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  | | Big Water by Andrea Curtis Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Orca Book Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4598-1571-1, ISBN: 1-4598-1571-8 "Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the Asia, a steamship that transports passengers and freight throughout the Great Lakes. She doesn't really have a plan other than to get to Sault Ste. Marie. She'll figure things out once sh ..." |
 | | Eat This!(1st Edition) How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (And How To Fight Back) by Andrea Curtis, Peggy Collins Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2018 by Red Deer Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88995-532-5, ISBN: 0-88995-532-8 " Eat This! examines how fast food marketing gets you to buy junk and how you can fight back. It shows how marketers embed sales pitches in media to lure consumers to foods that can negatively impact the health of children. The author explains what advertising is, discusses product placement and other tools used to sell products. Curtis provides careful insights into the fast food industry and ways in which young people can push back. " ..." |
 | | The Stop How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-307-36079-3, ISBN: 0-307-36079-2 "The #1 national bestseller and inspiring story of how one young man took the reins of a dilapidated inner-city food bank and opened up the good-food revolution to everyone. In 1998, when community worker Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, it was like thousands of other food banks, offering canned handouts in a cramped, dreary, makeshift space. Today, it is a thriving, internationally respected "community food centre" ..." |
 | | What's for Lunch?(1st Edition) by Andrea Curtis, Yvonne Duivenvoorden, Duivenvoorden Curtis Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2012 by Red Deer Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88995-482-3, ISBN: 0-88995-482-8 ""VOYA's Non Fiction Honour List 20132013 Information Book Award Long List nominee Whether their school is under a banyan tree, in a dusty tent held up with poles or in a sturdy brick structure in the heart of a bustling city, all children need a healthy lunch to be able to learn and grow. Good food nourishes both our bodies and our brains. It's one of the basic building blocks of life. As the world has become more interconnected, what w ..." |
 | | Into the Blue(1st Edition) by Andrea Curtis, Rebecca Curtis Hardcover, 269 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House Canada Import ISBN-13: 978-0-679-31135-5, ISBN: 0-679-31135-1 "Entrusted with her late grandmother's personal papers, award-winning journalist Andrea Curtis became obsessed with learning the facts surrounding the sinking of the steamer J.H. Jones on Georgian Bay during a November gale in 1906. The captain, James Victor Crawford, was Curtis's great-grandfather, a man grandmother Eleanor described in a girlhood poem as a "pirate." Curtis's extensive search for clues as to the true nature of her herit ..." |
 | | Eat This!(1st Edition) A Kids' Field Guide to Fast Food Advertising by Lois Simmie, Cynthia Nugent, Andrea Curtis Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2015 by Red Deer Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88995-541-7, ISBN: 0-88995-541-7 "A provocative follow-up to the bestselling What's for Lunch?, Eat This! Focuses on the impact on children of fast food advertising ― an immense industry worth billions of dollars. Andrea Curtis shows how corporations who market to kids embed their sales pitches in all sorts of media to persuade young consumers that they have to have the foods they are manufacturing. Of course, most of this food has the potential to negatively impact the ..." |
 | | The Churches of Oro-Medonte by Joanna Mcewen, Ben Portis, Andrea Curtis Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Maclaren Art Centre / Abc Art Books Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-9878034-1-2, ISBN: 0-9878034-1-7 "Oro-Medonte, a township in central Ontario (Canada ) on the shores of Lake Simcoe, was created by the British colonial government in the mid-18th century. Numerous churches were built in every hamlet and village by settlers mainly from England, Ireland and Scotland. In 1819 the only government-sponsored settlement for Black veterans of the War of 1812 was established as well. Specifically, The Churches of Oro records in detail the inter ..." |
 | | What's for Lunch? by Andrea Curtis, Yvonne Duivenvoorden Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2011 by Kids Can Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-55453-567-5, ISBN: 1-55453-567-0 |
 | | Into the Blue(1st Edition) by Andrea Curtis Curtis, Leah Springate, Eleanor Crawford Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Canada/ A Division Of Random House Of Canada Limited Import ISBN-13: 978-0-679-31252-9, ISBN: 0-679-31252-8 |
