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The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat

The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat

A Young Woman's Search for Ethical Food
by Marissa Landrigan
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Growing up in a household of food-loving Italian-Americans, Marissa Landrigan was always a black sheep—she barely knew how to boil water for pasta. But at college, she thought she’d discovered her purpose. Buoyed by animal rights activism and a feminist urge to avoid the kitchen, she transformed into a hardcore vegan activist, complete with sha …

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Our Place

Our Place

Changing the Nature of Alberta
by Kevin Van Tighem
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A collection of essays and articles that reflect upon the ecology, conservation history, missed opportunities and emerging possibilities of a place that could have been about so much more than oil.

 

Naturalist, hunter, conservation activist and recovering bureaucrat Kevin Van Tighem explores the landscapes and wildlife of one of Canada's most divers …

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Butch

Butch

Not Like the Other Girls
by SD Holman
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tagged : essays, photoessays & documentaries, lgbt

Butch: Not Like the Other Girls is a photographic exploration of the liminal spaces occupied by female masculinity in contemporary communities. Its first incarnation exhibited as a public art project in transit shelters around Vancouver in March-April 2013, with a simultaneous gallery show at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (the Cultch). Accordi …

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One Last Cast

One Last Cast

Reflections of an Outdoor Life
by Bruce Masterman
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One Last Cast is a collection of soul-touching and evocative stories about author and outdoor enthusiast Bruce Masterman's experiences in wild places and with wild critters.

 

Award-winning Alberta writer, journalist and storyteller Bruce Masterman has been a passionate outdoors enthusiast for more than five decades and has explored Alberta's natural …

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Casting Back

Casting Back

Sixty Years of Writing and Fishing
by Peter McMullan
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Covering a span of more than 60 years, these classic fishing essays are brought together for the first time, celebrating the thoughts, pleasures and adventures of a devoted angler and renowned storyteller as he fishes some of the timeless streams of the Ireland, New Zealand and British Columbia.

Through the pages of Casting Back Peter McMullan takes …

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Imagine This Valley

Imagine This Valley

Essays and Stories Celebrating the Bow Valley
by Stephen Legault
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Featuring essays from some of the area’s most beloved personalities, this exceptional literary anthology celebrates the landscape, culture, community and natural history of Alberta’s Bow Valley.

Canmore and Banff are collectively renowned for their mountain culture, diverse wildlife and scenes of breathtaking natural splendour. These vibrant mou …

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Hard Knox

Hard Knox

Musings from the Edge of Canada
by Jack Knox
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2017 long-list finalist, Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour Writing

In Hard Knox, seasoned columnist and consummate everyman Jack Knox offers up his uniquely hilarious views on Canadian life as seen from the western fringes of the country—in particular from the “Island of Misfit Toys” as he aptly calls his Vancouver Island home. This treasure tr …

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None of This Was Planned

None of This Was Planned

The Stories Behind the Stories
by Mike McCardell
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Mike McCardell has spent his life tracking down thousands upon thousands of stories, from the uplifting to the sobering, from the bizarre to the sublime. As the author of many books and a lifelong reporter, he has stored up a vast collection of anecdotes and is never short of a tale to tell.

With None of This Was Planned, McCardell takes us behind t …

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The Hidden Life of Trees

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
by Peter Wohlleben, foreword by Tim Flannery, translated by Jane Billinghurst, contributions by Suzanne SImard
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A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.

“Breaks entirely new ground .. …

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Lawyers’ Empire

Lawyers’ Empire

Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950
by W. Wesley Pue
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Approaching the legal profession through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue explores the social roles that lawyers imagined for themselves in England and its empire from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on a moment when lawyers sought to reshape their profession while at the same time imagining they were sha …

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In This Together

In This Together

Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation
edited by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
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tagged : discrimination & race relations, essays, native american studies

What is real reconciliation? This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation—one we've longed for but, before now, have had a hard time approaching.

These reflective and personal pieces come from journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, f …

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Boobs

Boobs

Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts
edited by Ruth Daniell
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At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, BOOBS is a diverse collection of stories about the burdens, expectations and pleasures of having breasts. From the agony of puberty and angst of adolescence to the anxiety of aging, these stories and poems go beyond the usual images of breasts found in fashion magazines and movie posters, instead offering dynam …

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The Best of Funny, You Don't Look Like One

The Best of Funny, You Don't Look Like One

by Drew Hayden Taylor
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tagged : cultural, ethnic & regional, native americans, essays

“Drew Hayden Taylor is one of those dangerous writers who knows the potential of humour, and how far it can reach into society, how deep it can cut, how quickly it can heal.” —Thomas King, author of The Back of the Turtle
The Best of Funny, You Don't Look Like One is a collection of the author's handpicked favorites from the popular first …

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The Horrors

The Horrors

An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things
by Charles Demers
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A darkly mirthful and alphabetical approach to very bad things from comedian Charles Demers.

