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Jean Markale ; Translated By A. Mygind, C. Hauch, And P. Henry. Translation Of: La Femme Celte. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 287-304.Categories: Religio...

In this illustrated history of Toronto, Peter Carruthers's preface introduces the theme of Toronto as a middle ground: geographically a meeting point betwe...

Ben Dunkelman grew up in a wealthy Jewish family in Toronto. Kicked out of several schools for being a hell-raiser, he was sent off to Europe and the Middle...

Pat & Rosemarie Keough ; Introduction By Robert Bateman. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 175.Categories: History Americas CanadaProvince & Local ...

In The 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin Was Separated From His Family And Placed In One Of Canada's Worst Residential Schools. St. Anne's, In Northern O...

Prisons Are An Ominous Fact Of Life For Too Many Aboriginal People. The Way Of The Pipe Explores How Aboriginal Spirituality Is Finding Its Way Into Prisons...

In The Canadian Criminal Justice System, Aboriginal Peoples Are Overrepresented As Both Victims And Offenders. The Aboriginal Incarcerated Population In Can...

An Indigenous leader who has dedicated her life to Indigenous Rights, Jody Wilson-Raybould has represented both First Nations and the Crown at the highest l...

One Of The Most Popular Canadian Prime Ministers In Recent History, Elected To Government For Three Consecutive Majority Terms, Jean Chrétien Has Some Sto...

In Finding Your Canadian Ancestors, authors Sherry Irvine and Dave Obee guide you through Canadian genealogical records, first by record type and then accor...

‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our in...

book on the background of stretcher bearers who served in WWIICategories: History Americas Canada20th Century

NATIONAL BESTSELLER\WINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction\A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\"Unreconciled is one hell o...

In the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm comes the riveting account of a deadly plane crash in northern Canada and its aftermath. Written by ...

Written with honesty and humour, There It Is brings us Les Brown’s compelling, grunt’s-eye view of his tour in the Vietnam War. In the raw language of ...

Ezra F. Vogel. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 259-265.Categories: History AsiaJapan

I. Nautical Disasters -- Ii. Earth -- Iii. Fire -- Iv. Wind, Water, And Ice -- V. Technology And Human Error. By Janet Looker ; Project Producers, Andrea Gu...

In This Book Niall Ferguson Argues That The British Empire Should Be Regarded Not Merely As Vanished Victoriana But As The Very Cradle Of Modernity. Nearly ...

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.Here are the major statements...

The life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Ki...

In 200708, Captain Ray Wiss, a former infantry officer, served with the Canadian Forces at forward operating bases in Khandahar's Panjwayi valley, the area ...

More than 250 Web sites included! Bone up on the essentials of Canada's history Full of great Canadian quotes and quips, this book takes you on a tour of d...

Book by Lapierre, L.Categories: HistoryUnited States

This Battlefield Guide Deals Almost Exclusively With The Battle Fought By The British And Polish Airborne Soldiers In The Arnhem, Oosterbeek And Driel Areas...

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestse...

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on S...

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal you...

The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jet...

Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to pa...

Maps tells the story in this innovative volume, and the story of Canada they tell is profoundly engrossing and rewarding. The atlas covers a period of a tho...

Quentin Casey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format. Text In English.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Histor...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor's Choice From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful man...

A new edition of a classic novel from one of Canada's most sensational crime authors.Near London, Ontario, in the Lucan district, even the bravest were scar...

This book is a fast-moving, dramatic narrative. Catton, a leading historian of the Civil War, vividly describes the armies involved and battles fought. His ...

Intrepid Voyager, Writer And Comedian Michael Palin Follows The Trail Of Two Expeditions Made By The Royal Navy's Hms Erebus To Opposite Ends Of The Globe, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of Wh...

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris ...

Remember When Everything Was Looking Up? When The Government Was Running At A Surplus, Pollution Was Disappearing, Peace Was Breaking Out In The Middle East...

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia ― the Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the NationCategories: Histo...

Arthur Bishop ; Foreword By Henry N.r. Jackman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 208) And Index.Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

The story of the hero behind the attempt to kill Hitler, the subject of Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, set for June 2008 release. By July of 1944, the Thi...

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what ...

Japan's transformation from an isolated society to a military empire and, after a crushing defeat in World War II, into one of the world's foremost economi...

Japan's Informal Empire In China, 1895-1937 : An Overview / Peter Duus -- The Changing Pattern Of Sino-japanese Trade, 1884-1937 / Mizoguchi Toshiyuki -- Ja...

The complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale authoritative survey of Latin America's unique historical experience from the first c...

A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era—the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series K...

When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying machines, he developed hydrofoils as a means of getting airborne from water. In 1919, on the Bras ...

Environmental lawyer Boyd assesses the effectiveness of Canadian environmental laws and policies, examines reasons for the country's progress or lack thereo...