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1.
Series: Chinese Chamber Music Paperback Fred Candelaria 9780921870029 $9.95 POETRY Jan 16, 1989

Fred Candelaria's sixth collection of poetry, Chinese Chamber Music, evokes a world of tradition, art and great ceremony, a world that excites "blinded touch" and that leads readers "to read the unwritten." These poems present the world as music, not as problems to be solved. Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Candelaria founded and then edited The West Coast Review for nearly a quarter of a century.
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Series: Abbey Selections 1959-1989 Paperback Lloyd Abbey 9780921870043 $12.95 POETRY Jan 16, 1989

This selected edition contains the strongest and most comprehensive collection of Lloyd Abbey's work to date. Writing frequently about animals and insects, Abbey takes us inside their consciousness, allowing us to see anew the world through their eyes. Author of the best-selling novel The Last Whales, Abbey is emerging as a major talent in Canadian literature.
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Series: Light Like a Summons Paperback Mary Choo 9780921870067 $12.95 POETRY Jan 16, 1989

"I recommend this book to you. It is a book of poetry whose authorship is plural, but I hesitate to call it an anthology because of certain conventions which the mention of the term causes the reader to expect. This is a book whose mythic spectrum is broad. Very. I took on the project as editor because the body of work presented me by publisher and the five poets was various, superb, and challenging. See what you think." - J. Michael Yates
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Series: Torpor Paperback J. Michael Yates 9780921870005 $12.95 FICTION Mar 16, 1989

The companion volume to Torque, Torpor is J. Michael Yates' second masterful collection of prose fiction. These compelling, often surreal works reveal a cryptic yet beautiful world in which nothing can be taken for granted.
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Series: Dog Star Paperback Harold Enrico 9780921870104 $12.95 POETRY Jun 16, 1990

Harold Enrico's third collection of poetry continues the tone and rhythm of the great European masters while employing the tough, strong imagery of the Pacific Northwest.
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Series: Raking Zen Furrows Paperback Inge Israel 9780921870050 $10.95 POETRY Jan 16, 1991

In her fourth volume of poetry, Inge Israel takes the reader on a journey deep into contemporary Japan. She depicts the conflict between the consumerism of industrial life and the luminosity of age-old ceremonies. In the end, the delicate, lyric qualities of Israel's poems re-establish the patterns of Zen.
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Series: Devious Dictionary, A Paperback Robin Skelton 9780921870074 $12.95 FICTION Jan 16, 1991

In this collection of witty and trenchant aphorisms, Robin Skelton draws on the cynicism of La Rochefoucauld, the Aufklärung insights of Lichtenberg and the devillish wiles of Ambrose Bierce to provide Canada with its own Devious Dictionary. Once again, Skelton proves himself to be a wizard of language. Illustrated with Ludwig Zeller's art collages.
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Series: Daymares Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time Paperback Robert Zend 9780921870128 $12.95 FICTION Apr 16, 1991

Robert Zend's eleventh book continues his wonderfully surreal explorations of the mind trapped in the paradoxes of time and space. This posthumous edition includes a Foreword by John Robert Colombo and an Afterword by Northrop Frye.
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Series: Gravity & Light Paperback Margaret Blackwood 9780921870098 $12.95 POETRY Nov 16, 1991

Poems that are, in turn, meditative, acerbic and raunchy. These three women lighten the gravity of everyday matters with their sympathetic intelligence.
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Series: Learning to Breathe Paperback Richard Stevenson 9780921870111 $10.95 POETRY May 16, 1992

In Learning to Breathe, Richard Stevenson wrestles the male muse; he acknowledges rape, emasculation, torture, and attempts to reconcile the lot of the sons of Cain to the roles of prodigal fathers. Each of the lyrics, serial narratives, and dramatic monologues asks the question: How can our children become fathers to the men we are now?
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Series: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair Paperback Jancis Andrews 9780921870135 $12.95 FICTION May 16, 1992

All the characters in this new collection of short stories are "letting down their hair," allowing us to glimpse the extraordinary pains and passions that simmer beneath the surface of so-called ordinary men and women.
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Series: Worlds in Small Paperback John Robert Colombo 9780921870142 $12.95 FICTION Sep 16, 1992

