From biographer Joe Mackintosh comes a second work of non-fiction, an inspirational and heart-rending story of an icon in the world of running.

Through the course of ten years, four albums, two feature films, and over 250 performances from Pacific to Atlantic, photographer Joe Mac found himself centre stage over 60 times, capturing the charismatic band referred to as “Picture perfect” (102.1 The Edge), “Best live act in the city” ***(Musica Mas)***, “One of the top acts of the year” ***(The Toronto Star)***, and “Intelligent people making incredib...

"A diverse group of angry, dragon riding cryptids burst into an international climate conference to deliver an urgent message from Mother Nature. Why?" Delegates attend an international climate change conference to find a solution to climate change. They are shocked however, when a group of mythical creatures, riding dragons, suddenly crash into the conference and take the stage. These big, hairy creatures, all with large feet have a message for the delegates from Mother Nature. 'The Bigfo...

The story is a memoir. It’s a slice of history—the story of Gimli, Manitoba—come to life.There’s the mystique of rail travel; there’s rafting on the pond; there’s swimming at the harbour. There’s dancing to the Men of Note. There are bonfires and bull rushes and bicycling the town; the tastes of Central Bakery; the fun of pinball at Sam’s Café; and the vibes of the Falcon. This book is about adventures that define summer life in Gimli for a city lad. In addition, there’s the story ...

New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh is back with another unputdownable installment in the DC Morgan series.You want what they have, but what price would you pay?The Hill is the kind of place everyone wants to live: luxurious, exclusive, and safe. But now someone is breaking and entering these Cheshire homes one by one, and DS Leo Brady suspects the burglar is looking for something, or someone, in particular.O...

To reconstruct or not to reconstruct? That is the question facing many agencies and site managers throughout the world. While reconstructed sites provide a three-dimensional pedagogic environment in which visitors can acquire a heightened sense of the past, an ethical conflict emerges when on-site reconstructions and restorations contribute to the damage or destruction of the original archaeological record. The case studies in this volume contribute to the ongoing debates between data and ...

In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable connection between life and art in Inuit culture (the Innu word for 'breathe' also means 'to make poetry,' and both derive from the word for 'the soul'). No surprise that Aboriginal culture began...

A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large histo...

As in the original work, Harold Kalman presents a panorama of Canadian building as rich as it is vast, from the dwellings of pre-contact Native peoples and the first European settlers to the revolutionary structures of the Modernist period and the renewed apprediation of the past that marks much of the architecture created on the eve of the new millennium. Emphasizing social and cultural contexts, he brings to light several distinctive characteristics of Canadian architects and their work. Am...

A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell.When a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they’re allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time rather than simply artists of space.From the connected farmh...

Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the citys creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Torontos waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Torontos water and putting it underground has been countered by persistent citizen-led efforts to recall and restore the citys surface water. In H...

In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver's Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless virgin wilderness. In Inventing Stanley Park, Sean Kheraj traces how the tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped transform the landscape of one of the world's most famous urban parks. ...