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| Agriculture 1.0 |
Organic 1.1
| The Bug Stops Here
James W. Perkins (1991)
C # 1.11
This book covers the ways to enrich the plant growing habitat to the point of perfection.
| Earthcare Ecological Agriculture
in Saskatchewan Earthcare Group (1980)
C # 1.12
A guide to organic farming on the Canadian Prairies that presents practical guidelines for improving soil fertility, composting, green manuring, crop rotation, and nontoxic weed and insect pest controls
| The New Organic Grower
Eliot Coleman (1989)
C # 1.13
Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Colman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long term health of the soil.
| Magic and Medicine of Plants
Reader's Digest (1986)
C # 1.14
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Sustainability 1.2
| An Effective and Sustainable World
Food System
[7 copies]
Gerard Drainville (1994)
C # 1.21
Book covers these topics:
-The agricultural situation
-A balanced management of the soil
-Christian motivation of the soil
-Guidelines for research into agriculture at the service of humanity
| Agriculture in Harmony with
Nature Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada (1997)
C # 1.22
Book covers these topics:
-Increasing understanding
-Promoting environmental and resource stewardship
-Developing innovations and solutions
-Seizing market opportunities
| Harmonic Farming: A Love Style
Werner M. Gysi (1995)
C # 1.23
The author shares with the reader what he has learned about becoming self sufficient in food production, using time to its best advantage while staying in tune with nature and also your "self". It will be your survival guide to the future, physically as well as spiritually.
| Our Responsibility to the Seventh
Generation
I.I.S.D. (1992)
C # 1.24
Book covers these topics:
-Indigenous perspective and relationship with the environment
-Process of impoverishment
-Well-being of current and future generations
-The importance of indigenous culture and knowledge based on the respect for life
-A call to action: guiding principles for policy change
| Profile (of Production Trends and
Environmental Issues in Canada's Agriculture and Agri-Food
Sector)
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (1997)
C # 1.25
Book covers these topics:
-Nature and distribution of agri-food production
-Environmental issues associated with farm-level agricultural production
-Environmental issues associated with food and beverage processing...
-Environmental outlook
| Source Book on Sustainable Development
[ 2 copies]
I.I.S.D. (1992)
C # 1.26
The purpose is to promote sustainable development in decision making - with government, business and the daily lives of individuals.
| Sustainability of Canada's Agri-Food
System-A Prairie Perspective
I.I.S.D. (1994)
C # 1.27
The book examines current agriculture practices and sustainability in the Prairies.
| Sustainability Farming: Possibilities
Science Council of Canada (1991)
C # 1.28
Book covers these topics:
-Analysis of science and technology policy issues
-Recommending policy directions to government
-Alerting Canadians to the importance of science and technology in their lives
-Stimulating action on science and technology policy issues among government, the private sector, and academic institutions
| Sustainable Land Management for
the 21st Century University of Lethbridge (1993)
C # 1.29
Book covers these topics:
-Indicators and criteria for sustainable land management
-Integration of environmental, economic and social systems with sustainable land management.
-Innovations in technology transfer for sustainable land management
-Impacts of policies and programs on sustainable land management
| Trade and Sustainable Development
Principles
I.I.S.D. (1994)
C # 1.210
This book covers global and regional trade agreements, environmental policies and accords, structural adjustment and lending policies, and national and multilateral development efforts all have significant spillover effects. Yet there is no integrated approach to formulating trade, environment, and development policies; no well defined set of principles linking these fields.
| Secrets of the Soil
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird (1989)
C # 1.211
This book is a fascinating account of recent breakthroughs - scientific and spiritual - that can save your garden or farm.
| Earthcare for Children - a First
Day School Curriculum
[3 copies]
Sandra Moon Farley, Diana Gail Egly
and Thomas Baxter Farley (1998)
C # 1.212
A resource to educate children on Earthcare. To search for the life which affirms the unity of all Creation, to apply Friends' practice to live in deep communion with all life spirit, to be guided by the Light within us to participate in the healing of the Earth, to be a reflective and energetic forum within the Religious Society of Friends to strengthen and deepen our spiritual unity with nature.
