With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada's involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present day Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing...
History
- Auteur:Howell, ElizabethSommaire:
- Auteur:Kasurak, PeterSommaire:
Canada's Mechanized Infantry explores the development of the Canadian Army's infantry after the First World War. Modern studies of technology and war have tended to focus on tanks and armour, but soldiers discovered that...
- Auteur:Dickason, Olive PatriciaSommaire:
The sweep of Canadian history is both broader and deeper than standard texts reveal. When Europeans first came to Canada, they did not find a wilderness; rather, they encountered a complex, rich society composed of fifty-five individual...
- Auteur:Dowie, Mitchell C.G., Kordan, Bohdan S.Sommaire:
Since 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for...
- Auteur:Klosterman, ChuckSommaire:
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what...
- Auteur:Fonte, Gerard C.Sommaire:
"Work smarter, not harder." Gerard Fonte presents the construction of the Great Pyramid as a wonder indeed, while challenging our cherished notions of the arduous labor and extreme human costs required for the project. Starting with his...
- Auteur:Oliphant, JohnSommaire:
The history of false prophet Brother XII, who operated a spiritual community in British Columbia in the 1920s.
- Auteur:Mantel, HilarySommaire:
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the...
- Auteur:McCarthy, AndrewSommaire:
Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Andrew McCarthy shares an intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.
- Auteur:de Guyloué, BouchardSommaire:
Ce que je propose à mes lecteurs est un grand voyage dans le temps. Un retour sur notre histoire collective. De l'Empire romain, en passant par Charlemagne, Napoléon, la naissance des grandes couronnes d'Europe, et ce, jusqu...
- Auteur:Lewis, MichaelSommaire:
Lewis offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands--and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew--and burst--not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as...
- Auteur:Robinson, JaneSommaire:
"In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither...
- Auteur:Gallagher, DannySommaire:
Blue Monday: one of the most unforgettable days in Canadian baseball history. Danny Gallagher leads readers up to that infamous day in October 1981 when Rick Monday of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a home run off of Montreal Expos pitcher...
- Auteur:Scheck, Justin, Hope, BradleySommaire:
Hope and Scheck show how Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise to power coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain that had been at the head of U.S.-Saudi relations for more than eighty years: oil in exchange for military...
- Auteur:Seesequasis, PaulSommaire:
A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs - a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. The narrative essay...
- Auteur:Kaufmann, MirandaSommaire:
A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is despatched to salvage lost...
- Auteur:Davidson, StephenSommaire:
Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their counterparts who went to what is now Nova Scotia,...
- Auteur:Randall, AliceSommaire:
From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy...
- Auteur:Colbert, BrandySommaire:
The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today?
- Auteur:Siggins, MaggieSommaire:
For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson{u2019}s Bay Company factors and Oblate missionaries of earlier times...