Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling Through Inuit Art by Shelley Falconer & Shawna White
Stones, Bones and Stitches is a fascinating and beautiful introduction to the art of the North. Focusing on several important works from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, curators Shelley Falconer and Shawna White take you on an impressive journey through the artistic landscape. The evolving character of the North is explored through the lens of some of Canada’s most significant Inuit artists, past and present.

Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations by Alootook Ipellie
Today’s Arctic communities have all the comforts of modern living. Yet the Inuit survived in this harsh landscape for hundreds of years with nothing but the land and their own ingenuity. Join authors Alootook Ipellie and David MacDonald as they explore the amazing innovations of traditional Inuit and how their ideas continue to echo around the world.

Some inventions are still familiar to us: the one-person watercraft known as a kayak still retains its Inuit name. Other innovations have been replaced by modern technology: slitted snow goggles protected Inuit eyes long before sunglasses arrived on the scene. Andother ideas were surprisingly inspired: using human-shaped stone stacks (Inunnguat) to trick and trap caribou.

The Legend of the Caribou Boy by John Blondin
Maintaining the Dene storytelling tradition of passing along the teachings to their children, John Blondin relayed the story of The Legend of the Caribou Boy as he heard it from his father, George Blondin a respected Elder and storyteller. Now written down in dual language the legend is passed on to you. Discover one small part of Dene history and the lessons that have been passed on for generations.

A young boy is having trouble sleeping at night. He is being called to fulfill his destiny, a destiny which lives on today in the traditions and culture of the Dene people and their relationship to the caribou and the land on which they live.

The multimedia CD included allows readers to hear and see the Dogrib legend in Dogrib or English on a Mac or PC computer, or insert it into a CD player to listen to the story in either language.

The Old Man with the Otter Medicine by John Blondin
It is winter and the people are starving. There are no fish. They must seek the help of a medicine man to save them. The Old Man with the Otter Medicine tells of medicine power, the struggle for survival and an important part of the history and culture of the Dene people as it has been passed down through stories and legends for generations.

The multimedia CD-Rom allow readers to read, see and hear the legends on Macs, PCs and on CD players.

Although Dogrib Elder George Blondin is being acknowledged as the author/story teller of this legend. This story comes from several generations of Dene oral tradition. George told this story to his late son John Blondin, who presented and performed this story publicly to educate children. Barb Cameron, then curator of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre recorded Johns’ words.

Native American Design by Dover Publications
Discover hundreds of authentic designs used to decorate Native American clothing, ceremonial masks, jewelry, blankets, utensils, and more. Hand selected from the rarest of sources, each high-quality illustration is a visual celebration of a timeless art form.

-469 high-resolution, profiled color JPEG images for impeccable reproductions
-31 bonus black-and-white, 1200-dpi, bit-mapped, print-ready TIFF versions
-72-dpi, Internet-ready JPEG graphics for all

Great Women from our First Nations by Kelly Fournel
This new title in the First Nations Series for Young Readers profiles ten outstanding women leaders.

They include Suzanne Rochon-Burnett, a Metis broadcaster, journalist, and First Nations advocate; Professor Lorna Williams; Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, winner of the Governor General’s award for her work on Native Women’s rights; Susan Aglukark, Inuit singer and songwriter; and Emily Pauline Johnson – Canada’s first published First Nations poet.

Lonely Planet Bluelist 2008: The World’s Hottest Trends, Destinations, Journeys and Experiences by Lonely Planet
This book captures the best in travel – a collection of trends, destinations, journeys and experiences for the year ahead. Drawing on the knowledge, passion and miles travelled by the Lonely Planet community of authors, staff and travellers, this year’s edition is a selection of the best places to go and things to do all around the world right now.

Ebb and Flow: Tides and Life on Our Once and Future Planet by Tom Koppel
Tides have shaped our world. They have carved out shorelines, transformed early life on Earth, and altered the course of human civilization. Tides frustrated Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, and aided General MacArthur. They govern the way our planet moves, provide us with an alternative source of energy, and may be aggravating global climate change.

