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  • The Social Life of Ink

    Culture Wonder And Our Relationship With The Written Word

    by Ted Bishop ...
    A rich and imaginative discovery of how ink has shaped culture and why it is here to stayInk is so much a part of daily life that we take it for granted, yet its invention was as significant as the wheel. Ink not only recorded culture, it bought political power, divided peoples, and led to murderous rivalries. Ancient letters on a page were revered as divine light, and precious ink recipes were ... Read more

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  • Ink

    Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word

    by Ted Bishop ...
    A rich and imaginative discovery of how ink has shaped culture and why it is here to stay.Ink is so much a part of daily life that we take it for granted, yet its invention was as significant as the wheel. Ink not only recorded culture, it bought political power, divided peoples, and led to murderous rivalries. Ancient letters on a page were revered as divine light, and precious ink recipes were ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Unfriended

    Power Brokers, Political Correctness & Hypocrisy in Golf

    by Ted Bishop ...
    Twice named by Golf World magazine as a Newsmaker of the Year as the President of the PGA, Bishop was impeached with 29 days left in his term by the PGA for remarks he made on social media which it deemed to be 'sexist' in nature. This new book, UNFRIENDED: Power Brokers, Political Correctness & Hypocrisy in Golf, is Bishop's opportunity to share his eventful journey for the first time ever. Hang ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riding with Rilke

    Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

    by Ted Bishop ...
    English professor and motorcycle enthusiast Ted Bishop is taking one last ride before fall term when his bike vibrates out of control and he is flung into a ditch, breaking his back and collapsing his lungs. With limited mobility, Ted finally has time to savour the reading experience. He begins writing about his crash, realizing that two worlds had come together when his head hit the pavement. The ... Read more

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  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    History can be a very useful tool in understanding why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. But in the wrong hands it can be dangerous and used to foster a sense of grievance or a desire for revenge. Eminent historian Margaret MacMillan is fascinated by the power of history in our thinking. In The Uses and Abuses of History, she points out some of the traps that we can ... Read more

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  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice

    On Being Black and White in Canada

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Lawrence Hill’s remarkable novel, Any Known Blood, a multi-generational story about a Canadian man of mixed race, was met with critical acclaim and it marked the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing. Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely ... Read more

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  • The Deserter's Tale

    The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq

    by Joshua Key ...
    " Apocalypse Now insanity . . . if this is what one soldier saw in seven months, imagine the sum total of the inhumanity being perpetuated in Iraq" ( Toronto Star).The first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of the American military campaign, The Deserter's Tale is "destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . a ... Read more

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  • The Good Little Book

    by Kyo Maclear ...
    Illustrated by Marion Arbona ...
    For readers of all ages, a charming fable about a bad little boy who meets a good little book. An ode to old favorites and printed books.While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good little book becomes his loyal ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Missing Matisse

    by Jan Rehner ...
    Who is the mysterious woman in the Matisse drawing, Woman in a Blouse, Dreaming? What secrets is she hiding? Chloe Rea grew up with the Matisse sketch and believes the woman in the famous Rumanian blouse is her grandmother. But the sketch now belongs to Adam Jensen, who inherited it after his brother’s sudden death in the south of France. Now Chloe wants the sketch back, but someone else is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Modern and Normal

    by Karen Solie ...
    Shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Awards. A Globe 100 title in 2005.Evade your eye. Try to see as others dowhat is desired or refused. What went wrong.Or right, then wrong. Objectively, what hangs.Pull yourself together. Years are neither kindnor cruel. You drag on. The girl is gone.Consider that it might be time to call ina professional. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Sidewalk Flowers

    Illustrated by Sydney Smith ...
    Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated BookA New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the YearIn this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus