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this Book Traces Changes In American Attitudes Toward Racial Issues That Have Taken Place Between The 1940s And The 1980s--a Crucial Period That Encompasse...

Written by two well-known historians, this text presents a detailed chronological account of Canadian history from the country's earliest beginnings as a wi...

The story of HMS Nancy during the War of 1812, and the men in charge, Alexander Mackintosh and Miller Worsley, woven into crucial events of the war during 1...

Understanding Social Inequality examines the factors that contribute to inequality in Canada. A unique 'intersectional' framework demonstrates how the struc...

Jamaica Used To Be The Source Of Much Of Britain's Wealth, A Tropical Paradise For The Planters, A Babylonian Exile For The Africans Shipped To The Caribbea...

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and po...

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first...

Perfect for Canadiens fans who think they already know everythingWhether you're a lifetime fan from the days of Scotty Bowman or a new supporter of Michel ...

A fascinating profile of two generals who shaped history. In 1759, after the battle on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City, the English general Jame...

Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book...

Donald Smith, known to most Canadians as Lord Strathcona, was an adventurer who made his fortune building railroads. He joined the Hudson’s Bay Company a...

In 1604, A Small Group Of Migrants Fled Political Turmoil And Famine In France To Start A New Colony On Canada's East Coast. Their Roughly Demarcated Territ...

One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of t...

Finalist for the National Business Book Award While much has been written about his father, Sam, a titan of industry, there is no public record of Charles ...

Addresses the conflict between scientific theory about the world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Publishers Weekly Though Deloria (Custer...

"[The Book of] Revelation has served as a "language arsenal" in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again ...

Bessner Conducted Hundreds Of Interviews And Extensive Archival Research To Paint A Complex Picture Of The Role Of Canadian Jews In The War Effort.Categorie...

The Orange Shirt Story Was The Best Selling Children's Book In Canada For Several Weeks In September (book Manager). This True Story Also Inspired The Movem...

A senior Canadian diplomat is viciously assaulted in his hotel room in South Africa. His world collapses in post-traumatic shock and he is haunted by flashb...

McKinley, MichaelCategories: Sports & OutdoorsHockey

Drawing on original sources and the experiences of key participants, this book recounts the fall of Greece in World War II, the Battle of Crete and the resi...

~ Voyageurs are highly visible today as colourful caricatures in popular culture and history. They adorn the labels of beer bottles, the sides of U-Haul va...

From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage a...

Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters. Canada’s maste...

Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is ...

Harry Evans Has Edited Everything From The Urgent Files Of Battlefield Reporters To The Complex Thought Processes Of Henry Kissinger. He's Even Been Knighte...

The canoe is a symbol unique to Canada. One of the greatest gifts of First Peoples to all those who came after, the canoe is Canada's most powerful icon. Wi...

Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendere...

From Bestselling Author Ken Dryden, A Riveting New Book. On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, The Day After Labour Day, Class 9g At Etobicoke Collegiate Institute...

In 1994 the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Neil Harvey combines ten years of field work in Ch...

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." —New York Times Book Revie...

Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of t...

this Magisterial Survey Of The Historical Geography Of The West Indies Is At Bottom Concerned With The Causes And Consequences Of Three Complex And Inter-...

Legends, questions and theories abound about Oak Island, Nova Scotia, and tales of buried treasure there. For more than two centuries, the island has been ...

Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in CanadaCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & World PoliticsCan...

"At the heart of this sweeping tale of adventure, discovery and exploration is one woman's extraordinary journey, inspired by her love for a man she had not...

It was a Nation exploding into civil war. In 1992, the collapse of the former Yugoslavia triggered an international armed conflict that would last more than...

The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remain...

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...

Edited By Paul Robert Magocsi. Slightly Different Versions Of Works Which Originally Appeared In Encyclopedia Of Canada's Peoples. Includes Bibliographical ...

"But even as the darkness and chill settle in, there is a glimmer of hope, a feeling of growing excitement. For the start of winter also means the beginning...

By Pierre Berton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 452-463) And Index.Categories: Travel United States New YorkNiagara Falls

This clear and comprehensive history of French society—from the age of the Enlightenment to the present — offers balanced coverage of major political, s...

Edited By Bryan D. Palmer & Joan Sangster. Includes Bibliographical References. Also Available Via The World Wide Web.Categories: HistoryHistorical Stud...

The third edition of A History of the Canadian Peoples is a skillful condensation of the acclaimed two-volume history by J. M. Bumsted. In a single volume...

Desmond Morton, One Of Canada's Most Highly Respected Historians, Is Keenly Aware Of The Ways In Which Our Past Informs Our Present, And In One Compact And ...

pull Up A Chair Or Gather Round The Campfire And Get Ready For Thirty Creepy Tales Of Ghostly Hauntings, Eerie Happenings, And Other Strange Occurrences ...

walter Stadnick Is Not An Imposing Man. At Five-foot-four, His Face And Arms Scarred By Fire In A Motorcycle Accident, He Would Not Spring To Mind As A Le...