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Story House
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 21.00In his first novel, Stanley Park , Taylor brought readers into the inner workings of the Vancouver culinary scene, writing evocatively about everything from divine local ingredients to kitchen politics. In Story House , he takes on the rarefied world of architectural design ? with some boxing, fishing and reality TV thrown in. Graham and Elliot... more...
The Blue Light Project
Knopf Canada 2011; US$ 22.00From one of Canada?s finest writers comes a masterful novel about the clash of art and advertising, the cultish grip of celebrity and the intense connections that can form in times of crisis. An unidentified man storms a television studio where KiddieFame , a controversial children?s talent show wherein kids who are too talented are ?killed off,?... more...
The Artificial Ape
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 26.99A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, we are remarkably different from them. Unlike our cousins who subsist on raw food, spend their days and nights outdoors, and wear a thick coat of hair, humans are... more...
Stanley Park
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 21.00A young chef who revels in local bounty, a long-ago murder that remains unsolved, the homeless of Stanley Park, a smooth-talking businessman named Dante ? these are the ingredients of Timothy Taylor's stunning debut novel ? Kitchen Confidential meets The Edible Woman . Trained in France, Jeremy Papier, the young Vancouver chef, is becoming known... more...
The Blue Light Project
Soft Skull Press 2011; US$ 15.95Spanning a four-day hostage situation in the not-too-distant future, The Blue Light Project looks on as a city unravels and three lives intersect in unlikely ways. When an armed man seizes a television studio in the center of town, Thom Pegg, a former investigative journalist turned tabloid reporter, is as surprised as anyone to learn that he is... more...
The Instant Economist
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 12.99The Only Economics Book You Will Ever Need - A Library Journal 2012 Best Business Book of the Year Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists-when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries. Yet many of us feel lost when the subject... more...
The Sounds of Capitalism
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated... more...
Darwin's Bastards
D & M Publishers 2010; US$ 14.00These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest. From a new short story by William Gibson in which a... more...
The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World
Crossway 2007; US$ 11.99Believers who wish to thrive in a postmodern world must cling tothe joy, truth, and love that comes only from understanding Christand his ultimate purpose in this world. more...
Global Currents
Rutgers University Press 2004; US$ 24.95Rhetoric about media technology tends to fall into two extreme categories: unequivocal celebration or blanket condemnation. This is particularly true in debate over the clash of values when first world media infiltrate third world audiences. Bringing together the best new work on contemporary media practices, technologies, and policies,... more...
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