Worlds in Small comprises the world's first collection of minimalist short stories, with a long preface and brief commentaries by the "master gatherer," John Robert Colombo. Each miniature is less than fifty words. Believe it or not, a few have no words at all. Through the magic of minimalism, we watch as something/everything comes of nothing.
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Series: Sudden Proclamations Paperback Jerry Newman 9780921870159 $10.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1992

As a novelist, Jerry Newman has long enjoyed a distinguished reputation for his wide-ranging characterizations of individuals caught in social and political webs. Now in Sudden Proclamations, his first collection of poetry, Newman situates the reader within the shadowy, mind-lit inner world. Daring to show that human savagery knows no bottom line, Newman also affirms that love permits no upper limit. These poems depict the heart as it calls out to its children, its lovers, itself.
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Series: Unmarked Doors Paperback Inge Israel 9780921870166 $10.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1992

In this rich collection of new poems, Inge Israel draws upon the many voices of her past - Russian, German, Danish, Irish, French and English - to open some of history's unmarked doors. Among her most powerful recreations is that of Nora Joyce, in a dramatic monologue that shows us her famous husband in a wholly new light.
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Series: Cuthbert and the Merpeople Paperback Kathy Mezei 9780921870180 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 16, 1992

Kathy Mezei tells a delightful story of Cuthbert (son of Nellie of Loch Ness), who swims via the Northwest Passage to Hornby Island, off the British Columbia coast, where, in the deep sea caverns, and much to the terror of the local Merpeople, he takes up residence. A tale filled with adventure and great tenderness, one that brings the adventures of summer to life all year round.
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Series: Preludes & Fugues Paperback Fred Candelaria 9780921870197 $10.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1992

Fred Candelaria is the poet's poet. His language becomes pure music, taking the reader beyond the empirical world of represented objects into the "phenomenal."
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Series: Popping Fuchsias Paperback Robin Skelton 9780921870203 $12.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1992

This impressive collection of new poems shows us Skelton stepping out in a new direction. Moving easily between free verse and closed forms (villanelles, sestinas, sonnets, rondeaus, and even arcane Welsh forms), Skelton addresses family, friends and readers everywhere to create a poetry of presence, a communion through language, in the face of a darkening world.
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Series: East Wind Blows West, The Paperback George Jonas 9780921870081 $12.95 POETRY May 16, 1993

"Jonas has long been my favorite poet writing in English. . . . No one is better than George Jonas at taking the world around us in its populous dimensions and allowing its facets to reveal unknown lights." - J. Michael Yates
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Series: Black Light Paperback Ron Shaw 9780921870173 $12.95 FICTION May 16, 1993

"Ron Shaw is the finest new fictioneer I have seen in a long time. Black Light is a superb collection; it displays Shaw's amazing ability to occupy black and white skins and cultures simultaneously." - J. Michael Yates
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Series: Nicolette Paperback Robert Zend 9780921870210 $12.95 FICTION Sep 16, 1993

In this posthumous work, Robert Zend bends and often breaks every rule of layout and poetic convention. His text takes us into a time warp across two continents as his obsessive love for Nicolette, the unconquered muse, defies fate and gives birth to Nicolette, the book.. Zend was a prolific writer in both English and Hungarian. His collections of poetry have received the attention of both Jorge Luis Borges and Northrop Frye.
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Series: Phantoms in the Ark Paperback Al Moritz 9780921870227 $12.95 POETRY Jan 16, 1994

Together and apart, the poet A. F. Moritz and the artist Ludwig Zeller enact the search for meaning within a shattered mechanical universe. The poem is present as well in a Spanish translation by Susana Wald, who has also conducted an interview with the poet and artist.
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Series: Out of the Interior The Lost Country Paperback Harold Rhenisch 9780921870234 $12.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 16, 1994

Extending the form of autobiography, Rhenisch explores the immigrant experience in the orchard gardens of the Okanagan. The search for paradise in the new land, its discovery and loss, are portrayed through the experiences of a young boy struggling against the authoritarianism of patriarchy. This is a book that helps to fill a gap in the history of twentieth-century British Columbia. Prose of unrivalled intensity and beauty.
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Series: a cappella Selected and New Poems Paperback Anne McKay 9780921870241 $10.95 POETRY Jun 16, 1994

