Best Selling Books by Elizabeth MacLeod

"Meet Thérèse Casgrain, who battled for equality and social justice, and was the first woman to lead a political party in Canada! From 1916 to 1925, women across Canada were winning the right to vote, province by province... but not in Quebec. It took another fifteen years of protest and the leadership of Thérèse Casgrain for women there to get the right to vote in provincial elections. And that was only the start of Thérèse's 50-year career. She decided to change things from inside the government too, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. And although Therese may not have been elected, her decades long fight for equal rights, health care, and world peace is itself a victory."--

"Voici Mary Ann Shadd! Née dans un état esclavagiste de parents militants, Mary Ann était la plus âgée de treize enfants. Marchant dans les traces de ses parents, elle a décidé de militer pour la communauté noire et de s'installer au Canada. Des années plus tard, elle est devenue la première femme noire à publier un journal en Amérique du Nord. Et ce n'était que le début... car Mary Ann a dédié sa vie à faire changer les choses."--Publisher's webpage.

Describes how to create a garden, how to grow houseplants, and also features ideas for nature crafts.

See below for English description. Découvrez l'histoire légendaire de Terry Fox, l'homme qui a créé le Marathon de l'espoir et la course Terry Fox : son amour du sport quand il était enfant et adolescent; la découverte accablante de son cancer des os; son séjour à l'hôpital qui lui a donné l'idée d'accroître la sensibilisation à sa maladie; le moment bouleversant où il a trempé sa jambe artificielle dans l'océan Atlantique à St. John's, à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; et l'arrêt déchirant de sa course. Tous ces moments sont dépeints dans ce livre captivant, accompagné d'illustrations expressives et en couleurs. Voici Terry Fox est un récit bouleversant et inspirant, qui motivera les lecteurs à surmonter leurs obstacles personnels pour laisser leur marque sur le monde. Discover the legendary Terry Fox, the man behind the Marathon of Hope and the Terry Fox Run. His love of sports as a child and teenager; his devastating bone cancer diagnosis; the hospital stay that inspired him to do something to raise awareness about this disease; the poignant moment he dipped his artificial leg in the waters of St. John's, Newfoundland; and the heartbreaking moment he ended his run are chronicled in a simple yet compellingly written book with full-colour, expressive illustrations. An infinitely poignant and inspiring story, Voici Terry Fox will motivate readers to push past personal barriers and make their mark on the world. Original title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Terry Fox

Le récit de vie de l'inventeur américain célèbre, né de parents canadiens, à qui on doit, entre autres, l'ampoule électrique et le phonographe. -- Une collection de courtes biographies s'adressant aux lecteurs débutants. Des aquarelles réalistes accompagnent le récit. [SDM].

This must have resource provides students with meaningful activities to reinforce their understanding of important science concepts including life systems, structures and mechanisms, earth and space as well as matter and energy. Pages are ready-to-go and reproducible and include reading projects, hands on learning, teacher tips and rubric.

The life of a fascinating scientist, Marie Curie, is explored through pictures and text.

This must have resource provides students with meaningful activities to reinforce their understanding of important science concepts including life systems, structures and mechanisms, earth and space as well as matter and energy. Pages are ready-to-go and reproducible and include reading projects, hands on learning, teacher tips and rubric.

A look at the modern world of telecommunications.

"Growing up in Winnipeg, Clara liked sports, but she wasn't a top athlete. Getting outside to play was a good escape from some of the turmoil and sadness at home. But as she got older, she picked other ways -- ways that were not good for her, until the fateful day she watched speed skater Gaétan Boucher compete at the 1988 Winter Games. Clara decided she would do that too. It was a life-changing decision. Clara quickly learned to speed skate and began competing. Part of her training included cycling and it turned out she was great at that too. She switched to cycling and worked very hard - maybe too hard. Even though she won multiple Olympic medals in cycling, but winning didn't make her feel good. She felt sadder than ever. Clara realized that all the medals in the world would not make her okay. She had to work as hard on her mental health as she did on her training. Maybe even harder. Clara decided it would be good for her to take a break from cycling. She returned speed skating and won medals in that, too! This time it felt better in the spotlight, which she decided to use to help children - especially girls - around the world have better access to sport. Clara then used her fame to talk about how important mental health was, and that it was normal to not feel okay -- and especially okay to talk about it! She went on to lend her voice in support of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, becoming an Honorary Witness and helping to spread their message. Clara is still the only person in the world to ever win multiple medals at both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. But perhaps her biggest win is the work she has done to help others."--

More than 45 tasty chocolate recipes.

The success rate of clinical trials for central nervous system (CNS) drugs would be aided by improved identification of pharmacological biomarkers. Electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are non-invasive methods with the potential to provide these objective measures of CNS drug action. Their simultaneous recording allows the combination of their opposing strengths and mitigation of their opposing weaknesses, including the utilisation of a direct electrophysiological measure of neural activity to help disentangle the neural and physiological contributions to the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal. This thesis aimed to establish the feasibility and effectiveness of simultaneous EEG/fMRI when developing biomarkers for subanaesthetic ketamine and midazolam. Overall, analyses of drug-induced spectral power changes, functional connectivity, and working memory processes reflected prior literature where EEG and fMRI were recorded independently. This allowed confidence that simultaneous imaging was not degrading the data and combined with pre-processing data quality analyses provided evidence for the feasibility of simultaneous EEG/fMRI in a drug study. A recurrent theme throughout the analyses was that of each modality providing unique information. The spectral profiles and representations of working memory processes lacked a clear spatial correspondence between modalities, and formal comparisons of changes to functional connectomes yielded little conclusive evidence of simple relationships between the two signal types. The distinctive information imparted by both modalities instils impetus to develop drug biomarkers in both modalities. Combining information from the EEG and fMRI signals provided biomarker information over that gained from assessing the modalities independently. Temporal correlations between EEG power modulations and the BOLD signal were modified by drug administration. Additionally, comparison of the relative strengths of task-induced changes allowed for more in-depth analysis of the EEG/fMRI relationship. Furthermore, electrophysiological results combined with an assessment of multiple methods to remove BOLD signal artefacts endorsed an argument for tailoring pharmacological fMRI pre-processing to the unique noise structure of each drug under investigation. Combined with other advantages of concurrent recording, such as removing session-to-session variance, these results demonstrated that simultaneous EEG/fMRI is effective at providing information for the development of biomarkers of drug action.