| Caring for Creation Study Guide
Earthkeeping - Food and Agriculture
in Christian Perspective (1998)
C # 1.213
Resources to make a link between our faith and our need to care for the earth, both on a theological and a practical basis.
| Sustainable Community planning in
the Carlton Trail REDA Region
Centre for Rural Studies and Enrichment (2000)
C # 1.214
| Ishmael - An adventure of the Mind
and Spirit
Daniel Quinn
C # 1.215
"The point remains that we are killing the earth along with ourselves and it is nearly too late to check our fate. This is reason enough for reading Ishmael." - The Orlando Sentinal.
The Role of Biodiversity Conservation
in the Transition to Rural Sustainability
Edited by Stephen S. Light C # 1.216
Nato Science Series - Series V: Science and Technology Policy - Vol. 41
Renewing the Countryside - Minnesota C
# 1.217
Here you have a book full of success stories. These are stories of individuals,
families and communitas enhancing the beauty and vitality of Minnesota's
countryside.
Pasture Perfect - The far-reaching benefits
of choosing meat, eggs, and dairy products from grass fed animals - Jo Robinson
C # 1.218
Jo presents compelling evidence that taking our animals out of factory farms
and returning them to pasture is better for the animals, the environment,
family farmers, and consumers.
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Economics 1.3
| Bread for the World
Arthur Simon (1975)
C # 1.31
This book is a general introduction to world hunger and it emphasizes primarily the neglected role of public policy.
| The Corporate Reapers
A.V. Krebs (1992)
C # 1.32
A book on how agribusiness is growing and becoming dominated by large corporations with America's "family farm system" on the threshold of eradication.
| Family Farming
Rarty Strange (1988)
C # 1.33
This book is a gallery of stubborn independent farmers who manage to survive in the crevices of a market controlled by corporate agricultural producers...A lively, practical guide to the success or, more often, failure in small farming.
| Fighting the Farm Crisis
Terry Pugh (1987)
C # 1.34
This book looks at the political implications of corporate control of farming and the food system and the personal trauma faced by farm families across Canada. This guide includes a list of resources, support groups and advocates for farmers.
| The Nature of Wealth
Fred Lundgren (1994)
C # 1.35
A text book that can help you discover the physics within an economic system.
| The Rape of Canola
[ 2 copies]
Brewster Kneen (1992)
C # 1.36
Stories of how decisions have been made, by whom, and with what consequences, illustrating the transformation of science, technology and agriculture that is taking place around the world.
| Raw Materials Economics
Charles Walters Jr. (1991)
C # 1.37
In this remarkable little primer, Charles Walters Jr. proves the effects of raw materials production on the job market, dollar value, and manufactured goods.
| Trading Up
Brewster Kneen (1990)
C # 1.38
This book exposes the way in which a major transnational corporation is effectively transforming Canadian agricultural policy.
| Small is Beautiful: Economics as
if People Mattered
E.F. Schumacher (1999)
C # 1.39
Perfect antidote to the economics of globalization. As relevant today as when it was first published, it is a landmark set of essays on humanistic economics.
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Agricultural Issues 1.4
| Agriculture With A Human Face
[2 copies]
Rev. George H. Speltz
C # 1.41
A value system to sustain an agricultural rural people.
| Decision Making and Agriculture:
The Role of Ethics
Kenneth B. Beesley (1995)
C # 1.42
Book covers these topics:
-Animal Welfare
-Agriculture research
-Canadian, U.S. and International agriculture policy
-Building an ethical framework for agriculture
| The Family Farm Can it be Saved?
Shantilal P. Bhagat (1985)
C # 1.43
This book by economist Shantilal P. Bhagat attempts to answer the problems that family farms are facing by:
-providing a historical overview of agriculture in America.
