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Partisan Odysseys

By (author) Nelson Wiseman
Categories: History of the Americas

In Partisan Odysseys, Nelson Wiseman sets out to survey the history of Canada’s political parties. Uncovering distinctive motifs and events in Canadian party politics from pre-Confederation to the present, ...

Mary Pickford, Queen of the Silent Film Era

By (artist) George A. Walker
Categories: History of art

A successful actress whose work spanned 52 features, Mary Pickford helped establish the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the studio United Artists. She was the first woman to create her ...

Quest for Coomaraswamy

Text by Pratapaditya Pal
Categories: History of art

A biography of one of the pioneers in Asian art by the world’s foremost specialist in the arts of India, the Himalayas and South East Asia.

An intimate biography by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, viewed by many ...

Niagara... la voie qui y mène

Dans cet essai poétique, l’auteure de Pointe-Maligne, l’infiniment oubliée (Prix du Gouverneur général 2009) remonte cette fois le fleuve Saint-Laurent jusqu’aux chutes de Niagara pour nous ...

Ce n'était pas nous les sauvages

By (author) Daniel N. Paul
Illustrated by Leonard Paul & Vernon Gloade
Translated by Jean-François Cyr
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: Mouton noir Acadie

Voici enfin la traduction française, de Jean-François Cyr, de la troisième édition du livre désormais classique de Daniel N. Paul. Ce n’était pas nous les sauvages est un essai percutant, qui ...

Arrows in a Quiver

By (author) James Frideres
Categories: History of the Americas

In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous–settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how ...

The River Battles

By (author) Mark Zuehlke
Categories: Military history
Series: Canadian Battle Series

The fifth and final Canadian Battle Series volume set in Italy, The River Battles tells the story of this campaign’s last and hardest months. In riveting detail and with his trademark “you-are-there” ...

The Invisibles

By (author) James E. Candow
Categories: Military history

In The Invisibles, James E. Candow provides the fascinating backstory of the Royal Newfoundland Companies while enhancing our understanding of the role they played in Newfoundland history and the lives ...

The Clean Body

By (author) Peter Ward
Categories: European history

Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body. How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes? What did they ...

Gorgeous War

By (author) Tim Blackmore
Categories: Second World War

Gorgeous War examines ways in which modernist design ideals influenced German and American heraldry, and argues that the two visual worlds form the foundations of contemporary corporate brand programs. ...