"This account emphasizes the human dimension of the struggle and features clean, realistic color art with ample text blocks as well as dialog. Intended for both adults and young adults, this should be useful in history classes throughout North America in addition to appealing to WWII buffs and aficionados of war comics." -- Library Journal

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A timely and superbly illustrated account of the explosive event that challenged Canada's racist immigration policy

In May 1914, the Komagata Maru, a ship carrying 376 immigrants from British India, was turned away when it tried to land in Vancouver Harbour. Many of the men on board, veterans of the British Indian Army, believed it was their right t …

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; …

Shortlisted for a TASTE CANADA - Food Writing Award in the Regional/Cultural Cookbooks category.

In February 2010, Conde Nast Traveler magazine declared Metro Vancouver home to the best Chinese food in the world. While foodies flock to the city for dumplings and dim sum, they leave having discovered a wealth of world-class Asian dishes, from sushi t …

Feisty icon; passionate Canadian; unrelenting foe of all pretension; energetic provocateur-at-large and most importantly, superb and dedicated writer, there cannot be a Canadian alive who is unaware of the legacy that is Farley Mowat. And No Bird Sang and A Whale for the Killing are the first books in a new Douglas & McIntyre library of handsomely …

Feisty icon; passionate Canadian; unrelenting foe of all pretension; energetic provocateur-at-large and most importantly, superb and dedicated writer, there cannot be a Canadian alive who is unaware of the legacy that is Farley Mowat. And No Bird Sang and A Whale for the Killing are the first books in a new Douglas & McIntyre library of handsomely …

"So, while a tell-all -- the circumstances and atmosphere surrounding his end at CBC loom mysteriously over the book until the final chapter -- Stursberg doesn't come off vindictive. With his memoir, he's still trying to help save the CBC." -- Telegraph Journal

"Richard Stursberg's rage dominates his crackling autobiography -- as does his grief for …

A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012

The ultimate CBC insider exposes the controversies, successes and dead ends of his time at the top.

In 2004, CBC television had sunk to its lowest audience share in its history. That same year, Richard Stursberg, an avowed popularizer with a reputation for radical action, was hired to run English services. With …

"Radio Belly is a fun ride through some strange places, and Cram is a whip-smart storyteller who aims to shake up our reading expectations in ways that delight and surprise." -- Zoe Whittall, Globe & Mail

"Buffy Cram's book of short stories, Radio Belly, is full of kooky tales that reel a reader in and don't let go. She tackles issues, but combines …

The big-hearted story of a ten-year-old boy, a notebook and the meaning of the universe.

Even though he's only ten years old, Arthur Williams knows lots of things for sure. He knows all about trilobites, and bridge, and that he doesn't want to be Victoria Brown's boyfriend, and that tapping maple trees causes them excruciating pain. He knows his re …

Short-listed for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.

The big-hearted story of a ten-year-old boy, a notebook and the meaning of the universe.

Even though he's only ten years old, Arthur Williams knows lots of things for sure. He knows all about trilobites, and bridge, and that he doesn't want to be Victoria Brown's boyfriend, and that tapp …

Consider yourself an expert hockey fan? Challenge your NHL knowledge with hundreds of who's, what's, when's, and where's about the greatest game on ice. Score mental goals with multiple-choice and true-false questions, quizzes, and puzzles.

This is a new release of the book published in September 1995.

Trail to Heaven describes an anthropologist's experience with the subarctic Beaver Indians, the Dunne-za. Robin Ridington, a scholar who has spent nearly twenty-five years with the Dunne-za, describes moments in the life of their community, revealing the dynamics of change and stability among them as well as the ideas and assumptions that sustain t …

Who is the only Soviet player in the Hockey Hall of Fame? Who was "The Human Express"? A treasury of famous players, cup-winning dynasties, unusual rules, weird hockey terms, big-time fights, and statistics. Includes entertaining stories and facts.

This is a new release of the book published in December 1992.

