Douglas And Mcintyre 2013 Ltd : 94 books
The Lesser Blessed
20th Anniversary Special Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Over 10,000 copies sold in Canada! The 20th-anniversary edition of Richard Van Camp’s best-selling coming-of-age story, with a new introduction and story by the author
Larry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies...
Defiant Spirits
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working...
Exploring Vancouver
The Architectural Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Vancouver's streetscapes and neighbourhoods have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes, and a maturing architectrual melange is emerging. This book invites the reader to explore...
Growing Pains
The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest... in a literary sense, ever written in Canada."
Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training...
Embers
One Ojibway's Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on-and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Celebrating beloved Canadian artists, the Collected series is beautifully designed with an affordable format, ideal for gift buyers and visitors. Canadian artist Ted Harrison began to paint as a young boy in school, and in the years since, has both worked and taught as an artist, an illustrator, and...
King
William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions....
All the Fine Young Eagles
In the Cockpit with Canada's Second World War Fighter Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
During the six years of the Second World War, Canadian fighter pilots flew and fought with great distinction in every theatre of war to which Commonwealth fighter forces were deployed. All the Fine Young Eagles captures the spirit and magnitude of the Canadian contribution, which began in Europe's...
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash
The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition - and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history’s greatest feats of maritime...
The Right Balance
Canada's Conservative Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
In a manner that reflects his long-time academic and practitioner’s association with conservative politics and ideas in Canada, Hugh Segal traces the deep historical roots of Canadian conservatism and the themes that unite its pre- and post-confederation reality with today’s challenges and issues....
Blockbusters and Trade Wars
Popular Culture in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The unparalleled global distribution of books, television programs and other cultural products would seem to augur well for the diversity of ideas and creative expression. Yet ever more of this flow is concentrated in the hands of fewer giant corporations, significantly American controlled, whose...
by Robin Brunet
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Frank Palmer is a legend in the Canadian advertising world. He not only developed Palmer Jarvis, one of the country’s most acclaimed marketing communications agencies (and then became chairman and CEO of DDB Canada after selling Palmer Jarvis to the multinational ad giant), he is also credited...
After the Sands
Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
After the Sands outlines a vision and a road map to transitioning Canada to a low-carbon society.
Despite its oil abundance, with no strategic reserves, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. There’s no good reason for Canadians to use much more oil per capita...
All-Day Breakfast
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
When widowed father and substitute teacher Peter Giller leads an eleventh-grade class on a field trip to a plastics factory, he thinks the worst that could happen is that the parent volunteers won’t show up (they don’t), the kids will be rude (they are) or the free lunch will be terrible (it is).
A...