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Series: A Feast for All Seasons Traditional Native Peoples' Cuisine 2nd edition Paperback Andrew George Jr. 9781551523682 $24.95 COOKING Oct 13, 2010

Traditional North American Native peoples' cuisine has existed for centuries, but its central tenet of respecting nature and its bounty have never been as timely as they are now. Andrew George, of the Wet'suwet'en Nation in Canada, is a well-respected aboriginal chef and instructor who has spent the last twenty-five years promoting the traditions of First Nations food. In A Feast for All Seasons, written with Robert Gairns, he has compiled aboriginal recipes that feature ingredients from the land, sea, and sky, elements of an enduring cuisine t... + Read More
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Series: A Little Rebellion Paperback Bridget Moran 9780889782525 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 01, 1992

In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small part of Bridget Moran's "little rebellion" against a system she felt did not, and does not, respond to the needs of those it was designed to help. A Little Rebellion is a moving portrait of a fiery and outspoken woman whose ongoing activism is inspired by ... + Read More
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Series: A Modern Life Art and Design in British Columbia 1945-1960 Paperback Ian Thom 9781551521718 $32.95 ART Oct 01, 2004

In 1949, the forest magnate, H.R. MacMillan, opened an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery entitled "Design for Living," a show which brought together design and artistic communities to create four imaginary households for postwar Vancouverites. It also heralded an unprecedented level of cooperation between the province's industry and its artists and craftspeople--a relationship that seemed to hold great promise for the development of art, furniture, and craft in BC. The celebration of the cooperative spirit between "architects, artists and... + Read More
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Series: After Canaan Essays on Race, Writing, and Region Paperback Wayde Compton 9781551523743 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2010

Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or "Canaan") encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a. "passing"), the subjectivity of black writers in the unblack Pac... + Read More
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Series: All Amazed For Roy Kiyooka Paperback John O'Brian 9781551521176 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Apr 01, 2002

All Amazed celebrates the life and work of the late Roy Kiyooka (1926-1994), one of Canada's first multi-disciplinary artists whose work transcended categorical and cultural exclusivity. At various periods of his life, Kiyooka was a painter, sculptor, teacher, poet, musician, filmmaker, and photographer. When Kiyooka arrived in Vancouver in 1959, he was already one of Canada's most respected abstract painters. His modernist stance at the time inspired a generation of Vancouver painters to reach beyond regionalism. In the sixties and seventies... + Read More
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Series: American Hunks The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970 Paperback David L. Chapman 9781551522562 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2009

Excerpted on out.com The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in America but throughout the world. American Hunks is a fascinating collection of images (many in full color) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture from 1860 to 1970. The book, divided into specific historic eras, includes such personalities as bodybuild... + Read More
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Series: Anarchy and Art From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall Paperback Allan Antliff 9781551522180 $23.95 USD ART Jun 15, 2007

One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events, ranging from war to revolution to sexual liberation. Art can also transform society, a theme that pervades this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism since the nineteenth century. In numerous essays, Allan Antliff interrogates moments of engagement when artists, poets, philosophers, and critics have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with artist Gustave Courbet and writer Emile Zola's activism during the 1871 ... + Read More
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Series: Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter Paperback S. Bear Bergman 9781551525112 $18.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2013

Lambda Literary Award finalist The celebrated essayist sheds necessary (and humorous) light on gender, sexuality, and family. S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer who travels regularly across North America to speak on trans issues. Bear's first two books, Butch Is a Noun and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, are considered essential texts on the subject of trans life. In his third essay collection, Bear enters, describes, and rearranges our ideas about family as a daughter, husband, father, and friend. In Bear's extended fami... + Read More
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Series: Brazen Femme Queering Femininity Paperback Chloe Brushwood Rose 9781551521268 $19.95 USD SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2002

Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharp-edged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the un-hyphenated femme experience emerging in performance, betrayal, violence, humour, and survival. Brazen Femme recognizes femme as an identity in flux and in motion, as constantly being reinvented. This mutability sets the stage for creative and thoughtful representation fea... + Read More
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Series: Burlesck Paperback Neil Wedman 9781551520759 $14.95 FICTION Oct 01, 1999

