In an account based on more than 200 original interviews, historian Greg Renoff tells the untold story of Van Halen's 1970s ascent out of the backyards of Pasadena to international rock superstardom.
Driven covers the last three decades of Rush, including the band''s retirement and Peart''s passing. There is much to celebrate, including a surprise platinum hit record to kick off the decade and a full-blown concept album, Clockwork Angels, to close off what is one of the most remarkable careers in rock history
"Elias's use of language to re-create the period is striking... A highly readable telling of a royal fall from grace." -- Kirkus Reviews "Lively and engrossing... Rich with historical detail and political intrigue, Elizabeth of Bohemia is a complex portrait of a reluctant yet captivating queen." -- Foreword Reviews October 1612. King James I seeks to expand England's influence in Europe and offers Prince Frederic of the Palatinate his sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth's hand. The fierce and intelligent Elizabeth moves to Heidelberg Castle with her new husband, where she turns a daughter's duty into a wife's ambition. When the Hapsburg emperor is weakened, Elizabeth encourages Frederic to take over the royal duties in Prague, and in the process she becomes Queen of Bohemia. But the reign is brief. Within the year, Catholic Europe unites to take back the Hapsburg throne. Frederic, Elizabeth, and the children are forced to flee, and the exiled queen must summon all her strength to keep her family intact through tumultuous seasons of separation and heartache in The Hague. With richly rendered characters and dialogue both penetrating and nuanced, Elizabeth of Bohemia offers a rare and delightful window into the Stuart period. David Elias is an author based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He travelled extensively in the footsteps of Elizabeth of Bohemia to visit historical sites and examine artifacts in places such as the British Library, Heidelberg Castle, and St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.
A post-apocalyptic novel set in a remote northern First Nations community. As their tenuous links to the southern world wink out, Evan and his community learn to rely again on the old ways to survive. But a wendigo southerner arrives to threaten everything.
The second instalment of the unique collaboration, after the #1 bestselling novel "Clockwork Angels". Bestselling author Anderson and Rush drummer and lyricist Peart return to explore more places and characters in their colourful creation.
New edition of this wrestling classic.
Shopify's rapid rise from small startup to one of Canada's top companies is marked by CEO turnover, near-bankruptcy, and subsequent billionaire status, forming a remarkable business success story.
Part memoir, part music biography, Days and Days chronicles a backpacking adventure between friends through England, Ireland, and Scotland in '99 and the discovery of Sunderland's best-kept secret: the punk band Leatherface.
An essay collection that blends music and pop culture criticism, coming-of-age memoir, and feminist and '90s music history, with a focus on Céline Dion, Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette, and Sarah McLachlan.
Hearty is thoughtful and curious food and gardening writing that showcases andrea bennett's range, combining personal essays, reporting, and hybrids of the two to study food as a source of pleasure, practical creativity, and sustenance.
A queer Caribbean Count of Monte Cristo in which a betrayed captain is set on a journey of revenge against the interplanetary empire that has subjugated her people for generations.
Clever Girl by Hannah McGregor examines the most famous of dinosaur movies, Jurassic Park, and its treatment of the film's all-female dinosaur population, their connection to the fear of female monstrosity, and how they loom as figures of chaotic otherness.
Backed by hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of USA Swimming files subpoenaed by the FBI, Irvin Muchnick uncovers a generation of cover-ups involving some of the sport's biggest names.
After a decorated career in college football and WWE, Titus O’Neil considers being a father his greatest accolade. In 2015, O’Neil was named the Celebrity Father of the Year, but like all parents, he realizes he is far from perfect. In Wrestling with Fatherhood, O’Neil shares his successes and failures in parenting his three children, hoping that others can learn from his experiences. O’Neil first became a father 19 years ago with the birth of his first son, and his second followed two years later. Having grown up fatherless, he learned on the fly how to raise two babies into thriving young men and later adopted a teenage daughter. This book details the numerous trials and tribulations along the way, offering guidance for those facing similar circumstances. Each chapter tackles an important parenting topic, replete with revealing anecdotes, advice, and commentary from celebrity friends. O’Neil’s journey allows him to relate to a diverse audience of parents facing a multitude of challenges. This is his second book aimed at enriching the lives of children and families. His first, There Is No Such Thing as a Bad Kid, was published in 2019.
Combining skateboarding history and memoir, Right, Down + Circle explores how a video game starring the most famous pro skater in the world brought skate culture -- and its ever-shifting markers of music, subversion, and coolness -- to the masses and ultimately transformed the culture it borrowed from in the process.
