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In the middle of the Caribbean, there sits a small island called Redonda.

It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sun wrote Arna Bontemps.

Relatively little attention has been paid to the contributions of the CCF/NDP in Canadian politics.

In Search of Pure Lust documents an important chapter in lesbian history that is already being distorted and erased, a time when lesbians were reinventing everything from the ground up.

The shocking images of neo-Nazis parading in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the

A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas.

An archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto's long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood.

Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Gerald Durrell's much-loved comic gem.

Since 2015 there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat.

The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon. President John F.

From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas.

Mining the most recent paleontological advances, a paleobiologist recreates sixteen extinct worlds, rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama, showing up close the intricate relation

Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the moder

Documents the story of the highly respected Kentucky bourbon magnate behind the $3,000-per-bottle Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, chronicling the remarkable story of his fight to protect the authe

From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most d