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  • The Life of Luigi Giussani
    The Life of Luigi Giussani

    The life of luigi giussani

    A detailed account of the life and legacy of the founder of the Communion and Liberation movement.

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  • Seeking Our Eden
    Seeking Our Eden

    Seeking our eden

    One woman's dreams of establishing a utopian colony and her fight for women's equality.

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  • Newfoundland Rhapsody
    Newfoundland Rhapsody

    Newfoundland rhapsody

    A new perspective on the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador told through the life of Frederick R. Emerson.

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  • The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor
    The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor

    The architecture of andrew thomas taylor

    How Andrew Thomas Taylor advanced the quality of architecture in Canada.

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  • alcides lanza
    alcides lanza

    Alcides lanza

    Canadian-Argentinean pianist and composer alcides lanza is internationally renowned for his avant-garde approach to percussion, electroacoustics, and music theatre in works such as eidesis II, sensors III, un mundo imaginario, and vôo. Director of the Electronic Music Studio at McGill University ...

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  • The Hand of God
    The Hand of God

    The hand of god

    A magisterial biography of a major Canadian and Quebec public intellectual.

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  • Sir Andrew Macphail
    Sir Andrew Macphail

    Sir andrew macphail

    Sir Andrew Macphail (1864-1938), a professor of the history of medicine at McGill University, was best-known as an essayist of international renown and founding editor of The University Magazine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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  • Marguerite Bourgeoys et la Congrégation de Notre Dame, 1665-1670
    Marguerite Bourgeoys et la Congrégation de Notre Dame, 1665-1670

    Marguerite bourgeoys et la congrégation de notre dame, 1665-1670

    This sequel to the early biography charts the establishment of a radically innovative religious community of uncloistered women - the first in the New World.

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  • Outside the Box
    Outside the Box

    Outside the box

    When poet and broadcaster Mona Gould died in 1999, she left behind thirty-eight boxes of papers. Her war poem, "This Was My Brother," was still a staple of textbooks and anthologies, yet Mona - well known in her youth - had fallen into obscurity in the 1960s. Born at the very time Mona's career w...

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  • Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
    Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter

    Confessions of an immigrant's daughter

    Laura Salverson’s autobiography describes a young immigrant woman’s rise above an early life of poverty, isolation, and upheaval. Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter depicts, sympathetically and graphically, the agonizing process of an immigrant Icelandic community adjusting to life in a forei...

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  • Both Hands
    Both Hands

    Both hands

    The life and times of a landmark creator of Canadian culture.

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  • Chronic Conditions
    Chronic Conditions

    Chronic conditions

    Chronic Conditions captures myriad ways in which the chronic conditions the sufferer. Karen Engle explores, through personal experience as well as research in medical history, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to the rhythms of ongoing physical pain.

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  • Between Composers
    Between Composers

    Between composers

    Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic growth over six turbulent months, and illuminate their perspectives on the devel...

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  • Classical Music
    Classical Music

    Classical music

    A passionate appeal from an acclaimed artist for the relevance of classical music in today's torn world.

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  • Mr Charlotte Brontë
    Mr Charlotte Brontë

    Mr charlotte brontë

    Few people seeking to avoid the glare of publicity have had more of it turned on them than Charlotte Brontë's husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Some critics have implied that he not only put a stop to her writing but might even have inadvertently caused her death.

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  • Harrison McCain
    Harrison McCain

    Harrison mccain

    The story of the man, his roots, his business genius, and how his company “went global” before globalization.

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  • Back to Beer ... and Hockey
    Back to Beer ... and Hockey

    Back to beer ... and hockey

    A personal look into a quiet man's quest to make Molson a global brewer.

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  • Moi, je suis de Bouctouche
    Moi, je suis de Bouctouche

    Moi, je suis de bouctouche

    Donald Savoie a grandi dans un petit village acadien et est devenu un auteur et un universitaire accompli. Ses livres ont eu un effet profond sur les politiques publiques du Canada et sur l'administration du pays. Moi, je suis de Bouctouche n'est pas seulement l'histoire de Savoie lui-même, mais ...

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  • Memoirs and Madness
    Memoirs and Madness

    Memoirs and madness

    A critical study of Leonid Andreev as a "mad literary genius."

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  • A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
    A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism

    A.b. simpson and the making of modern evangelicalism

    Understanding the formation of conservative evangelical identity, through the life of one of its leading figures.

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  • From the Battlefield to the Stage
    From the Battlefield to the Stage

    From the battlefield to the stage

    Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga in 1777, General John Burgoyne led a multidimensional life. From the Battlefield to the Stage remembers him as not only a participant in one of Britain’s worst military disasters but also a brave soldier, successful playwrig...

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  • Haldane
    Haldane

    Haldane

    A new biography of a towering figure in twentieth-century British and Canadian politics, revealing his relevance for our contemporary crises.

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  • Congo Solo
    Congo Solo

    Congo solo

    Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers at The New Yorker - her first byline appeared there in 1929, her last in 1996. She was also the author of fifty-three books, and, had her 1933 travel memoir, Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days o...

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  • The Canny Scot
    The Canny Scot

    The canny scot

    A revealing biography of one of twentieth-century Nova Scotia's most prominent religious figures.

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  • Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard
    Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard

    Hitler's cosmopolitan bastard

    In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. Timely and capitivating, Martyn Bond's biography ...

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  • Victor and Evie
    Victor and Evie

    Victor and evie

    The experiences of a governor general and his family in the early twentieth century, revealed through recently released letters and diaries.

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  • Other Endings
    Other Endings

    Other endings

    Weaving together personal memoir with in-depth research, Other Endings explores why organ transplantation is presented in a triumphalist narrative of medical progress and happy endings while stories of the anguish endured by people involved with waitlist deaths remain untold.

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  • HA!
    HA!

    Ha!

    On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of t...

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  • The Hollow Tree
    The Hollow Tree

    The hollow tree

    The Hollow Tree is one person's testament to the power of indigenous culture to heal. Herb Nabigon's healing journey guided him to a life of kindness, honesty, courage, and humility.

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  • Baking as Biography
    Baking as Biography

    Baking as biography

    A daughter's exploration of her mother's life as revealed through her baking.

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  • Never Rest on Your Ores
    Never Rest on Your Ores

    Never rest on your ores

    In Never Rest on Your Ores, Keevil recounts how a team of engineers and entrepreneurs built Canada’s largest diversified mining company. Drawing lessons from the turbulent period between 2005 and 2023, this new edition is both entertaining and instructive, a rare insider’s account of an industry ...

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  • Letters from the Afterlife
    Letters from the Afterlife

    Letters from the afterlife

    Letters from the Afterlife chronicles the experiences of writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, Holocaust survivors from Poland, as they adjusted to life in their adopted countries of Canada and Sweden.

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  • Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories

    Ghost stories

    Judith Adamson’s memoir reveals the questions Adamson asked as she researched her biographies of literary luminaries, and the personal challenges she faced along the way. Uncovering new information about her famous subjects, from Graham Greene to Max Reinhardt, Ghost Stories is a fascinating acco...

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  • A Black American Missionary in Canada
    A Black American Missionary in Canada

    A black american missionary in canada

    “Hilary Neary makes a major contribution to scholarship by placing the reader in conversation with Chambers’s letters, thereby making available an untold story as a voice once silenced comes to life.” Noel Leo Erskine, Emory UniversityLewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Can...

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  • Beyond Vision
    Beyond Vision

    Beyond vision

    In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory In...

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  • Up and to the Right, Second Edition
    Up and to the Right, Second Edition

    Up and to the right, second edition

    The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship.

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  • Pictorial Illusionism
    Pictorial Illusionism

    Pictorial illusionism

    Steele MacKaye (1842-1894) was a major North American theatre artist - a director, actor, inventor, painter, theorist, and writer - best known for advancing a unified vision of pictorial illusionism, the central aesthetic of late nineteenth-century drama, by transforming grand theatres into jewel...

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  • J.W. McConnell
    J.W. McConnell

    J.w. mcconnell

    J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally.

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  • Hunters on the Track
    Hunters on the Track

    Hunters on the track

    A detailed account of the controversial Scottish whaling master – authorized by Lady Franklin, yet dismissed by the Admiralty – who led the first of the Franklin searches.

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  • Strangers with Memories
    Strangers with Memories

    Strangers with memories

    Like estranged best friends, two democracies go from sharing their dreams to forgetting what they had in common – and wondering if they can still trust one another.

