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Border Cities Powerhouse chronicles one of the most dramatic urban transformations in Canadian history, documenting the shift from modest industry to manufacturing dynamo.

The tales in this book have remained hidden.

My Town brings together more than 70 snapshots of the people and places that have called Windsor home. More than this, they have made Windsor, for better and for worse, the city it is today.

In the twenty-first century, Canada has a reputation for being one of the most gay-friendly nations on earth, a pioneer in legalizing same-sex marriage, and home to enormously popular Pride parades

An illustrated history of bootlegging along the Great Lakes, Rumrunners gives us a sense of Prohibition and the larger-than-life rumrunners and bootleggers who thrived during it in a way that no do

He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent.

John O'Brien first learned about Oak Island in 1958 at the age of twelve, listening intently as his pharmacist father and a Saint Mary's University professor debated, for an entire winter, the meri

It begins with the founding of Halifax; the development of Nova Scotia and how it devolved into the Maritime provinces (ca.1785); the failure of Maritime Union, evolution of responsible government

In this groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from child protective investigation to fos

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel.

Explores the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer and her connection to President Kennedy.

Un vieux, un jeune – un conteur, un auditeur – des heures d'un travail routinier, propice aux histoires et aux réflexions. La table est mise pour ces courts essais anecdotiques.

New York Times bestseller — Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times — Time — The Economist — NPR — The New Yorker — The Smithsonian — Kirkus Reviews.

Une guerre dévastatrice vient d'éclater au cœur de l'Europe, qui ravive les pires traumatismes du passé ; des menaces de cataclysme nucléaire sont constamment agitées, alors qu'

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.