Comedian-author Charlie Demers, whose brain-bending brand of black humour will be familiar to followers of CBC Radio's The Debaters, offers his madcap perspective in a new collection of essays highlighting a wide range of topics under the heading of Bad Thin …

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Tuco and the Scattershot World

Tuco and the Scattershot World

A Life with Birds
by Brian Brett
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A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking such questions as “Whaddya know?” and announcing “Party time!” when guests showed up at Brett’s farm. Although Brett bought Tuco on a whim as a pet, he gradually realizes the enormous obligation he has to t …

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The Wild in You

The Wild in You

Voices from the Forest and the Sea
by Lorna Crozier, photographs by Ian McAllister
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A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time’s best nature photographers and a very talented and creative poet. Inspired by the majestic and savage beauty of Ian McAllister’s photographs, Lorna Crozier translates the wild …

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Letters to My Grandchildren

Letters to My Grandchildren

by David Suzuki
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tagged : letters, essays, environmentalists & naturalists, grandparenting

In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren — and us — to do everything at full tilt. He explains why sports, fishing, feminism, and failure are important; why it is danger …

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The Carefree Garden

The Carefree Garden

Letting Nature Play Her Part
by Bill Terry
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What happens when a lifelong gardener finally realizes that he must collaborate with Mother Nature rather than work against her in order to achieve his dream of creating the perfect garden? In this delightful and thoughtful narrative journey of horticultural discovery, Bill Terry asks how and even why we garden, and to what end?

These are personal …

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Paint the Town Black

Paint the Town Black

by Arthur Black
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Arthur Black's best lines are like a shot of whisky--sharp, invigorating and with a good kick. Following the success of his many previous titles, the multiple-award-winning humorist once again delivers "black-to-black" laughs with his latest collection, Paint the Town Black.

With his usual off-kilter perspective, Black tackles many of the pressing t …

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Ground-Truthing

Ground-Truthing

Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC's North Coast
by Derrick Stacey Denholm
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tagged : essays, indigenous studies, forests & rainforests

Derrick Stacey Denholm has spent twenty-five years as a forestry field worker, planting trees, marking cutblock boundaries and timber-cruising. In Ground-Truthing, he combines this experience with his perspective as a poet and artist to guide us through the tangle of social, ecological and economic slash piles that dominate BC’s North Coast. Scie …

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Born Out of This

Born Out of This

by Christine Lowther
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Born Out of This follows Christine Lowther’s journey from the unutterable loss of her mother to the discovery of her own poetic voice through deep reflection and her intimate connection to the coastal rainforest. She looks back on her mother’s poetry and activism. She recalls the day the police arrested her father, and the indifferent beauty su …

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Casting Quiet Waters

Casting Quiet Waters

Reflections on Life and Fishing
edited by Jake MacDonald
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In Casting Quiet Waters, some of North America’s most respected literary writers take us on a fishing trip and use that as an opportunity to explore issues of the human condition. A little more than five centuries ago an odd English nun named Dame Juliana Berners (“The Prioress of St. Albans”) wrote the first book about fishing. Her obscure bu …

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Global Chorus

Global Chorus

365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
edited by Todd MacLean
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Global Chorus is a remarkable, illustrated collection of 365 daily meditations around some very large and increasingly crucial themes:

“Do you think that humanity can “nd a way past the current global environmental and social crises? Will we be able to create the conditions necessary for our own survival as well as that of other species on the p …

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Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?

Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?

Community Engagement in Small Cities
edited by W.F. Garrett-Petts; James Hoffman & Ginny Ratsoy
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Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison

Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison

by Jennifer Bain
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More than 100 wildly delicious recipes that use North America’s original red meat, from bison rancher and award-winning food writer Jennifer Bain.

Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison is the first comprehensive contemporary bison cookbook for a general North American market. With more than 100 well-tested, delectable recipes, Bain ensures that you’ll have p …

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Puckstruck

Puckstruck

Distracted, Delighted and Distressed by Canada's Hockey Obsession
by Stephen Smith
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Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize

 

In Puckstruck, Stephen Smith chronicles his wideeyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey’s literature, language, and history. On this journey to discover what the game has to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some essential riddles. Can hockey make you a better person? What exactly i …

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Secular States and Religious Diversity

Secular States and Religious Diversity

edited by Bruce J. Berman; Rajeev Bhargava & André Laliberté
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Nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religious movements. This book explores the meaning of secularism and religious freedom in these new contexts. The contributors chart the impact of globalization, the varying forms of secularism in Western sta …

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The Perfect Keg

The Perfect Keg

Sowing, Scything, Malting and Brewing My Way to the Best Ever Pint of Beer
by Ian Coutts
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In an entertaining year-long devotion to the near-religious art of brewing beer, Ian Coutts sets out to make the perfect keg. This beer didn’t start with a beer-making kit, which is what most homebrewers use. And it didn’t rely on pre-roasted industrial malt, which is how commercial brewers do it. Coutts made his own malt, and he grew his own b …

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Heart & Soil

Heart & Soil

The Revolutionary Good of Gardens
by Des Kennedy
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Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight.

Kennedy recounts one newspaper's April Fool's Day prank that had men across the UK buying heather in order to propagate a poor-man's Viagra, expan …

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A Family by Any Other Name

A Family by Any Other Name

Exploring Queer Relationships
edited by Bruce Gillespie
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Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT Anthology
Winner of a 2015 Silver Independent Publisher Book Award

At no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. A Family by Any Other Name recognizes and celebrates this advance by exploring what “family …

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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 50, 2012

The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 50, 2012

edited by John H. Currie & René Provost
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This is the fiftieth volume of The Canadian Yearbook of International Law. The contents of this special anniversary edition reflect the diversity of Canadian and international thought, opinion, and practice on current problems of international law. Included are a retrospective examination of Canadian approaches and contributions to international la …

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Museums at the Crossroads”

Museums at the Crossroads”

Essays on Cultural Institutions in a Time of Change
by Jack Lohman
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tagged : essays, arts in education, landmarks & monuments

In this collection of illuminating essays, Jack Lohman shares his views on the role of museums in the various cultures of the world, on the importance of

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