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Saltwater Classics from the Island of Newfoundland

By (author) Christine LeGrow & Shirley Scott
Categories: Knitting
Series: Saltwater Knits

Saltwater Classics will keep you toasty warm with beautiful hand-knitted hats, mitts, gloves, socks, and vamps. In this follow-up to the best-selling Saltwater Mittens, Christine LeGrow and Shirley A. ...

On the Curve

By (author) Janet Nicol
By (artist) Sybil Andrews
Categories: Biography: arts and entertainment

Raised in Bury St Edmunds, England, Sybil Andrews was one of Canada’s most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. This fully illustrated biography focuses on Andrews’ artistic ...

Villages in Cities

As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited. Meanwhile, community land ownership has the potential to turn the tide and ...

Les résistants du jazz

By (author) Serge Truffaut
Categories: Music: styles and genres

Des musiciens et des musiciennes de jazz de la catégorie des mi-moyens (Red Garland, Elvin Jones, Lester Bowie, Julius Hemphill, etc. ), pour reprendre le qualificatif du célèbre critique Leonard Feather, ...

Iron Road West

British Columbia wouldn’t exist without the railway; the province was brought into the Canadian Confederation in 1871 in exchange for the promise of a transcontinental line to the West Coast. It was ...

The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

By (author) Guy St-Denis
Categories: History of art

Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. ...

Album Rock

Album Rock is the account of writer Matthew Hollett’s research and road trip to isolated Ship Cove, on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula to solve a mystery—the source of a captivating photograph. ...

Working for the Man, Playing in the Band

By (author) Damon Wood
With Phil Carson
Categories: Popular music

In a memoir certain to fascinate Mr. Dynamite’s millions of fans, as well as musicians and industry insiders, Wood recalls how a chance encounter with James Brown led him to embrace soul and funk music ...

Le cerveau et la musique

Un son, une note, une mélodie et voilà... le cerveau en effervescence. Mais pourquoi certains airs arrivent-ils à nous tirer des larmes, à nous donner la chair de poule, à nous enthousiasmer ou à ...

Art populaire

By (author) François Tremblay
Categories: History of art

Un ouvrage tout en couleurs, dans la catégorie des beaux livres, sur l’évolution de l’art populaire.