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Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith
Hardcover | 832 pages | Knopf Canada | History - United States; History
978-0-676-97742-4 (0-676-97742-1)
February 28, 2012 | $37.50
A first major work of history on a crucial but under-examined topic, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith explores the role of religion in American foreign policy. From the first colonists to the presidents of the 21st Century, Andrew Preston's unparalleled study show us how religion has always shaped America's...
Hardcover | 832 pages | Knopf Canada | History - United States; History
978-0-676-97742-4 (0-676-97742-1)
February 28, 2012 | $37.50
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A first major work of history on a crucial but under-examined topic, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith explores the role of religion in American foreign policy. From the first colonists to the presidents of the 21st Century, Andrew Preston's unparalleled study show us how religion has always shaped America's...
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Falling Backwards
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39985-4 (0-307-39985-0)
February 21, 2012 | $21.00
Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene - always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more - to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39985-4 (0-307-39985-0)
February 21, 2012 | $21.00
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Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene - always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more - to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood...
An Exclusive Love
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-307-39954-0 (0-307-39954-0)
February 14, 2012 | $19.95
Two people who have grown old together decide to take their own lives. He is terminally ill; she doesn't want to be without him. One Sunday in autumn 1991, they carry out their plan. Vera and István go to their deaths holding hands. It is the logical end of a love...
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-307-39954-0 (0-307-39954-0)
February 14, 2012 | $19.95
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Two people who have grown old together decide to take their own lives. He is terminally ill; she doesn't want to be without him. One Sunday in autumn 1991, they carry out their plan. Vera and István go to their deaths holding hands. It is the logical end of a love...
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Inner Beauty
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Health & Fitness; Health & Fitness - Alternative Therapies; Health & Fitness - Beauty & Grooming
978-0-307-35881-3 (0-307-35881-X)
February 7, 2012 | $21.00
The charismatic author of Reflections of the Moon on Water brings her years of experience in the healing wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine to show how Western women can achieve lifelong health, beauty and wellness.
From the moment we first become self-conscious about our looks, most of us want to appear young...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Health & Fitness; Health & Fitness - Alternative Therapies; Health & Fitness - Beauty & Grooming
978-0-307-35881-3 (0-307-35881-X)
February 7, 2012 | $21.00
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The charismatic author of Reflections of the Moon on Water brings her years of experience in the healing wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine to show how Western women can achieve lifelong health, beauty and wellness.
From the moment we first become self-conscious about our looks, most of us want to appear young...
Willful Blindness
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Social Science; Business & Economics
978-0-385-66902-3 (0-385-66902-X)
February 7, 2012 | $21.00
A book that will open eyes to the most serious problem of our times.
In the case of the US Government versus Enron, the presiding judge chose to employ the legal concept of willful blindness: you are responsible if you could have known, and should have known, something which instead you strove...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Social Science; Business & Economics
978-0-385-66902-3 (0-385-66902-X)
February 7, 2012 | $21.00
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A book that will open eyes to the most serious problem of our times.
In the case of the US Government versus Enron, the presiding judge chose to employ the legal concept of willful blindness: you are responsible if you could have known, and should have known, something which instead you strove...
Solar Dance
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Art - History - Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945); Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-307-39859-8 (0-307-39859-5)
January 31, 2012 | $35.00
In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.
The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Art - History - Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945); Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-307-39859-8 (0-307-39859-5)
January 31, 2012 | $35.00
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In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.
The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work...
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C'mon Papa
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Family & Relationships - Parenting
978-0-307-39670-9 (0-307-39670-3)
January 10, 2012 | $22.00
Ryan Knighton's humorous and perceptive tales of fatherhood take us inside an unusual new family, one bound by its father's particular darkness and light.
C'mon Papa is Ryan Knighton's heartbreaking and hilarious voyage through the first year of fatherhood. Becoming a father is a stressful, daunting rite of passage to be sure...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Family & Relationships - Parenting
978-0-307-39670-9 (0-307-39670-3)
January 10, 2012 | $22.00
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Ryan Knighton's humorous and perceptive tales of fatherhood take us inside an unusual new family, one bound by its father's particular darkness and light.
C'mon Papa is Ryan Knighton's heartbreaking and hilarious voyage through the first year of fatherhood. Becoming a father is a stressful, daunting rite of passage to be sure...
Your Voice in My Head
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-35932-2 (0-307-35932-8)
January 10, 2012 | $19.95
A dazzling and devastating memoir — Girl Interrupted for the Juno generation.
Talented, prolific and charming, Emma Forrest was settled in Manhattan at twenty-two and on contract to the Guardian when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird and into those cold, deep patches...
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-35932-2 (0-307-35932-8)
January 10, 2012 | $19.95
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A dazzling and devastating memoir — Girl Interrupted for the Juno generation.
