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\"A child goes on an adventure to the tall grass prairie of the Kansas Flint Hills, encountering bad weather and harsh climates, as well as encountering the animals and plants that live in this biome. Includes world map of prairies and glossary\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The prairie thief
In late nineteenth-century Colorado, Louisa's father is erroneously arrested for thievery and, while under the charge of the awful Smirch family, Louisa and a magical friend must find a way to prove his innocence.
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Back from the Collapse
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wildlife Society's Publication Award
Back from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America's most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America's Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed-from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region's native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains.
In Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary history of the region's ecosystem over millions of years, as it transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet to today's prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and American Prairie's work to restore the habitat and wildlife, efforts described by National Geographic as \"one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American history.\"
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Heavy burdens on small shoulders : the labour of pioneer children on the Canadian Prairies
\"The phrase \"child labour\" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents - working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children learned the domestic and manual labour skills needed for life on a Prairie family farm. Rollings-Magnusson uses historic research, photographs, and personal anecdotes to describe the kinds of work performed by children and how each task fit into the family economy. This book is a vital contribution to Western Canadian History as well as family and gender studies.\"--pub. desc.
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52 Association of psychotherapy with long-term disability benefit claim closure among patients disabled due to depression
Objectives To evaluate the effect of psychotherapy for depression in patients receiving disability benefits. Methods Using administrative data from a large Canadian, private, disability insurer, we evaluated the association between the provision of psychotherapy and other potentially predictive factors with time to long-term disability (LTD) claim closure. Results We analysed 10,338 LTD claims in which depression was the primary disabling complaint. Depression management included psychotherapy in 1580 (15.3%) LTD claims. In our adjusted analyses, receipt of psychotherapy was associated with faster claim closure (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.42; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.33 to 1.52). Older age per decade (0.83 [0.80 to 0.85] respectively), a primary diagnosis of recurrent depression (0.80 [0.74 to 0.87]) versus major depression, a secondary psychological (0.77 [0.72 to 0.81]), or non-psychological diagnosis (0.66 [0.61 to 0.71]), a longer time to claim approval (0.995 [0.992 to 0.998], and an administrative services only policy (0.87 [0.78 to 0.96] or refund policy (0.73 [0.69 to 0.77]) versus non-refund policy were associated with longer time to claim closure. Residing in the Prairies (1.46 [1.35 to 1.57]) and Quebec (1.93 [1.82 to 2.05]) versus Ontario were associated with faster LTD claim closure. Conclusions We found multiple factors, including psychotherapy, which were predictive of time to LTD claim closure. Our findings may however be influenced by selection bias and other biases that present challenges to the analysis and interpretation of administrative data, and highlight the need for well-designed prospective studies.
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Imperial Plots
Sarah Carter's Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies examines the goals, aspirations, and challenges met by women who sought land of their own.
Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the \"spade-work\" of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its \"surplus\" women. Yet far into the twentieth century there was persistent opposition to the idea that women could or should farm: British women were to be exemplars of an idealized white femininity, not toiling in the fields. In Canada, heated debates about women farmers touched on issues of ethnicity, race, gender, class, and nation.
Despite legal and cultural obstacles and discrimination, British women did acquire land as homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, and speculators on the Canadian prairies. They participated in the project of dispossessing Indigenous people. Their complicity was, however, ambiguous and restricted because they were excluded from the power and privileges of their male counterparts.
Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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