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This collection of essays explores how fighting in the rugged, hostile lands of Afghanistan is no easy task. Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires.

Scarce Heard Amid the Guns tears the curtain of myth away, providing a rare, visceral inner perspective of the various Canadian peacekeeping missions.

Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s Award One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada.

Small things can often mean a great deal.

This book provides a glimpse of Aboriginal women in Northern Ontario and it reflects primarily the impact of the European churches and systems on Aboriginal peoples’ way of life.

In this comprehensive biography, Christine Mander depicts the life and times of Emily Murphy with a refreshing candor and vitality.

Begun in 1891, the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America.

The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage.

This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become hom

The late twentieth century witnessed massive human rights violations. What can to done to stop them? How can the root causes be addressed?

When The Ph.D. Trap was first published in 1987, it hit academe like a bombshell.

In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums.

"I’ve got to stop being so nice." How often has Dr. Evelyn Sommers heard that from her clients over the years?

Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots.

"For me, getting older physically seems to be epitomized in the feeling that I look like my mother. She's really attractive ...