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{"id":6582758506555,"title":"Samuel's New Voyage","handle":"samuels-new-voyage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Samuel's New Voyage\" is Rabindranth Maharaj's contribution to \u003cem\u003eNorthwords\u003c\/em\u003e, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments. \u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by award-winning journalist and radio personality Shelagh Rogers, \u003cem\u003eNorthwords\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors as they experienced one of Canada’s most awe-inspiring northern national parks Torngat Mountains National Park, the country’s newest national park, and a place steeped in geological and human history. The cross-platform project, which includes a documentary film that follows the authors as they explored the harsh and stunning terrain, had adventures, and created these new works, adds to the continuing story of the North. 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Samuel's New Voyage
Rabindranth Maharaj's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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{"id":6582758768699,"title":"The Scream of the Butterfly","handle":"the-scream-of-the-butterfly","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe mayor of Copenhagen is found murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further complicated by the fact that the victim’s mother is the leader of the country’s most radical political party and the current minister of finance. Lars notices the minister and her husband are strangely untouched by their son’s death. When he begins to dig into the mayor’s past, he slowly uncovers the dark story of a young, idealistic man who had only one wish: to free himself of his family and live his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark and chilling, \u003cem\u003eThe Scream of the Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e is Scandinavian crime at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:30-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:30-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A Lars Winkler Novel","By (author) Melander Jakob","pub date: 2015-11-06","Spiderline"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403467341883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894426","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Scream of the Butterfly - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770894426","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413717467195,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000868","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Scream of the Butterfly - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000868","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413717565499,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894419","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Scream of the Butterfly - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":599,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770894419","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743103201339,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"width":413,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095","width":413}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe mayor of Copenhagen is found murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further complicated by the fact that the victim’s mother is the leader of the country’s most radical political party and the current minister of finance. Lars notices the minister and her husband are strangely untouched by their son’s death. When he begins to dig into the mayor’s past, he slowly uncovers the dark story of a young, idealistic man who had only one wish: to free himself of his family and live his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark and chilling, \u003cem\u003eThe Scream of the Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e is Scandinavian crime at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Scream of the Butterfly
Detective Winkler is put on a highly sensitive case and what he uncovers threatens to expose the dark past of many in the highest echelons of power.
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{"id":6582760341563,"title":"Shooting the Bitch","handle":"shooting-the-bitch","description":"\u003cp\u003eShort, sharp, and unexpectedly disturbing, “Shooting the Bitch” is the award-winning story from newcomer Nicole Chin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile doing chores with his father on a summer afternoon, a young boy is asked to take care of a lingering problem in their household. Set in rural Ottawa, “Shooting the Bitch” reveals the nature of a boy's relationship with his parents and the divisions that run through their family.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:50-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:50-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Anansi Digital","By (author) Chin Nicole","pub date: 2013-09-13"],"price":99,"price_min":99,"price_max":99,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403468914747,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894853","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shooting the Bitch - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":99,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770894853","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413728444475,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897571","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shooting the Bitch - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":99,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897571","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743101595707,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eShort, sharp, and unexpectedly disturbing, “Shooting the Bitch” is the award-winning story from newcomer Nicole Chin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile doing chores with his father on a summer afternoon, a young boy is asked to take care of a lingering problem in their household. Set in rural Ottawa, “Shooting the Bitch” reveals the nature of a boy's relationship with his parents and the divisions that run through their family.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Shooting the Bitch
Short, sharp, and unexpectedly disturbing, “Shooting the Bitch” is the award-winning story from newcomer Nicole Chin.
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A worthy goal and a terrific idea for a book.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book takes a very interesting look at the relations between Canada and the United States during and shortly after the American Civil War … For anyone interested in United States–Canadian relationships, this book is a great introduction to the subject.” — \u003cem\u003eCivil War News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer offers an introduction to North American history for those who are new to the subject, and a catalyst for deep arguments amongst serious thinkers. 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This terrific book will add a needed voice to the debate and fuel the call to bring our troops home now.” — Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, Council of Canadians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is the one book you must read to understand the Afghanistan war.” — Duncan Cameron, rabble.ca political columnist and Visiting Professor, Political Science, SFU\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND \u003cem\u003eTHE BORDER: CANADA, THE U.S., AND ADVENTURES ALONG THE 49TH PARALLEL\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thoroughly engaging … Spiced with anecdote, telling bits of history, and personal accounts of travels along and across Canada’s borders with the U.S., The Border is informed with the easy grace of the raconteur … At once magisterial and entertaining, The Border is an essential contribution to our knowledge of our country, and our relationship with our southern neighbours.” — \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Insightful … Laxer is scrupulous in his scholarship, and one cannot argue with his research.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND \u003cem\u003eSTALKING THE ELEPHANT: MY DISCOVERY OF AMERICA\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer takes a fresh look at American life as he sets out on a physical and intellectual journey across the country … This is an entertaining, disturbing, and sometimes whimsical snapshot of the Unites States at the dawn of a new century … Highly recommended.” —\u003cem\u003e Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an important book … This is a debate for our time, perhaps for all time … This is a book by a Canadian that can change the United States.” — David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington bureau chief for the \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, in the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer records his vignettes with humour and verve. 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Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America"}
Staking Claims to a Continent
The second work of history in James Laxer’s North American trilogy looks at the turbulent 1860s, the decade that defined North America.