For more than 20 years, Toronto photo-based artist Sara Angelucci has transformed found photographs and created images exposing the cultural and historical conditions outside the image frame. Her work brings attention to the social forces that generate the language of photography. Her series 'Aviary' -- which morphs extinct and endangered birds with 19th-century cartes-de-visite portraits -- reveals the colonizing role the camera played in capturing animals for consumption. In her current work, 'Nocturnal Botanical Ontario', images of entwined native and invasive plants -- made with a digital scanner -- pay homage to photography as a tool of scientific inquiry. These complex botanical compositions uncover the impacts of settler colonialism and global trade on our ecology. Through acts of empathy, embodiment, and envisioning, the images and essays in 'Undergrowth' seek to reconcile our fraught relationship with the natural world, addressing one of the most critical issues of our time. -- publisher's statement.
"What happens in space that causes the body to change? Learn about life in space from astronauts Is the human body built for Mars? NASA's studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix a few things before sending people to the Red Planet. Astronauts go into space with good vision and come back needing eyeglasses. Cognition and DNA expression could be affected for years. And then there's the discomfort of living in a tight space with crewmates, depression, and separation from the people you love. Space doctors are on the case. You'll meet the first twin to spend a year in space, the woman who racked up three physically challenging spacewalks in between 320 days of confinement, and the cosmonaut who was temporarily stranded on space station Mir while the Soviet Union broke up underneath him. What are we learning about the human body? As astronauts target moon missions and eventual landings on Mars, one of the major questions is how the human body will behave in "partial gravity." How does the human body change on another world, as opposed to floating freely in microgravity? What can studies on Earth and in space tell us about planetary exploration? These questions will be important to the future of space exploration and to related studies of seniors and people with reduced mobility on Earth."--
From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars - and 9 billion Earthlings too. When two food geeks, who also like sci-fi, imagine how to feed a colony on Mars, they also discover how food production on planet Earth can and must change. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast? Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using geothermal energy? Will the protein of choice feature a chicken breast grown in a lab? Weird, wonderful, and sometimes disgusting, figuring out ''what''s for dinner on Mars'' is far from trivial. If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars, we will know how to do it on Earth too. In Dinner on Mars, authors Fraser and Newman show how setting the table off-planet will supercharge efforts to produce food sustainably here at home. For futurists, sci-fi geeks, tech
In the third book in this bestselling series, we meet the oddest creatures, from an escaped newt to a baby snow leopard, but the focus is on the dogs and cats that make up most of a pet vet''s day, and on the wacky and wonderful people who bring them in.
Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 50s up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. It paints a picture of village life, his rebellion as a young Marxist and evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a teen for 30 months while being hunted by the secret police, his youthful love affairs, how he survived his prison years, his final release, and his family''s escape to Canada. While many prison memoirs focus on the cruelty of incarceration, My Road from Damascus offers a tapestry of Saeed''s whole life.
Follow the Buzzards: Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19 examines wrestling as an ecosystem - all the way from local community shows to those that are on national television - against the backdrop of real-world events like the American presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement, Brexit, and the race to find a vaccine. Industry expert Keith Elliot Greenberg chronicles pro wrestling through the most memorable, controversial, and polarizing period of the last two decades. Finally, WWE had serious competition in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and there were viable secondary promotions and a thriving international indie scene.
The first women to assume the presidencies of two of Canada''s largest research universities - the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta - Piper and Samarasekera share their insights and perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions. Candid and insightful perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions.
An insider's look at those most respected by their peers as masters of pro wrestling, in the words of the wrestlers themselves.
"When a young schoolteacher decides to teach her Grade 8 class about filmmaking and creates a documentary that ends up being broadcast internationally, she sets in motion a career of storytelling for an age group largely ignored by TV executives ... and creates one of the most-loved television franchises of all time. Includes fabulous behind-the-scenes photos and stories for Degrassi fans Linda Schuyler, co-creator and executive producer of the long-running Degrassi series, shares her personal stories about the grit and determination necessary to make it as a woman entrepreneur in the bourgeoning independent Canadian television industry of the early 1980s. After surviving a near-fatal car accident in 1968, Linda found her life continuing to veer in unexpected directions, ultimately leading her to use her innate abilities as an educator to become a successful storyteller and businesswoman. Linda's deep fondness for teenagers has made her a champion for adolescents. In The Mother of All Degrassi, she shares her strong belief that television is all about story, and good story is all about making the political personal. Through anecdotes and introspection -- and some great behind-the-scenes stories for Degrassi fans -- Linda examines her philosophy to dream big, think small, meet life head-on, and always keep an open heart."--
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