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In Eye of the Shaman, author David Turner introduces readers to Inuit artist and visionary Piona Keyuakjuk. During a series of visits to Pangnirtung, a small town located on Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut, Turner came to know this remarkable individual, gaining deep insight into his life and art. The book includes nearly 150 colour illustrations, including numerous photographs of Piona's sculptures as well as the complete contents o...

In Eye of the Shaman, author David Turner introduces readers to Inuit artist and visionary Piona Keyuakjuk. During a series of visits to Pangnirtung, a small town located on Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut, Turner came to know this remarkable individual, gaining deep insight into his life and art. The book includes 150 colour illustrations, including numerous photographs of Piona's sculptures as well as the complete contents of Piona...

The Counterintuitive Writer takes a new perspective on academic writing, encouraging readers to follow the road "less travelled" as they figure out what they want to write and how to write it.Using easy-to-understand examples, practical exercises, and innovative approaches that apply to various types of writing, this text guides the reader on how to:• Overcome writer's block • Develop a focused topic • Organize essays, reports and research pap...

After the terrifying experiences recounted in Island Curse, Selma and Gerry move to a small northern Ontario mining town to start a new life together. An enormous lode of gold ore has just been discovered and the town is booming. But gold isn't all that's waiting to be found in Canada's deepest mine shaft, and soon the entire town is threatened by an ancient evil more monstrous than anything Selma and Gerry could have imagined. Just as they di...

A young Canadian doctor, Norman Bethune, sets up a practice which he hopes will lead to money and prestige, however, his social conscience takes him on a journey through the Canada of the Great Depression, the Spain of the Spanish Civil War, and the China of the Chinese Civil War and Japanese invasion. Ultimately, the journey becomes a quest to understand the world in which Bethune finds himself living, to develop a compassionate response to t...

Inspired by Rousseau, and in need of a maid, the Baroness sets herself the task of transforming a "pure, unsullied creature" into a presentable maid. But learning how to set a table is one thing, Emily's unforeseen traumas are quite another.What moral imperatives differentiate instinctive behaviour from rational behaviour? What chance have the Baroness' enlightened plans for Emily in the messy human world that is their reality?Published in coo...

Parents in Canada today get information and advice from all sides on how they should be raising their kids. Figuring out what's best is a challenge, especially when ideas about what's best are in conflict. Parents know too that others will judge them on their choices, and on their practices. The work is hard, and often, they're managing without much social support.That is the world that sociologist and writer Gillian Ranson explores in this bo...

Two brutal slayings-dubbed the "Millennial Murders" by the media-have shocked residents of Steeltown. But that's only the beginning …In this new novel, Peter Abbot, author of Librarian and Voice of the Lord and himself a long-time resident of Canada's tenth largest city, explores the meaning of hope, despair, and redemption-and introduces readers to a number of Hamiltonians they won't soon forget.

At the time of Canadian Confederation, many Canadians were their own doctors, cooks, farmers, veterinarians, beekeepers, and even rat catchers. This survival guide, compiled fifteen decades ago, is a fascinating glimpse into Canadian life before modern conveniences. Melissa McAfee's fascinating preface notes that "receipt" is an older term, a set of instructions not only for cooking, but also for medicine and food preservation. In The Canadian...

DELUXE CASEBOUND EDITION, IDEAL FOR GIFTS AND PERMANENT COLLECTIONSAt the time of Canadian Confederation, many Canadians were their own doctors, cooks, farmers, veterinarians, beekeepers, and even rat catchers. This survival guide, compiled fifteen decades ago, is a fascinating glimpse into Canadian life before modern conveniences. Melissa McAfee's fascinating preface notes that "receipt" is an older term, a set of instructions not only for co...

At the time of Canadian Confederation, many Canadians were their own doctors, cooks, farmers, veterinarians, beekeepers, and even rat catchers. This survival guide, compiled fifteen decades ago, is a fascinating glimpse into Canadian life before modern conveniences.Melissa McAfee's fascinating preface notes that "receipt" is an older term, a set of instructions not only for cooking, but also for medicine and food preservation. In The Canadian ...

Ranging in time from the late 1960s to the present day, Watershed is the story of Anne Macleod, a young Ottawa public servant who finds her life caught up in the tumultuous events of her time -- Trudeaumania, the FLQ crisis, and Quebec separatism. Finding love only to lose it, she is later confronted with a decades-old mystery, with her efforts to unravel it leading to new and surprising revelations. Watershed is a novel both of intriguing cha...

This book was initially Sharon's idea. She approached me because she was interested in creating a colouring book for people recovering from an eating disorder. As a person who had recovered from an eating disorder herself, and as an artist, she wanted to "give back" and help others find their way to wellness. I thought it was an excellent idea. For my part, I had always wanted to put a book together of recovery stories. As a therapist, I often...

Anglican clergyman W. Redvers Dent drew on his own experiences on the Western Front as a soldier with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in writing Cry Havoc during the late 1920s. The novel depicts a young man named Lionel Thor surviving an incomparable sequence of tragedies and misadventures. As he does, we witness the growth of Thor's mind and his evolving grasp of theology and philosophy in a novel whose depiction of the war is unsparing.Cry...

As the author notes in his introduction, this fascinating and insightful book is "family history with a context." Placing the lives of his parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative, Dr. Hair explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario, that great peninsula of fertile farmland lying between Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Dubbed "Souwesto" in the 1960s by artist Greg Curnoe and playwright James Reaney, the reg...

Elizabeth Rollins Epperly recounts her experience of leadership as the president of the University of Prince Edward Island in this beautifully written creative memoir-a book that is both funny and moving.When she became president of UPEI in 1995, Epperly began to reshape the university into a more vibrant, forward-looking and inclusive institution. Her tenure was a success, but she met many obstacles along the way. Epperly's narrative consider...

Peter Abbot, author of Voice of the Lord and Librarian, probes the meaning of childhood, crime, loss and redemption in this new novel, set in the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

A spectre is haunting Europe and the United States-the spectre of immigration." So begins Robert Brym's introduction to this second volume of proceedings of the annual S.D. Clark Symposium. Contributors Richard Alba, Jeffrey G. Reitz, Naomi Lightman, Monica Boyd, Patricia Landolt, and Salina Abji consider the social and political effects and implications of immigration, both from a comparative perspective and with a specific focus on the Canad...

There are five parrots in front of me on the floor in a caged-in area that used to be half of our living room. Two of them, Stanee and Louis, are conures, both with the slender bodies and red tails that give them a name that means 'flame tails'. There are two Quaker parrots, Quigley and Tikkifinn, closely related to the conures but a little stockier as suits the cooler climate of their ancestral home. Both are gray in the front, Quigley (a mal...

Hockey is not only Canada's national pastime but its enduring passion. In this collection of fourteen real-life stories, authors Andrew Caddell and Dave Stubbs explore the many different sides of the game. In "The Girl" you'll meet a young woman who helped pave the way for the stars of today's women's game, while in "The Gentleman" a spinster aunt's lifelong wish comes true when she meets Habs superstar Jean Béliveau. "The Rink" details the un...