Scorers have always attracted hockey's biggest -- crowds, headlines...and money. The all-time greats return once more in this nostalgic fun-and-games approach to hockey. Through quizzes, true-false setups, and multiple-choice questions, find out what you remember, have forgotten, or never knew! Hundreds of stumpers that will teach you a lot about t …

Face off against an all-star lineup of trivia from the world of sticks and skates. Multiple-choice questions (with answers provided in story form), as well as a series of entertaining matching and fill-in-the-blank games, will let you check your knowledge of hockey stats and lore. Come up with the player who scored the NHL's 100,000th goal, the mos …

Who is the only player to win a home-run title when he was in retirement? Which all-star outfielder was also selected in the NBA, ABA, and NFL player drafts? Who swatted a record-setting six grand slams in one season? Baseball lovers will want to step up to the plate and see how they'll score on these entertaining games, quizzes, statistics, and an …

In 1985 Mark Abley set out on a voyage of rediscovery, of reconciliation, to wander the Canadian prairies and to come to terms with the place of his upbringing. Leaving Saskatoon, he drove south to find, then go beyond, the town of Forget (pronounced For-jay). From there he drove in a huge looping butterfly shape through the provinces of Saskatchew …

What was the Beach Boys' original name? (The Pendletones, after a popular shirt manufacturer.) Who performed first at the famed Woodstock festival: Joan Baez, Country Joe & the Fish, Arlo Guthrie, or Richie Havens? (Havens.) What song knocked Michael Jackson's blockbuster Billie Jean right out of the number one spot in the spring of 1983? (Come on …

Are you hot for the world's coolest game? Then test your hockey smarts with this entertaining and enlightening collection of stories, mind-bending multiple-choice quizzes, fun games, and delightfully perplexing puzzles. And, what a wild lineup of players and teams it presents!

This is a new release of the book published in May 2001.

In the immensely popular Canadian classic, Butter Down the Well, Robert Collins describes his boyhood growing up in Saskatchewan during the bleak years of the Depression. This book evokes the mood of the era through Collins's humorous and touching stories.

"This is a love story. Love of a good man for a good woman. Love of both for their sons and lo …

In this debut collection, Gayla Reid draws on the doubleness and dislocation that expatriates carry in their hearts. The people in these stories grow up Catholic in 1950s Australia, a world of immense natural beauty, and come to adulthood in the turbulent decade of the Vietnam War. Moving fluidly between past and present, between Australia, Southea …

As Canada seeks to expand its Pacific ties and augment its ever stronger links to Hong Kong, much attention has been given to Canada's burgeoning Chinese community. Beneath the newspaper stories is a proud, diverse citizenry -- one as old as Canada itself -- which has integrated into the mainstrem of Canadian society.

This book brings together in-de …

Whether you're visiting a national or provincial park, hiking through deep woods or fishing a well-travelled stream, you may find yourself face-to-face with North America's largest predator. This book can make the difference between a close encounter and a deadly one.

Backcountry Bear Basics provides tested strategies to help you avoid conflicts wit …

Crammed into the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Angeles Basin is a population greater than that of both Ontario and Quebec. Both these drought-prone regions of California need to import water over improbable distances. Reliance on imported water, however, is not their Achilles heel; it is the fact that each sits astride one of the most violentl …

Crossing Canada by rail has long been among the travel wonders of the world, but in 1990 government cutbacks forced the remarkable Canadian to make its last run from Vancouver to Toronto. Amid the political controversy that raged during the last years of the route's existence, Terry Pindell covered 18,000 miles of Canadian rails. In this fascinatin …

A witty, enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide, Zee draws us into the heady pleasures of Chinese food and presents a banquet of family anecdotes, folklore and alluring tidbits about Chinese culinary history and culture.

In the surreal world of Buffy Cram's stories, someone or something has slipped beneath the skins of her already beleaguered characters, rearranging the familiar into something strange and even sinister, making off with their emotional and even physical goods.

