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{Contents} heritage house 2 rmbo | r Cky mountain books 28 touChwood editions 42 greystone books 58 agenCy titles 72 heritage house 80 Selected Highlights rmbo | r Cky mountain books 84 Selected Highlights touChwood editions 88 Selected Highlights greystone books 92 Selected Highlights agenCy Clients 96 Selected Highlights index 100 heritage house A Matter of Confidence The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC Robert Shaw A breathtaking behind-the-scenes look at the dramatic rise and fall of Christy Clark’s BC Liberals, the return to power of the NDP, and what it means for British Columbia’s volatile political climate going forward. British Columbia’s political arena has always been the site of dramatic rises and falls, infighting, scandal, and come-from-behind victories. However, no one was prepared for the historic events of spring 2017, when the Liberal government of Christy Clark, one of the most polarizing premiers in recent history, was toppled. A Matter of Confidence gives readers an insider’s look at the overconfi- dence that fuelled the rise and fall of Clark’s premiership and the historic non-confidence vote that defeated her government and ended her political Local Interest (BC) / Politics career. Beginning with this pivotal moment, the book goes back and chron- Heritage House Publishing • March 2018 icles the downfall of Clark’s predecessor, Gordon Campbell, which led to 5.5 x 8.5, 336 pages, b&w photo sections 9781772032543 • softcover • $22.95 her unlikely victory in 2013, and traces the events leading up to her defeat Ebook also available at the hands of her ndP and Green opponents. Told by reporter Robert Author’s home: Victoria, BC, Canada RIGHTS HELD: World, all languages Shaw, who covered every moment of the election cycle, and illustrated by BISAC: candid and extensive interviews with political insiders from both sides of POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / General POL056000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian the aisle—including Christy Clark and John Horgan—this book is a must- POL052000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics read for anyone who cares about bC politics and the future of the province. MARKETING & PROMO: • Regional and subject-specific print features, Robert Shaw has covered the BC legislature since 2009, first as the legislative excerpts, review coverage, broadcast and reporter for the Victoria Times Colonist and currently as the legislative columnist television interviews for the Vancouver Sun. His stories have appeared in local and national newspapers • Regional and subject-specific blogger outreach, through the Postmedia News chain. online ads and social media campaigns • Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements • Regional author tour • Excerpts available OF RELATED INTEREST Christy Clark The Mighty Hughes 9781772031065, $32.95 9781772032055, $32.95 2 heritagehouse.Ca heritage house heritagehouse.Ca 3 heritage house The Flora and Fauna of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest Collin Varner A complete full-colour resource guide to more than eight hundred plant and animal species of the coastal Pacific Northwest. The Flora and Fauna of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest is an extensive, easy-to-follow resource guide to the plant and animal life of the vast and diverse bioregion stretching from Juneau, Alaska, south to coastal British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, down to California’s San Francisco Bay. Encompassing over eight hundred native Nature / Guidebook and invasive species, and including more than two thousand colour photos, Heritage House Publishing • June 2018 this is the most complete book of its kind on the market. 7.5 x 10, 448 pages, full colour throughout 9781772030914 • softcover • $39.95 The book is divided into flora and fauna, with detailed subsections for Ebook not available flowering plants, berries, ferns, shrubs and bushes, trees, funghi, birds, Author’s home: Vancouver, BC, Canada mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and insects. Each species (identified by RIGHTS HELD: World, all languages BISAC: common and scientific name) is illustrated by clear photography and a NAT049000 NATURE / Regional concise description of its appearance, biology, and habitat, as well as its NAT026000 NATURE / Plants / General NAT001000 NATURE / Animals / General traditional use and medicinal properties (where applicable). The book MARKETING & PROMO: also contains detailed maps, a glossary, and a complete index of species. • Regional print features, excerpts, review coverage, broadcast and television interviews Collin Varner is a horticulturalist and arboriculturalist, and the head of the • Subject-specific print features, excerpts, review Horticulture Department at the University