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GOLD
HART, MATTHEW
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketed from around $800 an ounce in August of
that year to a peak of about $1700 an ounce. Fortunes have been made, and this has kicked off an
unprecedented gold-mining and prospecting boom around the world. From armed illegal miners holed up
in South African mines—where theft is estimated at $1 billion a year—to the hugely successful workings
of Canada’s Barrick Gold to China’s determined efforts to become a major gold player, Matthew Hart
takes readers on a journey around the world and through history to tell the story of how gold became the
world’s most precious commodity. He highlights its dramatic, tempestuous history and the behind-thescenes
intrigue of the current boom. The controversial rollercoaster narrative reveals what experts are
saying about the profound changes underway in the gold market and the outlook for the future.
HISTORY
ALLEN LANE
9780670065882
$32.00 HC
DECEMBER 2013
1ST PRINTING 7500 IN CANADA
326 PAGES
GOLF MAGAZINE'S PLAY LIKE A PRO
GOLF MAGAZINE
An instructional outlining 30 must-have moves from golf's greatest players.
SPORTS - GOLF 1ST PRINTING 50,000
TIME HOME
192 PAGES
9781603202398
$32.95 HC
OCTOBER 2013
A GOOD DAY'S WORK
DEMONT, JOHN
A Good Day's Work is a lyrical journey through a semi-mythological place: the Canada of our imagination.
It is the Canada of the day before yesterday. Or perhaps the Canada of 1967 -- the country's "Last Good
Year," as Pierre Berton dubbed it. It is a portrait of Canada captured by way of encounters with a
blacksmith, a cowgirl, a milkman, a traveling salesman and other custodians of trades from another time.
Woven into the always engaging, sometimes strange, sometimes moving and frequently funny interviews
are the ruminations and personal reflections of that wonderful writer John DeMont (who as a newspaper
reporter and columnist of a certain age is something of a vanishing tradesman himself). The iconic
Canada--the country of close-knit small towns, of common geography and history, of meaningful work and
communal values and institutions--is being transformed. John DeMont has gone in search of people who
make their living the old way, in an attempt to distill the essence of our shared past.
CANADA/HISTORY 1ST PRINTING 15,000
DOUBLEDAY
352 PAGES
9780385665063
$34.95 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013