The Perilous Trade
"Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006"
Written by Roy Macskimming
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $16.99
A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing
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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...
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The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop
Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing
Written by Danell Jones
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $11.99
In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will delight fans, students, and teachers alike—and at last give...
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The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop
Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing
Written by Danell Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $14.00
In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will delight fans, students, and teachers alike—and at last give...
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eBook.
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $14.99
From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.
What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”?...
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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
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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...
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Also available as an
eBook.
D.m. Bennett, the Truth Seeker
Written by Roderick Bradford
Format: Hardcover, 412 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2006
Price: $32.99
DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was 19th-century America’s most controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Bennett founded the "blasphemous" New York periodical The Truth Seeker in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands long before the expression "banned in Boston" was heard. In less than a decade, the former Shaker...
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