These poems employ the short lyric as it derives from the haiku tradition. Through progressions of image clusters, Anne Mckay captures states of experience that elude the conscious mind: "but young / was there / . . . and heat / hung with scarlet hurry / and gates forgotten / under sly and hunting moons / of summer hurting." A high point of the collection is the sequence celebrating the life and paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Series: Living Rivers Living Rivers of British Columbia, The (Vol 1) Volume 1 Paperback Gordon Davies 9780921870258 $12.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Jun 16, 1994

Gordon Davies is one of British Columbia's foremost anglers and outdoor story writers. In Living Rivers, Davies tells of fishing the great rivers of British Columbia. More than a book of fishing stories, Living Rivers also serves as a guide. Each chapter includes photographs, directions to the river and to the best fishing locations, the types of fish in the river, and the best ways to catch them. In sharing the lore and wisdom acquired from a lifetime of fishing, Davies may well proveto be Canada's Izaak Walton.
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Series: Notes on a Prison Wall Paperback Nicholas Catanoy 9780921870265 $10.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1994

In these poems, Nicholas Catanoy recreates the diary that he kept as a young cadet in Romania when he was imprisoned by the invading Russians. Taken out three times to be executed, Catanoy was one of the few from among the 200 prisoners to survive the random executions. After being released, Catanoy recreated in this memoir the impact of being a prisoner of the 20th-century's various 'isms. The text comprises two different voices, and is filled with found-poetry quotations and the poet's own aphoristic reflections. Catanoy breaks down the old ... + Read More
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Series: Dementia Americana Paperback Keith Maillard 9780921870289 $10.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1994

As the title implies, Dementia Americana is about the craziness of America. In what he describes as "the most personal writing I have ever done," Keith Maillard meditates upon the implications for private life of the two most bizarre wars of our time: the Gulf War and the Vietnam War. Working within traditional closed forms, but stretching them to their limits, Maillard recreates the effect of the past and the persistence of dream in the public arena.
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Series: Blackouts to Bright Lights Canadian War Bride Stories Paperback Barbara Ladouceur 9780921870333 $21.95 HISTORY Apr 16, 1995

These Canadian war bride stories recount one of the great untold epics of World War II. Approximately 48,000 British and European women married Canadian servicemen during the war and made the adventurous crossing from "blackouts to bright lights." In time for the 50th anniversary of the end of war, Barbara Ladouceur and Phyllis Spence interviewed over thirty war brides and recorded their individual stories.
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Series: Frankie Zapper and the Disappearing Teacher Paperback Linda Rogers 9780921870272 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION May 16, 1995

In a warm-hearted novel with over 40 illustrations, Linda Rogers and Rick Van Krugel have created a magical children's book that will appeal especially to young readers aged 6 to 13. The story tells of Jen and Odie who discover that their First Nations friend Frankie Zapper possesses magic, shamanistic powers. When their teacher, Mr. Smith, hurts Odie's feelings by making fun of his learning disability, strange things happen. This is a mystery story about friendship and loyalty, and three kids who stick together when they have problems with the... + Read More
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Series: Clayoquot & Dissent Paperback Ron Hatch 9780921870296 $19.95 NATURE May 16, 1995

A comprehensive account of Clayoquot Sound and the protest movement: rainforest ecosystems; the April 1993 land-use decision; co-opted forestry science; the Peace Camp and the Blockades; civil disobedience; the police, the courts and the corporations; environmental rights; ongoing logging violations in 1994 (with photos).
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Series: Burning Stone Paperback Zoe Landale 9780921870319 $10.95 POETRY May 16, 1995

In her third book, Zoë Landale explores the darkened rooms of family myth and history. Focusing on family members from the past - matrons, suicides and brilliant eccentrics - she investigates their lives and the shadowy but potent power they exert over the present.
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Series: Ten Mondays for Lots of Boxes Paperback Sue Ann Alderson 9780921870326 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 16, 1995

Summertime, and moving time. A bittersweet time for "Lots of Boxes." But as he pragmatically tells his mother, all their belongings will fit inside his box collection, and the moving will be easy. The hard part will be to see if the new house with three apple trees will be a home like the old house with twin plum trees. Over 10 Mondays, "Lots of Boxes" explores his neighbourhood and makes a new friend. Together they plant a garden and join forces with the Wandering Blue-Eyed Glumfy. When his playmate "Easy as Pie" comes over for a visit, and t... + Read More
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Series: Edge of Time, The Paperback Robin Skelton 9780921870340 $12.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1995

