6 steps to moving your training online

What instructional topics are the best candidates for virtual classrooms? How can I know if I’m reaching my learners when I can’t see their faces? Can’t I just move my PowerPoint slides to a virtual platform? Starting off in the virtual training world presents a variety of questions. “6 Step...

The virtual training guidebook

The Definitive A-to-Z Guidebook on Virtual Training Is your virtual training getting the results you want? The ability to deliver training at any time and to any location allows maximum flexibility for organizations and learners, which ultimately means more training opportunities than in-person c...

Creating mentoring and coaching programs

Are Mentoring and Coaching Programs Effectively Employed in Your Organization? Coaching and mentoring have become essential organizational tools for developing people. HR managers, T&D specialists, and performance technologists will find useful tools in the 12 case studies in this volume. The...

Not just another meeting

Create a fresh, intentional approach to meetingsWhen meetings draw employees away from day-to-day tasks but fail to reach their intended outcome, it has huge costs to the organization. All too often, this happens because meetings lack purpose—people gather together to discuss a problem but don’t ...

Marketing your career brand

In the past, your career brand was expressed primarily through a traditional resume. Today, your brand encompasses every way you promote yourself, both in electronic and more traditional formats. “Marketing Your Career Brand” will help you identify needs of your customers—whether they are potenti...

Wlp scorecard: why learning matters

Target learning with curation

Information is more readily available, thanks to technology, but learners are struggling with content overload. Learning boards can help engage employees’ knowledge and reduce how much content they wade through. In this issue of TD at Work, Michelle Webb and Jerry M. Kaminski detail ways to devel...

Future skill the workforce

The pandemic has fast-tracked many business changes, which require technological skills, the ability to quickly partner with others, and swift and seamless adaptability to change. For talent development professionals, the changes mean revisiting how they develop workers and ensure a culture of re...

Cultivate creative thinking for the future of work

Demand for creative thinking is currently outpacing supply. Despite that need, creative thinking is one of the skills most lacking in job candidates. The good news is that creative thinking is a trainable skill. In this issue of TD at Work, Gerard J. Puccio and Pamela A. Szalay will: Explain the...

10 steps to successful project management

A crash course for effectively planning and managing timely, organized projects. 10 Steps to Successful Project Management features a structured methodology for delivering high-quality projects on time. Learn how to distinguish between a project and task, build a convincing business case, def...

Corporate learning strategies

Use the return-on-learning-investment (ROLI ) model to develop fully engaged employees that link their learning to organizational success. Corporate Learning Strategies is a blueprint for building organizational structures that cultivate employee growth. The adoption of the return-on-learni...

Work the problem

Cultivate the Mindset to Overcome AnythingA software engineer sees her tech skills slipping even as she rises to manage her own team. A marketing director is squeezed between a demanding, artistic boss and her staff. A tech-savvy manager of operations wants to modernize his warehouse but is surpr...

Solving the innovation mystery

Creativity dreams up ideas, but innovation carries them through. There isn't a CEO on the planet who hasn't considered the importance of innovation. In the face of global competition and the explosion of technology, innovation is today's business imperative. How else does a company remain both pr...

Integrated talent management scorecards

The term “integrated talent management” has been in vogue for several years, yet organizations are still trying to understand how to integrate talent management functions to achieve business results. Authors Toni Hodges DeTuncq and Lynn Schmidt use case studies from 17 different organizations to ...

Measuring and addressing talent gaps globally

A global corporate mindset has become increasingly critical in today’s business environment. Yet managers and workers who have little or no exposure to other cultures may have a difficult time acknowledging that a talent development strategy with a global perspective is essential to their success...

Leaders start to finish, 2nd edition

Are you responsible for creating a leadership training program for your organization, but don’t know where to start? Do you already have experience in developing leadership training programs, but want to improve the efficacy of your current offering? Either way, Leaders – Start to Finish offers d...

The learning and development book

Everyone thinks they know everything about training. Right? We've all gone to school, been trained on the job, and maybe endured the occasional corporate seminar. But if you're a professional in this field, you know that's familiarity, not expertise. Instructional design and implementation are no...

Relative to wind

A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of learning to sail and a deep dive into what it means to be a newcomer to an old tradition. From workin...

The orange notebooks

Told through a mother’s journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward, this is a novel about love, and the lost language and rituals of mourning.The siesta hour, France. Bees fly in lavender bushes. Anna has just come home, but something is wrong, and she fears nothing will ever be...

Letters of marshall mcluhan

Inspiring correspondence from the originator of “The Medium Is the Message,” available for the first time in over 25 years Called an “oracle” and a “sage,” Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) became one of the most famous men of the sixties and seventies. His reputation as a groundbreaking communicati...

Goose

Winner of the 2026 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book PrizePoems that retrace unconscious lines of thought and flight to write a new history of the tar sands Tracing words the way a tracker moves across land, Goose collects hand-copied details from Northland Trails, a book of self-illustrated short sto...

The road between us

Longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize As binge-worthy as a miniseries, this lover's knot of a novel delves into the entangled lives of its ensemble cast. Estela struggles in her relationships and in her professional life due to the loss of her brother at a young age. Ash, Estela’s estranged bes...

