Spring 2018 Contents New Books 1 Recent 11 Essential Backlist 17 Non-Fiction 17 The Complete World of Emily Carr 19 Farley Mowat Library 19 History 20 Derek Hayes Library 21 Mark Zuehlke’s Canadian Battle Series 21 Northwest Coast 22 First Nations and Inuit Art 22 Art 23 The Art of Douglas Coupland 23 Architecture 23 Cooking & Gardening 24 Humour 24 Fiction 25 Print on Demand 25 Books in Print 26 Author Index 29 Information for all books in print including book description, author information, cover, and up-to-date price and availability is listed on our website, www.douglas-mcintyre.com. All prices equivalent in US dollars unless otherwise noted. All prices and specifications subject to change without notice. coVer image: Photo by Mike Lascelle, from Extraordinary Ornamental Edibles: 100 Perennials, Trees, Shrubs and Vines for Canadian Gardens by Mike Lascelle. Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd. acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. We also gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Government of Canada and from the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit. Awesome Ancient Grains and Seeds A Garden-to-Kitchen Guide DAN JASON AND MICHELE GENEST A backyard-to-table guide to growing and enjoying ancient grains and seeds, featuring fifty vegetarian recipes. Bravo for tomatoes, Beans and kale. But what’s next for the ardent home gardener? Wheats, including farro, spelt and kamut, are surprisingly easy and very rewarding backyard crops. They can be planted as early as the ground can be worked in spring and harvested mid-summer to make room for fall crops. These ancient food sources can be milled for flour, sprouted or eaten as whole grains to retain their natural amino acids, fibre, vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids and probiotics, among other benefits. In addition to wheat, there are also heirloom cultivars of barley and oats that offer an abundant way for gardeners to harvest fibre, protein and carbohydrates. Buckwheat makes an excellent grain substitute and attracts many beneficial insects. Seeds like soybeans, flax, amaranth, quinoa and Styrian pumpkin are very high in protein and there are many beautiful types that are easy to grow. Expert gardener Dan Jason provides gardening advice and recommends varieties that are adapted to Canadian conditions. Once the harvest is in, it’s time to celebrate with Michele Genest’s fifty vibrant vegetarian recipes featuring the garden’s PHOTO BY CHRISTINA SYMONS bounty. Ranging from the simple (Pumpkin Seed Butter Cookies) to the sophisticated (Beet and Triticale Gnocchi with Kale Pesto), the recipes in this exciting garden-to-kitchen volume GARDENING / COOKING will inspire readers to expand their horizons when it comes to January growing and cooking grains and seeds. paper CDN $24.95 DAN JASON is the author of many books, including The Power 8" × 10" · 208 pages of Pulses (Douglas & McIntyre, 2016, with Hilary Malone and 100 colour photos Alison Malone Eathorne). He lives on Salt Spring Island, BC, where Rights Held: World he founded the mail-order seed company Salt Spring Seeds. 978-1-77162-177-9 (paper) 978-1-77162-178-6 (ebook) MICHELE GENEST writes a regular cooking column for Yukon, North of Ordinary Magazine and is the author of two cookbooks, The Boreal Gourmet and The Boreal Feast (Lost Moose, 2010 and 2014). She lives in Whitehorse, Yt. ALSO BY DAN JASON 9 781 77 1 621 779 978-1-77162-102-1 THE POWER OF PULSES Dan Jason, Hilary Malone and Alison Malone Eathorne $24.95 paper DOUGLAS & McINTYRE Spring 2018 | 1 Extraordinary Ornamental Edibles 100 Perennials, Trees, Shrubs and Vines for Canadian Gardens MIKE LASCELLE An inspiring and easy-to-reference A-to-Z guide to growing perennial edibles across Canada. GrowinG Your own food Continues to Gain popularitY, but planting and tending vegetables every year certainly requires more effort than the ease of maintaining a backyard full of well-established hardy perennials. Now, with the help of this volume, gardeners can have the best of both worlds by planning a garden full of edible perennials that are both gorgeous and easy-to-maintain. From Akebia vine, with its scented flowers and tasty purple-skinned seed pods, to shade-loving Japanese Zingiber—there are so many options for Canadian gardeners beyond the traditional veggie plot. One hundred of the most notable trees, shrubs, vines and perennials are highlighted for both their aesthetic and edible appeal, with each entry including such information as ideal PHOTO BY MIKE LASCELLE exposure, water needs, pollination requirements, harvesting and food preparation suggestions. More than just a listing of delicious plants, Extraordinary Ornamental Edibles is also a comprehensive guide to the edible landscape as a whole with sensible information about microclimates, pollinators, pests, ecological concerns, organic