1.
Series:
Horse that Leaps Through Clouds
A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China
Hardcover
Eric Tamm
9781553652694
$34.95
HISTORY
Jul 30, 2010
Two epic journeys along the Silk Road, past and present, offer a riveting and cautionary tale about the breathtaking rise of China. On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so-called Great Game, Mannerheim, who would receive the name Horse that Leaps Through Clouds from the Chinese people he encountered, chronicled almost every fa...
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Series:
Red
A Haida Manga
Hardcover
Michael Yahgulanaas
9781553653530
$28.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 14, 2009
An innovative graphic novel, Red is the epic tale of a Haida hero, his rage and his quest for retribution. Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this stunning full-colour graphic novel documents the powerful story of Red, a leader so blinded by revenge that he leads his community to the brink of war and destruction. Set in the islands off the northwest coast of B.C., it tells the tale of orphan Red and his sister, Jaada. When raiders attack their village, Red, still a boy, escapes dramatically. But Jaada is whisked away. The loss of Jaada...
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3.
Series:
Chocolate Wars
The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
Hardcover
Deborah Cadbury
9781553655749
$29.95
HISTORY
Oct 08, 2010
The extraordinary and dramatic story of the chocolate pioneers -- as told by one of the descendants of the Cadbury dynasty -- ending with Kraft’s recent takeover of the empire. With a cast of characters straight from a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties -- the Lindts, Frys, Hersheys, Marses and Nestles -- through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a ...
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4.
Series:
Vij's at Home
Relax, Honey
Paperback
Vikram Vij
9781553655725
$40.00
COOKING
Aug 23, 2010
Delicious everyday Indian recipes from the authors of the multi-award-winning bestseller, Vij's. Pull up a chair -- Meeru and Vikram invite you to dinner. The owners of Vij's and Rangoli restaurants in Vancouver have an all-new follow-up to Vij's, the bestselling cookbook and winner of the Cordon d'Or Gold Ribbon International Cookbook Award. In Vij's at Home: Relax, Honey, Meeru Dhalwala and Vikram Vij show you how to prepare the recipes they eat at home, from vegetarian dishes that go from stove to plate in less than 45 minutes to seafood, po...
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5.
Series:
Painters Eleven
The Wild Ones of Canadian Art
Hardcover
Iris Nowell
9781553655909
$95.00
ART
Aug 16, 2010
A visually stunning portrayal of the turbulent rise of Abstract Expressionism in Canada. Eleven Abstract Expressionist artists banded together in 1953 to break through the barricades of traditional art at a time when Canadian and European landscapes were about the only paintings collectors were buying. Hungry for recognition, raging against the art establishment that was shutting them out, they decided to form Painters Eleven, expecting they would gain attention as a group, rather than going solo. Following their first group exhibition in Febru...
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6.
Series:
I am a Japanese Writer
Paperback
Dany Laferrière
9781553655831
$22.95
FICTION
Jul 30, 2010
A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix M�dicis winner. A black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book: I Am a Japanese Writer. His publisher gives him an advance on the strength of the title alone. The problem is, he can't seem to write a word of it. He can scarcely summon the energy to put pen to paper, and so he nurses his writer's block by taking long baths, re-reading the works of Japanese poet Basho and engaging in amorous intrigues with rising pop star Midori and...
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7.
Series:
Year of Living Generously
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Philanthropy
Hardcover
Lawrence Scanlan
9781553654162
$32.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 05, 2010
A Year of Living Generously follows award-winning journalist Lawrence Scanlan as he volunteers with 12 different charities, among them well-known institutions Habitat for Humanity, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Canadian Crossroads. Drawing from first-hand experiences -- serving in a soup kitchen at "Vinnie's," the St. Vincent de Paul drop-in centre in Kingston, ON, to building houses for Habitat for Humanity in post-Katrina New Orleans, to teaching at a women's radio station in Senegal for Canadian Crossroads -- Scanlan tests the ideas an...
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Series:
Automatiste Revolution, The
Montreal 1941 - 1960
Hardcover
Roald Nasgaard
9781553653561
$60.00
ART
Sep 14, 2009
Following the success of Abstract Painting in Canada comes an introduction to the Automatistes, Canada's first avant-garde art movement Young and innovative, Montreal's Automatistes revolutionized painting in the 1940s. Living in the restrictive Quebec of the Duplessis years, painters, dancers and writers-led by Paul-Emile Borduas and inspired by the Surrealists-found freedom of expression in abstraction pursued through automatism: an instinctive, unpremeditated form of creating art. On August 9, 1948, the Automatiste painters published Refus g...
