1.
Series:
Exploring Vancouver
Ten Tours of the City and Its Buildings (Fifth Edition)
Paperback
Harold Kalman
9781990776274
$29.95
ARCHITECTURE
May 27, 2023
This new edition of the classic urban guidebook brings the city’s architectural story up to date. Harold Kalman and Robin Ward, long-time chroniclers of Vancouver, offer an authoritative and highly readable book about Vancouver’s most interesting places and explain how, why and by whom the city’s urban environment was created. Containing more than four hundred entries, ten self-guided tours highlight significant buildings from all eras in the city and its metro region, and feature new projects that transform the skyline more radically than eve...
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2.
Series:
White Riot
The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver
Paperback
Henry Tsang
9781551529196
$32.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 04, 2023
Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city's Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. Emblematic of a systemically racist era, White Riot reveals the social and political environment of the time, when racialized communities w...
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4.
Series:
Vancouver Ltd.
Revised edition
Paperback
Donald Gutstein
9781459417007
$29.95 USD
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 02, 2022
This classic book, first published in 1975, paved the way for Vancouverites to understand who runs their city and who owns it. It marks the start of Donald Gutstein's lifetime career as a corporate researcher dedicated to the public interest, tracking the investors, entrepreneurs, and corporations earning riches from Vancouver's valuable real estate. It also stands as a leading early example documenting the links between the rel estate and land development industry and the local politicians who run the city on their behalf. In this book, Dona...
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5.
Series:
The Birds of Vancouver Island’s West Coast
Paperback
Adrian Dorst
9780774890113
$37.95
NATURE
Aug 15, 2022
The west coast region of Vancouver Island encompasses mountainous terrain, rainforest, mudflats, and ragged coastlines that bear the brunt of storms spawned by an immense ocean. Remote and inaccessible until well into the twentieth century, the “wild west coast” is also one of the most spectacular bird habitats in the world. Here one can observe multitudes of oceanic birds passing offshore, or venturing ashore to breed, and witness the countless avian migrants travelling north and south each year along the great Pacific Flyway.The Birds of Vanc...
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8.
Series:
Vancouver Vice
Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End
Paperback
Aaron Chapman
9781551528694
$27.95
HISTORY
Dec 07, 2021
Aaron Chapman's latest Vancouver book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and '80s. Aaron Chapman, the two-time Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award-winning author of such bestselling Vancouver-themed books as Vancouver after Dark and The Last Gang in Town, turns his gaze toward the city's tumultuous West End in his latest opus. The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the w...
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9.
Series:
Neighbourhood Houses
Building Community in Vancouver
Paperback
David Hulchanski
9780774865821
$32.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2021
Globalization and migration are creating disconnected societies in modern urban cities, and urban communities are at risk of becoming fragmented. Neighbourhood Houses draws on a five-year study to document and contextualize an antidote: the neighbourhood house movement. Contributors outline the history of the Vancouver neighbourhood house network, its relationship with local government and other organizations in the region, the programs and activities offered, and the experiences of participants. By providing health services, public recreation,...
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10.
Series:
Becoming Vancouver
A History
Hardcover
Daniel Francis
9781550179163
$36.95
HISTORY
Sep 25, 2021
A brisk chronicle of Vancouver, BC, from early days to its emergence as a global metropolis, refracted through the events, characters and communities that have shaped the city. In Becoming Vancouver award-winning historian Daniel Francis follows the evolution of the city from early habitation by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, to the area’s settlement as a mill town, to the flourishing speakeasies and brothels during the 1920s, to the years of poverty and protest during the 1930s followed by the long wartime and postwar...
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11.
Series:
Nowadays and Lonelier
Paperback
Carmella Gray-Cosgrove
9781551528717
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 12, 2021
A vibrant debut story collection about loneliness and love, privilege and poverty, addiction and isolation - the search for connection and meaning in a workaday world. For fans of Heather O'Neill's Daydreams of Angels, Otessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World, and Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties, Nowadays and Lonelier features a cascade of characters seeking connection in the darkest alleyways and meaning in the mundane. In these pages, a ballet dancer navigates complex family ties that are frayed by addiction; a young gi...
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13.
Series: A Doctor Annick Boudreau Mystery # 1
Primary Obsessions
Paperback
Charles Demers
9781771622561
$18.95
FICTION
Sep 26, 2020
The endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau regularly confronts a myriad of mental health issues in her psychology practice at the West Coast Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia. But even Annick is stunned when Sanjay, a young patient who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is arrested for the brutal murder of his roommate. While Sanjay is tortured by repeated violent thoughts, everything Annick knows about her patient and his illness has her convinced that he’s innocent. But the police and prosecut...