-examining the changing structure of U.S. agriculture.
-analyzing the current farm debt crisis.
-applying biblical and ethical insights to the problems farmers are facing.
-looking into the future of agriculture in America and suggest badly needed policy changes to help the family.
| The Farming Game
Bryan Jones (1982)
C # 1.44
Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of "going back to the land" and then takes the unconventional stand that, above all, farming can be a good way to make money.
| Farms in Transition
David E. Brewster (1983)
C # 1.45
Presented at a symposium on farm structure and rural policy held at Iowa State University. Political scientists, socialists, historians, soil scientists, writers and editors contributed to the meeting, as did several distinguished economists.
| From the Ground Up
Peter Goering (1993)
C # 1.46
- Industrial Agriculture: Broken Promises
- The New Agriculture: Back to Basics
| Hopes and Challenges of Agriculture
in Present-day Quebec
Gerard Drainville (1985)
C # 1.47
Book covers these topics:
-the agricultural situation
-a balanced management of the soil
-Christian motivation in the management of the soil
-guidelines for research into an agriculture at the service of humanity
| Hungry for Profit Monthly Review
July/August 1998
C # 1.48
An independent socialist magazine deals with agriculture, food security and ecology in the July/August issue.
| Invisible Giant
[ 3 copies]
Brewster Kneen (1995)
C # 1.49
Research and statistics about international business enterprises.
| Is There a Moral Obligation to Save
the Family Farm?
Gary Comstock (1987)
C # 1.410
This book provides a broad spectrum of view points and solutions within the volume and challenges readers to examine their own value judgments and positions regarding the farm crisis.
| Law Agriculture and the Farm Crisis
Donald E. Buckingham (1992)
C # 1.411
Book covers these topics:
-law in the development of agricultural policy
-agricultural law and the farm crisis
-an end piece -- some personal reflections
| Living Off the Land
Diane P. Baltaz (1991)
C # 1.412
Book covers these topics:
-a way of life
-farming, nature, family, community and hope
| New Roots for Agriculture
Wes Jackson (1980)
C # 1.413
Book covers these topics:
-the four failures
-the pivotal question
-dimensions of a solution
-a vision for the future
| Plowshares
Sonia Ralston (1986)
C # 1.414
Plow Shares is a quiet, thoughtful story of those who still believe peace is a possibility, but who realize that our endangered world now requires us -- before it is too late -- to look at each other with new eyes.
| Something's Wrong Somewhere
Christopher Lind (1995)
C # 1.415
Book covers these topics:
-Agricultural sovereignty, farm debt and the ethnics of globalization
-Moral economy and market society
-Powerlessness, community and the environment: when the system farms
the farmers
-Building community as a response to globalization
| Weaving New Ways
Nettie Wiebe (1987)
C # 1.416
Book covers these topics:
-Canadian farm women
-The employment practices of farm women
-Why organize?
-Nuts and bolts of organization
-Building support: At home and in the community
| Farmageddon Food and the Culture
of Biotechnology
Brewster Kneen (1999)
C # 1.417
Farmegeddon lifts this veil of secrecy to reveal exactly what is going on down on the farm and on the supermarket shelf. Cutting through both corporate rhetoric and government misinformation, it lays bare the dark culture that permeates biotechnology, as well as who stands to benefit from this Faustian tinkering with the very stuff of life. It also demonstrates that biotechnology can be resisted. It will appeal to all who value healthy food and a healthy society.