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10.
Series:
Retail Game
Playing to Win: A Guide to the Profitable Sale of Goods and Services
Paperback
Albert Plant
9781553653301
$24.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 18, 2007
An indispensable guide to the art and business of retailing showing owner-operators how to avoid pitfalls, understand the market, master strategic planning and succeed in their venture, whether bricks-and-mortar or online. What does it take to start up, maintain and grow a thriving and profitable retail business? Learn from the experience of an expert, as Albert C. Plant provides both a sweeping overview of the Canadian retail landscape and a detailed, step-by-step approach to rewarding retailing for the independent owner-operator. This compreh...
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14.
Series:
B.C. Binning
Hardcover
Arthur Erickson
9781553651710
$50.00
ART
Mar 01, 2006
A celebration of the life and work of Bertram Charles Binning, one of Canada's foremost artists, architectural innovators and arts educators-a seminal figure in the flourishing of the arts in British Columbia.Artist, educator and architectural innovator -- Bertram Charles (B.C.) Binning was all of these. From the early 1930s through the mid-1970s Binning was at the forefront of West Coast modern art, architecture and arts education. He is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking design of his Modernist home, which has been recognized by the Hi...
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15.
Series:
Means of Escape
A Set of Stories
Paperback
Hugh Brody
9781550541083
$14.95
FICTION
Aug 01, 1993
A need for place. A search for peace. a ceaseless quest, balanced by occasional respite -- physical,psychological or metaphysical. These are the preoccupations of our time, and they are fertile ground for the taut incisive prose of an accomplished writer. With Means of Escape, internationally acclaimed anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Hugh Brody makes a brilliant fiction debut.
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Series:
Good Death
Paperback
Gil Courtemanche
9781553652151
$18.95
FICTION
Aug 22, 2006
Following the worldwide success of A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, Gil Courtemanche returns with a short, intimate, powerful second novel. A Good Death describes the everyday tragedy, horror, cowardice and love that lie at the heart of one family. On Christmas Eve, a family has gathered for the obligatory dinner. The father, only yesterday an imposing figure who terrorized his children, has suddenly fallen prey to Parkinson's and finds himself trapped inside a disintegrating body. Andre, the eldest child, is approaching sixty. He has never love...
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20.
Series:
Inside Gomery
Paperback
Francois Perreault
9781553652144
$24.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 15, 2006
In the wake of shocking revelations about the misuse of federal funds in the Sponsorship program, then Prime Minister Paul Martin took the unprecedented step of creating an independent commission of enquiry, to be led by one man. That man was granted extraordinary power to seek out the truth, asking tough questions and demanding real answers. His name is now indelibly part of Canadian history: Justice John H. Gomery. Gomery chose Francois Perreault, a veteran journalist, to be the Commission's public spokesperson, a move in itself extraordinary...
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23.
Series:
Radical Campus
Making Simon Fraser University
Hardcover
Hugh Johnston
9781553651406
$45.00
ARCHITECTURE
Sep 01, 2005
This engaging history of a university -- and an era -- traces the formative years of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. SFU was born in a period of ferment and flux, when ideas about education were changing so rapidly and the western world was starting to feel the impact of student activism, the Civil Rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. Promoted as an open, innovative university, SFU attracted more mature students and far younger and more idealistic faculty than other schools. The stage was set for educational and political ...
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24.
Series:
McCarthy Tetrault
Building Canada's Premier Law Firm
Hardcover
Christopher Moore
9781553651017
$45.00
LAW
May 03, 2005
A comprehensive history of Canada's first national law firm: the people, the innovations and the unprecedented growth.McCarthy Tetrault is the largest and one of the most eminent of Canadian law firms, with offices in all the major business centres in Canada as well as in New York and in London, England. It is also one of the oldest, with roots going back 15 years, and has an exceptionally interesting and dynamic recent history.Noted historian Christopher Moore presents the story of McCarthy Tetrault and the firms that preceded it, within the c...
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25.
Series:
Return from Africa
Paperback
Wayne Grady
9781553650980
$22.95
FICTION
May 01, 2005
In Return from Africa, Francine d'Amour explores the parallel worlds of interior and exterior travel. Charlotte and Julien, a middle-class Quebecois couple, plan an extended trip to Egypt. After an argument, Charlotte tears up her ticket and refuses to go. Julien calls her bluff and leaves anyway, while Charlotte - too ashamed to remain among her friends - awaits his return in a rented bungalow on the outskirts of Montreal. In a long, rambling monologue to her departed lover, she imagines Julien's progress through the Middle East, recalls previ...
