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Come from the Shadows

The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

By: Terry Glavin

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Come from the Shadows

The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

By: Terry Glavin

An award-winning journalist overturns western stereotypes as he takes readers as he takes readers .outside the wire. of the war in Afghanistan and introduces the people whose defiant courage offers hope for the future. Far from the Taliban's grim desert strongholds, the country we visit with Terry Glavin is a surprisingly welcoming place, hidden away in alleys and narrow streets that bustle with blacksmiths, gem hawkers and spice merchants. This is the unseen Afghanistan, reawakening from decades of savagery and bloodletting. Glavin shows us how events have unfolded in Afghanistan since September 11, 2001. Travelling with fluent interpreters and Afghan human rights activists, Glavin meets people from many walks of life -- key political figures, teachers, journalists, farmers, students, burqa-shrouded women and soccer players -- and in these pages they speak for themselves. And in the life story of Afghan-Canadian writer, translator and activist Abdulrahim Parwani, he finds the story of Afghanistan's agonies over the past 30 years. Celebrated as .a critical voice in the dialogue that sustains a civil society,. Glavin is a co-founder of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee and is increasingly seen as an expert on Canada's role in Afghanistan. He is also one of the best writers we have. Come from the Shadows mounts a passionately, marvellously readable challenge to the usual depiction of the war in Afghanistan. What, Glavin asks, has made the West incapable of hearing the voices of Afghans at the forefront of the global struggle against slavery, misogyny and tyranny? His answers are often unexpected and always illuminating.

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Douglas & McIntyre

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1553657829

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9781553657828

The Sixth Extinction

Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind

By: Terry Glavin

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The Sixth Extinction

Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind

By: Terry Glavin

The Sixth Extinction is a haunting account of the age in which we live. Ecologists are calling it the Sixth Great Extinction, and the world isn't losing just its ecological legacy; also vanishing is a vast human legacy of languages and our ways of living, seeing, and knowing. Terry Glavin confirms that we are in the midst of a nearly unprecedented, catastrophic vanishing of animals, plants, and human cultures. He argues that the language of environmentalism is inadequate in describing the unraveling of the vast system in which all these extinctions are actually related. And he writes that we're no longer gaining knowledge with every generation. We're losing it. In the face of what he describes as a dark and gathering sameness upon the Earth, Glavin embarks on a global journey to meet the very things we're losing (a distinct species every ten minutes, a unique vegetable variety every six hours, an entire language every two weeks) and on the way encounters some of the world's wonderful, rare things: a human-sized salmon in Russia; a mysterious Sino-Tibetan song-language; a Malayan tiger, the last of its kind; and a strange tomato that tastes just like black cherry ice cream. And he finds hope in the most unlikely places---a macaw roost in Costa Rica; a small village in Ireland; a relic community of Norse whalers in the North Atlantic; the vault beneath the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew; and the throne room of the Angh of Longwa in the eastern Himalayas. A fresh narrative take on the usual doom and gloom environmentalism, The Sixth Extinction draws upon zoology, biology, ecology, anthropology, and mythology to share the joys hidden within the long human struggle to conserve the world's living things. Here, we find hope in what's left: the absolute and stunning beauty in the Earth's last cultures and creatures.

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Macmillan

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1466873582

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Sturgeon Reach

Shifting Currents At The Heart of the Fraser

By: Terry Glavin,Ben Parfitt

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Sturgeon Reach

Shifting Currents At The Heart of the Fraser

By: Terry Glavin,Ben Parfitt

Sturgeon Reach is the name some have given to a stretch of the Fraser River between Hope and Pitt Meadows, where its flow slows, and it deposits the gravel it's been carrying from the province's interior. Its story is one of rocks and stones, from its geological origins, from the mythic beginnings of human settlement, and from the arrival of Simon Fraser through to the onslaught of dykes and roads and bridges and foundations that today threaten the river's essential nature. Sturgeon Reach hosts an incredible array of life, from giant black cottonwoods to a creature that dates from the age of dinosaurs –– the remarkable white sturgeon. This stretch of river is the spawning ground for major salmon runs. And for millennia, it has also been the home of the Sto:lo Indians. How can we now live well along a river that has a ceaseless desire to overflow its banks and set its own course? How can we allow the life that the river's character fosters to persist in the face of overwhelming development? In the 20th book in the Transmontanus series, Terry Glavin and Ben Parfitt explore Sturgeon Reach — its geography, its history, its critical role in the coastal ecosystem, and the compelling story it tells about competing human needs.