In celebration of his 70th birthday, Ronsdale Press is pleased to release Robin Skelton's The Edge of Time. In this new collection of poems, Skelton walks the edge, looking forwards and backwards. Meditating on roads taken and not taken, he employs his poetic gift to consider our relation to time: how we are both immersed in it, and yet able to step through to other dimensions. One of Canada's finest translators, Skelton also includes a series of translations of such international modernist masters as Rilke, Baudelaire, and Yuli Daniel.
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Series: Two Shores / Deux rives Paperback Thuong Vuong-Riddick 9780921870357 $14.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1995

Two Shores is the first collection of poetry in English by a Vietnamese immigrant to the West. Born in Hanoi in 1940 and then moving to Saigon in 1954, Thuong Vuong-Riddick first describes life in Vietnam under the influence of the Japanese, the Chinese, the Vietminh, the French, and the Americans, as well as the difficulties of living through "the big Hunger." In the second part of the book, she deals with her second shore, her life as an immigrant: first in Paris where she experienced the student revolution of May 1968; then in Montreal wher... + Read More
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Series: Seventh Circle, The Paperback Benet Davetian 9780921870388 $14.95 FICTION Jan 16, 1996

Benet Davetian's starkly moving stories portray individuals enmeshed in social and political upheavals not of their own choosing: an innocent Somali farmer struggles to survive famine and war; a Serb sniper faces a bizarre opportunity to redeem himself; a Rwandan Hutu is forced to choose between his own life and those of his Tutsi in-laws; and an immigrant is detained in a Paris airport for six years. Developing incidents from his own experience in some of the world's most troubled countries, Davetian invests his stories with the lived feel of... + Read More
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Series: Long, Long Ago Paperback Robin Skelton 9780921870364 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 16, 1996

In this delightful collection of animal fables, Robin Skelton transports young readers back to long long ago - an ancient and fabulous time. These humorous stories offer solutions to such difficult questions as "Why does the ostrich bury its head in the ground?" and "Why does the rabbit have no voice?" These are stories that will take children into a wonderful world of fantasy and yet - as always with Skelton - the tales have unexpected endings. Pamela Breeze Currie's engaging pen-and-ink drawings capture the spirit of Skelton's witty fables.
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Series: Molly Brown is Not a Clown Paperback Linda Rogers 9780921870395 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION May 16, 1996

Once again Linda Rogers and Rick Van Krugel have teamed up to create a zany adventure story. Molly Brown's mum is a clown, but Molly longs desperately for normalcy, including ordinary dinners and regular hours. And most of all, Molly longs for her vanished father. Molly's frenetic search for her missing father draws her Chinese-Canadian friend Trouper into an adventure that leaves readers laughing over the duo's escapades, appalled at the risks desperate children undertake, and moved by the love that ultimately binds friends and family togethe... + Read More
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Series: Civilized Revolution, A Paperback Gordon Wilson 9780921870401 $14.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 16, 1996

In A Civilized Revolution, Gordon Wilson outlines, clearly and trenchantly, the changes necessary if British Columbia is to prosper in the 21st century. Central to Wilson's vision is a new approach to the management of our natural resources that keeps wealth within our province by directing the bounty of our forests, farms, mines and ocean to local mills, processors, and value-added industries. Wilson argues that Canada's crucial social programmes can be retained with a modified delivery system.
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Series: Living Rivers Living Rivers of British Columbia and the Yukon, The (Vol 2) Volume 2 Paperback Gordon Davies 9780921870371 $14.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Jun 16, 1996

The second volume of Gordon Davies' collection of stories features the rivers of British Columbia and the Yukon. Travelling from the turbulent Yukon in the far north to the streams flowing into Washington State, Davies acts as a guide to fisher and non-fisher alike. The avid fisherman will find information about the types of fish in each river as well as suggestions as to the best lures and bait. The non-fisherman will find a wealth of material about the life of the rivers and interesting sites along their banks. With its many maps, lists of d... + Read More
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Series: Take My Words A Wordaholic's Guide to the English Language Paperback Howard Richler 9780921870425 $14.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Jun 16, 1996

