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Macleans.ca Features Two Raincoast Titles
by monique t
News / February 07, 2006
Macleans.ca recently featured two Raincoast titles: We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs by Nasrin Alavi and Is He Depressed or What? by David Wexler.
We Are Iran
What do Iranian blogs tell us about Iranian politics, culture and community? We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs by Nasrin Alavi is a multi-voiced portrait of contemporary Iran, using the nation's weblogs as its primary source.
A first chapter excerpt of We Are Iran is available on Macleans.ca:
Read the first chapter
Is He Depressed or What?
Also featured on Macleans.ca is New Harbinger's Is He Depressed or What?
Julia McKinnell writes, "even in an era of New Age sensitive men, male depression is a hidden epidemic affecting millions of men--largely because most men still won't talk about it and therefore don't seek treatment, according to U.S. clinical psychologist David Wexler" (and author of Is He Depressed or What?)
Is He Depressed or What? is a help manual for the wives, girlfriends and partners of depressed men. The difficult part of recognizing male depression is that very often depressed guys mask their depression with anger, stress, workaholism or substance abuse. Wexler offers the partners of depressed men the tools to support the man they love while meeting their own social, emotional and physical needs.
Read the article on Macleans.ca
Joy Kogawa and Friends Reading
by monique t
News / February 07, 2006
TLC The Land Conservancy of BC along with the Save Kogawa House Committee are hosting an up-close and personal reading & book signing with award-winning Canadian author and poet, Joy Kogawa. Kogawa will read from her second novel Emily Kato (formerly Itsuka). Other guest authors will include Roy Miki, Governor General Award Winner for Poetry, reading from Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (published by Raincoast) and Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver poet, novelist and oral historian, reading from Steveston. Retired school teacher and counsellor, Ellen Crowe-Swords will also speak to her family's past experience of being interned at Hastings Park.
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2006
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Location: Chapters Bookstore, 788 Robson St., 3rd Floor
*Free admission*
This event is part of TLC's awareness and fundraising campaign to save Joy Kogawa's childhood home in Vancouver as a historic symbol, helping to educate the public about the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War. For more information about this event or to donate, call (604) 733-2313 or visit www.conservancy.bc.ca.
TLC is a non-profit, charitable land trust working to protect BC's natural and cultural heritage. Since 1997, TLC has protected almost 100,000 acres of sensitive and threatened land around the province, involving more than 100 projects.
Design It Yourself
by monique t
January 31, 2006
Princeton Architectural Press has published two fantastic books for designers:
DIY--Design It Yourself, edited by Ellen Lupton, is perfect for people who own their own business and want to do their own design. The book is a practical primer with all the tools needed to create individualized projects from conception to production.
How to Be a Graphic Designer, without Losing Your Soul, by Adrian Shaughnessy, is the book for new designers. Written by a designer for designers, this combination of practical advice with philosophical guidance will help young professionals embark on their careers.
Canada.com Partners with Lonely Planet
by monique t
News + Travel / January 31, 2006
Below is the January 30 press release from canada.com and Lonely Planet (distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books).
canada.com Partners with Lonely Planet to Provide New Travel Content Tool
Detailed information on over 157 destinations worldwide
(OAKLAND, CA — January 30, 2006) CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. and operator of canada.com announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Lonely Planet, the world's premier independent travel publisher. The partnership will provide canada.com with detailed information on over 157 destinations around the world while offering Lonely Planet access to canada.com's extensive reach across the country.
"canada.com's almost three million unique visitors monthly provides a perfect online audience for Lonely Planet's award-winning guidebooks as we grow our brand in the Canadian marketplace," said Blake Hutchison, Business Development Manager for Lonely Planet. "Our WorldGuide content, which is the cornerstone of our own website, provides succinct, punchy and inspirational information which will resonate well with Canadians who we believe represent the quintessential Lonely Planet traveler," said Hutchison.
The new section is featured under canada.com travel and contains a map of the world that users can click on to find information about their upcoming destinations or to do research on potential destinations. Canada's most recognizable web address, combined with Lonely Planet travel content further expands its value as Canada's leading online destination for news, entertainment, and lifestyle information.
"This partnership with Lonely Planet is another example of our commitment to provide the most compelling and reliable content possible to our audience," said Arturo Duran, President, CanWest Interactive. "Lonely Planet is a market leader in providing independent, unbiased travel information, and the accuracy and depth of its content is a perfect fit for canada.com's users to help them at the pre-travel stages as well as the booking stage."
About canada.com
canada.com is owned by CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc., which is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (CanWest) (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS.SV and CGS.NV, http://www.canwestglobal.com) and 24% indirectly owned by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund (http://www.canwest.com/incomefund). CanWest, an international media company, is Canada's largest media company. In addition to owning the Global Television Network, CanWest is Canada's largest publisher of daily newspapers, and also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, Web sites and radio networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
About Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is the world's leading independent global travel information provider and publisher headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with regional offices in the US and UK. Founded in 1973 by husband and wife team Tony and Maureen Wheeler, the company publishes over 600 titles in English and sells more than 6.5 million books a year in 118 countries. Lonely Planet has an award-winning website and online digital image library. Each year, more than 200 authors from over 20 countries research the world over and provide expert information. Lonely Planet's Business Services Unit is dedicated to leveraging this travel expertise to create travel content for new distribution channels and business clients. Visit http://www.lonelyplanet.biz.
Media contacts:
Cindy Cohen
Lonely Planet
510-893-8556 ext. 221
Katherine Raso
CanWest MediaWorks
416 442-2177
Keep Toronto Reading
by monique t
Graphica / January 30, 2006
Toronto Public Library celebrates the written word with Keep Toronto Reading this February.
