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A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride thro...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...

In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-cra...

From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays that comes more than 20 years after Joe Carter's World ...

In the summer of 1942, twenty-five thousand feet above Malta, RAF Spitfires fought combat after bitter combat with clouds of German and Italian bombers and ...

Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American coloni...

WINNER of CBC Canada Reads Finalist for the RBC Taylor Prize In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a bes...

Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los An...

Journalist Michael Mckinley Celebrates 100 Years Of Hockey Canada, From The Creation Of The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association In 1914 To Today. Michael Mc...

It officially began on February 28, 2006, when a handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a residen...

They had defeated the French and now the English possessed the vast North American Empire. Soldiers, traders, settlers—all began the trek across the wilder...

This First Book To Be Published About Painters Eleven, The Brilliant, Flamboyant Group Of Toronto-based Abstract Expressionist Painters, Covers A Major Peri...

Robert H. Farquharson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

Robert Lyman’s deep knowledge and understanding of the war in Burma, and the great battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are well known. In this book he u...

Published in 1976, Between Friends/Entre Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on its bicentennial. McClelland & Stewart's press run was the mos...

Beginning With The Pre-hispanic Period, Moving On To Cuba's Struggle To Maintain The Revolution In The Years Following The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, And...

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our ...

100 Events that Shaped World History is a wonderful and insightful overview of the basic facts that have created the world as it is today. Interesting and f...

In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and liv...

Rosemary Neering. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 139) And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: HistoryUnited States

An engrossing and fact-filled compendium of timeless lessons we keep forgetting—over and over and over . . . It is said that those who do not learn from...

The Land Of The Maya -- Europeanization -- Independence -- The United Provinces Of Central America -- The Republic Of Guatemala -- Liberal Guatemala -- The ...

Children's author Bobbie Kalman's new series Native Nations of North America is an ongoing series that looks at the lives of the indigenous peoples of Nort...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation and in conjunction with Parks Canada’s announcement that entrance to all of Canada’s n...

A boat full of explosives heads in to the harbour as a large cargo ship steams out to sea. What happened next, on a fateful day in December 1917, is etched ...

When Kevin Tuerff and his partner boarded their flight from France to New York City on September 11, 2001, they had no idea that a few hours later the worl...

The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forestMaxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family w...

The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedi...

Winner Of The 2003 Trillium Book Award Stories Are Wondrous Things, Award-winning Author And Scholar Thomas King Declares In His 2003 Cbc Massey Lectures. A...

The Story Of Canada -- Making Tracks : The Myth Of The Cpr -- The Mild West : The Myth Of The Rcmp -- Your Majesty's Realm : The Myth Of The Master Race -- ...

Nova Scotia is blessed with a rich language. It is literally littered with words and expressions that vary from county to county, and town to town. From a ...

Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar M...

myer's Story Will Stand As The Best That Has Yet Been Written On The Alamo. . . . It's A Classic.-boston PostCategories: History United StatesState & Lo...

In This Unprecedented And Meticulously Researched Sweep Of The Record, Globe And Mail Bestselling Author Bob Plamondon Challenges The Conventional Wisdom Th...

At Company's Coming, we never underestimate how humble garlic can truly transform a meal. We've combed our archives and come up with recipes for breads, con...

"For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could h...

The second title in our already popular provincial alphabet series, A is for Algonquin Park: An Ontario Alphabet introduces young readers to all the beauty ...

An archaeological examination of the disappearance of the Anasazi considers the various theories about their departure from the Southwest and probes their h...

The town of Lunenburg, on Nova Scotia's South Shore, is a World Heritage Site. Its unique architecture and the beautiful setting of this 250-year-old fishi...

Will Fergusons First Book In Three Years, Following On The Back-to-back Successes Of How To Be A Canadian (over 110,000 Copies Sold) And Happiness (winner O...

Family Circle : The Walled Garden, 1955 -- An Old Romance, 1964 -- We Want A Country! 1990 -- Family Legends: The Patriarch, 1634 -- Mother Courage, 1635 --...

The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII-includes the actual Navajo Code and rare photos. Although more than 400 Navaj...

"The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history - the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1...

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming accoun...

This Nonfiction Book Examines How We Can Foster Reconciliation With Indigenous People At Individual, Family, Community And National Levels--Categories: Poli...

By Bruce Grant. 200 B&W Line drawings. With over 800 entries this copiously illustrated reference work is a fascinating history of the American Indian ...

In the tradition of Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation and the bestselling Flags of Our Fathers, Blake Heathcote brings together stirring and fascin...