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The Tyranny of Niceness identifies and confronts our most fundamental social dysfunction - niceness.Author: Evelyn SommersPublisher: Dundurn PressPublication Date: Jul 02, 2005Number of Pages: 240...

In a follow-up to Canadian Nuclear Weapons, the author brings together recently declassified information of nuclear weapons stored, stationed, or lost in Canada.Author: John ClearwaterPublisher:...

For most people, the city of Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. Unbuilt Victoria examines some of the architectural plans that were proposed but...

Did you know that Canada's Criminal Code still has provisions outlawing the practice of witchcraft and "crafty sciences"? Did you know that blasphemy is a crime in Canada? And did you know that...

Victoria Mahler, the only daughter of rocker Micky Wayne, spends an accidentally eventful summer climbing out from under her mom?s shadow and embracing her love of video games. Will Vic figure out...

Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and in-depth police investigations, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada every year. Robert J. Hoshowsky examines 12 crimes that continue to...

Shipwrecks, War of 1812 skirmishes, ghost sightings, and even a murder or two help make up the colourful story of Elgin Countrys heyday.Author: Jennifer GraingerPublisher: Dundurn PressPublication...

When 17-year-old Rigg and his friend Ari hang a marauding wolf in the wilds of medieval Greenland, they get much more than they bargained for: a hint of werewolves, glimpses of human sacrifice to the...

The first book in a two-part series that examines the unique Canadian experience and outlook in regard to generalship and the art of the admiral.Author: Bernd HornPublisher: Dundurn PressPublication...

"I knew one thing -- I wasn't going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead. In that neighbourhood, it was hard...

A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents' untold secrets and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life. Growing up in Toronto, Sam Chaiton and his brothers knew...

Sent to cover bank robber Red Ryan?s daring prison break, a young Ernest Hemingway becomes fascinated with the convicts. In 1923, Ernest Hemingway struggles with the responsibilities of marriage and...

Donald "Mickey" McDonald was charged in 1939 with the killing of a bookmaker, supposedly Toronto's first gangland slaying. Two murder trials, a sensational escape from Kingston Penitentiary, and a...

The death of a fifteen-year-old girl caught in the crossfire of "gang warfare" the day after Christmas in downtown Toronto shook the city to its core. A decade later, What Killed Jane Creba takes us...

An enchanting telling of the complex life of Luisa, who forges a new life after freedom from slavery in colonial Mexico. Luisa Abrego, a slave in Seville, is set free upon her master?s death and...

For anyone who has ever had a dream or longs to find one, Wheel of Wisdom will help put a great plan behind your dream.Author: Angela ClubbPublisher: Dundurn PressPublication Date: Jan 11, 1984Number...

Originally published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his family. Finch Whiteoak and wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household...

The captivating saga of the Whiteoak family continues, with more rivalries, tangled relationships, and secret love affairs.Author: Mazo de la RochePublisher: Dundurn PressPublication Date: Jan 01,...

Andr?-Fran?ois Bourbeau turned his passion for the outdoors into a celebrated career as a ground-breaking researcher and teacher of primitive wilderness survival. These are his first-hand stories,...

Born in Illinois in 1843, William C. Van Horne was lured to Canada in 1881 to become the general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Railway. He went on to become the company president. He was...

A powerful memoir of how one woman resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry. Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a...

Deals with sexism and the legal system of nineteenth-century Canada and delves into the duplicity surrounding the railway business of the time A well-researched and accurate portrayal of life in...

Wolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age, continuing on through the many centuries of First Nations habitation and finally the era of French exploration and...

You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive.Recent years have revealed just...

Reclaim control of your workday with a proven time-saving method. Life is busier than ever before. We are working longer hours, with more stress and more priorities, yet we seem to fall further and...

While planning a tour on rugged Vancouver Island, Amanda Doucette befriends a fiercely private old artist whose traumatic, tangled past catches up with him when the body of a surfer washes up on a...

Young Renny takes us even farther back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just 18. The plot thickens when two outsiders join the mix: a gypsy woman who seduces...