Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation

The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada

A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on science.In this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner argues that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science comm

The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need

After the fierce warnings and grim predictions of The Weather Makers and An Inconvenient Truth, acclaimed journalist and national bestselling author Chris Turner finds hope in the search for a sustainable future.Point of no return: The chilling phrase has

Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots

Welcome to the fabulous lifestyles of the cruel and despotic. Running with the idea that our homes are where we are truly ourselves, Peter York's wildly original and scathingly funny look at the interior decorating tastes of some of history's most alarmin

Hey Nostradamus!

Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and relig

Souvenir of Canada 2

Douglas Coupland returns to re-inventing Canada following his best-seller that made it clear, Canada is way more than slightly cool.Douglas Coupland gets Canada. Better, he has set out to re-invent his country with his particular brand of insight, humor,

Souvenir of Canada

Full of surprises and insights, Souvenir of Canada presents us as we have never seen ourselves before in an irresistible flow of text and image.Douglas Coupland offers new ways of seeing and experiencing Canada -- looking at how it feels to be a Canad

City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver

Terry: Terry Fox and His Marathon of Hope

In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research — despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts

God Hates Japan 神は日本を憎んでる [Kami Wa Nihon O Nikunderu]

Tokyo, fine anni novanta. Concluse le scuole, Hiro Tanaka e i suoi amici un po’ sballati si dividono tra università e lavoretti part time, rave party e sessioni di shopping sfrenato a Shibuya, fughe oltreoceano e inseguimenti precipitosi. Paranoico e i