RICK ANTONSON
author, President & CEO Tourism Vancouver


(Work in progress: Stuck in the Mud on Route 66)

Timbuktu: A Traveller's Story; Dundurn Press (Canada) 2008


MICHAEL C. ASHTON
Ph.D. Professor of Psychology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario
& KIBEOM LEE
Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary


(Work in Progress: The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters For Everyone)


WILLIAM I. ATKINSON
science and technology features writer, author and speculative science fiction novelist


Tommy: A Memoir about My Father; ECW Press (Canada) 2012

River Under Rain, a novel
Self-published through Amazon Create Space program 2008

Nanocosm: The Big Change That's Coming From the Very Small; Viking (Canada); Amacom (USA), 2003 hardcover, 2004 paperback
Nominated for Science in Society Award (presented by the Cdn Science Writer's Association)

Prototype: A Primer For High Technology Success in the 2000s; Thomas Allen Publishers (Canada) 2001. Nominated for National Business Book Award.


LAUREN BACON and EMIRA MEARS
Internet entrepreneurs, owners (www.raisedeyebrow.com), authors


The Boss of You: Everything a Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain her Own Busines; Seal Press (USA) 2008


MURRAY BAKER
author, expert on student financial planning


The Debt-Free Graduate; Career Press (USA) 2000; HarperCollins (Canada) 1996


BEV BEHAN
Author, corporate governance consultant, columnist for BusinessWeek.com


Great Companies Deserve Great Boards: A Ceo's Guide To The Boardroom; Palgrave Macmillan (USA) 2011

Great Companies Deserve Great Boards: Great Boards For High-Growth Companies; Palgrave Macmillan (USA) 2012

Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance; co-author, Jossey-Bass 2005

Jumping Ship: How to Navigate Your Way to a More Satisfying Job or Career; Stoddart (Canada) 1999


EVELYN BERTHRONG
author, art historian, curator and expert on East Asian art


What Would Confucius Do?; Marlowe & Company (USA) 2005, Editura Dharana (Romania) 2006

Confucianism: A Short Introduction (with John Berthrong); OneWorld imprint Oxford (UK) 2000


BILL BISHOP
author, CEO of Bishop Information Group, Toronto

The Problem With Penguins: Stand Out in a Crowded Marketplace by Packaging Your Big Idea; MorningStar (China); Vision & Leadership, a division of Duranno Press (Korea) 2012

How to Sell a Lobster: The Money-Making Secrets of a Streetwise Entrepreneur; Key Porter Books (Canada) 2006, Sunmark (Japan) 2006, Vision & Leadership, a division of Duranno Press (Korea) 2006, Wisdom & Knowledge Publishing (Taiwan), Infinity Publishing (India/Pakistan), Popuri Publishers (Russia), Zhuhai Publishers (China)


BRENDAN BRAZIER
author, Canadian ultra-marathon champion


Whole Foods to Thrive; Penguin (Canada) 2011

Thrive Fitness; Penguin (Canada) 2009, DaCapo LifeLong Books (USA) 2009

The Thrive Diet; Penguin (Canada) 2007, Marlowe & Company/Avalon (USA) 2007, DaCapo LifeLong Books (USA) 2007


MICHAEL BUCKLEY
travel writer, author


Eccentric Explorers: Unravelling the Mysteries of Tibet; Crazy Horse Press (Canada) 2009

(Work in progress: Beastly Encounters)

Heartlands: Travels in the Tibetan World; Summersdale Press (UK) 2001
Bronze medal winner as Best Travel Book in the SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards 2003


VANCOUVER CANUCKS HOCKEY TEAM

CANUCKS AT 40: Our Game, Our Stories, Our Passion; John Wiley (Canada) 2010


MICHAEL CLARKSON
award-winning investigative journalist, author


The Poltergeist Phenomenon: An In-depth Investigation into Floating Beds, Smashing Glass, and Other Unexplained Disturbance; Career Press (USA) 2011

The Secret Life of Glenn Gould; ECW Press (Canada) 2010

When Beds Float: True Stories of Poltergeists; Key Porter (Canada) 2005, optioned by The Eyes (Peace Arch Entertainment) 2009-03-25

Quick Fixes for Everyday Fears; Key Porter (Canada) 2004; Avalon (USA) 2004, documentary film rights optioned: Sienna Films (Canada)

Pressure Golf: Overcoming Choking and Frustration
; Raincoast (Canada) 2003

Intelligent Fear: How to Make Fear Work For You; Key Porter (Canada) 2002; Marlowe & Co (USA) 2003; Paidos (Spain) 2003; Edizioni (Italy) 2003

Competitive Fire: Insights to Developing the Warrior Mentality of Sports Champions; Human Kinetics (USA) 1999


ELEANOR MCCALLIE COOPER & WILLIAM LIU
co-authors; William Liu, Director of Interpretation and Translation program, Simon Fraser University, Canada


Grace: An American Woman in China 1934-1974; Black Belt Press (USA) 1999; Soho Press (USA) 2003 and in paperback 2004, SDX Publishing (China) 2005


