Frankie's life began in an Irish pub in Montreal's French east end. As she listens to her dad's band jam to the beats of life, the most unfortunate of coincidences happens and her life is changed forever. Being a girl in the 1980s isn't easy. Frankie soon comes to see it as an impromptu jam session filled with unexpected beats. The beats she experiences in high school are filled with laughter, tears, love, anger, and hope. Dealing with bullies becomes a daily nightmare. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll become a big part of her struggles and healing process. Frankie learns that the key to survival is friendship, determination, and figuring out how to become an author in the song that is her life.

Sky-Bound Misfit

Literature & Fiction

Powell, Jane

Women's Fiction

Tellwell Talent

Butterflies in the System is a story about love, incarceration, and perseverance. Inspired by true events, it follows a year in the life of five teenagers as they struggle through the youth protection system in Montreal. Through the halls of a group home, into lockdown within a youth detention centre, and onto the streets, Sam and her peers navigate through a world kept hidden from the public eye. Their future in the hands of judges, social workers, and childcare workers, the teens learn the value in empathy and friendship. Jane Powell is an alumna of Ville Marie Social Services and Youth Horizons (now Batshaw Youth and Family Centres) in Montreal. She wrote this story to raise awareness of the challenge teens face while in youth protection, where they are subjected to variable and often unethical care. "Great read! The first chapter alone brought me back 30 years. It's fiction, but it was still very close to home for me. I recommend this book to anyone who even spent 48 hours in the system." - Lyne Meilleur, alumna 1989-92, Shawbridge Youth Centres and Youth Horizons in Montreal, QC "I loved Butterflies in the System for its raw and honest look at life in the DYP system as seen through the eyes of someone living it. As a childcare worker and special care counsellor, I found the narrative accurately heartbreaking and inspirational. Sam's journey is poignant, funny, riveting and brutally honest. The story reflects what still does and doesn't work in our flawed social service network. A compelling read!" -Janet Gallagher, special care counsellor and childcare worker in Montreal, QC "An excellent follow up to Sky-Bound Misfit, Butterflies in the System showcases Sam's struggles when she finds herself within the youth protection system. I found the story fascinating and had a hard time putting it down. The characters were vividly real. I loved the connecting pieces that related to Sky-Bound Misfit. Vincent's appearance, along with Frankie's, was stellar ... a great way to tie both novels together, which left me wanting to read Sky-Bound Misfit all over again." -Alicia Grills, avid reader, Golden, BC

Butterflies in the System

Public Health for the 21st Century

"a well constructed and informed textbook that covered the breadth of public health from globalisation to the hierarchies of evidence"  healthmatters  This book explores the meaning of the ‘new’ public health within current debates, and the policy changes that are reshaping the context for public health. It moves away from public health medicine to a multi-disciplinary approach to public health concerns. This book asks: · Why is a multidisciplinary approach to public health important and where is its future? · What is the nature of the new multidisciplinary public health? · How can multidisciplinary public health professionals move towards an evidence-informed public health practice? With analysis and reflection upon public health history theories, research and practice, Public Health for the 21st Century engages advanced undergraduate and graduate students, trainees and professionals across a broad range of disciplines. Contributors: Gill Barrett, Jack Dowie, David Evans, Colin Fudge, Alison Gilchrist, Melanie Grey, Tony Harrison, Stuart Hashagen, David J. Hunter, Stuart McClean, Chris Miller, Jennie Naidoo, Judy Orme, Stephen Peckham, Jon Pollock, Jane Powell, Joyshri Sarangi, Gabriel Scally, Murray Stewart, Pat Taylor.

Harrison, Tony

Taylor, Pat

Orme, Judy

Grey, Melanie

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Open University Press

"a well constructed and informed textbook that covered the breadth of public health from globalisation to the hierarchies of evidence" healthmatters 
 This book explores the meaning of the ‘new’ public health within current debates, and the policy changes that are reshaping the context for public health. It moves away from public health medicine to a multi-disciplinary approach to public health concerns. This book asks: 
 · Why is a multidisciplinary approach to public health important and where is its future? · What is the nature of the new multidisciplinary public health? · How can multidisciplinary public health professionals move towards an evidence-informed public health practice? 
 With analysis and reflection upon public health history theories, research and practice, Public Health for the 21st Century engages advanced undergraduate and graduate students, trainees and professionals across a broad range of disciplines.
 Contributors: Gill Barrett, Jack Dowie, David Evans, Colin Fudge, Alison Gilchrist, Melanie Grey, Tony Harrison, Stuart Hashagen, David J. Hunter, Stuart McClean, Chris Miller, Jennie Naidoo, Judy Orme, Stephen Peckham, Jon Pollock, Jane Powell, Joyshri Sarangi, Gabriel Scally, Murray Stewart, Pat Taylor.

A reduction in the energy demand of buildings can make a major contribution to achieving national and international carbon reduction goals, in addition to addressing the interlinked issues of sustainable development, fuel poverty and fuel security. Despite improvements in thermal efficiency, the energy demand of buildings stubbornly remains unchanged, or is only declining slowly, due to the challenges posed by growing populations, the expectations of larger, more comfortable and better equipped living spaces, and an expanding commercial sector.  Building Futures offers an interdisciplinary approach to explore this lack of progress, combining technical and social insights into the challenges of designing, constructing and operating new low energy buildings, as well as improving the existing, inefficient, building stock. The twin roles of energy efficiency, which is predominantly concerned with technological solutions, and energy conservation which involves changing peoples’ behaviour, are both explored. The book includes a broad geographical range and scale of case studies from the UK, Europe and further afield, including Passivhaus in Germany and the UK, Dongtan Eco City in China and retrofit houses in Denmark. This book is a valuable resource for students and academics of environmental science and energy-based subjects as well as construction and building management professionals.

Building Futures: Managing energy in the built environment

Business & Money

Monahan, Jennifer

Foulds, Chris

Economics

Routledge

Building Futures

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

A musical-comedy star discusses her career, from her early childhood stardom to her work with such greats as Fred Astaire, and describes the personal heartbreaks she has endured and her new and happy life

The Jane Powell Story

Biographies & Memoirs

BERKLEY

The Girl Next Door and How She Grew

William Morrow & Co.

Understanding Social Research (Social Research and Educational Studies Series)

In 1991 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) published "Postgraduate Taining Guidelines". Throughout the document emphasis is placed on the need for universities to make postgraduate research students aware of the methodological issues that affect their work.; This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences in langage that is accessible to researchers at all levels of their research careers. It follows the themes that there is no single practice or correct methodology, and that the diversity and variety in terms of methodology and disciplinary focus are a sign of the sophistication and complexity of the proceses of social research. The text examines socio-cultural contexts of social research and relates them to contemporary shifts in focus such as feminism, critical theory and postmodernism. The importance of selecting the research methodology most appropriate to the subject discipline concerned is emphasized.

Understanding Social Research: Perspectives on Methodology and Practice (Social Research and Educational Studies Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Usher, Robin

McKenzie, George

Social Sciences

Filled with handsome photographs of retro-style kitchens, this is a "what to" book for those who want to learn how to restore or re-create a bungalow-era kitchen. It is filled with invaluable information describing what was in these kitchens, when it was available, and how it went together. You will be inspired to re-create the Bungalow aesthetic of old while enjoying contemporary conveniences.

Bungalow Kitchens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Gibbs-Smith

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