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28.
Series:
Book of Small
Paperback
Emily Carr
9781553650553
$17.95
ART
May 28, 2004
The legendary Emily Carr was acclaimed as both an artist and a writer. Her first book, Klee Wyck, won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction in 1941. The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She notes: "There were a great many things that I only half understood, such as saloons and the Royal Family and the Chain Gang." The young Emily, who gave herself the nickname "Small," was an intense, obse...
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Series:
Lightning
Hardcover
Fred Stenson
9781553650102
$32.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2003
The award-winning Western epic by "one of Canada's greatest living writers" (David Adams Richards) Lightning takes up where Fred Stenson's Giller-nominated and much-honoured novel, The Trade, left off. It is 1881, and the fur trade has been forced to make room for another economy. Seven thousand cattle are crossing the border from Montana into newly named Alberta. The openrange ranch era, Canadian style, is about to begin. Doc Windham, a Texan, is one of the cowboys trailing the herd.
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Series:
Place
Lethbridge, City on the Prairie
Hardcover
Geoffrey James
9781550549317
$50.00
PHOTOGRAPHY
Feb 01, 2003
Acclaimed photographer Geoffrey James spent months tracking the Prairie light while photographing the city of Lethbridge and its environs. His exquisite eye caught the changing seasons of a town and a landscape in flux. Those images, which have established his international reputation as one of the finest contemporary photog-raphers of our time, reveal something of a place, a sensibility and a harsh light that together probe to the core of the Canadian experience. The images formed the basis of a critically acclaimed exhibition, The Lethbridge ...
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36.
Series:
Being in Being
Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay
Hardcover
Robert Bringhurst
9781550548266
$45.00
FICTION
Aug 01, 2001
Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay was born in the Haida village of Qquuna about 1827. Crippled by an injury in middle age, he devoted himself to the art of telling stories. He could neither read nor write, and it is purely a matter of luck that his work survives. But so great were his talents that he remains the most important figure in all of Haida literature. In October 1900, Skaay dictated three works to a visiting linguist, John Swanron. Each of them a masterpiece of its kind. One is the legend of Skaay's own lineage. The second, "Raven Travel...
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40.
Series:
Spirits of the Water
Native Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia, 1744–1910
Paperback
Steven Brown
9781550547122
$60.00
ART
Jul 01, 2000
The images in the pages of this book -- animal, human and spirit faces -- evoke the powerful cultural legacy of the inhabitants of the Northwest Coast. Spirits of the Water presents 110 examples of the art produced by the Native peoples of a region of great linguistic, cultural and geographical diversity. Six essays by leading experts Paz Cabello, Ieoncio Carretero Collado, Alberto Costa Romero de Tejada and Bill Holm establish a historical and cultural context for this remarkable assemblage of objects, and explore the traditions of art, social...
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41.
Series:
Understanding Northwest Coast Art
A Guide to Crests, Beings and Symbols
Paperback
Cheryl Shearar
9781550547825
$22.95
ART
Jun 01, 2000
The first section of this book features an alphabetical list of words relating to Northwest Coast art, with definitions, descriptions and explanations and synopses of the major myths associated with them. As an aid to identification and understanding, many of the crests, beings and symbols are illustrated in the 6 black-and-white reproductions of contemporary works of art. The entries cover everything: crests such as Eagle, Dogfish or Dragonfly; ancestral beings such as Creek Woman or Thunderbird; mythic beings such as Raven, the Chief of the U...
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43.
Series:
Gathie Falk
Hardcover
Robin Laurence
9781550547450
$75.00
ART
Feb 01, 2000
For decades, renowned Canadian artist Gathie Falk has captivated the imagination fo the public. Her art reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the everyday, and the witty/surreal/poignant juxtapositions of the familar objects and sights -- such as apples, shoes, chairs, clothing, gardens, sidewalks, night skies and pieces of water.A wealth of 100 images -- 55 of them in full colour -- ad six essays reveal the significant threads in Falk's career: her ground-brekaing installations, ceramic sculptures and performance art of the 1...
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45.
Series:
Krieghoff: Images of Canada
Images of Canada
Hardcover
Dennis Reid
9781550547252
$85.00
ART
Oct 01, 1999
Cornelius Krieghoff, born in Amsterdam in 1815 and an immigrant to North America about 1835, is Canada's most famous nineteenth-century artist. The familiarity of his paintings may make it surprising that this book is published on the occasion of the very first retrospective exhibition of his work. We have known Krieghoff best for his affectionate depictions of everyday life among the habitants and First Nations residents of what is now Quebec. This project illuminates his considerable skill and narrative power as a painter, while revealing his...
