Bøger udgivet af ECW Press,Canada

In an account based on more than 200 original interviews, historian Greg Renoff tells the untold story of Van Halen's 1970s ascent out of the backyards of Pasadena to international rock superstardom.

Driven covers the last three decades of Rush, including the band''s retirement and Peart''s passing. There is much to celebrate, including a surprise platinum hit record to kick off the decade and a full-blown concept album, Clockwork Angels, to close off what is one of the most remarkable careers in rock history

"Elias's use of language to re-create the period is striking... A highly readable telling of a royal fall from grace." -- Kirkus Reviews "Lively and engrossing... Rich with historical detail and political intrigue, Elizabeth of Bohemia is a complex portrait of a reluctant yet captivating queen." -- Foreword Reviews October 1612. King James I seeks to expand England's influence in Europe and offers Prince Frederic of the Palatinate his sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth's hand. The fierce and intelligent Elizabeth moves to Heidelberg Castle with her new husband, where she turns a daughter's duty into a wife's ambition. When the Hapsburg emperor is weakened, Elizabeth encourages Frederic to take over the royal duties in Prague, and in the process she becomes Queen of Bohemia. But the reign is brief. Within the year, Catholic Europe unites to take back the Hapsburg throne. Frederic, Elizabeth, and the children are forced to flee, and the exiled queen must summon all her strength to keep her family intact through tumultuous seasons of separation and heartache in The Hague. With richly rendered characters and dialogue both penetrating and nuanced, Elizabeth of Bohemia offers a rare and delightful window into the Stuart period. David Elias is an author based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He travelled extensively in the footsteps of Elizabeth of Bohemia to visit historical sites and examine artifacts in places such as the British Library, Heidelberg Castle, and St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.

A post-apocalyptic novel set in a remote northern First Nations community. As their tenuous links to the southern world wink out, Evan and his community learn to rely again on the old ways to survive. But a wendigo southerner arrives to threaten everything.

The second instalment of the unique collaboration, after the #1 bestselling novel "Clockwork Angels". Bestselling author Anderson and Rush drummer and lyricist Peart return to explore more places and characters in their colourful creation.

Combining skateboarding history and memoir, Right, Down + Circle explores how a video game starring the most famous pro skater in the world brought skate culture -- and its ever-shifting markers of music, subversion, and coolness -- to the masses and ultimately transformed the culture it borrowed from in the process.

This richly illustrated, four-color book will be a fully bilingual publication to expand its reach in French Canada and beyond. Encompassing a comprehensive overview of works by Angelucci for the first time, it will also highlight important themes that resonate across the artist's projects through a series of focused essays.

If you've seen astronauts returning to Earth you'll have noticed that they have difficulty standing up because their muscles and bones have weakened. They also have problems with their vision, their sense of smell, and the bottoms of their feet. What happens in space that causes the human body to react and change?

From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars - and 9 billion Earthlings too. When two food geeks, who also like sci-fi, imagine how to feed a colony on Mars, they also discover how food production on planet Earth can and must change. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast? Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using geothermal energy? Will the protein of choice feature a chicken breast grown in a lab? Weird, wonderful, and sometimes disgusting, figuring out ''what''s for dinner on Mars'' is far from trivial. If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars, we will know how to do it on Earth too. In Dinner on Mars, authors Fraser and Newman show how setting the table off-planet will supercharge efforts to produce food sustainably here at home. For futurists, sci-fi geeks, tech

In the third book in this bestselling series, we meet the oddest creatures, from an escaped newt to a baby snow leopard, but the focus is on the dogs and cats that make up most of a pet vet''s day, and on the wacky and wonderful people who bring them in.

Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 50s up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. It paints a picture of village life, his rebellion as a young Marxist and evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a teen for 30 months while being hunted by the secret police, his youthful love affairs, how he survived his prison years, his final release, and his family''s escape to Canada. While many prison memoirs focus on the cruelty of incarceration, My Road from Damascus offers a tapestry of Saeed''s whole life.

Follow the Buzzards: Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19 examines wrestling as an ecosystem - all the way from local community shows to those that are on national television - against the backdrop of real-world events like the American presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement, Brexit, and the race to find a vaccine. Industry expert Keith Elliot Greenberg chronicles pro wrestling through the most memorable, controversial, and polarizing period of the last two decades. Finally, WWE had serious competition in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and there were viable secondary promotions and a thriving international indie scene.

The first women to assume the presidencies of two of Canada''s largest research universities - the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta - Piper and Samarasekera share their insights and perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions. Candid and insightful perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions.

An insider's look at those most respected by their peers as masters of pro wrestling, in the words of the wrestlers themselves.

Linda Schuyler, co-creator and executive producer of the long-running Degrassi series, shares her personal stories about the grit and determination it took to make it as a woman entrepreneur in the bourgeoning independent Canadian television industry of the early 1980s.

An exclusive backstage pass featuring 200 full-color photographs of the unique spaces where some of the world's most iconic musicians recorded.

The love story of Rosalie and Issy Sharp: love, loss, business, and family.

For a half-century, the Sheik terrorized fans and foes, becoming wrestling''s most feared villain. Yet away from the ring, Ed Farhat was a veteran, family-man and businessman whose real life was shrouded in mystery. For the first time, Blood and Fire tells the whole story. He was the most vicious, bloodthirsty, reviled villain in the history of the ring. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, he drew record crowds everywhere he went and left a trail of burned and bloody opponents in his wake. He was The Sheik: the mysterious and terrifying madman from Syria whose wanton destruction and mayhem are the stuff of wrestling legend. But what those legions of fans screaming for his head never knew was that The Sheik was really Eddie Farhat. From Lansing, Michigan, and the son of Arab immigrants, Farhat served his country proudly in World War II and was fulfilling the American dream through hard work and tireless dedication to his craft. And when he wasn''t screaming unintelligibly and attacking h