DR. KERRY CROFTON
author, psychologist


(Work in progress: HEALTHY DIGITAL KIDS: Rescuing the High-Tech Generation)

The Healthy Type A: Good News For Go-Getters; Macmillan (Canada) 1998


DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE
Professor, University of Toronto, Director McLuhan Institute, author


McLuhan For Managers (with Mark Federman); Viking (Canada) 2003

Connected Intelligence: The Arrival of the Web Society; A Patrick Crean Book, Somerville House (Canada) 1997

The Skin of Culture: Investigating the New Electronic Reality; A Patrick Crean Book, Somerville House (Canada) 1995


PAUL DIOGUARDI
author, tax amnesty lawyer, senior partner with Dioguardi & Company, former tax counsel Canadian Department of Justice and Department of National Revenue


The Taxman is Watching: What Every Canadian Needs to Know and Fear, by Paul and Phillip DioGuardi; Harper Collins (Canada) Spring 2008

Tax Amnesty: Avoiding the Tax Trap; DioGuardi & Co (Canada) 2004


DAVID DYMENT
Author, professor, media commentator, former senior advisor at Foreign Affairs


Doing The Continental: A Short Guide To A New Relationship With The USA (Dundurn Canada, 2010)


MARSHA ERB
Madame Justice Queen's Bench in Alberta, lawyer, journalist, author


Lord of the Ring: The Stu Hart Story; ECW Press (Canada) 2002; Alberta Film Works (film) 2004


MARK FEDERMAN
Chief Strategist and head of McLuhan Management Studies at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, co-author


McLuhan For Managers (with Derrick de Kerckhove); Viking (Canada) 2003


DONALD GUTSTEIN
former Simon Fraser University (Canada) senior lecturer, co-director of NewsWatch Canada, author and columnist


NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY: How Business Uses Propaganda to Manipulate us and What We Can Do About it; Key Porter (Canada) 2008


JIM HARRIS
author, speaker


(Work in progress: Green is Green)

Blindsided: Strategies for Accelerating Recognition & Response in a Fast Changing World; Capstone (John Wiley UK) 2002

The Learning Paradox: Gaining Success and Security in a World of Change; Macmillan (Canada) 1998; Capstone (John Wiley UK) 2002


ADAM HART
Nutritional researcher, speaker, professional life coach, and author


(Work in progress: The E3 Diet)


HELEN HATZIS
Freelance feature writer, screenwriter, filmmaker


(Work in progress: Taking the Plunge)


DON HAUKA
author, television writer, reporter


co-author Margin of Terror: A Reporter's Twenty-Year Odyssey Covering the Tragedies of the Air India Bombings; Key Porter Books (Canada) 2006

Jinnah on Crime: Pizza 911; (CBC-TV movie: aired Jan 2002, July 2003) Force Four Productions (Canada)

Jinnah on Crime: White Knight, Black Widow; (CBC-TV movie airs October 2003) Force Four Productions (Canada)

Mister Jinnah: Securities: A Mister Jinnah Mystery; Dundurn Publishers (Canada) 2001


RON HIRA & ANDY HIRA
Professor, Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology, currently Chair of the Career & Workforce Policy Committee of the IEEE-USA

Associate Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, author


Outsourcing America: The Future of the American Worker, Amacom (USA) 2005, revised edition (2008)


TED HUNT
author


Ben Hogan's Magical Device: the Real Secret to Hogan's Swing Finally Revealed; Skyhorse Publishing (USA) 2009


SALIM JIWA
investigative reporter Province newspaper, ABC-TV News, author


co-author Margin of Terror: A Reporter's Twenty-Year Odyssey Covering the Tragedies of the Air India Bombings; Key Porter Books (Canada) 2006

The Death of Air India Flight 182; Star Books imprint of W. H. Allen (UK) 1986


HELENA KATZ
Author, Award-winning Journalist


Justice Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada; Dundurn (Canada) 2011

The Mad Trapper: The Incredible Tale of a Famous Canadian Manhunt; Altitude Publishing Canada, 2004

Gang Wars: Blood and Guts on the Streets of Early New York; Altitude Publishing Canada, 2005


ANDRE KUKLA
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto


Mental Traps; Doubleday (Canada) 2006, Doubleday (North America), Alpina Business Books (Russia), Editora Gente (Portugal), Aykiri Publishing (Turkey), Planeta de Agostini (Spain), Tinh Van Publishers (Vietnam)


MICHAEL DAVID KWAN
playwright, translator, author (1934-2001)


The Chinese Story-Teller's Book, Tuttle Publishing (USA) 2001

Things That Should Not Be Forgotten; MacFarlane, Walter & Ross (Canada) Soho Press (USA) Mainstream Publishers (UK) Harper Collins (Australia) 2001. Winner of 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize for non-fiction.