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47.
Series:
Unjust Society
Paperback
Harold Cardinal
9781550544831
$22.95
HISTORY
Mar 01, 1999
Aboriginal people in Canada took hope with the election of Trudeau’s Liberals in 1968. They were outraged when the Paper introduced by Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Jean Chretien a year later amounted to an assimilation program: repeal of the Indian Act, the transfer of Indian affairs to the provinces, the elimination of separate legal status for native people. The Unjust Society, Cree leader Harold Cardinal’s stinging rebuttal, was an immediate best-seller, and it remains one of the most important ever published. Possessed of a wick...
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48.
Series:
Art of Betty Goodwin, The
Hardcover
Jessica Bradley
9781550546507
$65.00
ART
Nov 01, 1998
Betty Goodwin is one of Canada's most accomplished and influential artists, and her powerful works about death, loss and the traces of life have influenced a generation of Canadian artists. "Her work is not a catalogue of distress," Anne Michaels writes, but "a record of hope in its most distilled form, potent and fiercely earned." To celebrate a careeer that spans more than fifty years, this beautifully produced book presents Goodwin's most important work as well as many early paintings and prints published for the first time.Born in 1923 in M...
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52.
Series:
Bella Bella
A Season of Heiltsuk Art
Paperback
Martha Black
9781550545562
$45.00
ART
Mar 01, 1997
Geographically and culturally, the Heiltsuk Nation lies at the centre of the Northwest Coast. The seven original Heiltsuk-speaking tribes inhabited the islands and fiords between Rivers Inlet and Milbanke Sound. Their neighbours were the Haisla, Tsimshian, Nuxalk, Oweekeno, and Kwakwaka'wakw people. Traditionally, Heiltsuk ceremonialists, canoe makers, and artists were greatly influential. Despite their significance, their art and culture remain mysterious.This seminal work focuses on Canada's premier collection of Heiltsuk art, The R.W. Large ...
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53.
Series:
Let the Drums Be Your Heart
New Native Voices
Paperback
Joel Maki
9781550545272
$18.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Sep 01, 1996
Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination.As editor Joel T. Maki points out in his introduction, storytellers and historians have always played a vital role in aboriginal communities, ensuring that indvidiual cultures, languages, legends and customs would survive. In this book, as in his earlier anth...
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54.
Series:
Paterson Ewen
Hardcover
Michael Ondaatje
9781550545142
$65.00
ART
Jan 01, 1996
Paterson Ewen is one of Canada's most accomplished and admired painters. He is famous for his monumental paintings of phenomena, powerful works that capture the grandeur of nature and extend the tradition of landscape painting in Canada. According to Michael Ondaatje, "Perhaps there is a balance and security in these precarious works because of the very fact that they seem to have been torn out of the heart and earth."Born in Montreal in 1925, Paterson Ewen was heralded as one of the leading modern artists in Quebec. In 1968, he moved to London...
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55.
Series:
During My Time
Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman
Paperback
Margaret B. Blackman
9781550540246
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 1995
This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable about the culture of a bygone era, she was a fragile link with the past. Living in Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands, some fifty miles off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Florence Davidson grew up in an era of dramatic change for her people. One of the last Haida women to undergo the traditional puberty seclusion and...
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56.
Series:
Dunsmuir Saga
Paperback
Terry Reksten
9781550540703
$24.95
HISTORY
Apr 01, 1994
The Dunsmuir Saga brings to life three generations of the legendary Dunsmuir family of Vancouver Island. Robert Dunsmuir -- canny, acquisitive and imaginative -- became the richest man in British Columbia; his sons struggled to consolidate the family fortune; his grandchildren spent it. Award-winning author Terry Reksten brings the members of the Dunsmuir family and their colourful saga to life with her lively writing, vivid anecdotes and careful research. A selection of 50 historical photographs depicts the Dunsmuirs and their grand style of life.
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Series:
Inuit Modern
Masterworks from the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection
Paperback
Gerald McMaster
9781553657781
$24.99
ART
Nov 08, 2010
A gorgeous retrospective on the transformation of Inuit art in the 20th century, mirroring the vast and poignant cultural changes in the North.In response to a rapidly changing Arctic environment, Inuit have had to cope with the transition from a traditional lifestyle to the disturbing realities of globalization and climate change. Inuit art in the latter half of the 20th century reflects the reciprocal stimulus of contact with Euro-Canadians and embodies the evolution of a modern Inuit aesthetic that springs from an ancient cultural context, c...
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