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  • Penguin History of Canada

    by Robert Bothwell ...
    Canada is in many ways a country of limits, a paradox for a place that enjoys virtually unlimited space. Most of that space is uninhabited, and much of it is uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge north but with most of its population in the south, hugging the U.S. border. An uneasy and difficult country, Canada has nevertheless defied the odds: it remains, in the 21st century, a haven of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Canada Since 1945

    Revised Edition

    by Robert Bothwell, John English, Ian Drummond ...
    Series series Heritage
    From the preface:"A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and among themselves; and we worry about Americans in our future. But most of the pieces have been rearranged, and the ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Your Country, My Country

    A Unified History of the United States and Canada

    by Robert Bothwell ...
    Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh? Not so, according to ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Canada 1900-1945

    by Robert Bothwell, John English, Ian Drummond ...
    Series series Heritage
    Through war, depression, and social upheaval, the first half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented turbulence in Canada. In this lively and contentious survey, Robert Bothwell, lan Drummond, and John English explore the political and economic forces that shaped this era of change.As in their earlier work, the highly acclaimed Canada since 1945, the authors focus on the political ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Whose Man in Havana?

    Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy

    by John W. Graham ...
    Series Book 12 - Latin American and Caribbean
    In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert monitoring of Soviet military operations in Cuba on behalf of the CIA with the blessing of President Kennedy and Prime Minister Pearson. In a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Understanding Jesus

    Cultural Insights into the Words and Deeds of Christ

    by Joe Amaral ...
    An exploration of Christ's life and teachings set in the context of the customs and traditions of First Century Jewish life.Modern-day Christians often bring their own presuppositions and assumptions to the reading of the Bible, not realizing how deeply their understanding of Christ's life and teachings is affected by a 21st-century worldview. In Understanding Jesus, author Joe Amaral delves deep ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas

    by Vincent Lam ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Once voted the greatest Canadian of all time, Tommy Douglas was a prairie politician who believed in democratic socialism, the crucial role of civil rights, and the great potential of cooperation for the common good. He is best known as the “Father of Medicare.” Born in 1904, Douglas was a championship boxer and a Baptist minister who later exchanged his pulpit for a political platform. A powerful ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Kamouraska

    by Anne Hébert ...
    Series series A List
    A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnieres: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor.Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the ... Read more

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  • Curiosity

    by Joan Thomas ...
    Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England—the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion.More than 40 years before the publication of The Origin of Species, 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians Pierre Elliott Trudeau

    by Nino Ricci ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Love him or hate him, Pierre Trudeau has marked us all. The man whose motto was "reason over passion" managed to arouse in Canadians the fiercest of passions of every hue, ones that even today cloud our view of him and of his place in history. Acclaimed novelist Nino Ricci takes as his starting point the crucial role Trudeau played in the formation of his own sense of identity to look at how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Emily Carr

    by Lewis Desoto ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Mad, bad, and dangerous to know is how Victorian society dismissed Emily Carr. Lewis DeSoto, a painter and novelist, sees Emily Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the essence of art. Her quest to be an independent woman and a modern artist takes her from the studios of Paris to deep inside the remote Native villages of the West Coast forests. It is a lifetime journey of almost mythic ... Read more

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