Interviewing is more complex than just asking questions. A successful interview involves multiple skills, including listening, commitment to a line of questions, and the ability to adapt to whatever unfolds throughout the process.Paul McLaughlin has spent decades studying the art of the interview as a working journalist, interviewing coach, and educator. Using examples from his own career and anecdotes involving other influential journalists, this comprehensive handbook offers easy...

Interviewing is more complex than just asking questions. A successful interview involves multiple skills, including active listening, commitment to a line of questions, and the ability to adapt to whatever unfolds throughout the process.Paul McLaughlin has spent decades studying the art of the interview as a working journalist, interviewing coach, and educator. Using personal examples and anecdotes involving other journalists, this comprehensive handbook offers easy-to-read, practi...

Jacques Plante & the Parkdale Knitting League“Plante’s life great theatre.” — Calgary Herald“Phantom of the crease: Jacques Plante read the classics and penned love poems to his wife; now a stage play captures the mysterious life of an eccentric hockey pioneer.” — The Montreal GazetteHe was the greatest hockey goalie of his time. A man who defied the code of the game that branded any goalie who wore a mask as a coward. She was a lonely Toronto housewife trapped in a...

**FINALIST FOR TORONTO BOOK AWARDSThe inside story of the grassroots fight to have a suicide barrier erected on Toronto’s “bridge of death.”**Most Torontonians have no idea their city once hosted the second most popular suicide magnet in North America, behind the Golden Gate Bridge. Since its completion in 1918, more than four hundred people jumped to their death from the Bloor Viaduct, which spans the cavernous Don Valley.That number might still be rising if not fo...

Examining the political theory of anarchism from a philosophical and historical perspective, Paul McLaughlin relates anarchism to the fundamental ethical and political problem of authority. The book pays particular attention to the authority of the state and the anarchist rejection of all traditional claims made for the legitimacy of state authority, the author both explaining and defending the central tenets of the anarchist critique of the state. The founding works of anarchist thought, ...

The shocking death of the popular Prince of Wales launches his young heir from innocent childhood into a roiling caldron of political jealousy and intrigue. Set in all the glory of mid-eighteenth century England, the child prince is urgently prepared for his estranged grandfather's throne. Under the wing of his godly tutor-advisor, the youth staggers through an escalating minefield of hazards.Juxtaposed with the prince's story, is the life of a down-and-out firebrand statesman consi...

The country is in turmoil in this thrilling historical adventure of the English Civil War.It is 1643, and the struggle between Parliament and the King erupts in the West Country, tearing families apart and setting village against village. But for some, this fight is not only about crown and country: it is far more personal than that. Royalist soldier Hugo Telling wishes Parliamentarian William Sparrow dead. This rivalry will take them across battlefields the breadth of England, and...

The deciding Battle of Naseby looms on the horizon in this historical adventure of the English Civil War.It is more than a year since printer's apprentice turned Parliamentarian soldier William Sparrow and his Royalist rival Hugo Telling last came to blows. Parliament's armies, bruised beaten and humiliated despite their ever-increasing numerical advantage, have been reconstituted as the New Model Army. Sparrow, a veteran of a dozen battles, sieges and scrapes, expects to be offere...

Loyalty is tested to its limits in this thrilling English Civil War adventure.In the opening days of 1644, there seems to be little hope for Parliament's soldiers. To William Sparrow and his men, the woods of Dorset are a snow-covered sanctuary – even on Christmas Day – from the horrors of Penmethock and pursuit by the King's men. Hugo Telling has finally returned home, ready to introduce his 'wife', Bella Morrison, to his family. But the Telling family is now as affected by the wa...

‘I don’t think it’s crazy when people tell me that a song of ours changed their lives. They changed ours forever….’ JUSTIN CURRIEGlasgow band Del Amitri have sold more than six million albums. Their 1995 single Roll To Me cracked the Top 10 in the US, and five of their albums went Top 10 in the UK. But as yet there hasn’t been anything substantial written about the band…until now!From ambition to success, this is the complete story of Del Amitri’s rise from initial formatio...

A strange ability. A discovered corpse. But will his supernatural sleuthing skills lead him into a killer’s trap?England, 1990. Reed has travelled his whole life in search of someone who understands him. So he’s thrilled when his journey brings him to free-spirited Zoya, who shares his rare ability to dream-walk. But after his gift leads him to a hidden corpse, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder.Despite the setback, Reed resolves to use his power to help crack the c...

'The impact of the Autobiography wasn't limited to musicians or spiritual seekers. Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc., which became the world's most valuable company, was a big fan and went so far as to say it was one of his favourite books. Jobs first read it as a teenager and claimed to have re-read it every year since then.'Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi was one of the most impactful spiritual books of the twentieth century and has travelled around the world, ...