Business & Economics:

The Selling of the American Economy
How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Written by Micheline Maynard

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.00

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the American automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries of “Buy American” have... Read more >

The Selling of the American Economy
How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Written by Micheline Maynard

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.00

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the American automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries of “Buy American” have... Read more >

Joseph P. Kennedy Presents
His Hollywood Years
Written by Cari Beauchamp

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $35.00

This is the extraordinary story, told for the first time, of Joseph P. Kennedy’s remarkable reign in Hollywood, in which he ran three movie studios simultaneously, led the revolution in sound pictures—and made the fortune that became the foundation of his empire.

Kennedy saw filmmaking as “a gold mine” when movies were... Read more >

Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)
Written by William Marsden

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $16.95

A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future.

In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself. As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta... Read more >

Gas Lighting

Written by David Gledhill

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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Gunpowder Industry

Written by Glenys Crocker

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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Lime Kilns and Lime Burning

Written by Richard Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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The Scottish Motor Industry

Written by Michael Worthington-Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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The Slate Industry

Written by Merfyn Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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Snuff

Written by Ursula Bourne

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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Blood & Oil
A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah
Written by Manucher Farmanfarmaian and Roxane Farmanfarmaian

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95

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Dreaming in Code
Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Written by Scott Rosenberg

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $13.95

Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,
especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shaving—and take a... Read more >

The Perilous Trade
Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006
Written by Roy Macskimming

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $21.95

A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing

“Publishing Canadian books has always been an experiment. Like the great experiments of building a transcontinental railway and a national broadcasting system, it constitutes one of the nation’s defining acts. Publishing, after all, is a people’s way of telling its... Read more >

Blood & Oil
A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah
Written by Manucher Farmanfarmaian and Roxane Farmanfarmaian

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2005
Price: $16.95

PEN/West Award Finalist


"        Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants     to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and future, this book is a marvelous introduction."        
--Fred Halliday, Los Angeles Times

Iran was the first country in the... Read more >

Movies and Money

Written by David Puttnam

Format: Trade Paperback, 364 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $17.00

"A fascinating history."--Time Out New York

The acclaimed producer of such classic films as Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields, and the only European ever to head a major Hollywood studio, former Columbia Pictures chief David Puttnam has written a fascinating behind-the-scenes history of the movie business and of the unique... Read more >