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  • Upper Hudson Valley Beer

    The Upper Hudson Valley has a long and full-bodied brewing tradition. Arriving in the 1600s, the Dutch established the area as a brewing center, a trend that continued well into the eighteenth century despite two devastating wars. The Erie Canal helped develop Albany into a beer capital of North America--"Albany Ale" was exported across America and around the world. Upper Hudson Valley breweries ... Read more

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  • Ontario Beer

    A Heady History of Brewing from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay

    Beer historians and writers Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to bring the complete story to light, from foam to dregs. Ontario boasts a potent mix of brewing traditions. Wherever Europeans explored, battled, and settled, beer was not far behind, which brought the simple magic of brewing to Ontario in the 1670s. Early Hudson's Bay Company traders brewed in ... Read more

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  • Cheers!

    A History of Beer in Canada

    We like beer in Canada. We really, really like it. And it’s not just a fly-by-night, sordid little affair. We’re in it long term. We spend something like $8 billion a year on beer. From barley growers to label designers, more than 170,000 Canadians owe their full-time jobs directly or indirectly to beer. The rest of us just do what we can to help.In the long-awaited follow up to Notes on a Beermat ... Read more

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  • Australia - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

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    Australia is different—a vast island-continent with distances so great that the capital of Western Australia is closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney. The landscape embraces magnificent tropical rainforests and deserts the size of several European states; temperate areas that sustain a flourishing wine industry, making Australia the world's fourth largest wine exporter; a sixteen-thousand-mile ... Read more

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  • Last Canadian Beer

    The Moosehead Story

    by Harvey Sawler ...
    A look at the history of a family beer business and how they've managed to maintain strength in an increasingly competitive industry.Featuring important insights from the company's current executives and employees, Last Canadian Beer: The Moosehead Story is not only a fascinating company history, but also a candid look at how a small New Brunswick business remains competitive in a difficult global ... Read more

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  • The Molsons: Their Lives and Times: 1780-2000

    Their Lives and Times: 1780-2000

    by Karen Molson ...
    This is the true story of a remarkable family as told by a direct descendant of John Molson. Through generations, we follow their saga. We see the Molsons cope with change and opportunity in business, and we watch them deal with personal triumphs, private tragedies, and the everyday aspects of life.The first Molson arrived in Montreal in 1782 from England, with little money but a single-minded ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Killing Sydney

    The Fight for a City's Soul

    'Presents serious issues in a way which neither patronises or mystifies the lay reader.' Paul Keating on Three HousesA blueprint for the future of our city in a radically changing world.Columnist Elizabeth Farrelly brings her unique perspective as architectural writer and former city councillor to a burning question for our times: how will we live in the future? Can our communities survive ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Australian Architecture

    A history

    A comprehensive narrative history of building and design styles in Australia, from traditional Aboriginal gunyahs; to the local interpretations of northern hemisphere trends; to the sustainable, climate sensitive and high-tech constructions of the 21st century.From First Nations gunyahs and First Fleet huts to 21st century eco-pavilions and skyscrapers, Davina Jackson surveys the evolution of ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Brewed in Canada

    The Untold Story of Canada's 350-Year-Old Brewing Industry

    The Canadian brewing industry predates Confederation by more than two hundred years; Canada boasts the oldest continuously operating brewery in North America. Canadian brewers have survived the persecution of the Temperance Movement and Prohibition, the Great Depression, two World Wards, and the challenge of free trade. Today, brewing in Canada is a ten billion dollar business whose one constant ... Read more

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  • First Dollars

    Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private Property

    by Alex Rose ...
    MAKING MILLIONS — BOLD ABORIGINAL ENTREPRENEURS  — KIM BAIRD, CLARENCE LOUIE, TEWANEE JOSEPH, MANNY JULES — ARE REINVENTING CANADA’S ECONOMY  A growing number of aboriginal leaders – especially those blessed by geography – are unlocking the value of their lands in order to enter the economic mainstream,” says author Alex Rose in the eBook, First Dollars: Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • A Matter of Equality

    The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver

    by Donald Oliver ...
    Growing up in the only Black family in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Donald Oliver felt duty-bound to honour his great-grandparents, who had fled slavery in the US. His childhood, surrounded by music, family, and respected, hard-working role models, was idyllic. His family’s fundamental family creed was “work hard, be humble, love the Lord, and do all you can to help other people.” Donald Oliver would ... Read more

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  • Port Alberni

    More Than Just a Mill Town

    by Jan Peterson ...
    Any community that has ever been labelled a “mill town” carries both the promise of prosperity and the constant threat of collapse, its fortune hinging on a single industry whose performance is as much related to the whims of a global economy as it is to the abundance of a key natural resource. The people of Port Alberni, located deep in Vancouver Island’s Alberni Valley, know all too well the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD