The 1970s in Britain saw a series of industrial disputes, a referendum on membership in the European Economic Community, conflict about issues of immigration and citizenship, and emergent environmental and feminist movements. It was...

This comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954)...

As a teenager, legendary Canadian poet George Bowering lived the life of an ordinary boy. He loved baseball, read Westerns, held a part-time job, and fantasized about girls and women. George was due for a sexual awakening, which arrived...

A selection of poetry chosen from the best works of Michael Dugan and Doug Macleod with jokes and fun, hilarious domestic life and strange forms of domestic nonsense.

Recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and...

In One Story, One Song, Richard Wagamese explores the importance of stories: how they shape us, how they empower us, how they change our lives. Ancient and contemporary, cultural and spiritual, funny and sad, the tales are...

In this memoir, the soon-to-be divorced Debra buys a dilapidated Texas cabin miles from her teaching job. While waiting to adopt a child, she refurbishes and expands the rude dwelling. She soon finds herself in the strange new world of...

Résumé L'ancêtre parle, invoque terre, ciel, océan. De multiples voix résonnent; le poème se joue, tambour, espérance et acte de foi. Rien n'est trahison dans cette traversée. Tout porte vers l'incandescence,...