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Canadian Artists Bundle
Emily Carr / Tom Thomson / James Wilson Morrice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country has produced its share of talented landscape painters. Tom...
by Julian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Spain. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe. In this segment...
J.P. Bickell
The Life, the Leafs, and the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow.
A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P. Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As one of the most important industrialists...
by Julian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student...
James Douglas
Father of British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
James Douglas's story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land, Vancouver didn't exist, and Victoria was a muddy village.
Part black and illegitimate, Douglas was born in...
Cold War Soldier
Life on the Front Lines of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an 'iron curtain' has descended across the continent."
These words, uttered by Winston Churchill in 1946, heralded the beginning of the Cold War. In this first-hand account of a NATO soldier, Terry Stoney Burke paints a graphic...
Whitehern Historic House and Garden
Inside Hamilton's Museums
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. In this special excerpt we visit Whitehern historic home and garden, which comes with three generations' worth of family possessions —...
by Rhonda Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Like the shifting and often turbulent skies of our own emotional meteorology, Rhonda Batchelor's poems forecast the shifting patterns of a marriage from quiet moments of a graceful dawn to stormy seas of absence, from brilliant love-strewn sunshowers to dark moments of loss and bitter nights upon...
Is This Your First War?
Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Less than a year before 9/11, Michael Petrou trekked through al Qaeda's backyard in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. He was back in Central Asia within weeks of the attacks -- this time as a reporter, slipping into Afghanistan as rockets and tracer bullets lit up the night sky, carrying notebooks, stolen...
149 Paintings You Really Need to See in Europe
(So You Can Ignore the Others)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
"Who can resist an art critic with attitude?"
--Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ian Binnie
"It was wonderful! Julian shared his enormous knowledge of the world's best art with a panache that is irresistible."
--Justice Stephen Goudge, Ontario Court of Appeal
This...
by Julian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of the United Kingdom and Ireland. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide...
Myself Through Others
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Born in London, England, of Cornish stock, David Watmough arrived on Canada’s West Coast in 1961 and quickly became a fixture on the Canadian cultural scene. Now in his eighth decade, Watmough, often spoken of as this country’s senior gay male fiction writer, has decided to commit his memories...
Really Dead
A Ria Butler Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Travel writer Ria Butler has to outsmart a killer on the set of a reality TV show. Ria is supposed to be looking at blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos. Instead, she circumnavigates her unsettled relationship with investigative reporter Glenn Cooper and flies to the set of the TV show that her brother...
Metal on Ice
Tales from Canada's Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium.
The road to...