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Winged Spirits
$24.95Winged Spirits
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Winging Home
$24.95In British Columbia’s remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, “Everything is slow. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all.” Harold Rhenisch has spent eleven years watching birds every day from his house on the shore of 108 Lake—at this speed, but you wouldn’t know it from reading Winging Home. Known as “one of Canada’s master prose stylists,” Rhenisch dissects avian behaviour with the ear of a poet and the mouth of a stand-up comedian. His blackbirds are a jug band in full flight, his robins drunken bachelors on a jag, and his eagles decrepit, stumblebum scavengers.
With lively illustrations by noted bird artist Tom Godin, Winging Home: A Palette of Birds is more than just writing about the natural world. It is a lyrical, evocative memoir of life in the Cariboo that crackles with humorous, often startling observations of birds and men set amidst the wild beauty of British Columbia.
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Winging It
$24.95A wedding and a summer camp that Tommy and Carter are never going to forget.
Tommy discovers magic exists, his boyfriend is a rock giant, and his sister is marrying one of the leaders of a supernatural community called Aetherborn.
Carter learns to navigate an in-person relationship, introducing Tommy to the magical world, and being involved in his Ariki’s wedding.
Both boys need to build their confidence in each other, themselves, and their relationship. The Door Tech summer camp seems to be the perfect way to do that, until they get magically transported to the not-so-fictional world of Everdome. In this realm of Domed continents floating in space, winged beasts, and new cultures, the boys will have to overcome challenges beyond anything they’ve seen before.
The only way they, and their relationship, can survive is if they start Winging It!
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Wings Over the Sea
$15.95Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses’s fame began when he identified an albatross captured in the Bay of Fundy, 7000 miles away from its Antarctic home. Thus began a career that led Moses to South America, west Africa, and back to the Bay of Fundy once again on scientific expeditions that changed the history of ornithology.
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Winners and Losers
$16.95Two buddies, theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James, sit at a table and pass the time together playing a made-up game in which they name people, places, or things – Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, their fathers, Goldman Sachs – and debate whether they are successful or not; in other words, whether they are winners or losers. Each friend seeks to defeat the other, and because one of these men grew up economically privileged, and the other did not, the competition very quickly adds up.
Winners and Losers showcases the work of two giants of the Vancouver indie theatre scene. James Long’s Theatre Replacement develops work specific to particular places and the people who live in them. Marcus Youssef’s Neworld Theatre investigates questions of power, culture, and belonging.
Their first collaborative work is a staged conversation that embraces the ruthless logic of capitalism, and tests its impact on our closest personal relationships as well as our most intimate experiences of self.
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Winners and Losers: Tales of Life, Law, Love and Loss
$25.00Winners And Losers: Tales of Life, Law, Love and Loss is a collection of linked short stories that turns a dazzling searchlight on the inner workings of the legal profession, told from the viewpoint of a feisty narrator finding her way through a hostile and competitive law environment. By the end, the reader will have undergone a sprawling journey through a lifetime in practice, where the pit-bull litigator is tenderized through the clients, the work, the failure of her own marriage, by single mothering. Because the protagonist doesn’t judge, because she lays out the evidence in her search for the truth in a circling, coyote-like fashion, the reader lives that tracking inquiry along with her.
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Winning Golf
$24.95One of the world’s leading sport psychologists offers practical techniques to improve your golf performance and learn the peak performance mindset
In Winning Golf, Dr. Saul L. Miller, one of the world’s leading sport psychologists, describes eight of the most common problems limiting golfing performance and in the process gives readers powerful, practical techniques to overcome these challenges. With his guidance, you’ll learn the performance mindset and emotional management to play with more impact, consistency, and pleasure.
Do you want to discover what the pros do to prepare mentally and excel under pressure? Winning Golf’s mental training program comes with input from over 70 of the world’s top golfers. There is specific advice on how to improve your short game, develop an effective shot routine, tune out negative and anxious mental chatter, play calm and strong, master the “yips,” and use performance-enhancing self-talk and imagery to strengthen confidence and develop a more competitive golf identity.
You will also get insights from the Sub-60 Club — the elite set of PGA golfers who shot sub-60 rounds on regulation courses — and hear from several pro athletes from the NHL and NFL about how the mental training they did with Dr. Miller has transferred to and improved their golf game.
Bottom line, Winning Golf: The Mental Game will significantly improve your golf game, and the very same techniques will enhance the quality of your life.
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Winning with the Boss from Hell
$19.95Once minor details like eating, sleeping, commuting, and bathing are factored in, most people spend over half their adult lives at work. Now imagine spending that half of your life with a boss who is a combination of several of these wonderful traits: ignorant, foul, rude, selfish, loud, obnoxious, abrasive, incompetent, impatient, incoherent, embarrassing, harassing, blamestorming, indecisive, dirty, smelly, mean-spirited, sexist, wimpy, vindictive, unappreciative, crude, and disrespectful. And those are the good points.
Winning with the Boss from Hell is a real-life survival guide with real-life strategies for dealing with that Very Special Person You Report To.
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Winning with the Caller from Hell
$17.95Callers from Hell — they scream, sob, and sometimes they’re so incoherent you can’t understand them!
Shaun Belding’s new book tells you how to help defuse conflict, identifies effective strategies such as LIFT (Listen to your customer; Involve yourself; Focus on the issue; Thank them), and shows you how a majority of difficult callers can be turned into your most loyal customers.