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Land Preservation 1.5
| A Community Based Land Trust Model
for Saskatchewan Agriculture
William J. Brown (1993)
C # 1.51
Book covers these topics:
-A community based land trust (CBLT) model for Sask. agriculture
-Interest group discussions
-Suggested start-up procedure for CBLTSs in Saskatchewan
| Community Development Strategies
on the Northern Plains
Kevin A. Choy (1992)
C # 1.52
Book covers these topics:
-Community economic development theory
-Entrepreneurship and rural development
-Financing local economic development
-government supported financing
| An Economic and Sociological Evaluation
of Land Use Options
North American Waterfowl Management Plan (1992)
C # 1.53
Book covers these topics:
-Quill Lakes project / Prairie habitat joint venture
-Methodology
-Socio-economic evaluation
-Impact on farm income
-Regional impacts
| Rural Preservation in Pennsylvania
The French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust (1986)
C # 1.54
Proceeding of a conference with the french and pickering creeks conservation trust, Inc. and the agricultural law committee of the Pennsylvania bar association.
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| Environment 2.0 |
Reports 2.1
| It's About Our Health!
House Of Commons Standing Committee (1995)
C # 2.11
Book covers these topics:
-The federal role in environmental protection
-The Canadian Environmental Protection act (CEPA):
history and description
-The need for change
-Preventing toxic substances pollution
-Aboriginal people and environmental protection
| Saskatchewan's State of the Environment
Report 1997
Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management (1997)
C # 2.12
Book covers these topics:
-Description of the Prairie ecozone
-Stresses: Use of the Prairie ecozone
-Status of the Prairie ecozone
-Management initiatives affecting the Prairie ecozone
| Soil at Risk
Standing Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forestry (1994)
C # 2.13
Book covers these topics:
-Soil degradation: issues and answers
-Regional perspectives on soil degradation
-Solutions can be found: case studies
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Composting 2.2
| The Real Dirt
Mark Cullen and Lorraine Johnson (1992)
C # 2.21
Mark and Lorraine have teamed up to tell you everything you need to know to get the most out of home composting.
| Worms Eat Our Garbage
Mary Appelhof and Co. (1993)
C # 2.22
This unique curriculum for home, school, and outdoor centers brings the fascinating subject, earth worms, to the educational setting in an exciting and informative manner. It emphasizes worms -- habitat, needs, physical description, and relationship to other living things- without harming them. It brings new ideas knowledge, and learning about solid waste issues to grades 4 and up.
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Environmental Issues 2.3
| Altars of Unhewn Stone
Wes Jackson (1987)
C # 2.31
The book proves that old testament-style prophesy is not a thing of the past, nor is it unconnected to pure science.
| Development Dialogue
Cary Fowler and Co. (1988)
C # 2.32
Book covers these topics:
-The life technologies
-The economic laws of life
-The political laws of life
-Towards a people-oriented biotechnology
| Environmental Science
William P. Cunningham and Barbra Woodworth Saigo (1992)
C # 2.33
Book covers these topics:
-Principles and concepts
-Populations
-Resources and resource economics
-Environmental pollution and other dilemmas
-Global future
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Straw Bale Construction 2.4
| Straw Bale Building
Chris Magwood and Peter Mack (2000)
C # 2.41
How to plan, design and build with straw. Special focus on building-code compliance and northern climates. The most complete and up to date guide to building with Straw bales! Canadian. Together these two authors have constructed fifteen straw bale houses and structures, and teach a popular on-going straw bale building workshop in Ontario.
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| Human Ecology 3.0 |
Essays 3.1
| Get a Life!
[ 2 copies]
Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum (1995)
C # 3.11
Two books in one, Get a Life! is a primer on new careers and lifestyles and a bold and exiting strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
| The Gift of Good Land
Wendell Berry (1981)
C # 3.12
A collection of twenty-four essays which stress the harmonics of indivisibility in culture and agriculture and develop the argument that the "gift" of good land has strings attached.
| Home Economics
Wendell Berry (1987)
C # 3.13
Wendell berry offers careful insights into our personal and national situation in a prose that is ringing and clear.
| Home Place
Stan Rowe (1990)
C # 3.14
A compilation of essays on the topic of ecology.
| Planning for Seven Generations
Mike Nickerson (1993)
C # 3.15
This book offers numerous techniques for moving towards sustainability and for placing the issue on the public agenda.
| Thinking Like a Mountain
John Seed and Co. (1988)
C # 3.16
Thinking Like a Mountain helps us remember our deep connection with the earth, reassess our patterns of consumption, rediscover our needs for intimacy and support, and redefine our priorities for action.
| What Are People For?