They are familiar comic images--a man on a psychiatrist's couch, confessing his sins; lecherous men ogling a buxom server at a cocktail party; a man and woman in tattered clothing, bickering on a deserted island the size of a living room. They are the adult cartoons popularized in literary and men's magazines and collected in pulp digests--single panels with one-sentence gag lines running along the bottom. Sardonic, quick-witted, at times sexist, these images are part of an artistic tradition of humorous illustrations that can be linked to the ... + Read More
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Series: Butch Is a Noun Paperback S. Bear Bergman 9781551523699 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2010

Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman,won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home. From girls' clothes to men's haircuts, from walking with girls to hanging with young men, Butch is a Noun chronicles th... + Read More
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Series: Calgary: The Unknown City 2nd edition Paperback James Martin 9781551521114 $18.95 TRAVEL Oct 01, 2001

Since the release of our first, bestselling Calgary cityguide, many things in the city have changed: it's gotten bigger, faster, and richer. Still filled with strange secrets, this revised and expanded edition of the earlier Calgary: Secrets of the City reveals the whole truth. With stories of notorious figures like the jazz impresario who has had countless run-ins with the law, newly discovered tunnels (and some that are planned for the future), top secret flight experiments, and the go-go club (in which patrons entered by sliding down a tub... + Read More
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Series: Carry Tiger to Mountain The Tao of Activism and Leadership Paperback Stephen Legault 9781551522005 $24.95 PHILOSOPHY Apr 01, 2006

This fascinating and useful book is a modern-day interpretation of Lao Tzu's Tao te Ching for those concerned with social issues and activist movements in Western civil society. It's a thoughtful examination of how the Tao, and Taoist thought, might be applied to the challenges, conflicts, and obstacles that activists and concerned citizens face as they deal with such issues as poverty, workers' rights, environmentalism, freedom of expression, gender and sexual equality, and social justice. The book also includes a verse-by-verse interpretatio... + Read More
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Series: Chef in Your Backpack Gourmet Cooking in the Great Outdoors Paperback Nicole Bassett 9781551521404 $21.95 COOKING Mar 01, 2003

We all look forward to spring and summer, when the sun returns, the blooms bud, and we feel the urge to reacquaint ourselves with the great outdoors. But camping and hiking trips, whether day treks or week-long journeys, beg an age-old question: what to bring along to eat? Chef in Your Backpack proves that camping and hiking meals don't always have to be about stale sandwiches and bagged veggies. With a little ingenuity and know-how, and a bit of advance planning, you can be dining in high style around the campfire. Nicole Bassett is an outdoo... + Read More
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Series: Comfort Food for Breakups The Memoir of a Hungry Girl Paperback Marusya Bociurkiw 9781551522197 $19.95 COOKING Apr 01, 2007

Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Autobiography/Memoir Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Women's Memoir/Biography Shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2007 Traversing decades and continents, Comfort Food for Breakups is an elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by fiction writer and filmmake... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Death in Venice A Queer Film Classic Paperback Will Aitken 9781551524184 $14.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 01, 2011

A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel, about a middle-aged heterosexual artist (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes the film's cultural impact and provides a vivid portrait of the director, an ardent Communist and grand provocateur. Known variously as "The Red Count" and "the director of the dirty bed sheets," Visconti, along with Roberto Rossel... + Read More
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Series: Dreaming in the Rain How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest Paperback David Spaner 9781551521299 $21.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 01, 2002

Twenty years ago, Vancouver didn't exist on any map of the film world. Today, Vancouver is at the heart of two film worlds. The city's American-based film industry is powerful enough to inspire loathing and threats from Hollywood, and its Canadian-based film scene is among the most acclaimed, provocative independent filmmaking communities anywhere. Vancouver Province movie critic David Spaner's Dreaming in the Rain is the story of West Coast Canada's emergence as a movie capital, from its early days as a Hollywood studio backlot, to its emergen... + Read More
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Series: Eat, Drink & Be Vegan Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating Paperback Dreena Burton 9781551522241 $25.95 COOKING Sep 15, 2007

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Cooking category. In Dreena Burton's first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which are based ont her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active blog (vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and website (everydayvegan.com) and and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her nutritious recipes. In this, her third c... + Read More
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Series: Facing History Portraits from Vancouver Paperback Karen Love 9781551521275 $29.95 ART Sep 01, 2002

