House Of Anansi Press Inc: 258 books
Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work
Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of...
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a system of interlocking debts. Atwood proposes that debt is like air -- something we take for granted...
Let the Elephants Run
Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
At David Usher’s company, CloudID Creativity Labs, there is a sign on the wall that reads: “Dream big, let the elephants run!” The words are a reminder for us to hold a place in our minds for creativity, where big ideas can form and our imagination can run free. Based on his wildly popular speaking...
In-Between Days
A Memoir About Living with Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist
2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner
2017 Joe Shuster Award Nominee
Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration...
The Outside Circle
A Graphic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature
In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in...
by David French
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
David French's first play is a classic in Canadian drama. The first part of what has come to be known as the Mercer Series, Leaving Home tells the story of a Newfoundland family that has emigrated and lost all sense of its place in the world. Leaving Home was named one of the 100 Most Influential Canadian Books by the Literary Review of Canada.
by David French
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all discover something about themselves under this pressure of imminent death. Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973.
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Fifty writers on life, art and writing from twenty-two years of Brick, A Literary Journal.
Founded in 1977, Brick, A Literary Journal features a great many of the world’s best-loved writers, and has readers in every corner of the planet. The magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates...
by Robert Hough
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
The Sisters Brothers meets Master and Commander in Robert Hough’s rollicking and raucous new historical novel.
The year is 1664, and Benny Wand, a young thief and board game hustler, is arrested in London for illegal gaming. Deported to the city of Port Royal, Jamaica, known as “the wickedest...
The Truth About Luck
What I Learned on My Road Trip with Grandma
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation — which turns out to be a "staycation" at his apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of...
Shrewed
A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan’s playground?
These are some of the questions that bestselling...
The Return of History
Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
#1 National Bestseller
Part of the CBC Massey Lectures Series
In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History.” Fukuyama argued that the demise of confrontation...
In Search of A Better World
A Human Rights Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World, the 2017 CBC Massey Lecture, is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.
In February of 2017, Amnesty International released their Annual Report for 2016 to 2017, concluding...