Wendell Berry (1990)
C # 3.17
A compilation of essays written to provoke question and wonder about the titles question.
| The Environmental Crisis: The Place
of the Human Being in the Cosmos
[2 copies]
Episcopal Commission for Social Affairs of the Canadian Conference of Catholic
Bishops (1995)
C # 3.18
This document contains a brief definition of key concepts on the environment and gives an overview of various models of the person's place in the cosmos
| The Dream of the Earth
Thomas Berry (1990)
C # 3.19
Essays from Thomas Berry, a solitary American monk whose essays have aroused environmentalists like a voice crying for the wilderness.
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Communities 3.2
| Canadian People Patterns
Roger Sauve (1990)
C # 3.21
This book deals with the kind of controversial socio-economic and demographic issues which give rise to trades in the media and debates over the kitchen table.
| Reworking Success
Robert Theobald (1997)
C # 3.22
Reworking Success documents the steady slide of "successes" into failures that characterize the latter part of the century and then describes the new role that citizens are adopting in helping to create new kinds of success today and in the future.
| No Place Like Home
Marcia Nozick (1992)
C # 3.23
No Place Like Home provides an alternative vision of how we can develop sustainable communities.
| Sacred Earth, Sacred Community:
Jubilee, Ecology & Aboriginal Peoples
Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative
C # 3.24
Readings compiled by the Theology Committee of the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative the authors probe the Jubilee theme of Renewal of the Earth. The double motif is an awareness of our human need to heal broken relationships with the Earth itself, and with Aboriginal peoples. The Jubilee vision starts from the conviction that we are called by God to life in community -- not in proud or cool isolation from neighbours who differ from us, nor from the rhythms and demands of creation as a whole.
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General 3.3
| Compassion and Solidarity
[ 2 copies]
Gregory Baum (1987)
C # 3.31
The author discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South America and the Third world, but in Canada as well.
| The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom (1987)
C # 3.32
The author argues that the social/political crisis of the 20th century America is really an intellectual crisis.
| Reweaving Canada's Social Program
The Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice (1993)
C # 3.33
The book analyzes the reasons behind the dismantling of our social safety net and outlines a new vision of social solidarity.
| Silent Lies
John Iggulden (1996)
C # 3.34
In this book John Iggulden outlines the dead-end policies of economic rationalism and the powerful solutions to the problem of our alarming future.
| Where On Earth Are We Going?
Jonathon Porritt (1990)
C # 3.35
Written to accompany a six part series on BBC2, that is the question which Jonathon Porritt sets out to answer. It is a "green approach" to mainstream political and economic concerns.
| Nontoxic, Natural, and Earthwise
Debra Lynn Dadd (1990)
C # 3.36
An Earthwise consumer guide which gives advice on how to protect yourself and your family from harmful products and live in harmony with the earth.
| Stepping Lightly - Simplicity for
People and the Planet Mark A. Burch (2000)
C # 3.37
Mark Burch considers not only the deeper rewards of voluntary simplicity for individuals, but how the practice of simple living can be an essential part of the solution to the larger problem of sustaining human communities and the planet into the distant future. Thoughtful and eloquent, Stepping Lightly will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in committing themselves to stepping more lightly into the future.
| Simplicity: Notes, Stories and Exercises
for Developing Unimaginable Wealth
Mark A. Burch (1995)
C # 3.38
How can we escape the clutches of consumer culture? What might enable us to live more fulfilling lives at the same time as stepping more lightly on the Earth?
