Books published by Figure 1 Publishing

From international best-selling author and futurist Doug Stephens, Resurrecting Retail is not just a riveting story of the unprecedented crash of an industry but a roadmap for its rebirth. Few crises in modern history have so completely disrupted every aspect of daily life as the Covid-19 pandemic. Every market, industry, profession, service, and category of product was in some way rocked by its impact. Researched in real time from inside the crisis, Resurrecting Retail provides a comprehensive and surprising vision of how it will reshape every aspect of consumer life, including the very essence of why we shop. Above all, it provides an inspirational and actionable future vision for any business leader looking not only to survive but thrive in a very different post-pandemic retail world.

Since the release of Doug Stephens' first book, The Retail Revival, change in the global retail sector has accelerated beyond even the boldest forecasts. As predicted, online giants like Amazon and Alibaba.com are growing at a dizzying pace. Hundreds of well-known brick and mortar retailers have closed their doors, and brands and retailers across categories are struggling to understand the shifting needs and expectations of a new consumer.Picking up where The Retail Revival left off, Reengineering Retail explores the coming revolution in the global retail and consumer goods market, offering sales and marketing executives a roadmap to the future. Author and internationally renowned consumer futurist, Doug Stephens, paints a bold vision of the future where every aspect of the retail experience as we know it, will be radically transformed. From online to bricks and mortar, the very concept of what stores are, how consumers shop them, and even the core economic model for revenue, will be will be profoundly reinvented; changes sure to affect not only retailers large and small but any business with a stake in the global retail industry.Infused with real world examples and interviews with industry disruptors, Reengineering Retail illustrates the vast opportunities at play for bold brands and business leaders. Stephens' strategies will provide businesses with the foresight required to move quickly and effectively into the future.

Gathie Falk is one of Canada's most heralded visual artists: she has won the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize; she has been honoured with the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada; and her work is featured in major galleries across the country. From performance works involving eggs and bird feathers, to paintings of flower beds and night skies, to celebrated sculptures of fruit, men's shoes, and dresses, Falk's chronicles of the everyday span more than four decades and a variety of media.Apples etc. is Gathie Falk's memoir, a lively, personal, and yet unsentimental reflection on nearly ninety years of art and life. Falk tells of growing up in small Mennonite communities in the 1930s and '40s. These were hard years, as her Russian immigrant father died just ten months after she was born. While the family struggled financially, Falk recalls cabbage rolls made by hand, a backyard skating rink, and music lessons paid for by an anonymous donor. Her apprenticeship, she says, was a long one. After working a series of menial jobs, she trained as a public school teacher, which led her back to the art classes she'd given up as a child. It has now been fifty years since Falk's art career was launched, and her "veneration of the ordinary" has sustained her through the deaths of beloved friends and relatives, a short-lived marriage, broken bones, and debilitating pain. Interweaving stories about her community, her family, and her daily rituals with anecdotes about her major artworks, Falk paints a portrait of a life well lived.

For more than 100 years, Vancouver has been home to a vibrant and thriving Cantonese opera scene. As a performance art carried out by transient troupes, it is an ephemeral medium that rarely leaves a trace in the historic records. However, an extraordinary treasure trove of early 20th-century Cantonese opera costumes, props, and stage dressings made its way to the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC. In the first book-length study of this little known collection, April Liu retraces the arduous journeys of early Cantonese opera troupes who began arriving along the west coast of North America during the mid-19th century. A close examination of the costumes and props reveal the moving songs, stories, performances, and ritual practices of early Chinese migrant communities who struggled to make a home in a foreign and often hostile land.

A tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada‿s greatest Structurist artist. In celebration of his 100th birthday, Eli Bornstein, in collaboration with author and curator Roald Nasgaard, has published a stunning work of personal reflection on a most transformative time in his life and career. Eli Bornstein: Arctic Journals, 1986 and 1987 is a tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada‿s greatest Structurist artist. Devoid of the mythologizing other artists have given their writing on the North, Bornstein‿s journals are introspective, insightful, and sometimes funny. Comprised of personal journal entries from two northern trips he took with photographer Hans Dommasch‿along with watercolour studies, Structurist reliefs, and a personal collection of poems‿Bornstein‿s work is a vital reminder of our outsized influence over the natural world and an invitation to recognize our need for nature in our life and in our art. Bornstein's publication is the culmination of a life‿s work on reconciling himself with nature and the understanding our very existence.