Nightshade

A gorgeous, Gothic, Romany coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt—with a dash of magic realism. Longing for glamour and riches and freedom, Zelda is a young woman who chafes against her Romany identity and her family's poverty. Everything chang...

Vessel

An evocative, lyric bricolage of memoir, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes.Who would think to call Ophelia a corpse? She is but a woman emptied of herself.In 1993, when she was eighteen years old, Dani Netherclift witnessed the drowning deaths of her fa...

Story is a state of mind

Cultivate a state of mind to help your writing flow with acclaimed writing instructor and Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky.Celebrated author Sarah Selecky brings the spirit of her popular online writing school to the page in Story Is a State of Mind. Short, personable essays deliver gentle co...

The lodgers

Most Anticipated Books of 2024 mentions in The Telegraph, Guardian, Stylist, and ViceA dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies.After a year away, a woman returns to her English hometown to live in a sublet. She is always on edge, anticip...

Scandal at the alphorn factory

Winner of the 2025 Hamilton Literary Award for FictionA new collection of stories by Giller Prize finalist Gary Barwin that puts the fab in fabulist.Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 1984–2024 couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most play...

Field work

The Twin Bill Best Baseball Nonfiction Book of 2025Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew ForbesBaseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a day job. A poetic survey of baseball’s rich his...

The sensus communis, synesthesia, and the soul

McLuhan takes up his father Marshall's mantle by marrying communications and religion in this journey through the sensesIn this essay of extraordinary scope and depth, Eric McLuhan explores faith as a form of knowing. He does so against the backdrop of preliterate man’s concrete, bodily submersio...

The mountains of kong

Splendid and surprising prose poems from one of Norway's most imaginative poetsThe sixty-one prose poems collected in The Mountains of Kong find magic in the little absurdities of everyday life and are populated by an unpredictable cast that includes kings and codfish and elephants, a couple look...

This is my real name

Buffalo is the new buffalo

A perfect day for a walk by the water

A personable, informative guide to Vancouver by way of its waterways and coastlines Located on Canada's West Coast, one of Vancouver’s greatest and most spectacular assets is its proximity to water. In this follow-up to A Perfect Day for a Walk, author Bill Arnott takes readers on another explora...

Disintegrate/dissociate

A drop in the ocean

An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the secure unit of the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid di...

Missed her

More sure

A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life―especially queer and neurodivergent life―as a journey of continuous self-...

Vanishing monuments

Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn’t seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen -- almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living facility where their mother has been for the last five years, ...

So you're a little sad, so what?

The short, happy life of harry kumar

Where fire speaks

The 500 years of resistance comic book

A visually stunning journey through 500 years of indigenous peoples' resistance.

The slow fix

Arabian nights

Nedí nezų (good medicine)

Care work

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, an...

In case i go

Rebent sinner

Ivan Coyote is one of North America’s preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, and their TED talk has received over 1.6 million views online. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston ...

Scorpio rising

Bad houses

A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. In the surreal, often ...

How it all vegan!

Like a boy but not a boy

Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett’s experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected ...

Isaac

A kaleidoscopic, intimate coming-of-age novel of modern queer life Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Curtis Garner's debut novel, Isaac, is a queer story for our digital age, offering new perspectives on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession, and dangerous first love. Isaac...

What i think happened

Dreaming in the rain

Montreal main

How to fail as a popstar

The scent of pomegranates and rose water

Judgement at stoney creek

Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central ...

Dandelion

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now, as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining to...

An evening with birdy o'day

A funny, boisterous, and deeply moving novel about aging hairstylist Roland’s childhood friendship with Birdy O’Day, whose fevered quest for pop music glory drives them apart Roland Keener is an aging hairstylist who’s lived and worked in the same town all his life. He’s more or less content wit...

We had no rules

Postcards from congo

For fans of Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost: a graphic history that tells the complex and troubled story of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Don't tell me what to do

Skandalon

Sub rosa

I am a red dress

Arborescent

I hope we choose love

Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can...

The woo-woo

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a moth...

The creative instigator’s handbook

Flash mobs come and go, but purposeful creativity can change communities. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build, weld, or rhyme, Make It Meaningful explores how ...

Ripe from around here

Cold case vancouver

Cold Case Vancouver delves into fifty years of some of Vancouver's most baffling unsolved murders. In 1953, two little boys were found murdered in the city's storied Stanley Park, and who remain unidentified to this day. In 1975, a country singer was murdered just as she was on the verge of an a...

The child

Snapshots of a girl

A little rebellion

In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small pa...

The company of others

Synchro boy

Fame us

Where people feast

Major misconduct

Stoney creek woman

The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak--the pangs of ...

Mcpoems

One ring circus

Float like a butterfly, drink mint tea

Sketchtasy

Such a lovely little war

Krakow melt

The future is disabled

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's p...

Dead reckoning

When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father was brutally murdered during a home invasion. Twenty years later, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and by doing so comes across startling new information about the crime. In this powerful and emotional memoir, she learns of his horrific childh...

Murder by milkshake

Transland

A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that explores what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find t...

From the olive grove

Loose end

Double melancholy

Home and away

Nesa

This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and cultural...

Scarborough

City of Toronto Book Award finalist Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a mu...

You suck, sir

Any other city

By the author of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian): the fictional memoir of a trans indie rock musician that reveals how the act of creation can heal trauma and even change the past.Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static S...