Greystone Books imprint: 184 books
Down the Drain
How We are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
An incisive critique of Canada's failed management of its water supply.
In this authoritative review of decades of independent critiques, accompanied by many riveting stories of water management failures, award-winning journalist Chris Wood and Canadian water policy expert Ralph Pentland explore...
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet
Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
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Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future Practical solutions for meeting our energy demands while combatting climate change on a large scale, from ""the David Suzuki of Britain.""
Respected, authoritative, award-winning author Chris Goodall adds new material...
More than Honey
The Survival of Bees and the Future of Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
A wonderfully thorough immersion in the world of bees and beekeeping. More Than Honey leaves one with reverence for this six-legged miracle, and profound concern about the future it faces." — Rowan Jacobsen, author of Fruitless Fall
A fascinating look at the increasingly perilous world...
Dodging the Toxic Bullet
How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Practical and empowering strategies for identifying and avoiding health hazards, from the co-author of David Suzuki's Green Guide.
Following David Suzuki's Green Guide -- called ""the green bible"" by the Globe and Mail -- Dodging the Toxic Bullet presents workable strategies...
From Naked Ape to Superspecies
Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
In this revised and fully up to date edition of From Naked Ape to Superspecies, David Suzuki and Holly Dressel describe how we have evolved beyond our needs, trampling other species in the process. We learn about how human arrogance -- demonstrated by our disregard for the small and microscopic species...
The Perfect Keg
Sowing, Scything, Malting and Brewing My Way to the Best Ever Pint of Beer
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
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...
Couchsurfing in Iran
Revealing a Hidden World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A modern-day glimpse into the surprising reality of life in Iran.
Iran: A destination that is seldom seen by westerners yet often misunderstood. A country that simultaneously “enchants and enrages” those who visit it. A place where leading a double life has become the norm.
In Couchsurfing...
Roll On
Rick Hansen Wheels Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The remarkable story of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion World Tour -- and all the big dreams it inspired.
As Rick Hansen wheels around the globe on his incredible Man in Motion World Tour, the children he meets are encouraged to dream their own dreams and work to make them come true. In China,...
Choosing Hope
"A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Survival"
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A chronicle of family love, unspeakable loss, and the power of healing.
Ginny Dennehy was living the dream: a great marriage, two wonderful teenagers, a fulfilling career. But in 2001, the world turned upside down when her son, Kelty, in the grip of depression, committed suicide at the age...
Book of Marvels, The
A Compendium of Everyday Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012
"Lorna Crozier takes great pleasure in the world and her pleasure becomes ours. This book knows a great truth -- that nothing is known until it is held: in our hands, or our mind, or our heart." -- Anne Michaels
"Lorna Crozier raises...
Sound
A Memoir of Hearing Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
"Bathurst is a restless, curious writer… After reading this book, I found myself listening in a richer and more interested way." — Guardian
A profound, beautifully written exploration of sound by a young woman who lost her hearing, then regained it.
In this surprising...
An Enchantment of Birds
Memories from a Birder's Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
In these delightful meditations, biologist and bird lover Richard Cannings weaves stories of his personal encounters with birds into fascinating descriptions of their behavior, anatomy, and evolution. He muses over the meadowlarks' ability to hide their nests so completely that he has seen only two...
by Tony Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney, Australia, to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. The trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place...
Great Soul of Siberia
Passion, Obsession, and One Man's Quest for the World's Most Elusive Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
"Great Soul of Siberia is the most intimate, poetic and immersive investigation of the Siberian tiger ever written." —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce
The remarkable story of one man’s all-consuming quest to follow three generations of Siberian tigers,...