of British Columbia. He is also a keen coverage, broadcast and television interviews • Blogger outreach, online ads and social hiker, photographer, and illustrator who spends a lot of his time scouring the coastal media campaigns forests of Cascadia, examining, photographing, and drawing the flora and fauna. He • Blad available lives in Vancouver, BC. OF RELATED INTEREST Haida Gwaii 9781772031225, $24.95 4 heritagehouse.Ca heritage house heritagehouse.Ca 5 heritage house Birds of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest A Complete Guide, Revised Edition Richard Cannings, Tom Aversa, and Hal Opperman The essential bestselling field guide to every bird species found in BC and the Pacific Northwest, now revised and updated. “An essential reference for birders west of the continental divide, particularly for intermediate and advanced observers.”—Eugene Hunn, Western Birds: The Quarterly Journal of Western Field Ornithologists Discover more than four hundred bird species in Birds of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest—the quintessential guide for serious birders. In this newly revised and updated edition, Richard Cannings, Tom Aversa, and Hal Opperman illuminate key identification traits, vocalizations, Nature / Guidebook seasonal status, habitat preferences, and feeding behaviours. Full-page Heritage House Publishing • March 2018 accounts include maps and nine hundred photographs. With a wide ter- 5.5 x 8.5, 464 pages, full colour throughout 9781772031614 • softcover • $29.95 ritorial range that covers much of bC through to southern Oregon and Ebook also available the Rocky Mountain crest west beyond the Pacific coast, this is the most Cannings’s home: Penticton, BC, Canada Aversa’s home: Unity, ME, USA complete and comprehensive portable guide of its kind on the market. Opperman’s home: Seattle, WA, USA Rights: World (excluding US), all languages Richard Cannings is a renowned naturalist, conservationist, and bird expert. He is BISAC: the author of Birds of Interior BC and the Rockies, An Enchantment of Birds, and The NAT004000 NATURE / Birdwatching Guides NAT043000 NATURE / Animals / Birds Rockies: A Natural History, and is coauthor of Birds of Southwestern British Columbia, NAT049000 NATURE / Regional Best Places to Bird in British Columbia, and British Columbia: A Natural History. MARKETING & PROMO: • Subject-specific blogger outreach, online ads and Tom Aversa is the coauthor of Birds of Southwestern British Columbia, Birds of the social media campaigns Puget Sound Region, and Birds of the Willamette Valley Region. • Blad available Hal Opperman is the principal author of A Birder’s Guide to Washington and coauthor of Birds of Southwestern British Columbia, Birds of the Puget Sound Region, and Birds of the Willamette Valley Region. OF RELATED INTEREST Birds of Southwestern BC Birds of Interior BC 9781894384964, $19.95 and the Rockies 9781894974592, $19.95 6 heritagehouse.Ca heritage house Male • WA (King County)—Jun • Female • BC (Coquitlam)—Jun Male • OR (Multnomah County)—Apr Female • OR (Washington County)—May • . Male • California—Mar • Rufous Hummingbird Allen’s Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus Selasphorus sasin 3.5 in/8.5 cm. Male: Rufous crown, back, 3.5 in/8.5 cm. Male: Resembles typical rump; in small percentage of individuals, back may have male Rufous Hummingbird (p. 264) but crown, back, varying amounts of green. Iridescent orange-red gor- rump green; in some individuals, rump may be more get. Upper breast white, underparts rufous. Tail rufous or less rufous. Female/immature: Indistinguishable with green tip. Female: Upperparts green. Throat plain from Rufous in fi eld. white or streaked with greenish dots; orange-red feath- Consult technical manuals for distinguishing Allen’s from ering varies from none to solid spot. Underparts whitish, rufous sides Rufous tail . Rufous by subtle differences of measurements within age, sex classes. Green- base; outer rectrices have white tips. Immature: Resembles female. backed, rufous-rumped males could be either species; hybrids exist. Male territorial Treated under Allen’s Hummingbird (p. 265). display (described below) usually diagnostic within small area of range overlap. Female Broad-tailed (p. 262) has narrow, complete eye-ring; longer tail, broader Breeds southern Alaska to OR, ID; winters mostly central than female Rufous/Allen’s, with rufous base on outer (versus all) tail feathers. Mexico. Regular vagrant across continent. In PNW, common coastal-slope breeder Calliope (p. 263) smaller than either; shorter tail with little or no rufous. (including Haida Gwaii); fairly common to common interior BC, eastern WA; fairly common northeastern OR, central ID/Panhandle, northwestern MT; uncommon Breeds coastally, southwestern OR–southern California; eastern slope OR Cascades;

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