Thomas King

"The Inconvenient Indian is at once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history--in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in...

Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book.

Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the party-goers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall — a place they have never seen before.

Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that fi lling your shopping

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A nature photographer returns to Medicine River, a small Albertan town. Interspersed among the tales of Medicine River are the memories of his childhood and the years that eventually lead him back home.

"The Craft of Numeracy is designed to raise the statistical game of a generalist who works on an organization's front line. The target reader is too busy with budget deadlines, screaming customers, supply chain problems, and human resource mishaps to learn exotic math. To borrow a phrase from political adviser James Carville, It's the ideas, stupid. This book is not about which buttons to push when firing up a computer. All software discussions provided...