Author: Kenn Harper
Publisher: Yellowknife, N.W.T. : Outcrop
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Collection of accounts describing Christmas in the Arctic over the past two hundred years.

Author: Gordon Pape
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101097663
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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Start a new Christmas tradition with Quizmas Ever wonder why we kiss under the mistletoe? Are the lights on the Christmas tree just pretty decorations or do they symbolize something deeper? And speaking of Christmas trees, where did that idea come from? Why would we bring a tree into our homes, hang ornaments on it, and treat it as the focal point of Christmas morning? Answers to these questions and hundreds more can be found in this delightful and utterly unputdownable collection of fabulous Christmas trivia. “Loads of fun…the perfect stocking stuffer.”—Santa

Author: Frédéric B. Laugrand
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773576363
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Using archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted "outside" elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the ideology of a hunting society shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions.

Author: K. E. Faulkner
Publisher: K. E. Faulkner
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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A story of faith and family at Christmastime. Emily has a lot to look forward to this Christmas! Not only are there the usual Christmas traditions to celebrate, but now Emily is finally old enough to help light the candles on the tree! Despite all the fun, however, Emily's younger brother Peter can be a handful to deal with, and Margaret, Emily's mischievous best friend, seems to get her into trouble...

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Category : Canada, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: Richard Curtis
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0241765900
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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From international film phenomenon, Richard Curtis, and awardwinnning illustrator, Rebecca Cobb, comes three heartwarming tales of magical Christmases. Gathered together for the first time in a beautiful treasury, The Empty Stocking, Snow Day and That Christmas make the ultimate Christmas trilogy – filled with joy, drama and all the trimmings. Have you been naughty or nice? Will Father Christmas visit and will there be snow? Celebrate all kinds of Christmases in these funny festive tales... The books have now been woven together into a major animated Netflix film.

Author: Harry Eiss
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144380732X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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This book offers a multifaceted approach to the world of young adults, everything from Ray Schrock’s use of Walter Dean Myers’ sports stories to discuss race relations and cultural politics to Joyce Litton’s analysis of the highly popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Quartet. The cover illustration is done by Joel Rudinger based on his experiences with the Inuit where he learned many of their legends and myths, resulting in his own excellent work on Sedna, the creation goddess, a story filled with deep tragedy, mystery and the world of the spirits. This mythic world slides into the discussion of Harry Eiss, one that focuses on The Isis Trilogy, best known of Monica Hughes many works, who writes, “Science fiction and fantasy in particular are valid carriers of myth for the 20th century, and most especially for young people.” Margaret Best and Susann deVries also give us literature that uses science. They begin, “The science fair project is the central metaphor and the reality in Paul Zindel’s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970), Christopher Paul Curtis’s Bucking the Sarge (2004), and Joyce Maynard’s The Cloud Chamber (2005). After providing an overview science fiction, Sally Sugarman offers a study of the entire genre. “For this study two hundred and thirty-nine high school students from two schools in Vermont and Massachusetts were surveyed.” Alethea K. Helbig provides an overview of her important activities promoting literature for the young. She was a seminal scholar and educator when colleges and universities were just beginning to take the study of such literature seriously, when English departments were initiating serious undergraduate and graduate classes in what previously had been seen as inferior literature. Her life itself provides us with an entertaining and historically valuable autobiographical account of a person at the center of the change that has taken and continues to take place. Jerry Loving expands the horizons of the entire collection of essays, providing a firsthand account of how the young are educated in China, including a detailed history. It begins: “I have been traveling to mainland China at least 4 to 6 times a year as a teacher or education evaluator since 2002. As the visits and years passed, I watched the education system of China slowly improve to the level my schools were like when I went to school in the 50’s and 60’s

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ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Joanne Irons
Publisher: S&S Learning Materials
ISBN: 1550355082
Category : Inuit
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1634

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