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Sign me up! Swearing Is Good for You makes science feel downright celebratory.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Norris","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[From the Introduction]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was about nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a ‘twat.’ I had no idea what a twat was – I thought it was just a silly way of saying ‘twit’ – but that smack taught me that some words are more powerful than others and that I had to be careful how I used them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as you’ve no doubt gathered, that experience didn’t exactly cure me of swearing. In fact it probably went some way towards piquing my fascination with profanity. Since then I’ve had a certain pride in my knack for colourful and well-timed swearing: being a woman in a male-dominated field, I rely on it to camouflage myself as one of the guys. Calling some equipment a piece of shit is often a necessary rite of passage when I join a new team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when I discovered that other scientists have been taking swearing seriously for a long time – and that I’m not the only person who finds judicious profanity useful – I was fucking delighted! I first began to realise there was more to swearing than a bit of banter or blasphemy when I happened to read a study that involved 67 volunteers, a bucket of ice water, a swear word and a stopwatch. I was working in a neuroscience lab at the time and that study changed the course of my research. It set me on a quest to study swearing: why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, I’m definitely not the only person who uses swearing as a way of fitting in at work. Research shows that swearing can help build teams in the work place. From the factory floor to the operating theatre, scientists have shown that teams who share the same lexicon of swearing tend to work more effectively together, feel closer, and be more productive than those that don’t. These same studies show that managing stress in the same way that we manage pain – with a fucking good swear – is more effective than any number of team building exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has also helped to develop the field of neuroscience. By providing us with a useful emotional barometer, swearing has been used as a research tool for over 150 years. It has helped us to discover some fascinating things about the structure of the human brain, such as its division into left and right hemispheres, and the role of cerebral structures like the amygdala in the regulation of emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has taught us a great deal about our minds, too. We know that people who learn a second language often find it less stressful to swear in their adopted tongue, which gives us an idea of the childhood developmental stages at which we learn emotions and taboos. Swearing also makes the heart beat faster, and primes us to think aggressive thoughts while, paradoxically, making us less likely to be physically violent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd swearing is a surprisingly flexible part of our linguistic repertoire. It re-invents itself from generation to generation as taboos shift. Profanity has even become part of the way we express positive feelings – we know that football fans use ‘fuck’ just as frequently when they’re happy as when they are angry or frustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat last finding is one of my own. With colleagues at City University, London, I’ve studied thousands of football fans and their bad language during big games. It’s no great surprise that football fans swear, and that they are particularly fond of ‘fuck’ and ‘shit.’ But we noticed something interesting about the ratio between these two swearwords. The ‘fuck-shit’ ratio is a reliable indicator of which team has scored because, it turns out that ‘shit’ is almost universally negative while ‘fuck’ can be a sign of something good or bad. Swearing amongst football fans also isn’t anywhere near as aggressive as you might think; fans on Twitter almost never swear about their opponents and reserve their outbursts for players on their own team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing is one of those things that comes so naturally, and seems so frivolous, that you might be surprised by the number of scientists who are studying it. But neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians have long taken an interest in bad language, and for good reason. Although swearing might seem frivolous it teaches us a lot about how our brains, our minds and even our societies work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book won’t just look at swearing in isolation. One of the things that makes swearing so fucking amazing is the sheer breadth of connections it has with our lives. Throughout this book I’ll cover many different topics, some of which may seem like digressions. There are plenty of pages that contain no profanity whatsoever but, from the indirectness of Japanese speech patterns to the unintended consequences of potty training chimpanzees, everything relates back to the way that we use bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this book simply an attempt to justify rudeness and aggression? Not at all. I certainly wouldn’t want profanities to become commonplace: swearing needs to maintain its emotional impact in order to work. We only need to look at the way that swearing has changed over the last 100 years to see that, as some swearwords become mild and ineffectual through over-use or shifting cultural values, we reach for other taboos to fill the gap. Where blasphemy was once the true obscenity, the modern unsayables include racist and sexist terms as swearwords. Depending on your point of view this is either a lamentable shift towards political correctness or timely recognition that bigotry is ugly and damaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.\"","OtherText_Review_0":"[Swearing] deserves a closer, clinical look. And Emma Byrne, a scientist and a journalist who has done research in the field, is well qualified to be our guide.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Written in an engaging and conversational style . . . Byrne provides a refreshing, entertaining, instructive examination of a ‘surprisingly flexible part of a linguistic repertoire.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2017-11-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","Subtitle":"The Amazing Science of Bad Language"}
Swearing Is Good For You
In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.
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This Book is Broken
A spectacular oral and visual history of altrock phenomenon, Broken Social Scene.
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Three Days
A new short story from 2012 Scotiabank-Giller Prize finalist Russell Wangersky.
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To Sweep the Light
A new short story by award-winning author Pasha Malla.
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Torngat Mountains, A New Waiver
Noah Richler's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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Torngat Sketches
Sarah Leavitt's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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The Trap
The Trap follows the reclusive novelist Linda Conrads who sets out to trap the man she believes murdered her sister using her latest novel.
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Travels Through the Golden State
A look at Southern California at a time when the United States is riven with debates about immigration, guns, and an economic crisis.