In this lively and informative book, Howard Richler imparts his fascination with the richness of the language which is fast becoming the globe's newest lingua franca. Filled with surprises about the language we use everyday, Take My Words offers information about the history of words, their shifting meanings, and the essential playfulness of language. Richler includes chapters on puns, palindromes and malapropisms, and develops a series of entertaining puzzles, quizzes and word games to challenge the reader's skills. Take My Words also include... + Read More
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Series: White Linen Remembered Paperback Marya Fiamengo 9780921870418 $11.95 POETRY Aug 16, 1996

Marya Fiamengo is one of Canada's truly fine poets. For nearly four decades, she has been publishing poetry of unusual distinctiveness. Intelligent, richly evocative, formidable in its clarity, lyrical and yet austere, the voice in Fiamengo's poems is like no other in Canadian poetry. White Linen Remembered, her seventh collection, expresses her concern for the continued vitality of the individual, and does so, paradoxically, within an elegiac frame. Invoking the power of art to console and heal in the face of the inevitables of human loss, Fi... + Read More
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Series: Making of a Grey Panther, The Paperback Derrick Humphreys 9780921870449 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 16, 1997

The Derrick Humphreys Story is a superb biography, a life of adventure that begins in Dickensian England before World War I, then moves to the Western Australian mining frontier of the 1930s and '40s, with excursions into the New Guinea campaign in World War II, the De Beers' South African diamond empire, a foreign aid project in Brazil and the rebuilding of the townsite at Churchill, Manitoba in the mid-1970s. For many years Derrick Humphreys was the mayor of West Vancouver. His memoir of life in office offers the finest published account to ... + Read More
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Series: Rifts in the Visible/Felures dans le visible Paperback Inge Israel 9780921870456 $14.95 POETRY Feb 16, 1997

In this collection of poems written in English and French parallel versions, Inge Israel evokes the life and work of Russian-born painter Chaim Soutine. Living and starving alongside his artist friends Modigliani, Chagall, Lipschitz and others on the Left Bank in the 1920s, Soutine was acclaimed by them as the expressionist par excellence. These poems penetrate his haunting yet strangely life-affirming work, reflecting the wildness, ecstasy and despair of the human condition. Included are eight colour reproductions of Soutine's paintings.
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Series: Daruma Days Paperback Terry Watada 9780921870432 $14.95 FICTION Mar 16, 1997

Set in the internment camps of the British Columbia interior during World War II, Terry Watada's Daruma Days captures the Japanese Canadian experience of imprisonment. Watada draws on the accounts of people who lived through the camps, often speaking with the voices of the issei and nisei, to portray the camps as haunted by demonic forces, the inhabitants caught between two worlds: the cultures of Japan and Canada.
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Series: Hong Kong Poems Paperback Andrew Parkin 9780921870463 $14.95 POETRY Mar 16, 1997

Hong Kong Poems is the first-ever collection of poems about Hong Kong in parallel English and Chinese texts. Appearing in the year when Hong Kong returns to Chinese sovereignty, this collection offers insights into what Hong Kong was and is on the edge of becoming. Parkin and Wong speak of the dynamism of Hong Kong, of a city where the present meets the future. As well, they depict the "astronauts" with their families in Canada and their businesses in Hong Kong. They also evoke the feelings of the poor who are leaving the countryside for the dr... + Read More
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Series: Hamatsa The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific NW Coast Paperback Jim McDowell 9780921870470 $21.95 HISTORY Mar 16, 1997

For more the 200 years, controversy has simmered over the subject of cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast. So heated has the topic become that many scholars have hesitated to engage in the debate. Now, using an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural approach, historian Jim McDowell offers a comprehensive study of cannibalism on the coast. Beginning with the many supposed "man-eating" incidents recorded by European and American explorers and traders who visited Nootka Sound between 1744 and 1884, McDowell shows how the accounts were coloured by... + Read More
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Series: Willobe of Wuzz Paperback Sandra Glaze 9780921870487 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Aug 16, 1997