HOMEWORK - Handbuilt Shelter by Lloyd Kahn C # 3.39
This unique book of homes, builders, dwellers, dreamers, and doers is the result of Lloyd Kahn's thirty-year odyssey shooting photos and gathering information about builders around the world. It is also the sequel to Kahn's best selling book Shelter, which was published in 1973.
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Canadian 4.1
| Controlling Interest
Diane Francis (1986)
C # 4.12
Journalist Diane Fracis answers many important questions about Canadian business today. She identifies the families with the wealth and other "paper entrepreneurs" who seek a disproportionate piece of the economic pie.
| Down to Earth
Carole Giangrande (1985)
C # 4.13
In Down To Earth journalist Carole Giangrande gives us a fresh account of the troubles plaguing Canada's most important industry, agriculture.
| The Ethical Shopper's Guide
John Helson and Co. (1992)
C # 4.14
The book includes:
-easy to-use charts that cover over 1 200 products in nine categories
-comprehensive profiles provide detail on each company
-essays on each issue offer background and fully explain the rating system
-and much more
| A Power Unto Itself
William Krehm (1993)
C # 4.15
A Power Unto Itself reveals how the Bank of Canada has contributed to our economic woes.
| Reclaiming Canada's Sovereignty
Jack L. Biddell (1996)
C # 4.16
Canada is trapped and we Canadians are being skinned! All of us, except of course the truly affluent, are becoming second class citizens.
| Turning the Tide
John Dillon (1997)
C # 4.17
In this eye-opening report on the power of the world's money trader, John Dillon analyzes the devastating effects this new economy built on "cybermoney" has on jobs, on social security, and our quality of life.
| Developing and Supporting Saskatchewan
Cooperatives
[6 copies]
Sask. Economic and Cooperative Development (1999)
C # 4.18
Gives you information on how a cooperative compares with other types of businesses. How a cooperative business is structured and operated. The organizational steps and legal requirement to incorporate a cooperative in Saskatchewan.
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Global 4.2
| The Debt Boomerang
[ 2 copies]
Susan George (1992)
C # 4.21
The Debt Boomerang, based on research of a Transnational Institute team, shows how we in North America are also unwitting victims of this crisis. It explains why solidarity with the South is not just ethnically described, but in our interest as well.
| The Depression of 1990
Dr. Ravi Batra (1985)
C # 4.22
Black Monday may be just the beginning! If Ravi Batra, one of the world's top trade theorists, is right, we are ripe for economic disaster.
| From Wasteland to Promised Land
Robert V. Anderson and James M. Dawsey (1992)
C # 4.23
Authors, Andelson and Dawsey argue that the biblical perspective on land and the proposals of economists/social critic Henry George, offer challenging and promising horizons
| Looking Forward
Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (1991)
C # 4.24
Looking Forward provides a clear, practical and humane alternative vision for a truly participatory economy.
| Making Mondragon
William and Kathleen Whyte (1988)
C # 4.25
This book covers the growth and dynamics for the worker cooperative complex.
| Money Power
Jacques Ellul (1984)
C # 4.26
Jacques Ellul exposes the folly of a purely societal approach, whether communism, collectivism, socialism, and urges for individual responsibility.
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| Religion 5.0 |
Spirituality 5.1
| The Awakening Call
James Finley (1984)
C # 5.11
By sharing his own inner journey and introducing the reader to some of the original intuitions of classical spiritual writers, Finley has produced a source of guidance and encouragement for those who seek intimacy with God in the silence of contemplative prayer.
| Bread Broken and Shared
Paul Bernier, SSS (1981)
C # 5.12
Bread Broken and Shared provides a dramatic new look at Eucharist, one that seeks to make Christians sensitive to its meaning, and offers some astounding implications.
| Caretakers of Creation
Patrick Slattery (1991)
C # 5.121
How do Christian farmers see their role as God's caretakers? What are the connections they find between their faith and their daily work? Patrick Slattery traveled across the Midwestern United States and interviewed farmers to answer these questions as well as others.