 | | Big Water by Andrea Curtis 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Orca Book Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4598-1573-5, ISBN: 1-4598-1573-4 "The usual rules of society no longer apply—Daniel and Christina must now work together as equals to survive. Big Water is a fictional account of the real-life story of the only two survivors of the sinking of the SS Asia in 1882." |
 | | The Stop How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Melville House ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-350-2, ISBN: 1-61219-350-1 "How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis. Stop, public health and a ... I'm not sure it was intentional, exactly; instead it was a function of the insatiable demand for emergency food. As I'm learning ... food bank intake table. George is a mouser, the only reason I." |
 | | Stop How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Andrea Curtis, Nick Saul Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-306-90980-8, ISBN: 1-306-90980-5 |
 | | The Stop How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Random House Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-307-36080-9, ISBN: 0-307-36080-6 "Rick Myer, who ran it for a number of years inthat period, was dubbed the “ warriorpriest” inthe local mediafor his outspoken questioningof food banksasan institution. He called them a band-aid andsaid he spent as much time trying to mobilize the poor as hedid handing out emergency food hampers. Otherfood banks were doing thesame.A citytaskforce on emergencyfood produced a tough, no-holds-barred paper around that time called “Not by ..." |
 | | Into the Blue by Andrea Curtis 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-307-36884-3, ISBN: 0-307-36884-X "It is my hope that I have been faithful to the stories they shared with me and to the generous spirit of their mother, Eleanor. ... who was patient with my questions; also Dianne Breton, Bill Clarkson, Eleanor Crawford, John Curtis, Angie Dawson, ..." |
 | | Erica Shuttleworth Sky + Ground by Erica Shuttleworth, Andrea Curtis, Maclaren Art Centre, Mary Reid Paperback, 47 Pages, Published 2004 by Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, On ISBN-13: 978-0-9693555-7-1, ISBN: 0-9693555-7-2 |
 | | A Forest in the City by Andrea Curtis 40 Pages, Published 2020 by Groundwood Books ISBN-13: 978-1-77306-142-9, ISBN: 1-77306-142-9 "This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees." |
 | | Alternatives to Growth(1st Edition) Efficiency Shifting by Conrad Schmidt, Paul Halycheck, Andrea Curtis Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2010 by Wlp Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9739772-2-6, ISBN: 0-9739772-2-1 "The evidence is overwhelming that unlimited industrial growth is no longer possible. Our challenge now is to find ways to shrink the overall size of the economy without creating massive unemployment and poverty. This book examines the possibility of counter balancing efficiencies within the economy with certain key inefficiencies for the purpose of maintaining high employment in a shrinking economy." |
 | | Efficiency Shifting(1st Edition) by Conrad Schmidt, Michelle Vergeer, Andrea Curtis Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 2009 by Wlp Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9739772-1-9, ISBN: 0-9739772-1-3 "Even though it is impossible to grow the industrial economy indefinitely, not all the economy needs to grow. We have the option of balancing industrial efficiencies with social and even industrial inefficiencies in different sectors of the economy. The net result is an economy with many of the benefits of economic growth and a reduction of our ecological footprint." |
 | | City Streets Are for People (ThinkCities, 3) by Curtis, Andrea, FitzGerald, Emma Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2022 by Groundwood Books ISBN-13: 978-1-77306-465-9, ISBN: 1-77306-465-7 |
 | | The Stop(1st Edition) How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Saul, Nick, Curtis, Andrea (2013) Hardcover by Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Random House Canada International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-307-36078-6, ISBN: 0-307-36078-4 "FINALIST 2014 – Heritage Toronto AwardIt began as a food bank. It turned into a movement. In 1998, when Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, the little urban food bank was like thousands of other cramped, dreary, makeshift spaces, a last-hope refuge where desperate people could stave off hunger for one more day with a hamper full of canned salt, sugar and fat. The produce was wilted and the packaged foods were food-industry ..." |
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