Greystone Books Ltd : 167 books
School of Sophisticated Drinking
An Intoxicating History of Seven Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
“A very entertaining book that deserves a leather armchair, a fine cigar, and a double measure of cognac. ” – Gaz Regan, author of The Joy of Mixology
A detailed and insightful look into the development and sometimes comical past of the world of cocktail recipes and their stories.”...
Trauma Farm
A Rebel History of Rural Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
"Brett's wit and giddy ambivalence makes this account a stretch more provocative than similar rural memoirs, and an altogether compelling read" -- Publishers Weekly
"You can taste the food he describes, feel the cool morning air on naked skin, smell the dogs and feel the mud....
Curious by Nature
One Woman's Exploration of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Curious by Nature showcases Candace Savage's exploration of the varied ways we relate to wildlife, from our retelling of fairytales about the big, bad wolf to our struggles to find a balance between harvesting trees and allowing grizzly bears the space to roam. Creating a livable future for ourselves...
Tuco
The Parrot, the Others, and a Scattershot World
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
“[Brett’s] writing is so vivid, the observations so telling, that a reader can virtually feel the smooth heft of a collected egg in the palm of a hand or hear the goofy, honking dawn call of the peacock.” —Globe & Mail on Trauma Farm
A raucous biography of a remarkable parrot and...
Passion for This Earth, A
"Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment"
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Twenty influential writers and scientists contribute personal, practical, and political essays celebrating our planet.
In this powerful collection of original essays, twenty of the world's most influential journalists, writers, scientists, and environmentalists lend their voices to inform and...
Saboteurs
Weibo Ludwig`s War against Big Oil
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2002 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime
“A grisly catalogue of the effects of hydrogen sulphide and flaring . . . Nikiforuk provides an eloquent and persuasive voice for all downwinders.”...
1000 Lashes
Because I Say What I Think
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imprisonment. But he must also be read, so that...
The War On Science
Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on science.
In this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner argues that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations,...
In the Path of An Avalanche
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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Adventurers from all over the world come to Canada's Selkirks -- a mecca for ski touring that offers unlimited mountain terrain and lots of snow. On a clear, cold morning in January 1998, six experienced back-country skiers set out across one of its heavily loaded slopes and were caught...
Doctor is In(sane), The
Indispensable Advice from Dr. Dave
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The "Dave Barry of medicine" takes on the foibles of human health in this wildly funny collection.
Irreverent yet authoritative, Dr. Dave's practical medical advice for everyday ailments is entertaining and informative. In the style of Dave Barry and Rick Reilly, GP and well-loved...
Most of Me
Surviving My Medical Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
The imaginative, hilarious, and moving memoir of a woman coping with both Parkinson's disease and breast cancer.
At age forty-three, Robyn Levy was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and, eight months later, with breast cancer. With irreverent and at times mordant humour, Most of Me chronicles...
Fallen
A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In the vein of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking*, Kara Stanley tells the compelling story of her husband’s life-changing brain and spinal cord injury and the role of music, science, and love in recovery.*
Kara Stanley combines the heart-wrenching narrative of a catastrophic brain...
The Personalized Medicine Revolution
How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
An incisive look at how personalized medicine is revolutionizing health care for everyone.
In this persuasive and compelling book, Pieter Cullis argues that personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is the biggest revolution of our time. By replacing the current one-size-fits-all...
by Mark Leiren-Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale—a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them.
Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale...