A-Z listings, at-a-glance symbols, useful hints and tips and an extensive glossary. (1997)

The House Plant Encyclopaedia

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Ursula Kruger

Reference

Key Porter Books,Canada

The definitive book for coaches of every sport by a well-known coach and expert in physical fitness and exercise. (1997)

Coaching: the Art and the Science

Sports & Outdoors

Dave Chambers

Miscellaneous

After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

Dracula

Literature & Fiction

Bram, Stoker

Literary

Strange voices in the night. Dead men walking. Unbreakable promises and unbeatable curses. Vampires, spirits, and sinister animals. All of these are to be found in Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids. Any kid who likes a good scare - and who doesn't? - will find plenty of them in this new collection of terrifying tales. 
With nearly thirty authors represented, Truly Scary Stories brings together chills and thrills both old and new. Such grand old yarns as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (about a certain headless horseman), "The Monkey's Paw," and "Dracula's Guest" are found alongside brand-new frights like "Lizard: The Devil's Plaything" and "Best Before". Besides short stories, there are haunting poems like "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "The Geebung Polo Club," with rhythms that heighten the horror. 
This collection will take unsuspecting readers on a strange and surprising journey. They will visit a ship adrift on the Pacific Ocean and learn of a strange moss that grows everywhere. They will meet a weary prospector at the North Pole, burdened with a promise to a now-dead companion. They will encounter witches in a lonely mountaintop cabin, and ghouls in a murky swamp. 
Wherever they take place, many of the stories revolve around children. Kids can be found dodging cruel aunts or taking vanishing lessons from ghosts, playing with haunted electrical train sets or worrying about food rotting in the refrigerator. And just so that the terror isn't too nonstop, some of the stories are downright comical, promising laughs as well as shudders. 
Whether funny or fearsome, these stories are guaranteed to hold readers spellbound well into the night - shivering with fright and delight.

Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids

Children's Books

Bill Slavin illustra

A search for human values and meaning at the millennium, Ockham`s Razor is a brilliant travel narrative that mixes philosophical speculation with commentary about the food, architecture and art of France. From Plato, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to Descartes, Magritte and the Internet, Wade Rowland examines some of our deepest assumptions about the nature of reality and our relationship to the world. In the summer of 1997, Rowland, an expert on technology and the new media, and in many respects disillusioned with the hyper-reality of North American culture, took his family to visit medieval historical sites throughout Southern France as a way of searching for authenticity. In Ockham`s Razor he speculates on the world view of the middle ages, a highly evolved system of thought and perception radically different from our own, and argues that efficiency is an engineering goal that reduces human beings to material objects. Such debasement causes human alienation, which is the defining condition of our age. This is very much a book for our age. (1999)

Ockham's razor: The search for wonder in an age of doubt

Travel

Rowland, Wade

Europe

This long-awaited new edition of Conrad Black`s bestselling book on Maurice Duplessis and his times has been abridged and re-edited by the author. The original Render Unto Caesar: The Life and Legacy of Maurice Duplessis has long been admired as the ultimate work on the once-powerful Quebec politician. This new edition is a shorter, more accessible book. In the new introduction, Conrad Black places Duplessis in the context of our times.

Render unto Caesar: The life and legacy of Maurice Duplessis

Black, Conrad

All royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to The Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute at Brock University. In Anatomy of a Winery, Donald J. P. Ziraldo, co-founder of award-winning Inniskillin Wines, takes you on a personal walking tour through one of Canada`s premier wineries. This beautifully illustrated book shows the inner workings of Inniskillin`s own vineyards and winery. As Ziraldo guides you through the process from growing to crushing, fermenting to barrel making and bottling, you will have the benefit of his enormous experience and insights. Also included is a section on the fascinating process involved in making Inniskillin`s specialty, Icewine. A fascinating book for anyone interested in wine, Anatomy of a Winery comes complete with a foreword from Hugh Johnson, one of the world`s most respected wine experts.

Anatomy of a Winery

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Donald Ziraldo

Beverages & Wine

Same Time, Next Year is arguably the most successful romantic comedy ever to grace the stage. Most people think that it was written by Neil Simon. It wasn`t, of course. It was penned by one of Canada`s most successful playwrights and scriptwriters, Bernard Slade, who recounts this and many other hilarious anecdotes in his infectiously readable memoir, Shared Laughter. Born to British parents in central Canada, Slade split his childhood between Britain and Canada. Trained as an actor, he began with the Crest Theatre in Toronto before striking out for Hollywood where, as a writer, he left his mark on some of the most successful TV comedy of the era. In his Burbank years, Slade was responsible for the development and writing of The Partridge Family, The Flying Nun and Bewitched, among many others. But in 1974, with the surprise hit of Same Time, Next Year, Slade returned to his first love - writing for the stage. He went on to write Tribute and a number of other successful (and some unsuccessful) plays. Here, in Shared Laughter, he gives us the highs and lows of production and fame, the people he has known and his fascinating insights into the art of writing comedy. We meet Jack Lemmon and Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda and Bea Arthur. We are taken to the nail-biting jitters of a Broadway opening and shown the brutal opportunism that is Hollywood. Along the way, we are treated to witty and wicked anecdotes of people and their foibles, famous and obscure. Great show-biz memoirs rarely come along. This is one of them.

Shared Laughter

Slade, Bernard

Dramas & Plays

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