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"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in t...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

An essential guide for every kind of artist that teaches them how to skip the gallery system, find their niche, and connect directly with collectors to pro...

Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s.As an inquisitive seven-...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeMovie Tie-in EditionWhen All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hug...

First published twenty years ago, this revised edition of John Sanford's classic exploration of the psychological and spiritual significance of dreams draw...

The sudden and tragic death of Princess Diana has caused the entire world to reflect on how much this singular woman meant to us all. From her fairy-tale c...

when It Was Published In 1995, Mary Karr's the Liars' Club Took The World By Storm And Raised The Art Of The Memoir To An Entirely New Level, As Well As B...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...

Margaret Macmillan. Originally Published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [497]-544) And Index.Categories: Po...

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing framew...

"In Off to the Side, Jim Harrison writes about his upbringing in Michigan, the austerities of life amid the Depression and the Second World War, and the see...

Will I Ever Find My Soul Mate? Whether you are recently separated, divorced, or you have been in the singles scene for longer than you want, this insightf...

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

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Qu...

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity,...

"There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freed...

What Does It Mean To Serve? Bestselling Author Jody Mitic Brings Together Veterans And Active Military Personnel From Across Canada To Tell Us, In Their Own...

Blind Man's "Bluff meets The Hunt for Red October" in the shocking untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the height of the Cold War - and the f...

National Bestseller For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of ti...

What secrets connect Egypt‘s Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations? In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Mar...

The author describes his year spent in Delhi, India, reflecting on the city's history and culture, including religious practices, industry, the arts, festiv...

Culture and Customs of Russia is a splendid introduction to the largest country in the world. This timely volume gives the scope of the country from earlie...

A Workbook That Examines World History On A Middle School Level. Organized By Key Concepts, The Text Includes Mnemonic Devices, Definitions, Timelines And D...

An Account Of A Deadly Commuter Plane Crash That Took Place In Northern Canada In 1984 Involving A Pilot, A Politician, A Cop And The Criminal He Was Escort...

New York Times Bestseller “Illuminating and very entertaining…a compelling read about someone who is much more than just the guy who sings for Iron Mai...

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Be...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six ...

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most r...

For courses in Ancient History (Ancient Near East - Egypt/Mesopotamia), Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome. The Ancient World is a comprehensive, multi-perspec...

In This Riveting Popular History, The Creator Of You Must Remember This Probes The Inner Workings Of Hollywood’s Glamorous Golden Age Through The Stories ...

Collects the dramatic, true-life accounts of the remarkable underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of NUMA volunteers--a group dedicated to ...

Sex and money scandals. An exploding divorce rate. Drug-addicted youths. And an ever-growing worldliness. Today's evangelical church is fighting battles on...

The Definitive Story Of Hollywood's Most Famous Couple He Was A Tough-guy Welshman Softened By The Affections Of A Breathtakingly Beautiful Woman;...

History Of The Game Of Hockey And The Teams Who Pursued The First Stanley Cup During The Early 1900's. The Old Order In Hockey's Second City : From Good Beg...

The American Revolution Was Not Inevitable, Nor Was It A Unanimous Cause. It Pitted Neighbors Against One Another, As Loyalists And Colonial Rebels Faced Of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLER Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018 One of the Daily Telegraph 's Best Books of 2017 A Guardia...

How can we know where we’re going if we don’t know where we are coming from? This question applies as much to nations as it does to travellers, and it r...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER\From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation acro...

The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brillian...

'the Memory Chalet' Is A Memoir Unlike Any You Have Ever Read Before. Each Essay Charts Some Experience Or Remembrance Of The Past Through The Sieve Of Tony...

Describes The Diplomatic Minuets And Military Brinkmanship As Germany Grew To Be A Continental Superpower At The End Of The Nineteenth Century And Became A ...

Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and th...

In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the worldÆs fastest growing faith; more than three-quarters of the worldÆs refugees are Islamic...

All Christians yearn to live at the center of God's will. But how to discern his will is an art that eludes many of us. And the advice we get often conflict...

Edited By Barrington Walker. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesEmigration & Immigration

NOMINATED FOR THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS-TV'S THE MORNING SHOW Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hu...