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver examines the inhabitants of a city through the camera-art of its greatest artists. Featuring a wide range of material, from historical images to documentary depictions to contemporary visual artists' work, the book provides an intimate glimpse into Vancouver's sense of itself, and how representations of the face and the body can stand for cultural identity. Touching--with both celebration and caution--on the complex, very mobile social realities of urban living, Facing History presents portraits from V... + Read More
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Series: Fame Us Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame Paperback Brian Howell 9781551522289 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2007

Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Photography category In this stunning book, photographer Brian Howell takes us into the world of celebrity impersonators--the faux famous people who make a living at pretending to be someone else. Taken at various impersonator conventions and stage shows throughout North America, the photographs are both startling and poignant--for all of the frivolity and double takes ("Isn't that Paris Hilton?") there is also a sense of the real person beneath the makeup and the artifice. Accom... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Farewell My Concubine A Queer Film Classic Paperback Helen Hok-Sze Leung 9781551523620 $14.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 01, 2010

Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century abouttwo male Peking opera stars and the woman who comes between them, set against the political turmoil of a China in transition. The film's treatment of gender performance and homosexuality was a first in Chinese cinema, and the subject of much controversy there. The movie, which helped to bring contemporary Chinese films onto the world stage, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Fire A Queer Film Classic Paperback Shohini Ghosh 9781551523637 $14.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 01, 2010

Fire: A Queer Film Classic delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian love story by Indian-born director Deepa Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is the story of Radha and Sita, the wives of two brothers, who fall in love with one another. Crisis overtakes the extended family when a servant discovers the relationship and tells one of the husbands; overcoming both a literal and allegorical "trial by fire," the two women leave their marriages to make a life together. The film premiered to great ... + Read More
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Series: First Person Queer Who We Are (So Far) Paperback Richard Labonte 9781551522272 $17.95 USD SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2007

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT AnthologiesWinner, Independent Publisher Award (GOLD), Gay/LesbianIn this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans) experience: from coming out to "passing" as straight, to the devastation of meth addiction, to growing old to living proud. These are the stories of contemporary queer life--and by definition, are funny, sad, hopeful, and truthful. Representing a diversity of genders, ages, races, and ... + Read More
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Series: From the Olive Grove Mediterranean Cooking with Olive Oil Paperback Helen Koutalianos 9781551523675 $24.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2010

The healthful virtues of olive oil, a key component of the Mediterranean diet, have become well-known in recent years; its monounsaturated fats and antioxidants are beneficial in preventing heart disease by controlling LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels while simultaneously raising HDL ("good") cholesterol levels. Helen Koutalianos has preached the gospel of olive oil and its benefits for years; at the same time, consumers across North America have become more sophisticated and appreciative of flavorful, boutique olive oils that are not mass produ... + Read More
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Series: Get It Ripe A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking and Living Paperback jae steele 9781551522340 $23.95 COOKING May 15, 2008

Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Best Vegetarian Cookbook (Canada) Get It Ripe is a vegan cookbook for the 21st century, with an emphasis on holistic living and whole food (i.e. unprocessed and unrefined) ingredients. jae steele is a registered holistic nutritionist; she has also been a professional vegan baker, and worked on organic farms on both the east and west coasts of Canada. Her life experiences, and her love of vegan whole foods, are at the heart of Get It Ripe, which not only features uncomplicated yet delicious animal-free reci... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Gods and Monsters A Queer Film Classic Paperback Noah Tsika 9781551522630 $15.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2009

Gods and Monsters, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's film book series Queer Film Classics, deals with the acclaimed 1998 film about openly gay film director James Whale, best known for the Frankenstein films of the 1930s. Written and directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), the film focuses on the final days of Whale's life in the 1950s. Moving from the slums of Britain in the early twentieth century to the new era of "talkies" in Hollywood and beyond, Gods and Monsters trains a gay eye on the historical events that helped shape Whale (p... + Read More
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Series: Gorilla Food Living and Eating Organic, Vegan, and Raw Paperback Aaron Ash 9781551524702 $24.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2012