| Creation Spirituality
Mathew Fox (1991)
C # 5.13
Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
| Jesus and the Holy Cows
Cedric Mayson (1987)
C # 5.14
Focusing on the South African problem as a model, Cedric Mayson chases these "holy cows" away and rediscovers the immediate reality for Jesus for the pain and conflict of today's world.
| The Perfection of the Morning
Sharon Butala (1994)
C # 5.15
The last seventeen years here have been a long, intensely personal spiritual journey, one that has been inextricably inter winded with my re-acquanintace with the land and the effects of the renewed relationship with nature on my own woman's soul. Sharon Butala.
| The Soul of Jesus
Rev. E. Neubert, S.M, S.T.D. (1963)
C # 5.16
Delving into the qualities of Christ, The Soul of Jesus, is not a dreadful task but a happy opportunity, for there is one totally human person to show us the way to perfect imitation and everlasting union.
| Earth Prayers - From Around the
World - 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring
the Earth
Edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon (1991)
C # 5.17
"Through this extraordinary collection of prayers from all the world and from all historical periods we finally awaken to the presence of the divine that comes to us through the Earth and the entire natural world" - Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth.
| Gifts of the Spirit - Living the
Wisdom of the Great Religious Traditions
Philip Zaleski and Paul Kaufman (1997)
C # 5.28
Gifts of the Spirit deepens our appreciation of such everyday routines as waking up, eating, and working, as well as the abundant rewards of enjoying music, gardening, walking, and being with others. Vivid descriptions of rituals from around the world help us find new spiritual meaning in life's key passages.
| Ponderings from the Precipice Soulwork
for a New Millennium
James Conlon (1998)
C # 5.18
This is a response to our turbulent times, a hope-filled invitation to ponder key questions. It helps us to find the divine at the heart of our experience and relationships, to find expanded justice an the possibility of a planetary Pentecost.
| Catholic International: The Documentary
Window on the World in the Beginning...
The Catholic Review (February 2001)
C # 5.19
Ecology and the Catholic tradition. Everyone agrees there's an environmental crisis. The only question is what to do about it. The problems aren't confined to a single country. Unclean air, polluted water and chemical waste spill across boundaries, forcing each nation to realize that its economic and political development is inextricable linked to the successes or failures of other countries, near and far.
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Theology 5.2
| To Care for the Earth
Sean McDonagh (1986)
C # 5.21
In this wide ranging book, McDonagh offers new insight into sacramental practice, Christian prayer and missionary practice.
| Befriending the Earth
Thomas Berry, CP and Co. (1992)
C # 5.22
Befriending the Earth provides a rich, feast of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional thought for individuals hungering to discern how we can both nourish the earth and be recipients of its bountiful goodness.
| The Land
Walter Brueggemann (1977)
C # 5.23
The book provides a point of entrance both to the theology of the Old Testament and to aspects of the New Testament - even as it illuminates crucial issues of our days.
| Living Towards a Vision
Walter Brueggemann (1976)
C # 5.24
Biblical reflections on Shalom (peace).
| Theology of the Land
Leonard Weber and Co. (1987)
C # 5.25
Theology of the Land is an ongoing study of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Virgil Michel Ecumenical chair in Rural Social Ministries ( St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota).
| Unexpected News
Robert McAfee Brown (1984)
C # 5.26
This book attempts to take the major's concerns seriously and "see the world the way others do". As Christians who take the Bible seriously, we have an obligation to compare our view of the world with theirs. Robert Brown
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Sociology 5.3
| Darkness in the Marketplace
Thomas H. Green, SJ (1981)
C # 5.31
Based on scripture and his own experience in prayer and spiritual direction, Green skillfully leads his readers to the discovery of mysterious unity between prayer and a busy life in the world.