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14.
Series:
Vancouver Exposed
Searching for the City's Hidden History
Paperback
Eve Lazarus
9781551528298
$32.95
HISTORY
Sep 21, 2020
As the author of such BC bestsellers as Cold Case Vancouver, Murder by Milkshake, and SensationalVancouver, Australian-born Eve Lazarus has become adept at combining her well-honed investigative skills with an abiding love for her adopted city. These qualities are on full display in her latest book, an exploration of Vancouver’s hidden past through the city’s neighbourhoods, institutions, people, and events. Vancouver Exposed is a nostalgic romp through the city’s past, from buried houses to nudist camps, from bellyflop contests to eccentric mu...
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15.
Series:
Planning on the Edge
Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development
Paperback
Penny Gurstein
9780774861670
$34.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aug 01, 2020
Vancouver is heralded around the world as a model for sustainable development. In Planning on the Edge, nationally and internationally renowned planning scholars, activists, and Indigenous leaders assess whether this reputation is warranted. While recognizing the many successes of the “Vancouverism” model, the contributors acknowledge that the forces of globalization and speculative property development have increased social inequality and housing insecurity since the 1980s in the city and the region. By evaluating policies at the local, provin...
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16.
Series: Pocket Guide
Lonely Planet Pocket Vancouver 3 3rd Ed.
Paperback
John Lee
9781787017573
$19.99
TRAVEL
Feb 18, 2020
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet's Pocket Vancouveris your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stroll around dramatic Stanley Park, peruse deli treats at Granville Island Public Market, and walk high among the trees in Capilano Suspension Bridge Park - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Vancouver and begin your journey now!Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Vancouver:Full-colour maps and images throughoutHighlig...
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17.
Series:
Vancouver After Dark
The Wild History of a City's Nightlife
Paperback
Aaron Chapman
9781551527833
$32.95
HISTORY
Nov 01, 2019
BC Book Prize winner (Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize) In his latest book, bestselling author, musician, and cultural historian Aaron Chapman looks back at the most famous music entertainment venues in Vancouver, a city that's transforming so fast it has somehow lost some of its favourite nightspots along the way. These are the places locals are still talking about years after they closed, burned down, or were bulldozed in the face of new trends, rising rents, gentrification, and other vagaries. This raucous book tours Vancouver's legend...
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18.
Series: Santa is Coming...
Santa Is Coming to Vancouver
Hardcover
Steve Smallman
9781728201085
$18.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Oct 01, 2019
It's Christmas Eve. Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over many landmarks in Vancouver!"Ho, ho, ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Vancouver!"
19.
Series: Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat in Vancouver
A Halloween Adventure On The West Coast
Hardcover
Eric James
9781492687382
$13.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Aug 01, 2019
An unexpected visitor arrives in town! But who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Readers will learn the answers to all these questions as they watch the mysterious visitor travel through places they know and love in Vancouver! Come along and celebrate an unforgettable Halloween night!
20.
Series:
Vancouverism
Paperback
Larry Beasley
9780774890311
$45.00
ARCHITECTURE
May 15, 2019
Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But between Expo 86 and the Olympic Games in 2010, something extraordinary happened. This otherwise unremarkable Canadian city underwent a radical transformation that saw it emerge as an inspiring world-class metropolis celebrated for its liveability, sustainability, and competitiveness. City-watchers everywhere took notice and wanted to learn more about this new model of urban growth, and the term “Vancouverism” was born.This book tells the story of “Vancouverism” and the ...
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21.
Series:
The Co-op Revolution
Vancouver's Search for Food Alternatives
Paperback
Jan DeGrass
9781987915952
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 07, 2019
“We were undercapitalized, inexperienced, practiced democratic decision-making and some of us smoked dope occasionally. All elements that would make us grow as human beings and as business people. We ran a helluva show.” In the spring of 1975, a free-spirited Jan DeGrass backpacked across Canada in search of adventure and greater meaning in life. When she arrived in Vancouver, she met a group of people committed to social change; together they re-imagined the food industry in B.C. In The Co-op Revolution: Vancouver's Search for ...
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22.