Raw food diets have exploded in popularity in recent years; some believe that the cooking process destroys nutrients and even produces dangerous chemicals through the interaction of heat with fat, protein, and carbohydrates. Enter Aaron Ash, a charismatic chef whose organic raw vegan restaurant Gorilla Food has taken Vancouver by storm for its inventive and delicious dishes, all prepared without the use of animal products or a stove. Aaron is a conscientious raw vegan whose beliefs about food are tied to personal and social well-being. Gorilla... + Read More
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Series: Hello, Cutie! Adventures in Cute Culture Paperback Pamela Klaffke 9781551524726 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 21, 2012

A doe-eyed doll, a smiley-faced cupcake, a sweet plush kitten: they're cute--and cute is at the heart of a growing legion of adult collectors and enthusiasts who live and breathe all things cuddly and adorable. Pamela Klaffke, author of Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping and herself an avid collector of cute since she was a child, takes readers on a rainbow-and-unicorn-filled journey through cute culture, from its origins in Japan where teenaged girls help drive the "cute" economy, to its modern-day manifestations in the bubblegum-coloured ... + Read More
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Series: Hoopla The Art of Unexpected Embroidery Paperback Leanne Prain 9781551524061 $29.95 USD CRAFTS & HOBBIES Sep 01, 2011

A Library Journal Best Book of the YearAlcuin Society Book Design Award winner (1st place, reference books)Hoopla, by the co-author of the bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti, showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it's never gone before, in an astonishing full-colour display of embroidered art. Hoopla rebels against the quaint and familiar embroidery motifs of flowers and swashes, and focuses instead on innovative stitch artists who specialize on unusual, guerrilla-style patterns such as needlepoint nip... + Read More
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Series: How It All Began The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla New edition Paperback Michael (Bommi) Baumann 9780889780453 $19.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 01, 1977

How It All Began is the personal testimony of Michael "Bommi" Baumann, a man who, in the late 1960s and early '70s, was a member of the June 2nd Movement, one of the most spectacular urban guerrilla organizations in West Berlin.Of this book, Baumann said: "Others should understand why people take the road of armed struggle, how they come to it, how the seeds are planted, and what the emotions behind it are, what kind of considerations and psychic preconditions are needed to overcome the fear involved." But Baumann, ultimately, had to make a c... + Read More
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Series: How It All Vegan! Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet Paperback Tanya Barnard 9781551520674 $22.95 COOKING Sep 01, 1999

Sarah and Tanya are long-time friends and self-described "lazy vegetarians" whose love of animals made them want to completely eliminate animal products from their diet. Their decision to "go vegan" was a challenge not only to their palate but to their way of thinking about food and nutrition. With some imagination and a little know-how, the transition to a vegan lifestyle can be painless. And as Sarah and Tanya demonstrate in How It All Vegan!, vegan food is fabulous food, full of flavour and all the nutrients you need. Two-colour throughout,... + Read More
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Series: How It All Vegan! 10th Anniversary Edition Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet 10th Anniversary Edition Paperback Sarah Kramer 9781551522531 $24.95 COOKING Aug 03, 2009

As seen on "Canada A.M." Since it was first published in 1999, How It All Vegan! has become a bible for vegan cooks, both diehard and newly converted; its basic introduction to the tenets of vegan living and eating, combined with Sarah and Tanya's winning charm, made it an essential cookbook for anyone considering eschewing animal products from their diet. It won VegNews' Veggie Award for Best Cookbook twice, has been reprinted fourteen times, and spawned several successful sequels (including The Garden of Vegan, La Dolce Vegan, and Vegan à Go... + Read More
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Series: How Poetry Saved My Life A Hustler's Memoir Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551525006 $17.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2013

Vancouver Book Award winner; Lambda Literary Award finalist A memoir about sex work and sexuality, and how writing became the author's lifeline. Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical underworld, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2011. How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape--the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This story, tol... + Read More
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Series: I am a Red Dress Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter Paperback Anna Camilleri 9781551521633 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2004

In I Am a Red Dress, acclaimed writer and performer Anna Camilleri confronts the ghosts of her past as she seeks to find her rightful place in the world. Part memoir, part storytelling, Anna writes with passion and conviction about family and identity, and how the wounds of personal history can be healed through the imagination. These eloquent stories and narratives speak to the heart of three generations of women--Anna, her mother, and her grandmother--as they dealt with a cycle of family abuse; in them, the red dress appears as a symbol of d... + Read More
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Series: I Like It Like That True Stories of Gay Male Desire Paperback Richard Labonte 9781551522593 $18.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2009