In Large Garbage: A Radio Belly Single, a smug suburbanite becomes obsessed with the "hybri …

In 1972, after enduring years of embarrassing defeat at the hands of Soviet "amateurs," Canadian officials convinced their Moscow counterparts to allow a pre-season, eight-game series between the best hockey players from both nations. For Team Canada, this meant a chance to assemble a "dream team" of NHL professionals and show the world that they s …

Now available in paperback, in this courageous memoir, Fawzia Koofi, Afghanistan's most popular female politician, gives us her first-hand account of Afghan history through the rule of the Mujahedeen and Taliban, her experiences of the Afghanistan War, and the effects of these events on the lives of women in Afghanistan. In writing Letters to My Da …

The compelling tale of a rivalry that drove two unlikely explorers to the edge of a new world, informed by groundbreaking new research and superior narrative power.

The final decade of the 15th century was pivotal in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward into the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, determined to secure for Spai …

The compelling tale of a rivalry that drove two unlikely explorers to the edge of a new world, informed by groundbreaking new research and superior narrative power.

The final decade of the 15th century was pivotal in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward into the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, determined to secure for Spa …

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back …

Fully illustrated and engagingly written, K'esu' is the first book to honour this Kwakwaka'wakw artist's ground-breaking work Northwest Coast.

Kwakwaka'wakw art is renowned for its flamboyant, energetic and colourful carving and painting. Among the leading practitioners was Doug Cranmer, whose style was understated, elegant and fresh and whose work …

The long, shared history of Christianity and Islam began in the early seventh century AD with a question: Who would inherit the Greco-Roman world of Mediterranean? Sprung from the same source, the two faiths played out over the millennium what historian Stephen O'Shea calls "a sibling rivalry writ very large." Their cataclysmic clashes on the battl …

"To see the peacekeeper myth ably demolished...one must pick up Lewis MacKenzie's own memoir, Soldiers Made Me Look Good. Loaded with anecdotes, and delivered in MacKenzie's suffer-fools-badly style, it's easily the speed-read of the bunch." -- Calgary Herald

A riveting follow-up to the best-selling Peacekeeper, including MacKenzie's provocative vie …

The 13 short pieces featured in Passionate Gardener roam widely and wildly, examining, among other things, common idiosyncrasies and the collective chaos of garden clubs, the host of psychopathologies that afflict "plants people," and obsessive-compulsive behavior such as the chronic moving of plants. This is an irreverent exploration of the fierce …

In the spirit of his father, Alexandre Trudeau revisits China to put a ground-breaking journey into a fresh, contemporary context.

In 1960, Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hebert, a labour lawyer and a journalist from Montreal, travelled to China in the midst of the Great Leap Forward. In 1968, when Two Innocents in Red China, Trudeau and Hebert's sardon …

In Batting on the Bosphorus, a hilarious and eccentric traveler's tale, Scotsman Angus Bell leaves the Montreal magazine industry and sets off in his Skoda to discover a hidden cricketing world across central and Eastern Europe. From Estonia to Crimea, Bell learns that Slavs are playing the Englishman's game.

Between games, Bell is pursued by the KG …

"A soldier's story told from the inside, passionate, riveting and extremely necessary." -- David Adams Richards, Giller Prize-winning novelist

"Gut-wrenching, wryly humorous and well-written." -- Atlantic Books Today

When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a UN peacekeeper in 1995, he had a premonition that this tour …

The hummingbird parable, with origins in the Quechuan people of South America, has become a talisman for environmentalists and activists who are committed to making meaningful change in the world. In this inspiring story, the determined hummingbird does everything she can to put out a raging fire that threatens her forest home. The hummingbird symb …

Popular physician and personality Art Hister's practical, humorous guide to reaching a ripe old age in the best of health.

Dr. Art Hister is well known for his authoritative, common- sense, and very funny books about how to stay healthy. Following on the heels of the highly successful Midlife Man, this book presents Hister's advice for avoiding dise …

An irreverent, insightful take on our First Nations' great gift to Canada, delivered by a stellar cast of contributors.

Humour has always been an essential part of North American Aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-Aboriginals just didn't get the joke. Indians, it was believed, never laughed. But In …