gardening tips, container growing, space-saving espaliers for small spaces, propagation, grafting, pruning, and design GARDENING essentials—such as selecting edible ground covers and choosing February plants for fall colour. Also included are culinary suggestions and paper recipes for everything from herbal teas to tempura. CDN $24.95 From cold-tolerant cultivars of exotic fruit such as the new 7" × 9" · 288 pages hardy lemon or yuzu, to surprising varieties of better-known 225 colour photos garden staples, like columnade apple trees suitable to growing in Rights Held: World pots and blueberries that bear pink fruit, this volume details the 978-1-77162-179-3 (paper) full range of unique and exciting options, making it an inspiring 978-1-77162-180-9 (ebook) and easy-to-reference A-to-Z guide to growing extraordinary ornamental edibles across Canada. MIKE LASCELLE is a nursery manager and certified arborist, with a thirty-five-year horticultural background that includes estate gardening, landscape construction and design. He has authored several books on plant selection and garden design, as well as articles for Gardens West, Canadian Gardening, Coastal Grower and GardenWise, and currently writes a biweekly garden column for the Maple Ridge News. He lives in Maple 9 781 77 1 621 793 Ridge, BC. 2 | DOUGLAS & McINTYRE Spring 2018 Excessive Force Toronto’s Fight to Reform City Policing ALOK MUKHERJEE WITH TIM HARPER A book about the present and future of policing in Canada by Alok Mukherjee, the civilian overseer who served ten years as chair of the Toronto Police Services Board. “Policing in North America is not merely at a crossroads. When it comes to maintaining the confidence and trust they need for their legitimacy, our police are teetering at the edge of the cliff.” —from chapter 10, The Way Forward alok mukherjee was the Civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration with Tim Harper, former Toronto Star national affairs columnist, Mukherjee reveals how Police Chief Bill Blair changed the channel after the police-killing of Sammy Yatim. He explains how society has given police tacit approval to cull people in mental health crisis and pulls the curtain back on a police culture which avoids accountability, puts officer safety above public safety, colludes on internal investigations and pushes for use of force over empathy and crisis resolution. The book takes the reader inside the G20 debacle; the police push for an ever-growing budget; the battle over carding, which disproportionately targeted blacks; the police treatment of its CURRENT AFFAIRS own members in mental health distress; and the battles with an March entrenched union that pushed back on Mukherjee’s every move paper toward reform. In spite of, or as a result of all this, Mukherjee CDN $22.95 played a leading role in shaping the national conversation about 6" × 9" · 288 pages policing, sketching a way forward for a new type of policing that Rights Held: World brings law enforcement out of the nineteenth century and into 978-1-77162-183-0 (paper) the twenty-first century. 978-1-77162-184-7 (ebook) There is no shortage of “inside” police books written by former cops. Here is a rare title—not only in Canada but the Western world—written from the community’s perspective. ALOK MUKHERJEE was the second-longest serving chair in the history of the Toronto Police Services Board. He was head of several provincial and national associations of police boards and worked with three Toronto mayors as well as five provincial and four federal ministers responsible for public safety. He currently holds a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto, on. 9 781 77 1 621830 TIM HARPER has been a journalist for forty years, thirty-four of which were spent with The Toronto Star. He ran bureaus in Vancouver, Washington and Ottawa and spent more than five years writing a national affairs column syndicated from coast- to-coast. He lives in Toronto, on. DOUGLAS & McINTYRE Spring 2018 | 3 All Together Healthy A Canadian Wellness Revolution ANDREW MacLEOD Award-winning author and journalist Andrew MacLeod tackles the pressing issue of health and public policy in Canada. never Before have individuals faCed so muCh conflicting information about how to be healthy: a constant rotation of fad diets, extreme workout regimens and celebrity- endorsed supplements are regularly hyped as the latest cure for all modern ills. We also maintain a massive health care system that absorbs a steadily growing share of public spending. As health has increasingly come to occupy a prominent role in our lives and headlines, however, we’ve tended to ignore that many of the the most significant contributors to making and keeping us well lie outside both the medical system and our individual control—income, education, employment, housing, PHOTO BY ANNIE MACLEOD environmental factors and social supports.