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Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant
The Age of Persuasion
“A lively, anecdotal primer…filled with smart and breezy tales told from an insider’s perspective.”Washington Post “O’Reilly and Tennant are exceptionally talented writers…In a straightforward, popular style, The Age of Persuasion is an easy-to-read and often subversive primer on marketing, advertising, and branding.”Globe & Mail “[A]n instant classic on media literacy.”Movie Entertainment “O’Reilly and Tennant offer a witty…
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Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant
This I Know
Terry O’Reilly has won hundreds of advertising awards as a copywriter and commercial director, and is the co-founder of Pirate Radio & Television. Under the Influence is broadcast on CBC Radio and WBEZ Chicago. His audience abroad includes listeners in Britain, Germany, France, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, Japan, China, Philippines and Mexico. The New York Festival awarded the show…
Read MoreDOWN & DIRTY BIRDING
“…a fascinating, funny and truly wild book… Down & Dirty Birding is…Dave Barry does birds.”Mike Capuzzo, author of Wild Things Key Porter Can/96Simon and Schuster US/96 DOWN & DIRTY BIRDING Birdwatching is not for the faint of spirit, writes Joey Slinger, an award-winning humorist and a serious birdwatcher. This unique guide will beguile and lead the beginner, instruct…
Read MorePUNCH LINE
“Finally! Joey Slinger has written his first novel–and it’s about damn time. Punch Line is a raucous tale, deftly told, of murder and its machinations, set in a nursing home peopled entirely with eccentrics. A terrific read.”Will Ferguson “Joey Slinger lures you into an ominous geriatric world where you shudder and wince in those moments when you’re not…
Read MoreNina, The Bandit Queen
Joey Slinger’s wild and dark imagination, his subversive humor, and his surprising arcs of fancy have attracted passionate fans to his humor column which appeared several times a week in the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper. He has published two collections of his columns: No Axe Too Small to Grind, which won the Leacock Medal for Humour and If…
Read MoreWritten In The Flesh
Edward Shorter, American-born, who earned his PhD at Harvard is a renowned scholar and author. His plethora of books include the classic work A History of Women’s Bodies (Basic), A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (Wiley) a new works, The Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (Oxford University Press) and Shock Therapy with David Healy (Rutgers University Press).…
Read MoreA Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Edward Shorter, American-born, who earned his PhD at Harvard is a renowned scholar and author. His plethora of books include the classic work A History of Women’s Bodies (Basic), A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (Wiley) a new works, The Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (Oxford University Press), and Written In The Flesh: The…
Read MoreShock Therapy
Edward Shorter, American-born, who earned his PhD at Harvard is a renowned scholar and author. His plethora of books include the classic work A History of Women’s Bodies (Basic), A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (Wiley) a new works, The Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (Oxford University Press), and Written In The Flesh: The…
Read MoreBefore Prozac
Edward Shorter, American-born, who earned his PhD at Harvard is a renowned scholar and author. His plethora of books include the classic work A History of Women’s Bodies (Basic), A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (Wiley) a new works, The Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (Oxford University Press), Written In The Flesh: The History…
Read MoreHow Everyone Became Depressed
Edward Shorter, American-born, who earned his PhD at Harvard is a renowned scholar and author. His plethora of books include the classic work A History of Women’s Bodies (Basic), A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (Wiley) a new works, The Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (Oxford University Press), Written In The Flesh: The History…
Read MoreThe Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia
Edward Shorter is a medical historian who has written and published widely about psychiatry. Among his many published works is Endocrine Psychiatry, written with Max Fink and published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Max Fink is a clinician whose writings on melancholia, catatonia, and convulsive therapy have been internationally recognized. “Some phrases are so literary that one cannot resist…
Read MoreThe Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia
Edward Shorter is a medical historian who has written and published widely about psychiatry. Among his many published works is Endocrine Psychiatry, written with Max Fink and published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Max Fink is a clinician whose writings on melancholia, catatonia, and convulsive therapy have been internationally recognized. “Some phrases are so literary that one cannot resist…
Read MoreLAWYERS GONE BAD
“Slayton’s critique shows an insider’s awareness of the legal profession’s most pressing problems.â€â€¨Globe and Mail “…smart and lively… Slayton’s credentials… make him just the man to figure out why lawyers who go bad do so.â€â€¨Toronto Star “Slayton knows how to tell a human-interest, human frailty tale. And he seamlessly interweaves his larcenous-or-libidinous-lawyer stories with the…
Read MoreMighty Judgment
Praise for Lawyers Gone Bad “Slayton’s critique shows an insider’s awareness of the legal profession’s most pressing problems.â€â€¨Globe and Mail “…smart and lively… Slayton’s credentials… make him just the man to figure out why lawyers who go bad do so.â€â€¨Toronto Star “Slayton knows how to tell a human-interest, human frailty tale. And he seamlessly interweaves his…
Read MoreTHE TEMPTATION OF VICTOR GALANTI
McClelland and Stewart(CAN) THE TEMPTATION OF VICTOR GALANTI “Captivating, bristling with an almost Swiftian wit” — the roller coaster career of an American politician. Backlisted
Read MoreCLAPP’S ROCK
McClelland and Stewart (CAN)Overlook Press (US) CLAPP’S ROCK A comic novel of politics, sex and power set in Newfoundland, Canada’s distinct island province in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Backlisted
Read MoreStruck by Lightning
“Jeffrey Rosenthal’sdelightful book will enhance your feelings for probability and its odd relevance to so many aspects of life. If you read it you will almost certainly not be struck by lightning.â€John Allen PaulosAuthor of Innumeracy HarperCollins Canada/World Rights Fall 2005 Joseph Henry/National Academies Press U.S. 2006 Australia Broadcasting Corp.Australia 2006 Longanesi & C. Societa Editrice AsA Italy 2006 BuPyo…
Read MoreKnock on Wood
Jeffrey Rosenthal is a professor of statistics at the University of Toronto. He has been awarded the CRM-SSC Prize, the SSC Gold Medal, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the COPSS Presidents’ Award. He has also received teaching awards at both Harvard and U of T. Rosenthal’s…
Read MoreA KIDNAPPED MIND
“A Kidnapped Mind by Pamela Richardson is a wake-up call to anyone who has ever been involved with divorcing families. By chronicling her son’s desperate attempt to survive the fallout of a court’s custody decision, Richardson raises serious questions about what is ‘in a child’s best interests.’ She also challenges the court’s ability to even…
Read MoreRoberta Rich
Praise for The Midwife of Venice: “Roberta Rich introduces a unique heroine, and her wry humour leavens a serious subject. Not wholly an intense social drama or an over-the-top adventure, The Midwife of Venice is a quirky blend of both.”Globe & Mail “The Midwife of Venice is a compelling and engaging novel, a well-researched high-stakes drama written with elegance…
Read MoreRoberta Rich
“Rich describes the opulence of royal life in Constantinople set against conspiracy and betrayal… the more heavenly the surroundings, the more treacherous the characters.â€Toronto Star “The details of 16th-century life in Constantinople are delightfully portrayed, the storyline is compelling …. The Harem Midwife is an entertaining read, sure to please those who enjoyed The Midwife of…
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