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  • The Dillon Era
    The Dillon Era

    The dillon era

    Douglas Dillon advocated for evolution and reform over radicalism and placed the national interest above party interest. With exclusive access to the family’s archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in American history, unfolding a deeply influential ...

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  • You're Not Dead until You're Forgotten
    You're Not Dead until You're Forgotten

    You're not dead until you're forgotten

    The irreverent and insightful story of Canada's unknown movie mogul.

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  • Unlucky to the End
    Unlucky to the End

    Unlucky to the end

    On 12 March 1976 Calgary police officer Allan Keith Harrison was shot and killed following a robbery at the Inglewood Credit Union. By the end of the year, Janise Marie Gamble, a twenty-one year-old girl from Peterborough, Ontario, had been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to...

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  • Empire and Ireland
    Empire and Ireland

    Empire and ireland

    How the liberal imperialist Hamar Greenwood filled his controversial role as chief secretary for Ireland.

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  • Queen of Versailles
    Queen of Versailles

    Queen of versailles

    The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at ...

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  • In Twilight and in Dawn
    In Twilight and in Dawn

    In twilight and in dawn

    An informative study of the evolution of a discipline focused through the life of one of its leading practitioners, In Twilight and in Dawn is an illuminating look at anthropological thought and practice in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.

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  • Toronto Edwardian
    Toronto Edwardian

    Toronto edwardian

    Frank Darling gained prominence as the principal of Darling & Pearson Architects, designing a plethora of bank buildings in the early twentieth century. Toronto Edwardian positions Darling, whose work aligned with national ambitions and Britain’s global imperial project, as a leading figure o...

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  • Expect Miracles
    Expect Miracles

    Expect miracles

    David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational ...

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  • Blatant Injustice
    Blatant Injustice

    Blatant injustice

    Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and Can...

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  • A. Mary F. Robinson
    A. Mary F. Robinson

    A. mary f. robinson

    This critical biography of A. Mary F. Robinson traces her unorthodox journey through the literary circles of London and Paris as a writer of poetry and prose, a leading member of the Anglo-French community, and a significant contributor to the cultural and literary shift from nineteenth-century V...

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  • The Permanent Nature of Everything
    The Permanent Nature of Everything

    The permanent nature of everything

    A childhood of freedom and risk, of navigating the shoals of a combative family, and reaching out for an understanding of the world.

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  • Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister
    Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister

    Jane austen's transatlantic sister

    A revealing account of a naval officer's young wife, her life during the Napoleonic Wars, and her influence on Jane Austen's fiction.

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  • Dal & Rice
    Dal & Rice

    Dal & rice

    In 1914 Godfrey Davis arrived in India, a junior officer in the Indian Civil Service. By the time he reluctantly returned to England thirty years later he was a high court judge with a knighthood. Sir Godfrey fell in love with India. He sympathized with the independence movement and shared a grea...

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  • Christ, God's Companionship with Man
    Christ, God's Companionship with Man

    Christ, god's companionship with man

    This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practised in eighty countries around the world.Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberat...

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  • Singing from the Darktime
    Singing from the Darktime

    Singing from the darktime

    Singing from the Darktime is a compelling picture of a rural childhood in Germany at a time when the world was about to change. By 1937 Hitler's power was beginning to penetrate the peaceful agricultural village in the Rhine Valley where S. Weilbach lived with her family. Without warning, her car...

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  • Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary
    Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary

    Carol shields and the extra-ordinary

    Claiming the "ordinary" and "extra-ordinary" as critical categories, contributors to this volume explore the philosophical and literary import of Carol Shields's writing, its complex play with genre and narrative technique, its re-valuing of domesticity and gendered perspective, and the social cr...

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  • Fatal Glamour
    Fatal Glamour

    Fatal glamour

    A detailed account of the trajectory of Rupert Brooke’s life and the workings of his psychology.

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  • Up and to the Right
    Up and to the Right

    Up and to the right

    The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship.

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  • Shadow Woman
    Shadow Woman

    Shadow woman

    The remarkable career of the American woman who became the world's first female master of Chinese shadow theatre.

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  • To Make a Killing
    To Make a Killing

    To make a killing

    To Make a Killing chronicles the life of Arthur Cutten, the grain and stock market speculator who made a fortune during the 1920s and was later vilified by the Roosevelt administration as one of the “banksters” responsible for the Great Depression.