Talented, prolific and charming, Emma Forrest was settled in Manhattan at twenty-two and on contract to the Guardian when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird and into those cold, deep patches...
The Balfour Declaration
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Great Britain; History - Israel; History - Military - World War II
978-0-385-66259-8 (0-385-66259-9)
January 3, 2012 | $24.95
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Great Britain; History - Israel; History - Military - World War II
978-0-385-66259-8 (0-385-66259-9)
January 3, 2012 | $24.95
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day...
A New Leaf
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Gardening; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-67047-0 (0-385-67047-8)
January 3, 2012 | $19.95
A graceful and sharply observed book of inspiration that uses the garden as its central muse
A New Leaf traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Merilyn Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything from flowers that...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Gardening; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-67047-0 (0-385-67047-8)
January 3, 2012 | $19.95
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A graceful and sharply observed book of inspiration that uses the garden as its central muse
A New Leaf traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Merilyn Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything from flowers that...
Selected
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Psychology & Psychiatry - Interpersonal Relations; Business & Economics - Leadership
978-0-307-35863-9 (0-307-35863-1)
January 3, 2012 | $21.00
A groundbreaking, evolutionary science-based exploration of the history of leadership that explains how and why some men and women evolve into good or great leaders, and some do not.
We are all leaders or followers — or both. We can recognise leadership in almost every area of life: in the workplace, among friends...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Psychology & Psychiatry - Interpersonal Relations; Business & Economics - Leadership
978-0-307-35863-9 (0-307-35863-1)
January 3, 2012 | $21.00
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A groundbreaking, evolutionary science-based exploration of the history of leadership that explains how and why some men and women evolve into good or great leaders, and some do not.
We are all leaders or followers — or both. We can recognise leadership in almost every area of life: in the workplace, among friends...
What Disturbs Our Blood
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Science - History; Medical - Psychiatry
978-0-679-31316-8 (0-679-31316-8)
January 3, 2012 | $22.00
NOMINEE 2011 – Toronto Book Awards
A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon escape from a family curse
Like his friends Banting and Best, Dr. John Fitzgerald was a Canadian hero. He founded Connaught Labs, saved untold lives with his vaccines...
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Science - History; Medical - Psychiatry
978-0-679-31316-8 (0-679-31316-8)
January 3, 2012 | $22.00
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NOMINEE 2011 – Toronto Book Awards
A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon escape from a family curse
Like his friends Banting and Best, Dr. John Fitzgerald was a Canadian hero. He founded Connaught Labs, saved untold lives with his vaccines...
Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | Science
978-0-385-66932-0 (0-385-66932-1)
December 27, 2011 | $17.95
Prepare to be amazed once again.
Did you know what when you shake a ketchup bottle you're practicing thixotropy? That the ancient Greeks made themselves look less ancient by inventing moisturizer? That the mysterious drug obecalp* is as effective as homeopathy and many herbal cures? From the bestselling author of An Apple...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | Science
978-0-385-66932-0 (0-385-66932-1)
December 27, 2011 | $17.95
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Prepare to be amazed once again.
Did you know what when you shake a ketchup bottle you're practicing thixotropy? That the ancient Greeks made themselves look less ancient by inventing moisturizer? That the mysterious drug obecalp* is as effective as homeopathy and many herbal cures? From the bestselling author of An Apple...
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Meals that Heal Inflammation
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Random House Canada | Health & Fitness - Nutrition; Cooking - Health
978-0-307-35998-8 (0-307-35998-0)
December 27, 2011 | $29.95
TV host and nutritionist Julie Daniluk reveals just how much pain is caused by inflammation and shows how to relieve it through diet. Featuring a practical nutrition guide, menu plan and 130 easy and delicious recipes, Meals that Heal Inflammation makes healthful eating a true pleasure.
Inflammation is on the rise. Conditions...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Random House Canada | Health & Fitness - Nutrition; Cooking - Health
978-0-307-35998-8 (0-307-35998-0)
December 27, 2011 | $29.95
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TV host and nutritionist Julie Daniluk reveals just how much pain is caused by inflammation and shows how to relieve it through diet. Featuring a practical nutrition guide, menu plan and 130 easy and delicious recipes, Meals that Heal Inflammation makes healthful eating a true pleasure.
Inflammation is on the rise. Conditions...
Also available as an
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The Procrastination Equation
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Personal Success; Social Science
978-0-307-35717-5 (0-307-35717-1)
December 27, 2011 | $22.00
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Personal Success; Social Science
978-0-307-35717-5 (0-307-35717-1)
December 27, 2011 | $22.00
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DON'T WAIT TO READ THIS BOOK: The world's leading expert on procrastination uses his groundbreaking research to offer understanding on a matter that bedevils us all. Writing with humour, humanity and solid scientific information reminiscent of Stumbling on Happiness and Freakonomics, Piers Steel explains why we knowingly and willingly put off...
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