Drawing on science, history, and personal memories, Koppel’s fascinating book engages and enlightens, demonstrating that a subject we take for granted affects all our lives. He weaves together three grand narratives, exploring how tides impact coasts and marine life, how they have altered human history and development, and how science has striven to understand the surprisingly complex way in which tides actually work.

The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region by Wayne Grady
The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region is the most authoritative, complete, and accessible book to date about the biology and ecology of this vital, ever-changing terrain. Written by one of Canada’s best-known science and nature writers, this essential resource features superb nature photography and numerous sidebars that focus on specific animal, plant and invertebrate species.

Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus
In 2004 Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger triggered a firestorm with their essay “The Death of Environmentalism,” which argued that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can’t deal with global warming. Environmentalism must die, they argued, so something new could be born.

Now, three years later, Break Through delivers on their promise to articulate a new politics for a new century, one focused not on complaints and ecological limits but on aspirations and human possibility. If environmentalists and progressives are to seize the moment offered by the collapse of the Bush presidency, they must break from “the politics of limits” and grapple with some inconvenient truths of their own.

Best Places to Stay: 44 Extraordinary Hotels by Shelley-Maree Cassidy
Deciding where to stay is one of the most important parts of planning a trip, whether it’s for vacation or business. If you’re tired of the faceless resorts or corporate chains, however alluring their comforts, then the hotels in Best Places to Stay will come as a revelation. Modest or grand, large or small, contemporary or traditional, each hotel is an unmistakable original you’ll never forget.

Facing the Frozen Ocean: One Man’s Dream to Lead a Team Across the Treacherous North by Bear Grylls
It started out as a carefully calculated attempt to complete the first unassisted crossing of the frozen north Atlantic in an open rigid inflatable boat, but it became a terrifying battle against storm-force winds, crashing waves and icebergs as large as cathedrals. Starting from the remote north Canadian coastline, Grylls and his crew crossed the infamous Labrador Sea, pushed on through ice-strewn waters to Greenland and then found themselves isolated in a perfect storm 400 miles from Iceland.

Camp Fires In The Yukon: Hunting Sheep And Caribou In The Kluane And St. Elias Ranges by Harry A. Auer
This is a reprint of the 1917 publication.

The intendment of this volume is not to present a work on wilderness travel nor is it offered as a treatise on woodcraft, though it neccessairly contains somewhat of both. Its sole purpose is to accurately record the writer’s experiences and observations as a hunter of big game in The Yukon just as they happened day by day and set down in my diary at the time the events narrated transpired.

Spotted Owls: Shadows in an Old-Growth Forest by Jared Hobbs & Richard Cannings
Rare photographs and an engaging text celebrate a ghostly inhabitant of the old-growth forest—a species facing imminent extinction on the Pacific coast.

Roosting on the branch of a Douglas-fir or gliding over the forest floor, the Spotted Owl depends on the varied habitat of the old-growth forest. As these ancient stands are increasingly lost to logging, the Spotted Owl population is declining precipitously in both Canada and the United States.

This celebration of the Spotted Owl, with stunning photographs by wildlife photographer Jared Hobbs and an authoritative text by biologist Richard Cannings, is a must for anyone who cares about the preservation of nature and the fate of this emblem of the old-growth forest. The very rare photographs capture these nocturnal hunters in midflight with wings spread, peering out of tree cavities, or tending to their young. The informative text by master birder and esteemed biologist Cannings describes the natural history of the owls and the threats to their survival.

City of Gold (DVD) by National Film Board of Canada
City of Gold uses a collage of still photographs to compare Dawson City when the gold from its river beds flowed freely through the stores, taverns and dance halls, with the more tranquil city of the 1950’s.

Pierre Berton, well-known author and TV personality, was born in Dawson City, and his father spent forty years in the Klondike during those agonizing months when would-be prospectors struggled through steep passes and wintry trails to reach the fabled gold fields 2, 000 miles north of civilization.