Take a page from our book - literally! Get a sneak peek between the covers and read excerpts from our selection of books below.
The Volunteer
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; History - Israel; Religion
978-0-7710-7777-7 (0-7710-7777-7)
April 29, 2008 | $22.99
Once I passed the tests, my training began. I was told to present myself with personal effects suitable for a two-night stay in Tel Aviv. The address turned out to be a well-appointed apartment, where I was met by a half-dozen men and women who looked me over with bemused detachment...
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; History - Israel; Religion
978-0-7710-7777-7 (0-7710-7777-7)
April 29, 2008 | $22.99
Once I passed the tests, my training began. I was told to present myself with personal effects suitable for a two-night stay in Tel Aviv. The address turned out to be a well-appointed apartment, where I was met by a half-dozen men and women who looked me over with bemused detachment...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Art of Clairtone
Hardcover | 176 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Art - Design - Furniture; Architecture - Interior Design; Antiques & Collectibles - Canadiana
978-0-7710-6507-1 (0-7710-6507-8)
April 22, 2008 | $45.00
I was born under a falling star, in 1967, the year Clairtone Sound Corporation collapsed. My father remembers it as the worst year of his life. Clairtone was his first company, his “first love,” he once called it nostalgically. Measured coldly in dollars and cents, it was his smallest and least-successful...
Hardcover | 176 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Art - Design - Furniture; Architecture - Interior Design; Antiques & Collectibles - Canadiana
978-0-7710-6507-1 (0-7710-6507-8)
April 22, 2008 | $45.00
I was born under a falling star, in 1967, the year Clairtone Sound Corporation collapsed. My father remembers it as the worst year of his life. Clairtone was his first company, his “first love,” he once called it nostalgically. Measured coldly in dollars and cents, it was his smallest and least-successful...
Risk
Hardcover | 408 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Social Science - Media Studies; Political Science; Psychology & Psychiatry
978-0-7710-3299-8 (0-7710-3299-4)
April 15, 2008 | $34.99
Risk and fear are hot topics among sociologists, who have come to a broad consensus that those of us living in modern countries worry more than previous generations. Some say we live in a culture of fear. Terrorists, Internet stalkers, crystal meth, avian flu, genetically modified organisms, contaminated food: New threats...
Hardcover | 408 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Social Science - Media Studies; Political Science; Psychology & Psychiatry
978-0-7710-3299-8 (0-7710-3299-4)
April 15, 2008 | $34.99
Risk and fear are hot topics among sociologists, who have come to a broad consensus that those of us living in modern countries worry more than previous generations. Some say we live in a culture of fear. Terrorists, Internet stalkers, crystal meth, avian flu, genetically modified organisms, contaminated food: New threats...
The Architecture of Happiness
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Philosophy; Architecture - Criticism; Social Science
978-0-7710-2607-2 (0-7710-2607-2)
April 8, 2008 | $22.99
I. The Significance of Architecture
1.
A terraced house on a tree-lined street. Earlier today, the house rang with the sound of children's cries and adult voices, but since the last occupant took off (with her satchel) a few hours ago, it has been left to sample the morning by itself...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Philosophy; Architecture - Criticism; Social Science
978-0-7710-2607-2 (0-7710-2607-2)
April 8, 2008 | $22.99
I. The Significance of Architecture
1.
A terraced house on a tree-lined street. Earlier today, the house rang with the sound of children's cries and adult voices, but since the last occupant took off (with her satchel) a few hours ago, it has been left to sample the morning by itself...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek
Hardcover | 292 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Nature - Bears; Nature - Wildlife; Nature - Mountains
978-0-7710-5699-4 (0-7710-5699-0)
April 8, 2008 | $34.99
There are trails near the timberline, connecting between the ranges, whose purpose is known to very few, because they are not part of the trail system used by humans. Known as bear roads, they tunnel through the krummholz and slide alder where most people stop, baffled, unwilling to get down on...
Hardcover | 292 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Nature - Bears; Nature - Wildlife; Nature - Mountains
978-0-7710-5699-4 (0-7710-5699-0)
April 8, 2008 | $34.99
There are trails near the timberline, connecting between the ranges, whose purpose is known to very few, because they are not part of the trail system used by humans. Known as bear roads, they tunnel through the krummholz and slide alder where most people stop, baffled, unwilling to get down on...
Essays in Love
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Philosophy; Family & Relationships - Love & Romance; Social Science
978-0-7710-2606-5 (0-7710-2606-4)
April 8, 2008 | $21.99
Authenticity
1. It is one of the ironies of love that it is easiest confidently to seduce those to whom we are least attracted. My feelings for Chloe meant I lost any belief in my own worthiness. Who could I be next to her? Was it not the greatest honour for her...
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Philosophy; Family & Relationships - Love & Romance; Social Science
978-0-7710-2606-5 (0-7710-2606-4)
April 8, 2008 | $21.99
Authenticity
1. It is one of the ironies of love that it is easiest confidently to seduce those to whom we are least attracted. My feelings for Chloe meant I lost any belief in my own worthiness. Who could I be next to her? Was it not the greatest honour for her...
Leonard Woolf
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-7710-3565-4 (0-7710-3565-9)
April 1, 2008 | $24.99
1
In the Beginning
Having a child is problematic, wrote Leonard Woolf when in his eighties, and childless. It concerns the “new human being” as much as its parents, since this new human being is born without having given its consent. One should think twice, “from the point of view of the hypothetical...
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-7710-3565-4 (0-7710-3565-9)
April 1, 2008 | $24.99
1
In the Beginning
Having a child is problematic, wrote Leonard Woolf when in his eighties, and childless. It concerns the “new human being” as much as its parents, since this new human being is born without having given its consent. One should think twice, “from the point of view of the hypothetical...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Stone Angel
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-4708-4 (0-7710-4708-8)
March 2, 2004 | $22.99
Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. I wonder if she stands there yet, in memory of her who relinquished her feeble ghost as I gained my stubborn one, my mother’s angel that my father bought in pride to mark her bones and proclaim his...
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-4708-4 (0-7710-4708-8)
March 2, 2004 | $22.99
Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. I wonder if she stands there yet, in memory of her who relinquished her feeble ghost as I gained my stubborn one, my mother’s angel that my father bought in pride to mark her bones and proclaim his...
Also available as a
paperback.
