Douglas Mcintyre imprint: 96 books
Shopping for Votes
How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
This second edition offers an insightful and provocative look at the inside world of political marketing in Canada-and what this means about the state of our democracy in the twenty-first century-from a leading political commentator.
Inside the political backrooms of Ottawa, the Mad Men of...
Oka
A Political Crisis and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors...
You Will Wear a White Shirt
From the Northern Bush to the Halls of Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Growing up in a remote Northern community, Nick Sibbeston had little reason to believe he would one day fulfill his mother’s ambition of holding a career where he would wear a white shirt.” Torn away from his family and placed in residential school at the age of five, Sibbeston endured loneliness,...
The Cougar
Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The Cougar is a skillful blend of natural history, scientific research, First Nations stories and first person accounts. With her in-depth research, Wild explores the relationship between mountain lions and humans, and provides the most up-to-date information on cougar awareness and defense tactics for those living, working or travelling in cougar country.
Glass Boys
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
With vivid and unflinching prose, Nicole Lundrigan has created a riveting and deeply human saga of the persistence of evil and the depths and limits of love.
When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis sees blood on the hands of the man responsible: the abusive...
by Dan Needles
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
Author and playwright Dan Needles has long delighted readers and audiences alike with his insightful and laugh-out-loud perspective on small-town life, published in such bestselling books as Wingfield's World (Random House, 2011), Wingfield's Hope (Key Porter, 2005), With Axe and Flask (McFarlane,...
The White Guy
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Let's face it: Everyone’s a little bit racist. So why not talk about it the only way we can, this side of warfare - via humor? In The White Guy, Stephen Hunt tries to come to grips with his whiteness in order to continue to rule the world, amass the bulk of its wealth, and generally dominate things...
Where the Pavement Ends
Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Over the past fifteen years, Canada’s Aboriginal healing community has emerged as a vital and visible force. Creative recovery programs have been established across the country, and international initiatives such as the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide” gatherings have originated here. The Canadian...
Craft Beer Revolution
The Insider's Guide to B.C. Breweries
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
The most detailed collection of craft beer breweries is now more comprehensive than ever! Since the first edition of Craft Beer Revolution was published, fifteen new BC breweries have opened and another eighteen are scheduled to open by the end of 2014. Joe Wiebe, the Thirsty Writer, revisits the...
Of Myths and Sticks
Hockey Facts, Fictions and Coincidences
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
As engaging as the great game itself, the stories behind the National Hockey League are entertaining, fascinating and, at times, unbelievable. Faux facts emerge from urban legends, conspiracy theories and coincidences, leaving sports fans to debate truth and fiction in the world of hockey trivia....
Through Blood and Sweat
A Remembrance Trek Across Sicily's World War II Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
As part of Operation Husky 2013, a group of Canadians walked this route to honour the memory of the nation’s soldiers who fought in Sicily seventy years earlier and whose sacrifice has been largely forgotten. Under a searing sun, with Mount Etna’s soaring heights always in the distance, a small...
The Fog of War
Censorship of Canada's Media in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
The Canadian government censored the news during World War II for two main reasons: to keep military and economic secrets out of enemy hands and to prevent civilian morale from breaking down. But in those tumultuous times - with Nazi spies landing on our shores by raft, U-boat attacks in the St. Lawrence,...
by Martine J. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver International Airport, and The Raven and the First Men, a yellow cedar carving. Both are featured on the Canadian...
Radio Belly
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
In the surreal world of Buffy Cram's stories, someone or something slips beneath the skin of her already beleaguered characters. Stealing into their worlds, it rearranges the familiar into something strange and possibly threatening, making off with their emotional and even physical goods.
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