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A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.

Longlisted for the National Book Award, this highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copi

Tighten Your Lines and Hang On! You're in for quite a ride! There is simply no other race like it.

Public health is diffuse, divided, and poorly understood. As a policy and practice, public health promotes and protects people and communities.

This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Métis Nation.

This is the story of the King's Own Calgary Regiment.

Rough & Messy Justice vividly portrays Alberta's Crowsnest Pass of 1920, a rugged Rocky Mountain region shaped by its mining economy and diverse culture.

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . .

Discover the most fascinating crimes committed between two of the greatest wars ever fought, from America's first train robbery by the Reno brothers in 1866, to alleged killings at the H. H.

Part of the joy of mathematics is that it is everywhere—in soap bubbles, electricity, da Vinci's masterpieces, even in an ocean wave.

Physics, once known as "natural philosophy," is the most basic science, explaining the world we live in, from the largest scale down to the very, very, very smallest, and our understandin

Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia.

"Excellent...Tucker's chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating." -The Economist.

Essence and emblem of life—feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times—human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commer

Partly as a result of poor commanders and partly because the Romans had an innate and misguided belief in the invincibility of their legions, the first battles against the Cimbri were a series of d