"Wuzz is a place not far from here. It's like here. Almost." Thus begins Willobe of Wuzz, the coming-of-age story of a dragon like no other - a dragon who uses his fire power to bake rather than burn, and who'd rather paint pictures than fight with knights. When Willobe wins the friendship of Princess Emily the Resourceful, a major flare-up with his grandfather Cedric results, and a fiery family secret is inadvertently revealed. Estranged from his family, Willobe withdraws to the mountains of Wuzz. Here he often feels, but is not in fact, alon... + Read More
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Series: Modern Korean Verse in Sijo Form Paperback Jaihiun Kim 9780921870494 $16.95 POETRY Aug 16, 1997

A decade in the making, Jaihiun Kim's Modern Korean Verse in Sijo Form offers what will be the twentieth century's definitive collection of sijo. Kim begins with the work of Nam-son Ch'oe in the early 20th century and brings the collection up to date with recent poems from Chi-yob Yi and P'il-gon Kim. Similar to the Japanese haiku in its brevity and imagery, Korean sijo has shown itself to be remarkably responsive to contemporary concerns. Employing the modern idiom but retaining a hint of Eastern tonality, Kim offers Westerners a rich and rar... + Read More
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Series: Second Earth, A Paperback Harold Enrico 9780921870531 $14.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1997

Harold Enrico is a rare poet who combines the deepest traditions of our history, our spirituality, with the colourful imagery of the Pacific Northwest. He has been hailed as a major poetic voice by George Woodcock, praised by Theodore Roethke, and selected by Poetry Chicago and Choice magazine. A Second Earth contains the finest poems from his three earlier collections - Now, A Thousand Years from Now, Rip Current and Dog Star - along with a substantial section of new poems.
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Series: Holding One's Time in Thought The Political Philosophy of W.J. Stankiewicz Hardcover Bogdan Czaykowski 9780921870517 $37.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 16, 1997

This collection of essays evolved from a colloquium held at the University of British Columbia in 1995 to honour the eminent political scientist and aphorist W.J. Stankiewicz. A theorist and consultant on political decisions, Stankiewicz has been noted for his ability to bring the classical concepts of political science into the decision-making rooms of everyday political action. He has written on concepts such as democracy, ideology, liberalism, equality and justice, authority and sovereignty, violence and social change, property and happiness... + Read More
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Series: Holding One's Time in Thought The Political Philosophy of W.J. Stankiewicz Paperback Bogdan Czaykowski 9780921870524 $18.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 16, 1997

This collection of essays evolved from a colloquium held at the University of British Columbia in 1995 to honour the eminent political scientist and aphorist W.J. Stankiewicz. A theorist and consultant on political decisions, Stankiewicz has been noted for his ability to bring the classical concepts of political science into the decision-making rooms of everyday political action. He has written on concepts such as democracy, ideology, liberalism, equality and justice, authority and sovereignty, violence and social change, property and happiness... + Read More
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Series: Pnina Granirer Portrait of an Artist Paperback Ted Lindberg 9780921870548 $39.95 ART Mar 16, 1998

In Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist Ted Lindberg captures the development in life and art of one of Canada's finest painters. Over the past forty years Pnina Granirer has been exploring and extending her perception of the world around us with exuberantly colourful and formally innovative paintings and prints. Lindberg analyzes in detail Granirer's art from her early years in Romania through her student drawings in Israel to her mature works in Canada. He offers detailed accounts of the major thematic developments: the Childhood Magic Seri... + Read More
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Series: Taking the Breath Away Paperback Harold Rhenisch 9780921870555 $13.95 POETRY Mar 16, 1998

Mythic and colloquial, lyrical and elegant, Taking the Breath Away introduces us to Harold Rhenisch's mature poetic voice in poems characterized by brilliant imagery and continuous reinvention. Long known as the poet of the land, the poet who conjures the land to speak, Rhenisch in this new collection bridges a host of Western artforms - gothic, baroque, folktale, ballad, post-modernism and the surreal - to extend our "dumbed-down" urban vision. Humorous and elegaic at once, Taking the Breath Away ranges from Okanagan farmers and Cariboo ranch... + Read More
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Series: Pnina Granirer Portrait of an Artist Hardcover Ted Lindberg 9780921870593 $199.95 ART Apr 16, 1998

In Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist Ted Lindberg captures the development in life and art of one of Canada's finest painters. Over the past forty years Pnina Granirer has been exploring and extending her perception of the world around us with exuberantly colourful and formally innovative paintings and prints. Lindberg analyzes in detail Granirer's art from her early years in Romania through her student drawings in Israel to her mature works in Canada. He offers detailed accounts of the major thematic developments: the Childhood Magic Seri... + Read More
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Series: Ghouls' Night Out, The Paperback Janice MacDonald 9780921870586 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jun 16, 1998

Janice MacDonald's profusely illustrated chapter book tells the story of a most unusual Hallowe'en. Featured are Annalise the Witch, Ernie the Ghost and Milton the Skeleton - who live in their haunted house. When the three friends decide to make costumes and join the trick-or-treaters on the darkened streets in search of fun, excitement and treats, everything is turned upside down. Adding to the witchery of the story are Pamela Breeze Currie's many spellbinding illustrations of the friends and their adventures. Children will love this story of ... + Read More
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Series: Vanilla Gorilla Hardcover W. H. New 9780921870579 $12.95 POETRY Jul 16, 1998

William New has created a wondrously zany collection of rhyming verse, ranging from the playful to the mysterious. Included are percussive nonsense rhymes, puzzle poems, joyful dances with anagrams and gentle haiku. The poems are complemented by Vivian Bevis's full-page, full-colour illustrations, which capture the high-spirited and impetuous qualities of the verse. This sturdy hardcover picture book will delight both the early reader and the many adults who enjoy introducing children to the sound and rhythm of verse.
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Series: Fugitive Dreams Paperback Sowol Kim 9780921870562 $13.95 POETRY Sep 16, 1998

With the appearance of this English translation, Western readers will for the first time be able to appreciate the poetry of Korea's most revered and popular modern poet. Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sowol Kim was the first poet to introduce the Korean vernacular into poetry. His verse combines sharply edged, everyday phrasing with a lyrical lightness of expression that is unique among modern poets. His poems on loss and death evoke the transience of life with a beauty that transcends despair - the triumph of his art.
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Series: Wintersleep Paperback Marie-Claire Blais 9780921870609 $14.95 DRAMA Sep 16, 1998

Wintersleep (Sommeil d'hiver) is a collection of five short plays by internationally acclaimed Quebecois author, Marie-Claire Blais. Appearing for the first time in an English translation, these plays allow anglophones to appreciate Marie-Claire Blais' range as a dramatist. The plays are known to francophones in their original publication by Les editions de la pleine lune; four of the plays have also been broadcast in French on the F.M. network of Radio Canada. The works themselves are written in the form of chamber plays with the addition of ... + Read More
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Series: Women Overseas Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps Paperback Francis Martin Day 9780921870616 $21.95 HISTORY Oct 16, 1998

In these Red Cross memoirs, some 30 women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with enemy submarines to witness Canadian women on duty in the U.K., in Europe and in Asia. The volunteers shouldered challenging and often dangerous jobs, working as nurse's aides, ambulance drivers, welfare officers, cooks, transport drivers and in the social clubs Canadian soldiers visited on leave. We learn how ... + Read More
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Series: Love's Silence & other Poems Paperback Yong-Un Han 9780921870623 $14.95 POETRY Feb 16, 1999

Yong-un Han (1879-1944) is recognized as Korea's finest Buddhist poet of the twentieth century and also one of the country's most influential political activists in the struggle against Japanese imperialism. Yong-un Han's Buddhist insights and political passion combine to give his poetry great spiritual power. He describes the complexities of love as beginning in the desire for total union and leading to an illumination of the void or nothingness. Delighting in paradox, these are poems that tease us into a subtle understanding of the limitatio... + Read More
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Series: Keeper of the Trees, The Paperback Beverley Brenna 9780921870630 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 16, 1999

This modern fantasy novel set in London - for children ages 8 to 12 - tells the story of Elizabeth, a twelve-year-old Canadian girl who feels homesick and lonely after her mother's death when her father moves them to London. Soon, however, she meets an assortment of unusual characters and a strange adventure unfolds. Among her new friends is Maud, the homeless woman in the park, who befriends her and teaches her the magic of the great chestnut trees. But friendship works two ways and soon Elizabeth must shoulder Maud's job as "Keeper of the Tr... + Read More