Series:
Live at The Cellar
Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s
Paperback
Marian Jago
9780774837699
$29.95
MUSIC
Oct 15, 2018
In the 1950s and ’60s, co-operative jazz clubs opened their doors in Canada in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and the lack of performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated by the musicians themselves, these hip new clubs created spaces where jazz musicians practised their art. Live at the Cellar looks at this unique period in the development of jazz in Canada. Centered on Vancouver’s legendary Cellar club, it explores the ways in which these clubs functioned as sites for the performance and exploratio...
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23.
Series:
Vancouver Eats
Signature Recipes from the City's Best Restaurants
Hardcover
Joanne Sasvari
9781773270364
$38.95
COOKING
Sep 04, 2018
Filled with mouthwatering recipes and beautiful photographs, Vancouver Eats presents 90 recipes from 45 of the city's best restaurants. With recipes for salads (Fable's Heirloom Tomato Salad with Burrata), soups (Tacofino's tortilla soup), brunch (Cafe Medina's fricassee champignons), mains (David Hawksworth's cherry tomato, olive, and arugula pizza), desserts (Thomas Haas's hazelnut praline éclair), and cocktails (The Botanist's Appleseed cocktail), this inspired anthology boasts a collection of original and innovative dishes by chefs who've p...
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24.
Series: Night-Night
Night-Night Vancouver
Board book
Katherine Sully
9781492654940
$14.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 1 - 4
Oct 03, 2017
It's bedtime in Vancouver! Say goodnight to all your favorite locations, including:Capilano Suspension Bridge Science World H.R. MacMillan Space Center Vancouver Maritime Museum Greater Vancouver Zoo Point Atkinson Lighthouse BC Place Playland Stanley Park Inukshuk
25.
Series: Map
Lonely Planet Vancouver City Map 1 1st Ed.
1st Edition
Folded sheet map
Lonely Planet
9781786576606
$11.99
REFERENCE
Sep 19, 2017
From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisherDurable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet Vancouver City Mapis your conveniently-sized passport to traveling with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about top city attractions, walking tour routes, transport maps, itinerary suggestions, extensive street and site index, and practical travel tips and directory. With this easy-to-use, full color navigation tool in your back pocket, you can truly get to the he...
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26.
Series:
A Sense of Place
Art at Vancouver International Airport
Paperback
Robin Laurence
9781927958261
$24.95
ART
Sep 18, 2015
A spectacular overview of one of the most highly acclaimed art collections on the West Coast, which greets travellers at YVR as they journey between land, sea, and sky. Vancouver International Airport, known for its modern design and expansive topography, offers an impressive visual display of award-winning art and architecture. Each terminal building represents the culture heritage, natural beauty, and iconic experiences that embody British Columbia, and the artwork exhibited throughout plays an integral role in telling those stories. Revered ...
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27.
Series:
Vancouver Was Awesome
A Curious Pictorial History
Paperback
Lani Russwurm
9781551525259
$24.95
HISTORY
Oct 15, 2013
A startling and unexpectedly rich collection of images from Vancouver's pre-gentrification past. Vancouver may be a youngster among major cities, but it has a rich and beguiling history. Past Tense Vancouver blogger Lani Russwurm is a regular contributor to the popular website Vancouver Is Awesome; in this fascinating book, produced in conjunction with V.I.A., Russwurm collects stories of the people, places, events, and phenomena that collectively have infused Vancouver with a distinct flavor and flair and which laid the foundation for the ecl...
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28.
Series:
Exploring Vancouver
The Architectural Guide
4th edition
Paperback
Harold Kalman
9781553658665
$24.95
ARCHITECTURE
Apr 27, 2012
The only comprehensive handbook to Vancouver's architecture -- from the modest to the monumental Vancouver is still a young city, and its streetscapes and neighbourhoods reflect the city's constant state of reinvention. New buildings adapt the latest global architectural trends to the regional context or express the distinct local West Coast style; heritage buildings stand for earlier eras and continuity. The result is a dynamic urban landscape. Highly readable and authoritative, this entirely updated edition of Exploring Vancouver is the defin...
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29.
Series:
V6A
Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Paperback
John Mikhail Asfour
9781551524627
$19.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Mar 19, 2012
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award "V6A" is the postal prefix for what is often described as "the poorest neighbourhood in Canada"--Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). Statistics about the area depict conditions related to crime, drugs, sex work, and poverty that overshadow another reality based on self determination. The anthology V6A refracts the experience of thirty-two writers, emerging and established, who have been a part of the DTES community in some way. Their prose, poetry, and essays reappropriate the coding of the area and r...
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