Fab

Hardcover | 640 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-385-66703-6 (0-385-66703-5)

October 26, 2010 | $34.95



He is one of the most famous, most wealthy people on the planet, and yet he remains little-known and understood as a personality. At long last, Paul McCartney is the subject of a major, deeply researched, psychologically acute biography. It tells a story that will illuminate and surprise.

The publication finds McCartney &mdash...

Arrival City

Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Current Affairs; Social Science - Emigration & Immigration; Social Science - Anthropology
978-0-307-39689-1 (0-307-39689-4)

September 21, 2010 | $34.95



From one of Canada's leading journalists comes a major book about how the movement of populations from rural to urban areas on the margins is reshaping our world. These transitional spaces are where the next great economic and cultural boom will be born, or where the great explosion of violence will...

Half Empty

Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-67030-2 (0-385-67030-3)

September 21, 2010 | $29.95



The inimitably witty David Rakoff, This American Life stalwart and bestselling author, looks at the modern world and his own life in defense of the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst.

In this deeply funny memoir, David Rakoff examines his own life and the realities of our sunny, gosh-everyone-can-be-a-star...

The Ice Passage

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Expeditions & Discoveries; History - Polar Regions; Science - Environmental Science
978-0-385-66533-9 (0-385-66533-4)

September 21, 2010 | $22.95



A thrilling account of suffering and survival, The Ice Passage charts an epic quest from desire to destiny.

It begins as a mission of mercy. Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator sets sail in search of them. Instead...

Canadian Living: The Vegetarian Collection

Trade Paperback | 279 pages | Transcontinental | Cooking - Vegetarian
978-0-9813938-0-3 (0-9813938-0-2)

September 14, 2010 | $22.95



Cooks across Canada are trying to eat well, incorporate more healthful foods into their menus and accommodate the dietary choices of family members. Canadian Living's new collection of vegetarian recipes caters to this trend with nourishing dishes that work every time - whether you're cooking for vegetarians, flexitarians or vegans, or...

Citizens of Nowhere

Hardcover | 336 pages | Doubleday Canada | Current Affairs - International
978-0-385-66722-7 (0-385-66722-1)

September 14, 2010 | $32.95



An inspiring story of courage, adaptation and determinaton — a year in the life of 11 refugee students entering universities across Canada.

"Most journalists have stories they never forget. This is mine."

When Debi Goodwin travelled to the Dadaab Refugee Camp in 2007 to shoot a documentary on young Somali refugees soon coming to...

Glimmer

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Current Affairs; Art - Design
978-0-307-35674-1 (0-307-35674-4)

September 14, 2010 | $22.00



The first mainstream book to explore how the problem-solving, creative and insightful powers of Bruce Mau and the world’s other great designers can be applied to our everyday lives and businesses — and spawn creative epiphanies around the world.

What can be learned from great designers? How can design improve our lives?...

The Wave

Hardcover | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Science; Science - Oceanography
978-0-385-66667-1 (0-385-66667-5)

September 14, 2010 | $34.95



A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships...

Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Current Affairs
978-0-385-66727-2 (0-385-66727-2)

September 7, 2010 | $22.00



A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.

Canada’s most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson’s greatness to Bono’s gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter...

The Case for God

Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Religion - History; Religion - Sociology of Religion; Philosophy - Religious
978-0-307-39744-7 (0-307-39744-0)

September 7, 2010 | $22.00



From the bestselling author of A History of God and The Great Transformation comes a balanced, nuanced understanding of the role religion plays in human life and the trajectory of faith in modern times.

Why has God become incredible? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about...

The Erotic Engine

Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Social Science - Pornography
978-0-385-66736-4 (0-385-66736-1)

September 7, 2010 | $32.95



Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture.

From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel...

How to Be a Mentsh (And Not a Shmuck)

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Self-Help - Personal Growth; Humor
978-0-307-39801-7 (0-307-39801-3)

September 7, 2010 | $19.95



Wise and hilarious, this is a book about happiness, your own and that of others. The principles outlined here will work for anyone, Jewish or not, who makes the effort to put them into practice.

Drawing on the “wisdom of the ages,” bestselling author Michael Wex shows readers how to figure...

Just Watch Me

Trade Paperback | 832 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-676-97524-6 (0-676-97524-0)

September 7, 2010 | $24.95



This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.

His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories...

A Journey

Hardcover | 720 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39820-8 (0-307-39820-X)

September 2, 2010 | $40.00



In 1997, the biggest Labour victory in history swept England, ending eighteen years of Conservative government. Prime Minister Tony Blair — young, charismatic and complex — shaped the nation profoundly in the ten years that followed. From his work in Northern Ireland to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, few of...

The Age of Persuasion

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Advertising & Promotion; Business & Economics - Industries - Media & Communications Industries; Current Affairs - Mass Media
978-0-307-39732-4 (0-307-39732-7)

August 31, 2010 | $22.00



The ad men behind CBC Radio’s The Age of Persuasion combine lively social history and years of industry experience to show how the art of persuasion shapes our culture.

Witty, erudite and irrepressibly irreverent, The Age of Persuasion provides a hugely entertaining — and eye-opening — insider’s look at the ever-expanding world...