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Shortlisted for a TLA Gaybie Award (Best Gay Erotica) From the editors of the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer come these intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men's desire. The stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life, featuring contributors both novice and well-known; subject matter ranges from single, significant encounters to the ephemera of emotional desires that never lead to physical pleasure. Throughout, the book deals with the essential erotics of queer male life, to be used as a la... + Read More
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Series: I, Shithead A Life in Punk Paperback Joe Keithley 9781551521480 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2003

Joe Keithley, aka Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978. Punk kings who spread counterculture around the world, they've been cited as influences by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Rancid, and The Offspring, and have toured with The Clash, The Ramones, The Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Nirvana, PiL, Minor Threat, and others, and are the subject of two tribute albums. But punk is more than a style of music: it's a political act, and D.O.A. have always had a social conscience, having performed in support of Greenpeace, women... + Read More
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Series: Ice and Fire Dispatches From the New World, 1988-1998 Paperback Stephen Osborne 9781551520612 $17.95 TRAVEL Oct 01, 1998

Ice and Fire is a collection of nonfiction narratives from award-winning writer Stephen Osborne, who retains an abiding sense that the places and the people he encounters are still to be discovered. Negotiating the Trans-Canada Highway near Moncton during a whiteout, visiting Timothy Eaton's grave in Toronto, leaving offerings of tobacco at a Nez Perce battleground, drinking with his Japanese mentor in a revolving bar in Vancouver while debating Buddhism vs. class struggle--for Osborne, all of these are occasions to conjure our time and our p... + Read More
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Series: Imagining Ourselves Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction Paperback Daniel Francis 9781551520001 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 01, 1994

Imagining Ourselves gathers together selections from Canadian non-fiction books that in some way have had a major impact on how we view ourselves as Canadians, revealing how the national identity has been shaped and informed by the written word. Included are selections from such well-known Canadian books as Wild Animals I Have Known (Ernest Thomas Seton), Pilgrims of the Wild (Grey Owl), Klee Wyck (Emily Carr), The Game (Ken Dryden), Renegade in Power (Peter C. Newman), Survival (Margaret Atwood), and The Last Spike (Pierre Berton).
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Series: In a Queer Country Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context Paperback Terry Goldie 9781551521053 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2001

In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not fractured and fraught with the contradictions of place, privilege, race, and gender. In a Queer Country is a groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post... + Read More
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Series: It Pays to Play British Columbia in Postcards, 1950s-1980s Paperback Peter White 9781551520377 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 1996

Co-published with Presentation House Gallery, It Pays to Play: British Columbia in Postcards, 1950s--1980s reveals the province as it was represented in popular, photographic colour postcards from the early '50s through to the emergence in the '80s of the present post-industrial, global economy. Following the Second World War, North America underwent a sustained period of extraordinary economic and social transformation. With its remarkable physical diversity and beauty, excellent climate and abundant resources, British Columbia was particular... + Read More
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Series: Judgement at Stoney Creek New edition Paperback Bridget Moran 9781551520537 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 01, 1990

Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC. The resulting inquest into what might have been just another small-town tragedy turned into an inquiry of racial tensions, both implicit and explicit, that surfaced not only on country backroads but in the courtroom as well, revealing a dual system o... + Read More
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Series: La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy Paperback Sarah Kramer 9781551521879 $24.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2005

Sarah Kramer is a vegan cooking superstar. Her first two books, How It All Vegan! and The Garden of Vegan, co-authored with Tanya Barnard, have sold well over 110,000 copies; both won the Veggie Award for favorite cookbook of 2003 and 2004 by VegNews magazine, and Herbivore magazine, in a cover story on Sarah, called her "The World's Coolest Vegan." Sarah returns with her first solo cookbook, featuring more of the delectable, easy-to-prepare recipes that vegans around the world have come to adore. For Sarah, vegan cooking--which eschews all ani... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Law of Desire A Queer Film Classic Paperback Jose Quiroga 9781551522623 $15.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2009

Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodovar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director. The film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director (played by Eusebio Poncela); his sister, an actress who was once his brother (Carmen Maura); and a repressed,obsessive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas). In the thirty-plus years since its first release, Law of Desire ha... + Read More
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Series: LD Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver Paperback Daniel Francis 9781551521565 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2004

