Doubleday Canada: 111 books
The Right Chemistry
108 Enlightening, Nutritious, Health-Conscious and Occasionally Bizarre Inquiries into the Science of Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A big part of Dr. Joe's job as director of McGill University's Office of Science and Society is persuading people that the pursuit of science knowledge is a potential source of wonder, enlightenment and well-being for everyone. And as a chemist, he's particularly keen to rescue chemistry from the...
Dr. Joe's Health Lab
164 Amazing Insights into the Science of Medicine, Nutrition and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The bestselling author of Brain Fuel and An Apple a Day reveals the science of being well, eating well, and staying well clear of "alternative therapy" charlatans.
Health Lab's theme is the most popular of Dr Joe's specialities. There are riveting and sometimes hair-raising vignettes from the...
The Ice Passage
A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
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...
by Richard Crouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
¸ The words to Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" were initially so risqué they had to be completely rewritten - in the hallway of the studio, as time was running out - before the song could be recorded. (He wrote the original version while working as a dishwasher in a bus station in Georgia.)
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The Erotic Engine
How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
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...
Tell Everyone
Why We Share and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Social media is fuelling our human urge to share, affecting the information we depend on to make smart decisions, from choosing politicians to doing business to raising money for charity. Tell Everyone delves into contemporary culture to reveal how social media has become the planet's nervous system—amplifying...
by Richard Scrimger
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Set primarily in Toronto, with brief stops in Philadelphia and New York, Mystical Rose spans from the 1920s to the 1990s. The story is told in flashbacks, revelations from the disordered mind of the elderly Rose, who, confronting death, has entered into a conversation with God. She revisits her life...
Creatures of the Rock
A Veterinarian's Adventures in Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
When you’re the only veterinarian in an area that’s 130 miles long and has a coast on either side, you never know what each new day might bring. A cow giving birth, a colicky horse, an aggressive lynx, caribou in need of pastures new, a polar bear in a bingo hall, a six-hundred-pound boar who...
Unnatural Harvest
How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Advertisers may want us to believe that our food is produced on picturesque farms, but the cold reality is that the plants and animals we consume may be the result of genetic engineering in the laboratories of multinational corporations.
Biotechnology brings with it implications for human and...
The Last Spike
The Great Railway, 1881-1885
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract....
The Wild Frontier
More Tales from the Remarkable Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary;...
by Ting-Xing Ye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974).
In...
The National Dream
The Great Railway, 1871-1881
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old — it's population well below the 4 million mark — determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision — bold to the point of recklessness — was to change the lives of every man, woman...
by Pierre Berton
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had...