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New Star Books

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1554200601

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Though the Odds Be Great or Small

Notre Dame's 1957 Comeback Season and the Year That Changed College Football

By: Terry Brennan,William Meiners

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Though the Odds Be Great or Small

Notre Dame's 1957 Comeback Season and the Year That Changed College Football

By: Terry Brennan,William Meiners

On November 16, 1957, an unranked Notre Dame football team squared off against the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners. It was supposed to be an easy Sooners win. But despite being 19-point underdogs, the Fighting Irish, guided by their young and tenacious coach Terry Brennan, maneuvered their way to a 7–0 upset, ending the Sooners’ NCAA-record 47-game winning streak. Though the Odds Be Great or Small chronicles the story of legendary coach Terry Brennan, from his days as a player at Notre Dame under Frank Leahy, to his selection as the head coach in 1954, to the high-intensity comeback season of 1957 in which Notre Dame finished in the top 10 overall. This book provides the social, cultural, and athletic context to understand college football before and after 1957—a year that changed how the game was played at Notre Dame for decades. The 1957 season remains one of the most important seasons in Notre Dame football’s storied history. In Though the Odds Be Great or Small, Coach Brennan shares his version of what happened in the trenches and on the sidelines during a time when a college football game had the power to keep an entire country on the edge of its seat.

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Loyola Press

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0829451242

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9780829451245

Blood Song

By: David John Cawdell Irving,Terry C. Johnston

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Blood Song

By: David John Cawdell Irving,Terry C. Johnston

Frontier scout Seamus Donegan joins Colonel Joseph Reynolds and four hundred soldiers in their lightning attack on a massive encampment of Native Americans.

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406

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Macmillan

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0312929218

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9780312929213

Come from the Shadows

The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

By: Terry Glavin

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The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

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Sturgeon Reach

Shifting Currents At The Heart of the Fraser

By: Terry Glavin,Ben Parfitt

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Shifting Currents At The Heart of the Fraser

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The Sixth Extinction

Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind

By: Terry Glavin

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Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind

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The Last Great Sea

A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean

By: Terry Glavin

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The Last Great Sea

A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean

By: Terry Glavin

By the author of numerous books of natural history, including "Dead Reckoning, " this is a voyage through the human and natural history of the North Pacific Ocean.

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1550549545

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Dead Reckoning

Confronting the Crisis in Pacific Fisheries

By: Terry Glavin

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Dead Reckoning

Confronting the Crisis in Pacific Fisheries

By: Terry Glavin

Abundant fish along North America's West Coast Coast have nurtured rich and diverse cultures for centuries. But today millions of sockeye salmon routinely seem to "disappear" from the Fraser River, chinook salmon populations are collapsing, the abalone fishery is one of several that has been shut down and oolichan populations are in dramatic decline. At the same time, biodiversity is being lost as the remaining stocks are concentrated into fewer populations. Will the Pacific fishery go the way of the Atlantic fishery? How can it be better managed? And what can be done to ensure its long-term sustainability?" "In Dead Reckoning, award-winning journalist Terry Glavin attempts to answer these troublesome questions. He begins at Byrne Creek, a local stream that shaped his boyhood world, then takes us up the Fraser River, where Coyote once assigned fishing rights and techniques, and out onto the high seas. It is later than we think - but not too late, says Glavin. In precise, highly visual and moving prose, he presents concrete alternatives for fishing communities on the West Coast and around the globe, and introduces us to some of the fishers, biologists and "average citizens" who are working to conserve and restore the world's great fisheries today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Greystone Books

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1550545760

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Book's by Terry Glavin

Come from the Shadows

Come from the Shadows

The Sixth Extinction

The Sixth Extinction

Sturgeon Reach

Sturgeon Reach

Though the Odds Be Great or Small

Though the Odds Be Great or Small

Blood Song

Blood Song

Come from the Shadows

Come from the Shadows

Sturgeon Reach

Sturgeon Reach

The Sixth Extinction

The Sixth Extinction

The Last Great Sea

The Last Great Sea

Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

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