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CONTENTS NEW ADULT TITLES Drug Trial Secrets ..........................................................3 Getting to Zero .............................................................4 The Age of Increasing Inequality ................................... 5 Damming the Peace .....................................................6 Paddling the Grand River, Sixth edition .........................7 Casa Loma ....................................................................7 Bluenose .......................................................................8 Winners ........................................................................9 Halifax Explosion .........................................................10 Black Donnellys ...........................................................10 Alexander Graham Bell ............................................... 11 The Channel Shore .....................................................11 The Chowder Trail Cookbook ......................................12 RECENT RELEASES Adult ......................................................................13-14 Children and Teens .....................................................15 SALES AND ORDERING ........................................BACK COVER ADULT NEW TITLES Drug Trial Secrets How drug companies, medical journals and regulators hide the dangers of blockbuster drugs your doctor prescribes David Healy, Joanna Le Noury, Dee Mangin, and Julie Wood A behind-the-scenes look at drug trials – where drug companies and medical researchers work together to make new drugs look good, even when they’re dangerous Drug Trial Secrets tells the story of the most famous clinical drug trial of all time – the only trial to lead to a fraud charge, as well as the biggest drug company fine in history. GlaxoSmithKline paid for Study 329, the clinical trial of their antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) in the 1990s, and the resulting research was published in the Journal of the American Association of Child Adolescent Psychiatry. The article claimed the drug was effective and safe – even though GSK knew from the research that Paxil didn’t work for children and was harmful. In 2004, New York State charged the company with fraud because LORIMER of this publication. It wouldn't be until 2012 when the Department of PSY022000 PSYCHOLOGY / Justice also charged GSK with fraud and failure to report safety data that Psychopathology / General GSK settled and paid a giant $3 billion fine. 6” x 9” But perhaps the most important result was that independent researchers 224 pages were given access to the full, original records of the clinical trial and paper: 978-1-4594-1310-8, $24.95 relating documents. David Healy and his co-authors spent thousands of epub: 978-1-4594-1311-5, $16.95 May 2018 publication hours re-analyzing the raw data, and in this book they describe exactly how GSK and the medical professionals who claimed authorship of the journal article manipulated the data to produce the false result they wanted. They also document the battle they finally won to get the British Medical Journal to publish a re-write of the original study – thirteen years later! A gripping true-crime narrative, Drug Trial Secrets will leave readers with many questions about the reliability of drug company trials and research by medical professionals funded by drug companies. Of related interest DAvID HEALY is an internationally respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist and author. Professor of psychiatry at Bangor University, Healy is a leading Doctors in Denial: Why Big Pharma chronicler of psychotropic drugs and their controversies. He lives in Beaumaris, and the Canadian Wales. JOANNA LE NOURY is a Senior Research Fellow at Bangor University, medical profession and the first author on the Restored Study 329. She lives in Llanfairfechan, are too close for Wales. DEE MANGIN is the David Braley and Nancy Gordon Chair of Family comfort Joel Lexchin Medicine at McMaster University and creator of TaperMD, an online tool to 978-1-4594-1244-6 assist patients having a medication review with their doctors. She lives in Dundas, paper, $24.95 Ontario. JULIE WOOD was an accountant until one of her sons committed suicide on an SSRI. With her husband, Peter, she then helped set up RxISK.org and created the Study329.org website. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. www.formaclorimerbooks.ca • LORIMER • 3 NEW TITLES ADULT Getting to Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming Tony Clarke How Canada can achieve its ambitious goals to limit climate change — and what ordinary citizens can do to ensure serious government action Canada is finally coming to terms with global warming and the need for action by governments, corporations and the public.With the federal government out of denial, provinces recognizing the need for action, multinational companies jockeying for praise as environmental stewards, and ordinary Canadians more willing than ever to reduce their carbon footprint, Canada is joining the ranks of countries that are tackling global warming. This commitment may well be strong enough to withstand pressure to abandon action plans and fight against the path of the Trump administration. In this book, long-time environmentalist and activist Tony Clarke provides the background and analysis of the challenging situation Canada faces. He documents the key initiatives that are moving Canada towards a low-carbon future, as well as pointing to the contradictions between these measures and government decisions that enable the oil industry’s business-as-usual approach. LORIMER As a participant in events surrounding the 2015 Paris climate summit POL044000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / and as a critic of Alberta’s heedless oil sands expansion in his book Tar Sands Public Policy / Environmental Policy Showdown, Tony Clarke combines a deep understanding of environmental issues 6” x 9” 224 pages with knowledge of Canada’s economic and political structure. He champions paper: 978-1-4594-1079-4, $24.95 the role of ordinary citizens in environmental issues, and considers citizen action epub: 978-1-4594-1089-3, $14.95 to be key in determining how effective Canada’s response is to global warming. May 2018 publication He also points to the many initiatives from startup companies, environmental Previously announced groups, and individuals focused on getting Canada closer to zero emissions. TONY CLARKE is the founder and director of the Polaris Institute in Ottawa, an organization dedicated to developing tools and strategies for civic action on major public policy issues, including energy security, water rights, and free trade. He holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago and is the recipient of Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, the “alternative Nobel Prize.” Among his most recent books is Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water with Maude Barlow. He lives in Ottawa. Of related interest Tar Sands Canada After Harper: Showdown: His ideology-fuelled Canada and attack on Canadian the New society and values, Politics of Oil and how we can in an Age now work to create of Climate the country we want Change Edited by Ed Finn Tony Clarke 978-1-4594-0943-9 978-1-5527-7018-4 paper, $22.95 paper, $19.95 4 • LORIMER • www.formaclorimerbooks.ca ADULT NEW TITLES The Age of Increasing Inequality The astonishing rise of Canada’s 1% Lars Osberg A distinguished economist breaks the silence and explains why most Canadians are stuck – while a few grow rapidly more wealthy Canada is in a new era. For 35 years, the country has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. For the top 1%, and even more for the top 0.1%, the last 35 years have been a bonanza. Canadians know very well that there’s a huge problem. It’s expressed in resistance to tax increases, concerns over unaffordable housing, demands for higher minimum wages, and pressure for action on the lack of good full time jobs for new graduates. For politicians, for the country’s leading citizens, for think tanks and business and economics commentators, this is awkward. So rising inequality is rarely mentioned in celebrations of economic growth, higher real estate prices, and increases in the value of stocks. Finally, a distinguished Canadian economist is breaking the silence LORIMER with a compelling and readable account which describes and explains this SOC050000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / new age of increasing inequality. Lars Osberg looks separately at the top, Social Classes & Economic Disparity middle and bottom of Canadian incomes. He provides new data which 6” x 9” will surprise, even shock, many readers. He explains how trade deals have 224 pages contributed to putting a lid on incomes for workers. The gradual decline hardcover: 978-1-4594-1313-9, $29.95 of unions in the private sector has also been a factor. On the other end epub: 978-1-4594-1314-6, $16.95 May 2018 publication of the scale, he explains the factors that lead to growing high salaries for corporate executives, managers, and some fortunate professionals. Lars Osberg believes that increasing inequality is bad for the country, and its unfairness is toxic to public life. But there is nothing inevitable about this, and he points to innovative measures that would produce a fairer distribution of wealth among all Canadians. LARS OSBERG is a Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University with research interests in labour economics and income and wealth distribution. Of related interest He received his PhD in Economics from Yale University and has published numerous articles in academic journals and seven