Monkey business / Wallace Edwards

From the author of Alphabeasts, this playful introduction to idioms is written and illustrated for children, but clearly is appealing to adults, too. In each image illustrating the idiom is at least one monkey, sometimes so well hidden that it will take careful observation to find it. Each idiom is defined at the end of the book.

Monkey business can be found on the shelves at PE 1460 .E48 2004

Last chance bay / Anne Laurel Carter

Set in Cape Breton Island during World War II, Last chance bay is the story of Meg Christie, a young girl who dreams of flying like her heroines Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham. Meg's dream is unlikely to come true. Her father, like most other men in town, works in the local coal mine and struggles to make ends meet. There is no extra money to pay for dreams like learning to fly.

Last chance bay can be found on the shelves at PZ 7 .C24272 L37 2004

Managing today's classrooms : elementary school

This 35 minute videotape and the facilitator's guide demonstrate how teachers can create the classroom atmosphere and conditions which instill a commitment to good behavior in all students by:

* fostering mutual respect among students and teachers
* promoting self-regulation and autonomy
* creating a sense of community in the classroom
* motivating students through an engaging curriculum.

Managing today's classroom can be found on the shelves at LB 1025.3 .M36 1998

A complicated kindness / Miriam Toews

Sixteen year old Nomi Nichol and her father, Ray, live in a strict Mennonite community where Nomi tries to make sense of what remains of her family. Her rebellious older sister, Trish, left years earlier, and her mother left after being excommunicated from their fundamentalist Christian church by her own brother, the paster known to Nomi as "The Mouth". Nomi's father is dealing with his own dispair, selling off most of their furniture and escaping on night-long drives. Nomi herself deals with the clausterphobicly conservative community with rebelliousness.

A complicated kindness can be found on the shelves at PS 8589 .O6352 C64 2005

The future is wild (DVD)

This three DVD set is a look to the future - millions of years into the future. After consultation with geologists, climatologists, biologists and many more subject specialists, the makers of The Future is Wild present their vision of planet Earth in 5, 100 and 200 million years. What will the world look like? What species will populate the planet?

Volume 1 imagines the world in 5 million years - at the final stages of an ice age.

Volume 2 imagines the world in 100 million years to be a steamy hothouse of volcanoes, rainforests and giant insects.

And Volume 3 imagines the world in 200 million years with continental drift joining all of earth's landmasses together into one super-continent leaving new life to evolve in the ocean that covers most of earth's surface.

The future is wild can be found on the shelves at QH 437 .F88 2002

Florence Nightingale : her life and legacy (DVD)

Known as the founder of modern nursing and one of the most famous women in history, Florence Nightingale fought societal expectations to marry to instead become a nurse. When it was reported that British soldiers in the Crimea were being poorly cared for, Florence Nightingale recruited and equipped a group of nurses to help. She was known by the British soldiers in the Crimea as the “lady with the lamp” because of the late hours that she worked tending to the sick and wounded.

Using a combination of archive pictures and photographs, the 22 minute DVD Florence Nightingale : her life and legacy shows viewers where Florence Nightingale lived and worked and documents her contribution to nursing and public health.

Florence Nightingale : her life and legacy can be found on the shelves at RT 84.5 .F59 2005

Classroom instruction that works : research-based strategies for increasing student achievement / Robert J. Marzano

In Classroom instruction that works : research-based strategies for increasing student achievement, Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering and Jane E. Pollack have organized years of research into nine areas to help teachers find the best strategies for raising student achievement through classroom instruction:

- Identifying similarities and differences
- Summarizing and note taking
- Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
- Homework and practice
- Nonlinguistic representations
- Cooperative learning
- Setting objectives and providing feedback
- Generating and testing hypotheses
- Questions, cues, and advance organizers.

Classroom instruction that works : research-based strategies for increasing student achievement can be found on the shelves at LB 1025.3 .H364 2001

The sociolinguistics of foreign-language classrooms : contributions of the native, the near-native and the non-native speaker

Part of the American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Foreign Language Programs (AAUSC) series, The sociolinguistics of foreign-language classrooms : contributions of the native, the near-native and the non-native speaker explores the applications of sociolinguistic scholarship to the teaching and learning of foreign languages.

The sociolinguistics of foreign-language classrooms : contributions of the native, the near-native and the non-native speaker can be found on the shelves at P 53.8 .S634 2003

The Rockies : a natural history / Richard Cannings

The Rockies: a natural history covers the entire mountain range - from its northern reaches in Alaska to the Mexican border. Rather than a detailed look at any one particular aspect of the mountain range, Cannings instead introduces the ecosystems of the entire Rocky Mountain range.

Taking into consideration that the Rockies travel through two countries, Canning carefully provides measurements in both imperial and metric and provides both the Canadian and American spelling of plant, animal and geographical names when they differ across the 49th parallel.