| Coalitions for Justice
Christopher Lind (1994)
C # 5.32
This book is both a record of and a reflection on an extraordinary period in the life of the Canadian Churches.
| Industrial Relations Seventy Years
After Rerum Novarum
The Catholic Social Life Conference (1962)
C # 5.33
Proceedings and addresses from the Catholic Social Life Regional Conference in 1962.
| The Ministry of Listening
Donald Peel (1980)
C # 5.34
This book is for people who minister to others. It focuses on hospital visiting, but it still introduces you to many kinds of helping ministry.
| The Social Justice Agenda
Donal Dorr (1991)
C # 5.35
Beginning with a general account of the major issues of social justice which confronts the Christian today, the author then summarizes what the Churches have to say and can contribute to deal with this.
| Socialization and Human Progress
The Catholic Social Life Conference (1963)
C # 5.36
Proceedings and addressed from the Eleventh Annual Session- Edmonton, Alberta August 16, 17, 18, 1963.
| Socialization and Human Progress
The Catholic Social Life Conference (1964)
C # 5.37
Addresses from the four regional conferences held at St. Catherine's, Vancouver, Regina and Corner Brook during 1964.
| Solidarity
Michael T. Ryan (1990)
C # 5.38
It is an excellent synthesis of the evolution of the Churches teaching in response to the signs of the times, and it is an eminently practical guide.
| Rural Women's Health: Moving Forward
The Rural Women's Health Partnership (1999)
C # 5.39
| What Doesn't Kill you Makes you
Stronger: Determinants of Stress Resiliency
in Rural People In Saskatchewan
[2 copies]
Nikki Gerrard (2000)
C # 5.40
This is research conducted "With rural people, not on them and not to them". This research with rural people and they have been the centre at as many points as possible along the way, the details of which are outlined in the section on Methodology. Their voices have determined what has been said here. Nikki dedicated this publication to the late Paul Brassard and his wife Mary whose passion and caring for rural people is unequaled.
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| Food Security 6.0 |
Canadian 6.1
| Food Irradiation
K. M. Graham (1992)
C # 6.11
The book examines the issues and concerns about food irradiation and how Canadians need to take more responsibility.
| Tough to Swallow
Consultation on Food Security (1995)
C # 6.12
This book is the result of the proceedings and recommendations from the Consultation on Food Security, August 29-31 1995.
| Real Food for a Change
[2 copies]
Roberts, MacRae and Stahlbrand (1999)
C # 6.13
How the simple act of eating can: Boost your health and energy. Knock out stress. Revive your community. Clean up the planet. Discover ten reasons why eating organic food is the best decision you'll ever make. Learn about low-cost foods that deliver high value. Improve your family's and community health with every food shopping expedition. Find out how changing what you eat can reduce greenhouse gases.
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Global 6.2
| The Food Question
Henry Bernstein (1990)
C # 6.21
This accessible collection, from the research group on Development and Policy and Practice (DPP) at Britain's Open University, provides an analytical frame work for understanding the economics and politics of food in the world today.
| The Harvest of Sorrow
Robert Conquest (1986)
C # 6.22
The Harvest of Sorrow examines the atrocities inflicted on the Russia peasantry by the Soviet Communist Party between 1929 and 1933.
| Hungry Farmers
Clive Robinson (1989)
C # 6.23
Hungry Farmers explore the reason for hunger and the effects of Europe's dwindling food mountains and common agricultural policy on the third world.
| New Hope for the Hungry?
Larry Minear (1975)
C # 6.24
The facts about world hunger and the present and future steps by governments and citizens, particularly the churches, needed to deal with this issue.
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| Politics 7.0 |
Canadian 7.1
| A New and Better Canada
Mel Hurtig (1992)
C # 7.11
The National Party of Canada presents their political reforms and plans to put Canadians back to work.
| To Kill the Crown
John Gallagher (1983)
C # 7.12
This book talks about the political and economic aspects of the Canadian railway systems.
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