CELEBRATED CHEF: Lui is one of Toronto's up-and-coming young chefs and restaurateurs with a number of successful ventures in the city (like Kanpai Snack Bar, Yatai Japanese Street Food, Shook Noodle, La Brea Food, Fat Rabbit, Makan Noodle Bar, and Popa) and more in development.MEDIAGENIC: Lui has a lot of media experience and is the host of a video series, Soulful Food Stories, that has hundreds of thousands of views. As noted in the marketing points, we expect that he will get a lot of good media in Toronto, with some national media as well.GREAT DESIGN: The book is going to be chock full of colour and imagery reflecting the joy Lui finds in making meals, playing hip-hop, and looking for the latest trendy runners. The food shots are fantastic -- he really knows how to make food look great.DYNAMO: Lui is always working on something new -- a new restaurant, new videos, new food stylings, and therefor he is always a part of the media and food scene. He is young and here to stay, so the book will have a long life.

GREAT LOCAL HISTORY: Vancouverites and former Vancouverites of a certain age will enjoy hearing about this lost landmark of a store in the historic downtown.VANCOUVER ORIGINAL: There is a strong demand for books on the mid-20th century and this one is full of great heritage photos of the area and the time. You don't have to have lived in that era to appreciate this blast from past.KLUCKNER: Renowned Vancouver artist and heritage activist, Michael Kluckner has written the forward and provided some of his artwork. Kluckner is an architectural heritage activist and the author of the classic regional bestseller, Vanishing Vancouver.

SCIENCE-BASED: The recipes in this book are based on the latest science regarding heart-health, but are created by chefs (it does little good to create recipes that are healthy but that no one wants to cook). This is not a book that caters to food fads, but one that builds on a base of solid science and research.AUDIENCE-TESTED: The classes that The Heart Protection Kitchen runs have tested these recipes -- they work, they taste great, and they provide a lot of variety (but no red meat!).LAY-OUT: The book is organized into sections on Breakfast & Brunch; Salads; Soups & Stews; Vegetarian & Vegan; Fish & Seafood; Poultry; Sides; and Drinks & Desserts. There are many sidebars and diagrams that provide more detailed information on paricular topics.DESIGN: With a beautiful and colourful contemporary design created by Figure 1's award-winning team, this book will be a pleasure to use and look through for information and ideas.

How do you dig up a 13,000 year-old footprint? Why do kelp forests need sea otters? How do you measure a shrinking glacier from an airplane? What is a 'zombie urchin'? Heart of the Coast brings these questions to life in a deep exploration of the beauty, mystery and biodiversity of the Pacific coast. Join Hakai Institute researchers in the field-archaeologists, oceanographers, marine biologists and beyond-as they journey from the ice fields of Klinaklini Glacier to the dazzling undersea reefs of a place called Crazy Town.British Columbia's Central Coast is a rich landscape called "a biologist's dream" and "the Amazon of the north." Since launching its Calvert Island ecological observatory there in 2009, the Hakai Institute has become a renowned centre of science and exploration. Collaborations with the Smithsonian Institution, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and several First Nations on the BC coast--along with a wide array of scientists hailing from other agencies and universities across North America-have uncovered new species, advanced our knowledge of marine food webs, and helped track the effects of climate change on watersheds and coastal ecosystems.Stunning photography illuminates the institute's journey of discovery over the past decade. This unforgettable book will inspire you with wonder and awe for the natural world, but be careful-you may learn something along the way.

Readers embark on a wild Pacific adventure and discover the benefits of healthy oils and rich nutrients that seafood deliver. This stunning cookbook, authored by chef and seafood advocate Bell, features simple techniques and straightforward sustainability guidelines around Pacific species as well as 80 delicious recipes to make at home.