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Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence 2013
The Alcuin Society has announced the winners of its 31st annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada.
The winning books will be exhibited in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs; in Japan, at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, in conjunction with the Tokyo International Book Fair; and, in Canada, in nine provinces. Exhibition venues will be posted on the Alcuin Society website. The books will also be entered in the international book design competition in Leipzig, Germany in February 2014.
Awards will be given out this fall in both Toronto and Vancouver.
This year's judges, Marvin Harder, Naomi MacDougall, and William Rueter, selected 41 winning titles from 236 entries, from nine provinces and 112 publishers; Mr. Rueter was presented with the 6th Robert R. Reid Award and Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Book Arts in Canada.
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Banff Mountain Book Competition Award Winners
Mountain literature and adventure writing books that have won awards at the Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival over the years. Excellent reads for climbers, the adventurous and armchair mountaineers. For more information on the book competition & the Festival please visit www.banffmountainfestival.ca
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All the Art Books
This list was started by Jeannette Montgomery from M Gallery|Book in Penticton BC with suggestions added by members of our community.
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Christmas 2012: The BEST Canadian Non-Fiction
Ah, Christmas. The perfect time to create a serious wish list of books that one can longingly hope to unwrap under the tree. The following list ignores budgets and all elements of practicality. It's indulgent, ludicrous and features some of the coolest Canadian non-fiction books published in 2012.
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Great First Nations Artists
Canada is lucky to have some of the most remarkable indigenous artists in the world within our borders. The work they create is always stunning, provocative and enchanting. Check out these books by some of our better known artists.
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Illustrated Books from The Porcupine's Quill
The Porcupine’s Quill has built, since 1974, an enviable reputation for expertise in the use of twentieth-century offset printing technology to replicate the quality look, and feel, of a nineteenth-century letterpress product. Most of the production work is completed at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village, where books are printed on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, folded, and then sewn into signatures on a 1905 Model Smyth National Book sewing machine. The books of George A. Walker, Wesley Bates and G. Brender à Brandis are my personal faves.
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Celebrate 100 Years of the Calgary Stampede!
Over the past century, the Calgary Stampede has welcomed millions of visitors to The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. With these books, you can meet and learn about the personalities that helped shape the cowboy culture that is so heavily associated with Calgary in the 21st century.
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