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by Aleksandar Saša Dundjerovi?
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
The Theatricality of Robert Lepage studies several productions, including The Dragons' Trilogy, Vinci and Tectonic Plates, The Seven Streams of River Ota, Zulu Time, and The Far Side of the Moon. Dundjerovic provides major new insights into Lepage's creative process through an examination of his workshops,...
In Translation
Honouring Sheila Fischman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Québécois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, François Gravel, Anne Hébert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais...
Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage
Language, Identity, Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
A leader in theatre production for a global community, Robert Lepage - actor, cineaste, and director - revolutionized the Toronto theatre scene from the 1980s onwards by challenging conventional notions of language, identity, and national belonging. Exploring Lepage’s twenty-five-year history on the...
Graphic Culture
Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian...
A Gentleman of Pleasure
One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
A Gentleman of Pleasure not only spans Glassco's life but delves into his background as a member of a once prominent and powerful Montreal family. In addition to Glassco's readily available work, Brian Busby draws on pseudonymous writings published as a McGill student as well as unpublished and previously...
The Practice of Her Profession
Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In The Practice of Her Profession, Susan Butlin draws on unpublished letters and family memoirs to recount Carlyle's personal and professional life. She explores Carlyle's artistic influences, her relationships with artist colleagues and encounters with the cultural worlds of Paris, New York, and...
Moi, je suis de Bouctouche
Les racines bien ancrées
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Donald Savoie a grandi dans un petit village acadien et est devenu un auteur et un universitaire accompli. Ses livres ont eu un effet profond sur les politiques publiques du Canada et sur l’administration du pays. Moi, je suis de Bouctouche n’est pas seulement l’histoire de Savoie lui-même, mais...
Finding Franklin
The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives...
Crass Struggle
Greed, Glitz, and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A critique of the lifestyles of today’s ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly." Taking the reader inside today's luxury trades, R.T. Naylor...
Up and to the Right
The Story of John W. Dobson and His Formula Growth Fund
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In 1960, Montreal stock broker John Dobson launched an informal investment club with a close group of friends and associates, including future prime minister John Turner. His Formula Growth Fund would go on to become one of North America's most successful investment funds, consistently outperforming...
Routines and Orgies
The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Peter Cundill (1938-2011) was highly regarded as one of the greatest value investors of his time, but he was also a teacher and mentor who was generous with his knowledge and shared the wealth of his experience with many aspiring investors. He was taken with Aldous Huxley's words that the "rhythm...
Marian and the Major
Engel's "Elizabeth and the Golden City"
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Rains, a former soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, immigrated to Canada at the same period as Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. He brought with him his wards, sisters Frances and Elizabeth. The three settled on St Joseph Island in northern Ontario, where their unusual domestic arrangement caught...
The Writing Life
Journals, 1975-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Selected from thousands of pages of the daily journals of George Fetherling - the inexhaustible novelist, poet, and cultural commentator - The Writing Life reveals an astute and candid observer of his contemporaries as well as himself. Hundreds of figures in the arts and public life crisscross the pages...
J. Wendell Macleod
Saskatchewan's Red Dean
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Macleod was an ardent believer in the social principles of health care. His early awareness of the economic chasm that separated rich from poor provided the focal point of his career as first dean of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan - he taught that understanding the social, economic, and...