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A new perspective on developing shared joy in urban spaces.Our divided society is quickly reaching crisis level. We are no longer able to sustain social and economic prosperity nor ensure democracy. Fuelling this crisis is a growing sense of social isolation caused by the divisive nature of social media and the decline of infrastructure that used to bring communities together.But there is hope for rebuilding our collaborative society, and it is found in our mid-sized urban areas. These towns and cities offer a scale that can tangibly change the quality of our lives and an intimacy that allows us to influence what our communities can become. Changing cities can change the world!In The Joy Experiments, real estate developer Scott Higgins and creative mind Paul Kalbfleisch use their own mid-sized city-building experiences to present a new way for citizens to engage with their city, and an urban planning strategy that prioritizes infrastructure for the human spirit.

A controversial psychiatrist is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be merely a mugging gone wrong, but Inspector Green's complex investigation leaves him grappling with the ultimate meaning of justice.

Summer is filled with great stories. Epic tree forts and frog collections, terrifying walks to the outhouse, embarrassing first kisses at summer camp, and scary stories for the campfire. The conclusion of "The Poop Trilogy" delivers them all with humour and heart for the perfect summer reading for the whole family.

The insight and creativity of a few courageous men and women transformed medical science. Dr. Murphy captures the mind of the inventor, their tenacity and determination, and explains how establishing a culture of creativity and collaboration is essential in allowing these talents to take flight.

Police academy dropout Patrick Bird mostly works divorce cases as a private investigator, until the case of missing sixteen-year-old Abbie Linklater and all the trouble that comes with her.

Renowned travel personality Robin Esrock has spent decades chasing the extraordinary. With storytelling, humour, and curiosity, his updated and expanded guide to the best of British Columbia and Alberta explores experiences that are unique, instantly memorable, wholly inspirational, and waiting to be discovered.

The first-ever biography of Patty Conklin, the founder of the world's largest carnival company, and the story of the show's expansion under his son and grandson. Carnie King is a vivid account of three generations of showmen and their dominance of the midways across North America.

After the recent turmoil, life in Tyee Lagoon has calmed down, as much as it ever does, and Tony Vicar faces his toughest challenge yet: the unglamorous, unwelcome state called "normality" as a business owner and parent. But when a dangerous femme fatale returns, Vicar must confront what he truly wants from life.

A portrait of Luisa Abrego, a freed slave who became the first woman of mixed race to marry a white man in 16th century Spain. She is tried by the Inquisition for bigamy. Luisa has been voiceless in history, so her story is told through the memories of Europeans who encountered her.

A teenager sets out to meet her lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Days later her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, while Inspector Green suspects a personal connection. His search for answers draws him into the world of elite young hockey players, drugs, and teen sexuality.

On June 27, 1918, a Canadian military hospital ship was torpedoed by U-Boat 86, a German submarine. The sub commander tried to kill all the survivors -- but failed. The attack was adjudicated at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials resulting in a historic legal precedent that guided subsequent war crime prosecutions.

Fourteen-year-old Joey Philion's incredible survival from a fire that burned 95 percent of his body made him the second most famous Canadian of 1988. Yet Joey's survival took an enormous toll on him, his mother Linda, stepfather Mike, and younger brother Danny in the years that followed.

The story of Kanao Inouye, a Japanese Canadian born in Kamloops, B.C. in 1916, the "Kamloops Kid" moved to Japan where he became a translator assigned to a prisoner of war camp in Hong Kong where he took his revenge on scores of soldiers.

Ernest Hemingway is struggling. Will impending fatherhood and leaving Paris mean the loss of his fledgling writing career? But as a Toronto Daily Star reporter, he's sent to cover a daring prison break and becomes fascinated with the escaped convicts, asking: What is freedom? Duty? What stops a man from pursuing his dreams?

With her essay collection Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, Blizzard explores the spaces where art, music, spirit, ecology, race and culture collide. With prose and the tools of poetry, she negotiates the complexities of culture, geography and language in an international diasporic quest.

In the Background gives advice on courses and casting, and how to prepare before shooting begins. It describes the joy and the fear, the pleasures and the pain, the challenge and the boredom of life on set. Wardrobe, taxes, files, resumes, the myriad details of the performer's life.

Bookstore clerk Rosalie Cairns was the one who found the body at the edge of the river; why did that make her a suspect?

In the summer of 1993, people in Ontario were shocked by one of the most bizarre murders in the province's history. A patient at the Brockville psychiatric hospital was brutally killed in a forest grove on the grounds of the institution. One of the killers, a nearly blind psychiatric patient, walked into a nearby police station and turned himself in. The other murderer lay near the body in a sleeping bag, drugged into unconsciousness. Police found that the myopic suspect is one of the Canada's most dangerous killers, David Michael Krueger. His accomplice was Bruce Hamill, a murderer who had been freed after years of treatment at Penatanguishene's Oak Ridge Institution for the criminally insane. Brockville hospital authorities had let Hamill escort Krueger on his first day pass in thirty-five years. How could this killing have happened? The bizarre story of Krueger's life unfolds in this tightly-written book. It explores how Krueger allowed his strange fantasies to run his own life and how he was able to dupe psychiatrists, lawyers, and fellow inmates of the country's toughest institution into doing his bidding.

The road to this new understanding of how a cell works and what makes it malignant has not always been easy, but the great achievements are undeniable. With today's cell biology comes the promise of a totally new kind of treatment.

Contrary to popular belief, ghosts do not necessarily reside in draughty old castles and ancient graveyards. In this book, the author has collected ghost stories specifically from Alberta where she has discovered strange tales of hauntings in schools, restaurants, theatres, hotels, government buildings and modern houses from Calgary and Edmonton to rural areas and the Rocky Mountains. Several spine-tingling tales are legendary accounts of native spirits who still inhabit the land.In Edmonton, two former firehalls are widely reputed to be haunted; the McKay Avenue School is said to have at least half a dozen spirits; and employees of radio station CKUA have experienced a ghostly presence. "Alberta's Most Haunted Place" is probably the Deane House and Tea Room at Fort Calgary, where a number of different ghosts are taken for granted by the staff.This eerie collection of supernatural tales includes, among others, the story of the Medicine Hat ghost train; the strange phenomena in a rural "castle" that cannot drive its owner away; the hauntings of the Banff Springs Hotel; the ghostly arsonist in a photograph at Chateau Lake Louise; evil ghosts of the Alberta Badlands; the beautiful lady in white who haunts Prince House in Heritage Park; the Canmore Opera House spirits; and the ghostly bookworm.

Personal accounts of the mysterious in Canada.

Behind the scenes of Parliament Hill: examining the architecture, heraldry, and history of the buildings.

This richly illustrated volume explores the history of a cattle town that grew to be so much more.

Eight intriguing Alberta crimes are dramatically presented in this well-researched book.

Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in Canada. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary interests.

A story of three Buddhist monks based on a traditional Chinese folk tale about cooperation.

An account of Bill Harshaws struggle to accept his new life, from early denial to experimental neurosurgery.

Edward Zawadzki, Canadas Ultimate Sports Trivia Guy, brings together this dynamic collection of facts and oddities from the world of sports.