During a press launch on Jan. 27, Mayor David Miller officially declared February as Keep Toronto Reading Month. The Library's unprecedented month-long program of free special events highlighting the age old love of the written word.
"In February, we shine the spotlight on Toronto Public Library's commitment to reading and literary culture," says Mayor David Miller. "We celebrate the important role that the Library plays in the community. We toast the citizens and the staff who make our Library the largest and busiest public library system in North America."
Keep Toronto Reading showcases nearly 100 writers, storytellers, illustrators, and media personalities, including Joseph Boyden, Wayson
Choy, Camilla Gibb, Kenneth Oppel, and Seth.
For more information about Keep Toronto Reading, including up-to-date program information and exclusive author interviews, visit www.keeptorontoreading.ca
-Graphically Speaking-
Three graphic novel masters discuss T.O.'s comics scene
Tues. Feb. 7
7-8 pm
North York Central Library (Auditorium)
Sit down with Seth (Wimbledon Green), Chester Brown (Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography) and Matthew Blackett (m@b), three critically acclaimed Canadian graphic novelists, as they discuss how Toronto's graphic novel scene has evolved to where it is at today. They will chat candidly about how the city has influenced, and in some cases, popped up, in their works. They also discuss graphic novels as a storytelling medium. Peter Birkemoe, from Canada's premier comic book store, The Beguiling, moderates. A Q+A follows the discussion.
Hollywood and Stardom
by monique t
January 26, 2006
American Idol is gripping the nation yet again. But what does the recording industry really look like?
Jen Trynin knows.
It was 1994--post-Liz Phair, mid-Courtney Love, just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, Jen Trynin took a hard look at herself and gave “making it” one last shot. It worked.
Suddenly Trynin became the object of one of the most heated bidding wars of the year. Major labels lobbed millions of dollars at her. Lawyers, managers and booking agents clamoured for her attention. Billboard put her on the cover. Everyone knew she was the Next Big Thing. But then she wasn't.
Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be is a gritty insider's look at the recording industry.
In other starlet news, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Press Plunges into Hollywood. The latest bathroom reader concentrates on the trials, tribulations and trivia of Tinseltown. The mysteries, mayhem and majesty of the movies and their makers share the screen (or page) with the quotes, puzzles, quizzes and bits of lore that readers have come to expect from Uncle John's.
“Hooray for Hollywood”
Family Literacy Day
by monique t
News / January 26, 2006
Tomorrow is Family Literacy Day
Jan. 27
For event listings across Canada visit the ABC Canada website.
Robbie Burns Supper, Haggis and Curiosities
by monique t
January 25, 2006
Today is the birthday of Scotland's national poet, Robbie Burns. Robbie Burns Day is typically celebrated with a special pudding called Haggis, which has been cooked inside a sheep's stomach. If Haggis doesn't sound tasty to you, perhaps the spirit of Scotland shimmering in a glass is the way to celebrate. (Scotland and its Whiskies by Michael Jackson)
Scotch is the world's most widely enjoyed spirit. The substance is barley, grown and malted in places like the Black Isle. This staff of life is transformed from the mundane to the magical by the mountain water, the blossoming heather, the burning peat and the westerly winds. According to legend, the whisky of Scotland was brought from Northern Ireland to the Scottish island of Iona--but it is now being rediscovered in the single-malt bars around the world.
Go beyond the scotch bar and into the hills with Trailblazer's Scottish Highlands: The Hillwalking Guide or Lonely Planet's Scotland guidebook.
Or just settle into an armchair with George Rosie's Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History. Find out what became of the sons of Robert Burns? How did Scotland influence the KKK? Why was a Hebredian island deliberately infested with anthrax? The answers reveal the complexity of Scotland's long, strange story.
So what are you going to do on Robbie Burns Day?
Have a scotch, try some Haggis, read Robbie Burns and call it a day.
But remember, the histories of nations are never as simple as their legends suggest.
Lonely Planet Bluelist 06-07
by monique t
Travel / January 24, 2006
Lonely Planet Bluelist
618 Things To Do And Places To Go. 06-07.
Looking for a travel destination or something to do in 2006? Check out the Lonely Planet Bluelist for "Things" such as Most History per Square Mile, Best Places to See Wildlife, Most Awesome Treks, Best Road Trips, Most Gruelling Events and Dodgiest Scams.
Looking for "Places", Bluelist has got the best places to go in the Americas, Asia, Australasia & Pacific, Europe, Middle East & North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Don't see your favourite list in Bluelist? Create your own and enter the contest to be a Lonely Planet writer.
See contest details (ends Feb. 28).
Family Literacy Week: VPL Event
by monique t
News / January 24, 2006
The Vancouver Public Library is holding a Family Literacy Week event on Wednesday, January 25:
Raising the Critically Thinking Child--The School Library as Catalyst
The Family Literacy Week event features a panel of experts discussing critical thinking, the importance of the school library program, and the role of parents in raising an aware child.
Panel members include:
Joel Bakan--Professor, Faculty of Law at UBC, and author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Patricia Finlay--District Teacher-Librarian, Burnaby
Roland Case--Professor of Curriculum and Social Studies at SFU, and Executive Director, The Criticial Thinking Consortium
For more information please contact Vancouver Public Library at 604-331-3603 or via email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The event is sponsored by Literacy BC and BC Coalition for School Libraries
Wednesday January 25
7:30 pm
Vancouver Public Library
Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street
Free Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
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