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  • Louis J. Robichaud
    Louis J. Robichaud

    Louis j. robichaud

    In this closely drawn biography of Acadian New Brunswick premier Louis J. Robichaud, Donald Savoie provides a portrait of a man uniquely able to meet the need for difficult and enduring political and societal change.

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  • Research and Reform
    Research and Reform

    Research and reform

    The untold story of a Canadian pioneer in genetics, undergraduate science education, and the establishment of Medicare.

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  • My Life for the Book
    My Life for the Book

    My life for the book

    The life and times of Russia's leading pre-Revolutionary book publisher.

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  • Lord Lyons
    Lord Lyons

    Lord lyons

    A biography of a man for all international crises.

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  • Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History
    Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History

    Law, life, and the teaching of legal history

    Using the life and intellectual heritage of Blaine Baker, Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History is both biographical study and important exploration into contemporary issues in Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building, criminal law, an...

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  • My Peerless Story
    My Peerless Story

    My peerless story

    From factory to corner office – how a Canadian men’s tailored suit entrepreneur developed his company into a leader in the industry.

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  • Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs
    Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs

    Blitzkrieg and jitterbugs

    A young woman experiences college life amidst constant reminders of ongoing war.

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  • The Beautiful Unwanted
    The Beautiful Unwanted

    The beautiful unwanted

    Chris Kaposy reflects on parenting his son with Down syndrome in the midst of a supposed disappearance of people with this condition. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents decades-old bioethical controversies, revealing the prehistory that has shaped current ...

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  • Who Was Doris Hedges?
    Who Was Doris Hedges?

    Who was doris hedges?

    A lively biography of Canada's first literary agent and her efforts to forge a writing career in Montreal.

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  • J. Wendell Macleod
    J. Wendell Macleod

    J. wendell macleod

    Popularly known as Saskatchewan's Red Dean because of his progressive views and strong support of Canada's first medicare plan, J. Wendell Macleod (1905-2001) was a charismatic pioneer in social medicine and medical education. Louis Horlick mines Macleod's diaries, which span seventy-five years, ...

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  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2
    Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2

    Thomas d'arcy mcgee, volume 2

    After a tumultuous career as a revolutionary in Ireland and an ultra-conservative Catholic in the United States, Thomas D'Arcy McGee moved to Canada in 1857, where he became a force for moderation and the leading Irish Canadian politician in the country. Determined that Canada should avoid the et...

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  • France in the World
    France in the World

    France in the world

    André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.

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  • Zygmunt Bauman and the West
    Zygmunt Bauman and the West

    Zygmunt bauman and the west

    Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman’s lived experiences of totalitarianism and exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and unappreciated p...

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  • Fred Taylor
    Fred Taylor

    Fred taylor

    John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred Taylor. E.P. became mid-century Canada's leading industrialist, while Fred became an artist and a Communist.

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  • Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas
    Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas

    Frank underhill and the politics of ideas

    A lively and absorbing study of the one of the foremost English Canadian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

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  • Flora!
    Flora!

    Flora!

    In Flora!, co-authored by Geoffrey Stevens, the politician and humanitarian Flora Isabel MacDonald tells her amazing journey, from her childhood in Cape Breton through her years in backroom politics and elected office, ending with her exceptional humanitarian work in war-torn Afghanistan and othe...

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  • Connecting the Dots
    Connecting the Dots

    Connecting the dots

    An intellectual memoir by one of Canada's leading legal scholars. Copublished with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

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  • Sheymes
    Sheymes

    Sheymes

    Picking up a family’s broken pieces and restoring them in a narrative that seals the gaps with memory.

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  • More Richly in Earth
    More Richly in Earth

    More richly in earth

    Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differe...

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  • Discovering Confederation
    Discovering Confederation

    Discovering confederation

    A scholar's appreciation of the magnificent achievement that is the Canadian political constitution.

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  • Agent of Change
    Agent of Change

    Agent of change

    Huda Mukbil shares her experiences as a Black Arab-Canadian Muslim intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her dazzling account reveals how racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia undermine not only individuals, but institutions and the national interest – and how address...

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  • Delicious Mirth
    Delicious Mirth

    Delicious mirth

    Recovering the lyrical voice and remarkable literary life of James McCarroll, Canada's Irish-born poet and humorist.

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  • Journey with No Maps
    Journey with No Maps

    Journey with no maps

    Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.