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Winning with the Customer from Hell
$19.95They yell and shout and try to intimidate. They whine and demand inordinate amounts of time. They push your buttons and raise your blood pressure. Who are they? They’re the Customers from Hell. Winning with the Customer from Hell by Shaun Belding offers realistic, practical, and anecdotal solutions to this problem.
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Winning with the Employee from Hell
$19.95They make you question why you ever decided to become a manager. They’re popping up daily in conversations with your spouse, friends, and colleagues. And they’re appearing nightly in your dreams — when you can get to sleep at all. Not only are they unpleasant, but they’re keeping you from achieving your goals. Employees from Hell — ambassadors for antacids everywhere.
In Winning with the Employee from Hell, Shaun Belding shows you how to soar with the people who work for you.
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Winnipeg Connection, The
$29.95In the 1940s and 1950s, Margaret Laurence, Jack Ludwig, Adele Wiseman, Patricia Blondal, John Marlyn and John Hirsch came of age to stand beside such distinguished predecessors as Marshall McLuhan, Dorothy Livesay, Sinclair Ross and James Reaney. The Winnipeg Connection brings the past alive through previously unpublished work by Chester Duncan, Margaret Laurence’s 1949 poem “North Main Car” (on Winnipeg’s fabled North End), a journal/poem by Patricia Blondal and Jack Ludwig’s essay on the “Atrocity” uproar. Contributors Walter Swayze and Jack Bumsted, Christopher Dafoe and Dick Harrison, Meeka Walsh and Dawne McCance, Margaret Sweatman and Di Brandt, Tricia Wasney and Gene Walz, among others, challenge us to see Winnipeg in a new way. The book comprises articles and personal essays on writing, radio, music, television and filmmaking, as well as photos depicting the Winnipeg of the mid-twentieth century.
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Winter Cranes
$18.95In Asian folklore cranes symbolize longevity, immortality, and good fortune. In Winter Cranes, his third collection, award–winning poet Chris Banks conjures these birds when he sees herons near his home towards the end of a long and difficult winter.
For the poet, cranes as a dominant image represent the gaps that exist between what we see and what we feel. His poems explore the impermanence of our modern lives — how our identities are shaped by the past and the present, memory and experience, the physical and the metaphysical. Winter Cranes shows Banks to be an uncompromising poet determined to understand his experience of a world constantly changing around him.
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Winter Nature
$27.95Though often associated with hibernationfor bears and humans alikewinter can in fact be a time of observation and discovery in the outdoors. Winter Nature provides the interested walker, skier or snowshoer with a guide to the mammals, birds, trees and shrubs found in the Maritime provinces during the winter months.
With an overview on temperature, sunlight, snowfall and seasonal adaptations, notes toward identification, and tips for differentiating between similar species, biologists and nature enthusiasts Merritt Gibson and Soren Bondrup-Nielsen share their passion for the outdoors and the biodiversity of the Maritime region.
With a section on mammal tracks, suggestions for creating and stocking birdfeeders, and an introduction to plant structure, Winter Nature combines Maritime natural history, environmental awareness and outdoor education. The book also includes suggestions for winter activities, as well as a list of reference guides and an index for easy navigation of each species group. Each species entry is accompanied by an original ink drawing by Nova Scotia artist Twila Robar-DeCoste.
“During the winter of 1998 I lived in a cabin near the Hardanger Glacier in Norway,” says Bondrup-Nielsen. “Every day I would go skiing and then write. I wrote about winter ecology and about my own adventures and encounters with winter primarily in northern Canada. The account of these adventures became my first book, Winter on Diamond.”
Gibson adds: “I was an enthusiastic cross-country skier, going skiing many evenings after work and taking much longer trips on weekends. I published the first edition of Winter Nature Notes (Lancelot Press) in 1980 as a guide for use by cross-country skiers in Nova Scotia. The book was well received.”
A few years ago the two met on Gibson’s daily walk past Bondrup-Nielsen’s house. Gibson mentioned that he wanted to revise Winter Nature Notes and that perhaps Bondrup-Nielsen could work on the mammal section and add some new information on winter ecology as introductory material to the various sections. Over the next while the two worked on revising and adding material to the original book, with additional information on the interesting adaptations by animals and plants for surviving winter. This new edition is intended for use by all Maritimers who enjoy the outdoors in winter.
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Winter of 88
$20.95A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn’t be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them.
Already eight years into the Iran–Iraq War, Nasrin and her two adult children—daughter Nahid and son Mahyar—just want to feel safe and settled. Tensions are already high, from bickering over who gets what room and what goes where to why Nahid’s husband left her. Mahyar leaves the apartment in a heated moment, leaving Nasrin racked with fear. As the missiles start to strike and the power goes out, Nahid tries to hold everything together. From that moment on, it’s about survival.
This heart-wrenching meta-autobiographical play, presented in both English and Farsi, is a window into days when death was practically a neighbour in war-torn Tehran. It’s a dedication to those who are left behind with the trauma of war and survivors’ guilt. Author Mohammad Yaghoubi survived it, so he had to write about it.
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Winter Sport
$16.95Have you ever wondered what a luge poem or snowboarding poem or hockey poem would look like? In this collection by celebrated poet Priscila Uppal, who was the poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, physical and verbal acrobatics meet in a dazzling competition of risky play, inventive movements, and daring heights. Try a speed skating suit on for size, slide down the skeleton track, seek out a date with a curler, make love to a snowboarder, and play hockey with the nation’s best Ð experience winter sport fun like never before.