecturers within the social sciences.
Subject(s): Social sciences--Research--Methodology, Research--Moral and ethical aspects, Research teams
Department: Therapeutic Recreation

Title: Each day is a new creation: guidelines on living a life of purpose
Author(s): Kathleen Stephany (author)
Date: 2012
Abstract: Through inspirational lessons like Don't Be Afraid to Reach for the Stars, Kathleen encourages us to live our daily life with a sense of purpose, passion, and anticipation. The stories originate from her many encounters with wonderful people whose paths so miraculously interconnected with her own. Some of them stem from her role as a registered nurse, psychologist, coroner, teacher, daughter, wife, mother, and friend. Others are from the perspective of people that she has come to love and admire. Although each subsection can be read on its own, when taken all together, they form a guide for living life more fully. -- From publisher description.
Subject(s): Conduct of life, Self-help techniques, Self-actualization (Psychology)
Department: Nursing

Title: A social history of tennis in Britain
Author(s): Robert J. Lake (author)
Date: 2015
Abstract: From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account of the history of tennis in Britain, Robert Lake explains how the game’s historical roots have shaped its contemporary structure, and how the history of tennis can tell us much about the history of wider British society. Since its emergence as a spare-time diversion for landed elites, the dominant culture in British tennis has been one of amateurism and exclusion, with tennis sitting alongside cricket and golf as a vehicle for the reproduction of middle-class values throughout wider British society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, the Lawn Tennis Association has been accused of a failure to promote inclusion or widen participation, despite steadfast efforts to develop talent and improve coaching practices and structures. Robert Lake examines these themes in the context of the global development of tennis and important processes of commercialisation and professional and social development that have shaped both tennis and wider society. The social history of tennis in Britain is a microcosm of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century British social history: sustained class power and class conflict; struggles for female emancipation and racial integration; the decline of empire; and, Britain’s shifting relationship with America, continental Europe, and Commonwealth nations. This book is important and fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport or British social history.
Subject(s): Tennis--Social aspects--Great Britain, Tennis--Great Britain--History
Department: Sport Science