LD is the colourful biography of Louis Taylor, the longest-serving mayor in Vancouver's history; he was first elected mayor in 1910, and served off and on until 1934, for a total of eleven years. Taylor's story is also the story of Vancouver in the early decades of the 20th century, a young city experiencing a turbulent adolescence. Louis Taylor, or LD as he was known, arrived in Vancouver from Chicago in 1896 at the age of 39. He got involved in the newspaper business, first as an executive with The Daily Province, then as proprietor of The W... + Read More
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Series: Let Me Kiss It Better Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow Paperback Billeh Nickerson 9781551521251 $16.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2002

Billeh Nickerson tells it like it is: a wry and at times outrageous chronicler of contemporary gay life, written for those who can take it like a man, or at least read about it without squirming. In these charming and very funny essays, Billeh writes with disarming sweetness about love, sex, relationships, and subjects that might even make the women of Sex in the City blanch with embarrassment. On occasion, Billeh is a Miss Manners for our times: after all, what would you do if you saw a friend at a nude beach who had toilet paper stuck to hi... + Read More
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Series: Liquor, Lust, and the Law The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551524887 $24.95 USD HISTORY Oct 15, 2012

BC Book Prize finalist Few Vancouver nightspots evoke such a fabled history as the Penthouse Nightclub. The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse was opened in 1947 by brothers Joe, Ross, Mickey, and Jimmy Filippone and soon became the place to see and be seen in Vancouver in the 1950s and '60s. Acts like Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, and Duke Ellington regularly performed on the Penthouse stage, and the venue was one of the few in town not only to welcome African American entertainers, but to house them as well,... + Read More
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Series: Luck of the Draw True-Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers Paperback Chris Gudgeon 9781551520827 $17.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 01, 2000

Money. Gobs of it. In the blink of an eye - or the drop of a ball-- it's all yours. Everyone dreams about striking it rich by winning a lottery. We all feverishly line up to purchase our tickets, and watch TV or scan the newspapers to see if we have won, even though the odds are better that we will be struck by lightning. Still, we perservere, because no matter what else happens this week, you can be sure that someone, somewhere, will win the big one. Lotteries are an unparalleled popular phenomenon. But what happens after the winners are ... + Read More
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Series: Lust Unearthed Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection Paperback Thomas Waugh 9781551521657 $29.95 ART Nov 01, 2004

On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning book Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Thomas Waugh offers more historical and erotically charged drawings, depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view. The over 200, never-before-published images in Lust Unearthed are from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, a Hollywood costume and set designer (his work included George Cukor's 1939 film The Women) who died in 2002 at the age of 87, and whose estate included a wealth of erotic m... + Read More
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Series: Modern Native Feasts Healthy, Innovative, Sustainable Cuisine Paperback Andrew George Jr. 9781551525075 $23.95 COOKING Oct 10, 2013

Contemporary, imaginative interpretations of First Nations cuisine, including lighter, healthier, and more nutritious versions of traditional recipes. Native American cuisine comes of age in this elegant, contemporary collection that reinterprets and updates traditional Native recipes with modern, healthy twists. Andrew George Jr. was head chef for Aboriginal foods at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver; his imaginative menus reflect the diverse new culinary landscape while being mindful of an ages-old reverence for the land and sea, reflect... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Montreal Main A Queer Film Classic Paperback Thomas Waugh 9781551523644 $14.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 01, 2010

Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's bohemian neighborhood "The Main" and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie film and a great queer film; a fascinating cinema vérité take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s, about a twentysomething photographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main, and his growing obsession with Johnny, ... + Read More
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Series: National Dreams Myth, Memory, and Canadian History Paperback Daniel Francis 9781551520438 $22.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 1997

As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense of national identity: the fundamental beliefs that we Canadians hold about ourselves. National Dreams is the story of our stories; the myths and truths of our collective past that we first learned in school, and which we carry throughout our adult liv... + Read More
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Series: NESA Activities Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 2 Paperback Don Sawyer 9780889782303 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 1991

This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible. The Native Education Services Associates are a group of teaching professionals with extensive experience in Native and multicultural education. Their materials provide educators with meaningful and appropriate culturally-based learning... + Read More
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Series: NESA Activities Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 3 Paperback Don Sawyer 9780889782631 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 01, 1991

