Recent Arrivals from Capricorn Books

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 335 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, colour plates. "In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages. But how did medieval Muslims understand… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. 319 pp, 9 1/4"H. B&w photographs, maps. "The authors follow (The Governor's Road) through Oakville, Dundas, and Ancaster and on to London, with stops in Waterdown, Brantford, St. George, Paris and Woodstock. The homes range from cottages to castles, their materials from frame and cobblestone to red brick and cut stone. The illustrations… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2003. 270 pp, 10 1/4" H. Colour and b&w photographs. "(I)ntroduces contemporary cooks to the foods of William Shakespeare's world with recipes updated from classic sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cookbooks. Easy-to-prepare adaptations shatter the myth that the Bard's primary fare was boiled mutton. In fact, Shakespeare and his contemporaries dined on salads of fresh herbs and… Read more about this item

Willowdale, Ontario: Firefly, 2000. 244 pp, 10" H. Map endpapers, profusely illustrated in b&w with photoraphs, reproductions. Arranged alphabetically. "Some street names commemorate faraway places where Canadians died fighting. Others commemorate the lives of brewers, politicians, architects, royalty, explorers and farmers. Still others echo the names of villages, towns and grand homes sadly left behind, as well as the… Read more about this item

British Columbia: TouchWood Editions, 2017. 367 pp, 8" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, maps. Inscribed by author on dedication page: "To R____ & B____ / Thank you for your / support! Hope you / enjoy these stories / from across Vancouver / Island! - Shanon", then signed again in full: "Shanon Sinn." "A compelling investigation into supernatural events and local… Read more about this item

Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2000. 238 pp, oblong (8 1/4" H x 9 1/4" D). B&w photographs, b&w and colour reproductions. "Tom Roberts chose to be a painter at the age of eight and never strayed from his chosen path. He dedicated his life to painting scenes that capture the natural beauty and the history of Canada. Today,… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Greystone , 2022. 324 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings. Signed on half-title page: "Adele Weder". "Coming of age at the start of a postwar building boom that was set to reshape Canada, Ron Thom rejected sleek austerity in favour of a design approach that fostered intimacy and warmth. His most renowned projects - Massey… Read more about this item

Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. 208 pp, 9 3/4" H. Map endpapers, b&w and colour illustrations. "From the day they were first written, Julius Caesar's seven books of 'Commentaries', on his campaigns in Gaul (58 to 50 BC) - modern France, Belgium, southern Netherlands, Germany west of the Rhine, most of Switzerland - have provided an unmatched account of… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 342 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old… Read more about this item

Toronto: Self-published / printed by Coach House Printing, 2006. 151 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, maps. A history of thirteen generations of the Dayfoot (Thevou / Devoe / Defoe / Dafoe/ De Foe) family as they travelled from the Rhineland (via England) to United States (Hudson Valley / Pownal / Newtown, Bristol / Rehoboth, etc.) and on… Read more about this item

Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing, 2013. 165 pp, 8 7/8" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Retail merchandising has seen colossal changes over the past hundred years. This is the story of the Kyte family business, founded in 1889 in Cornwall, Ontario, by C.W. Kyte, a newspaper pressman by trade but an entrepreneur at heart. As Jack Earle approached middle age,… Read more about this item

London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 240 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps, charts, reproductions. "New discoveries in genetics have overturned the dogma of decades about the Celts. Today Celtic languages cling to precarious life on the northwestern fringes of Europe. Delve into the pre-Roman past and we find Celtic spoken across the contintent. The heritage of the Celts… Read more about this item

Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly, 2004. 223 pp, square (10" x 10"). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "In the two decades between the First and Second World wars, Toronto was finding its place in the swiftly changing world of the twentieth-century. In the 1920s the city was expanding, the automobile replaced the horse, and radio, movies and mass advertising began… Read more about this item

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2013. 288 pp, 9 1/4" H. Map/plan endpapers, b&w photographs, reproductions. "On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named 'Harry', and most slipped into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 376 pp, 9 1/2" H. Pictorial endpapers, sepiatone photographs throughout. "Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived,… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 238 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "(P)sychologist Richard Smith, one of the world's foremost authorities on envy and shame, sheds much light on a feeling we dare not admit. Smith argues that schadenfreude (taking pleasure in the misfortune of others) is a natural human emotion, one worth taking a closer look at,… Read more about this item

New York: Little Brown, 2018. 503 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "From 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' to 'The Doubtful Guest', Edward Gorey's wickedly funny, deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in countless ways, from Tim Burton's movies to Ann Sui's fashion to Neil Gaiman's 'Coraline' to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Some call him… Read more about this item

St. Jacobs, Ontario: Self-published / St. Jacobs Printery, 2014. 328 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs. "As a young man (Floyd) Butch Martin was one training camp away from a professional career with the New York Rangers. Faced with some major personal choices, he took a different path. Butch went on to become widely recognized as one of the… Read more about this item

Chicago: Institute of Traditional Psychology, 1992. 255 pp, 8 3/8" H. "Hajj: Reflections on Its Rituals is considered to be one of Shariati's most masterful works. This is the first complete translation in English." Contents: Dedication; Introduction; Shariati's A Word to the Reader; Part One: The Shorter Hajj (The Season / Ihram At the Covenanted Place at the Appointed… Read more about this item

Amritsar: Singh Brothers, 2010. 174 pp, 8 3/4" H. Integral ribbon bookmark. "This volume contains detailed interviews with 11 prominent leaders, intellectuals and officials who were at the helm of Punjab affairs in the first half of the twentieth century. The interviews included in this volume constitute important and reliable primary source of history of the Punjab for the… Read more about this item