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  • A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury
    A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury

    A russian jew of bloomsbury

    A stirring account of the early-twentieth century, Jewish émigré life, and English and Russian letters, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury casts new light - and shadows - on the giants of English modernism.

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  • Rocke Robertson
    Rocke Robertson

    Rocke robertson

    The life of the war surgeon who became principal of McGill University in the midst of political, student, and faculty unrest.

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  • To Make a Difference
    To Make a Difference

    To make a difference

    A story about building a meaningful life through family, work, and community.

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  • The Theatricality of Robert Lepage
    The Theatricality of Robert Lepage

    The theatricality of robert lepage

    Since the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing performance to establish its own language of communication with the audience independent of the written text. Robert Lepage is one of the pioneers and main exponents of mixed-media performance, internati...

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  • Joseph Roberts Smallwood
    Joseph Roberts Smallwood

    Joseph roberts smallwood

    There are multiple J.R. Smallwoods, but the aspiring and ambitious figure presented in this biography stands apart. Melvin Baker and Peter Neary use the largely untapped sources of Smallwood's own papers and his extensive journalistic writing to add a documentary basis to what is known or conject...

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  • As affecting the fate of my absent husband
    As affecting the fate of my absent husband

    As affecting the fate of my absent husband

    A collection of Lady Franklin's public letters offers a vital new perspective on one of the great tragedies of Victorian Britain.

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  • I'm from Bouctouche, Me
    I'm from Bouctouche, Me

    I'm from bouctouche, me

    Donald Savoie grew up in a small Acadian village and went on to become an accomplished writer and academic whose books have profoundly affected Canadian public policy and public administration. I'm from Bouctouche, Me is not only his story but a story about Canada, the Acadian people, and the evo...

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  • The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright
    The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright

    The new labrador papers of captain george cartwright

    An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.

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  • The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days
    The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days

    The darkest night brings longer days

    The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days is Sirous Houshmand’s eyewitness testimony of Tehran’s Evin Prison and the 1988 mass executions of many of his prison friends. He recounts a journey from revolutionary fervour to political imprisonment, along the way, sharing insights from his youth to provide...

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  • Bringing Art to Life
    Bringing Art to Life

    Bringing art to life

    In 1959, Alan Jarvis - the brilliant and charismatic director of the National Gallery of Canada - was forced to resign following a disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal, or the public humiliation that foll...

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  • Giuliano de' Medici
    Giuliano de' Medici

    Giuliano de' medici

    Unfairly maligned for over five centuries, Giuliano de’Medici at last receives his first major and sustained biography.

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  • The Constant Diplomat
    The Constant Diplomat

    The constant diplomat

    Robert A.D. Ford had a distinguished diplomatic career that included an unprecedented sixteen years as Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union during some of the most turbulent and important years of the Cold War (1964-80). Relying heavily on first-person testimony, including several interviews w...

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  • The Teeth of Time
    The Teeth of Time

    The teeth of time

    Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades. A passion for the intellectual life drew them together but their friendship focused more on politics once Trudeau became prime minister. In The Teeth of Time Cook reflects on his relationship with Trudeau and the tension...

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  • The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986
    The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986

    The life and times of raúl prebisch, 1901-1986

    Selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Economist.

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  • In the Eye of the China Storm
    In the Eye of the China Storm

    In the eye of the china storm

    "The proudest day of my life was October 1, 1950. I marched with seeming multitudes across Tiananmen Square, exalting in China's independence from foreign controls. As the people raised their fists to Mao Zedong shouting Wansui, 'ten thousand year' - the traditional greeting for an emperor - I co...

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  • Jean de Grandpré
    Jean de Grandpré

    Jean de grandpré

    Beginning as Bell Canada’s general counsel in 1966, Jean de Grandpré rose through the ranks and became president in 1973. A few years later he created Bell Canada Enterprises, one of America’s largest telecommunications companies. Offering insight into the secrets of his success, Jean de Grandpré...

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  • Georges and Pauline Vanier
    Georges and Pauline Vanier

    Georges and pauline vanier

    Few figures have had as lasting an influence on Canadian institutions, history, politics, and culture as Georges and Pauline Vanier. Georges (1888-1967), a decorated military officer, became a professional diplomat, the first Canadian ambassador to France, and the first French-Canadian governor g...

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