Presenting six titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regions to be explored. Among the intrepid explorers who travelled the wilderness and mapped...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Lahey, D. T., Henighan, Tom, Wilson, John, Shardlow, Tom, Bridge, Kathryn, Legaré, FrancineSummary: - Author:Murray, JoanSummary:
Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing centuries in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period from 1900 to the present. Murray shows...
- Author:Braid, Kate, Larsen, WayneSummary:
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country...
- Author:Braid, Kate, Larsen, WayneSummary:
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country...
- Author:MacKay, CarlaSummary:
Naming your child can be one of the biggest decisions of early parenting because whatever name you choose becomes the identity of your baby for life. With all the choices, it can be difficult to decide on a traditional name, a new-age...
- Author:Sellar, ShaneSummary:
Each of the 365 days of our Gregorian calendar is represented in this book with morsels of odd trivia, historical events, celebrity birthdays, weather anomalies and astrological information. With a decidedly Canadian twist, it's an...
- Author:Murray, Laura J., Trosow, Samuel E.Summary:
In the age of easily downloadable culture, messages about copyright are ubiquitous. If you're an artist, consumer, or teacher, copyright is likely a part of your everyday life. Completely updated, this revised edition of Canadian...
- Author:Coates, Colin M., University of Calgary PressSummary:
Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to which much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the...
- Author:Boer, PeterSummary:
The Mounties always get their man, or so it seems. Canada's police forces work tirelessly to solve major cases. Read about the efforts of the RCMP, OPP and Sûreté du Québec to investigate some of Canada's most notorious cases: The...
- Author:Leavey, Peggy Dymond, Stewart, Sharon, Sadlier, Rosemary, Butts, EdwardSummary:
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series profiling prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these four books, we explore the cultural heritage at the roots of Canada’s present-day multicultural society. In the lives of...
- Author:Stewart, Sharon, Butts, Edward, Sadlier, RosemarySummary:
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada's present-day multicultural society. In the...
- Author:Brooks, StephenSummary:
"In this concise edition of the bestselling Canadian Democracy, Stephen Brooks and Marc Ménard explore the essential components of politics and government in Canada. Highly readable and brimming with useful features, Canadian Democracy...
- Author:Gidengil, Elisabeth, Bastedo, HeatherSummary:
Canada is often held up as an example of a healthy democracy. However, the Canadian public is less enthusiastic about the way our democracy works. This first-of-a-kind book approaches the “democratic deficit” from the perspective of...
- Author:DesRoches, C. Tyler, Jankunis, Frank, Byron WillistonSummary:
Canadian Environmental Philosophy is the first collection of essays to take up theoretical and practical issues in environmental philosophy today, from a Canadian perspective. The essays cover various subjects, including ecological...
- Author:Warkentin, GermaineSummary:
First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers,...
- Author:Benay, AlexSummary:
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 Successful Canadians write about failure, and how it got them where they are today. What does it mean to fail? To some of the most successful Canadians, it was a rite of passage, a stepping stone to...
- Author:Unwin, PeterSummary:
An amusing collection of lives and stories from the eccentric side of Canada’s history. A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright...
- Author:Horn, Bernd, Spencer, EmilySummary:
Canadian Forces, including Special Operations Forces, have played an outsize role in the conflict in Afghanistan, often under a cloak of secrecy. For the first time, Col. Bernd Horn reveals the stories of the troops and operations...
- Author:Blanchette, Arthur E.Summary:
Canada’s role on the world stage has increased dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century. Once an offshoot of England, we have grown to become a recognized voice internationally. Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000 is a...
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
It's not true that dead men tell no tales. You can hear their haunting stories on the fog-shrouded banks of Newfoundland, in the aging brick manses of Upper and Lower Canada, on the wind-beaten flatlands of the prairies and among the...
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