This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible. The Native Education Services Associates are a group of teaching professionals with extensive experience in Native and multicultural education. Their materials provide educators with meaningful and appropriate culturally-based learning r... + Read More
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Series: New World Provence Modern French Cooking for Friends and Family Paperback Alessandra Quaglia 9781551522234 $31.95 COOKING Nov 15, 2007

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Cooking category. French cuisine is considered among the world's best, but its traditional ingredients like butter and cream aren't always appropriate for today's heart-healthy diets. New World Provence, by the proprietor-chefs of the esteemed restaurants Provence Mediterranean Grill and Provence Marinaside in Vancouver, is a new-style French cookbook designed for contemporary North American audiences, featuring healthy, easy-to-find ingredients prepared using traditional French tech... + Read More
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Series: New York: The Unknown City Paperback Brad Dunn 9781551521619 $22.95 TRAVEL Oct 01, 2004

It's been said that if you can't find it in New York City, you can't find it anywhere, and that's probably true: rightly so, New York is one of the world's great cities, if not the greatest of them all. But even the most diehard New Yorker will delight in the pleasures and discoveries to be found in New York: The Unknown City, which unlocks a treasure chest of Gotham secrets, some dark, some light, and some just plain weird. This guidebook--for residents and visitors alike--will tell you where the bodies are buried, and where others have been d... + Read More
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Series: O-bon in Chimunesu A Community Remembered Paperback Catherine Lang 9781551520360 $15.95 USD HISTORY Oct 01, 1996

O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered is a moving tribute to a community of Japanese-Canadians and the way they lived their lives. Prior to the Second World War, when Canada's official policy of internment changed the lives of Japanese-Canadians forever, the Vancouver Island town of Chemainus ("Chimunesu") was home to a thriving Japanese-Canadian community, whose members struggled to adapt to the difficulties of life in a new country, while at the same time keeping their own traditions alive. During the war, Japanese-Canadians on the west... + Read More
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Series: One Ring Circus Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues Paperback Brian Howell 9781551521329 $19.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2002

Disco Fury. Wrathchild. Bam-Bam Bambi. Ladies Choice. Backyard Billy. Cheerleader Melissa. Backwoods Militia. Gorgeous Michelle Starr. Welcome to the world of minor-league professional wrestling. For the past two decades, wrestling has enjoyed a huge following that has grown from cult status to one of the entertainment world's most lucrative industries, over the years creating mega-stars out of wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Chynna, and The Rock. But for every WWF superstar there are countless wanna-be's: pretenders to wrestling's various thrones... + Read More
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Series: One Thousand Beards A Cultural History of Facial Hair Paperback Allan Peterkin 9781551521077 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2001

As seen in Time Magazine, Esquire, and The New Yorker! Every man has the capacity to grow facial hair, but the decision to do so has always come with layers of meaning. Facial hair has traditionally marked a passage into manhood, but its various manifestations have been determined by class, religious belief, historical precedent, and occupational status. Beards have at one time or another come to represent wisdom, goodness, sorcery, diabolism, psychological depth, and revolution; they have been purchased, elaborately trimmed, adorned, and dyed,... + Read More
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Series: One Thousand Mustaches A Cultural History of the Mo Paperback Allan Peterkin 9781551524740 $12.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2012

The 'stache is back! After decades of being much maligned in Western culture, the mustache is enjoying a cultural renaissance, thanks to the annual phenomenon of Movember (the international campaign in which men grow facial hair during the month of November to raise funds for prostate cancer research; in 2011, 1.8 million men in fourteen countries participated), and the retro/modern mo's sported by the likes of Ryan Gosling, Ashton Kutcher, and James Franco. Shaving companies are offering new-fangled mustache groomers, and even Dr Seuss's musta... + Read More
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Series: Only a Beginning An Anarchist Anthology Paperback Allan Antliff 9781551521671 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2004

Drawing on a wide-range of anarchist publications, Only a Beginning is the first comprehensive overview of anarchist theory and practice in North America from 1976 to the present. Compiled and edited by Allan Antliff, it documents over a quarter-century of grassroots activism, including protests and gatherings, art exhibitions, street theatre, Internet sites, and squats, as well as environmental and anti-globalization protests, the rise of anarchist-feminism, the fight for queer rights, indigenous struggles, and prisoners' liberation. In today'... + Read More