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National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).

A mother recounts her interactions with the US government as she struggled to bring home her abducted daughters from Saudi Arabia.

"Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." - Chicago Tribune. Christian G.

Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives.

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance.

A political insider takes a revealing look at the public and private life of BC's controversial premier.

Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history.

Through interviews and eyewitness accounts, declassified security documents and underground pamphlets, Kurzman documents the overwhelming sense of confusion that gripped pre-revolutionary Iran, and

The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thr

Elizabeth May was born to be an activist. As a young girl, Elizabeth was worried about the health of the planet and believed it was her job to protect it.

The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region.

The office of lieutenant governor has been a constant in British Columbia from the province's colonial beginnings to the modern era.

At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room.

A timely and insightful exploration of the implementation and impact of British Columbia's carbon tax, delving into the political and economic considerations behind the tax, and addressing mis

Celebrated historian Barry Gough brings a defining era of Pacific Northwest history into focus in this biography of Richard Blanshard, the first governor of Vancouver Island—illuminating with intri