Broken Portraits, China Books & Periodicals (USA) 1990


JONATHAN MANTHORPE
foreign newspaper correspondent and international affairs columnist, Vancouver Sun


(Work in progress: Crossing the Black Water: Taiwan, France and the Lafayette Scandal)

The Forbidden People: A History of Taiwan; Palgrave Macmillan (USA) 2005, HB Fenn (Canada)


DR. PETER MARSHALL
child psychologist, author


Two Jobs, No Life: Learning to Balance Work and Home; Key Porter Books (Canada) 2001

Now I Know Why Tigers Eat Their Young: How to Survive Your Teenagers with Humor; Whitecap Books (Canada) 1992 / revised edition 2000

Sex, Nursery Rhymes & Other Evils: A Look at the Bizarre, Amusing, Sometimes Shocking Advice of Victorian Childcare Experts; Whitecap Books (Canada) 1995

Cinderella Revisited: How to Survive Your Stepfamily Without a Fairy Godmother; Whitecap Books (Canada) 1993


IAN MULGREW
journalist, screenwriter, columnist, author


The Water Boy (co-author with Bob Ackles); John Wiley(Canada) 2007

Bud Inc.: Inside Canada's Marijuana Industry; Random House (Canada) 2005, nominated for National Business Book Award (Canada) 2006

Amazon Extreme: Three Men, a Raft, and the World's Most Dangerous River (with Colin Angus); Stoddart 2001, Doubleday (Canada) Broadway Books (USA) 2002

Who Killed Cindy James?; non-fiction; Seal (Canada) 1992

Final Payoff, The True Cost of Convicting Clifford Robert Olson; Seal (Canada) 1990

Unholy Terror:The Sikhs and International Terrorism; Key Porter Books (Canada) 1986


KENNETH ORE
author, retired political activist

Song of the Azaleas: Memoir of a Chinese Son; Penguin (Canada) 2005


ROBIN PASCOE
Author, expat expert, journalist


Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World (2006)
A Movable Marriage; Relocate Your Relationship Without Breaking It (2003)
Homeward Bound: A Spouse's Guide to Repatriation (2000)
Culture Shock: Successful Living Abroad (1993)


JIM & JANE PRATT
Authors


Turtle on a Fencepost: 365 Days of Life Lessons; Agio Publishing (Canada) 2009


TRINA READ
The Super Busy Woman's Sex Expert, Author, National Sex Columnist, Magazine Columnist, International Speaker: Sexologist, Sex Educator, National Sex Columnist, Author


'Till Sex Do Us Part: Make Your Married Sex Irresistible, Key Porter (Canada) 2008


MAG RUFFMAN
television host/star of Anything I Can Do (PBS), nationally syndicated columnist of Toolgirl


How Hard Can It Be? ToolGirl's Favorite Repairs and Projects; McClelland & Stewart (Canada) 2003; Beyond Words Publishing (USA) 2005


WILLIAM SAMPSON
British/Canadian citizen, arrested, imprisoned, and tortured in Saudi Arabia for 31 months


Confessions of an Innocent Man: A Memoir; McClelland & Stewart (Canada) 2005, documentary film rights: Paperny Films (Canada) 2007, shortlisted for Drainie-Taylor Writer's Trust Non-Fiction Award 2005


RON SHEWCHUK
author, public relations consultant, barbecue champion


Barbecue Secrets Deluxe, Whitecap books (Canada) 2009

Planking Secrets: More Tips and Tricks from a Barbecue Champion, Whitecap Books (Canada) 2006

Barbecue Secrets: Unbeatable Recipes, Tips & Tricks From a Barbecue Champion; Whitecap Books (Canada) 2004


BARRY SISKIND
Author and North America's foremost trade and consumer show expert


Grab Success by the Horns: The Proven Proactive Approach; Barry and Barbara Siskind, Manor House Publishing (Canada) 2010

Selling From the Inside Out: Powerful Lessons You can Learn From Proactive People; Strategic Book Publishing (USA) 2009

Powerful Exhibit Marketing; John Wiley (International) 2005, Senac Publishing (Brazil)

Eagles Must Soar: 7 Strategies for Living Life With Certainty; John Wiley (Brazil) 2004, Korea and Thailand rights – publishers listed below

Bumblebees Can't Fly: 7 Strategies For Making the Impossible Possible; 2001 Stoddart (Canada) 2001, John Wiley (International) 2004, Japan (Mikasa Shobo), Korea (Sunflower Publishing), Spain (Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A.), Brazil (Editora Nova Cultural Ltd., 2nd printing), Czech Republic (NT Publishing/Management Press), Bulgaria (Klasika I Stil), Romania (Editura Allfa), India (Macmillan India), China (Oriential Press) and Thailand (Tree Publishing)


ROY TANAMI
author, Vancouver-based photographer, writer and Contributing Editor for Wild on the Fly magazine


ANGLING THE WORLD: Ten Essential Adventures in Fly Fishing; Lyons Press (USA) 2009


JESSE VERNON TRAIL
Author, gardening and horticulture columnist and instructor


(Work in progress: Amazing Plants of the World)


SEAN WISE
Lawyer, MBA, lecturer, contributing columnist for Globe & Mail's Report on Business, one of Canada's leading experts of raising venture capital, adviser and on-line host for CBC-TV Dragon's Den


How to be a Business Superhero; Perigee Books (USA) 2009

(Work in progress: The Learned Capitalist: Practical Nuggets from the Annals of Academia)