Beautifully illustrated with full colour photographs, maps and line drawings, The Rockies : a natural history is a beautiful tour of a most impressive and diverse geographical region.

The Rockies : a natural history can be found on the shelves at QH 104.5 .R6 C36 2005

Sky woman : indigenous women who have shaped, moved or inspired us / edited by Sandra Laronde

This collection of poetry, short stories and visual art represents some of the work of some of the most influencial indigenous women from Canada, U.S, Japan, Hawaii, and Mexico. Sky Woman : indigenous women who have shaped, moved or inspired us is a celebration of exceptional female indigenous artists.

Sky Woman : indigenous women who have shaped, moved or inspired us can be found on the shelves at NX 652 .W6 S59 2005

Mandela : the rebel who led his nation to freedom / Ann Kramer

Mandela : the rebel who led his nation to freedom begins with Mandela's birth in 1918 as the son of a Thembu chief and follows him through his school years, his political ventures, imprisonment, release, presidency, Nobel Peace Prize, and retirement.

This book is filled with colourful images of South Africa and its' people and scattered with "fast facts" about Mandela, his struggles and the issues surrounding colonial rule. Along the bottom of each page is a timeline of political highlights from 1910 when the Union of South Africa was formed to 2004 when Nelson Mandela retired from public life.

Mandela : the rebel who led his nation to freedom can be found on the shelves at DT 779.95 .M36 K2004

Recreational Reading

Have you found time to take a break from homework and read a novel for enjoyment? Check out the CoTR library's Rec Reading collection located by the elevator. This collection contains fiction generally not used in classes. Every item in the collection was donated to the college library. Authors range from Jonathan Kellerman to Danielle Steel and genres run from mystery to romance to "chick lit".

If you'd like to donate your old novels (or your old textbooks) to the college library, you may qualify for a tax receipt for your donation. See Barb for more details.

Corporate integrity : a toolkit for managing beyond compliance / Donna Kennedy-Glans and Bob Schulz

The goal of Donna Kennedy-Glans and Bob Schulz's book Corporate integrity: a toolkit for managing beyond compliance is to encourage companies to make corporate integrity a strategic priority rather than something they force on their employees.

The book provides practical tools such as:

- How to motivate appropriate corporate behaviours
- How to measure your corporation's integrity
- How to design and implement dependable and strategic corporate accountibility systems

Corporate integrity: a toolkit for managing beyond compliance can be found on the shelves at HD 57.7 .K466 2005

Canada Remembers the Korean War 1950-1953 resource kit / Veterans Affairs Canada

This multimedia resource kit, produced by Veterans Affairs Canada, includes many educational resources suiltable for teaching the historical background of the Korean War. Included in the kit are:

- a video
- a teacher's resource guide
- a commemorative poster
- fact sheets
- Postcards For Peace

The kit was designed to encourage young Canadians to learn more about Canada's role in the Korean War.

Canada Remembers the Korean War 1950-1953 resource kit can be ordered online from Veterans Affairs or can be found on the shelves at DS 919.2 .C365 2003

Children with exceptionalities in Canadian classrooms / Margret Winzer

Whether you are a parent, teacher, work with or play with children with exceptionalities, this book is a practical guide. As an introduction to children with exceptionalities, it leads the reader through the needs of child learners with special needs.

Children with exceptionalities in Canadian classrooms is divided into 5 sections of exceptionality:

1. Foundations of special needs
2. Children with mild differences in behaviour land learning
3. Children with sensory impairments
4. Children with low incidence disabilities
5. Infants, preschoolers, families and young adults

New features of the 7th ed. include discussion around cultural and linguistic differences; information on Asperger's syndrome and ADHD; and sections on using technology with persons with disabilities.

Children with exceptionalities in Canadian classrooms can be found on the shelves at LC 3984 .W795 2005

A cool drink of water / by Barbara Kerley

Everyone. Everywhere. Needs water for life. This beautiful children's book, A cool drink of water, is filled with images from around the world of people and water. The simple text follows the images of people drinking water, people collecting water and people transporting water.

The book concludes with a two page spread of thumbnails of the images and brief explainations of the locations the images were taken. The book is summed up with a contribution by John Fahey, National Geographic Society president and CEO, who explains the danger our world's water supply faces and how important water is to life on this planet.

A cool drink of water can be found on the shelves at TD 348 .K47 2002

The Native Creative Process / Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette Armstrong

Douglas Cardinal, award-winning Metis architect and Jeannette Armstrong, Okanagan writer join forces to explore the literary and artistic creative processes from the Aboriginal perspective. The Native Creative Process shows us how Armstrong and Cardinal apply the life principals of Aboriginal people in their own creative process. In a beautiful volume of words and pictures of natural phenomena, Aboriginal peoples, artists and their work, and landscapes, this book reinforces the role and contributions that Aboriginal peoples have to play in the existence of the human family.

With photographs by Greg Young-Ing.

The Native creative process can be found on the shelves at E 98 .A7 C37 1991