Douglas Mcintyre imprint: 96 books
by Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Jacques Hebert
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
In the spirit of his father, Alexandre Trudeau revisits China to put a ground-breaking journey into a fresh, contemporary context. In 1960, Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hébert, a labour lawyer and a journalist from Montréal, travelled to China in the midst of the Great Leap Forward. In 1968, when...
by Bill Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
"In this new collection Gaston's range is so wide, his technique so masterful, his tenderness, humour and intelligence so finely measured that he stops my heart."
--Barbara Gowdy
A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage is populated by the lonely and alienated, holders of secrets,...
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....
The Horrors
An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Comedian-author Charlie Demers, whose brain-bending brand of black humour will be familiar to followers of CBC Radio’s The Debaters, offers his madcap perspective in a new collection of essays highlighting a wide range of topics under the heading of Bad Things. The Horrors is presented abecedarian-style,...
Large Garbage
A Radio Belly Single
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
In the surreal world of Buffy Cram’s stories, someone or something has slipped beneath the skins of her already beleaguered characters, rearranging the familiar into something strange and even sinister, making off with their emotional and even physical goods.
In Large Garbage: A Radio Belly...
Intent For A Nation: What is Canada For
A Relentlessly Optimistic Manifesto for Canada's Role in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
In Intent for a Nation, Michael Byers argues that it is time for a clear-eyed appreciation of our strengths and weaknesses, of all we have and all we could be. A whole series of world events-the waning of US credibility; the increasing value of natural resources; the brain-gain; the ever-increasing...
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...
The Immortal Beaver
The World's Greatest Bush Plane
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Developed soon after World War II, the de Havilland Beaver has become one of the most successful and long-lived designs in aviation history. The Beaver was conceived as a half-ton flying pickup truck” capable of setting down on land, water, and snow. Since its conception the Beaver has been adopted...
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...
Who Owns the Arctic?
Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean? Which territorial claims will prevail, and why - those of the United States, Russia, Canada, or the Nordic nations? And, in an age of rapid climate change, how do we protect the...
The Oil Man and the Sea
Navigating the Northern Gateway
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
A sailing trip along the proposed Northern Gateway marine route with a fresh new voice in non-fiction.
With oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of oil may soon be plying the waters from northern British...
by Ameen Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
At 18, musical prodigy Janaki Venkatakrishnan escapes her father’s plans for an arranged marriage, fleeing her village for the bright lights of Bombay. She leaves behind a gaggle of gossip-mongering old women, but also her younger sister Mallika, who is forced to take care of their increasingly...
by Richard Wagamese
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A new collection of warm, wise and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life.
Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, Wagamese...