Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA), Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (IBM) et Maria Meriano (Tupperware) ont tous un point en commun : ils sont partis de rien et ont fait fortune à force de travail acharné et de persévérance. Partie de l'...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Martin, J.M.R.Summary: - Author:Goddard, LanceSummary:
Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role. When Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, and yet they managed to advance...
- Author:Milner, MarcSummary:
The brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed on the coast of France as part of the...
- Author:Matheson, NeilSummary:
Neil Matheson is a first-time writer from western Canada, currently residing in Surrey, British Columbia. Born with a physical disability called Cerebral Palsy, Neil experienced life on a pair of crutches, walked through life on a pair...
- Author:Tyabji, JudySummary:
Daggers Unsheathed: The Political Assassination of Glen Clark is the story of the Glen Clark era in British Columbia politics. From the 1995 announcement of his NDP leadership aspirations to the day in 2002 when he was acquitted of...
- Author:Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, Sykes, Ella C.Summary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to...
- Author:McGuinty, DaltonSummary:
2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty shares the story of his life in politics and the leadership lessons he has learned. Dalton McGuinty was premier of Ontario for ten years, from 2003 to...
- Author:Luby, BrittanySummary:
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse...
- Author:Hunt, C.W.Summary:
Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and...
- Author:Grossman, ValerieSummary:
- Author:Kenney, GerardSummary:
Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through...
- Author:Smallman, ShawnSummary:
In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the...
- Author:Tattrie, JonSummary:
Now, for the first time, here is the full story of Daniel Paul’s personal journey of transformation, a story that will inspire Canadians to recognize and respect their First Nations as equal and enlightened civilizations.Born in a log...
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In Daniels v. Canada the Supreme Court determined that Métis and non-status Indians were "Indians" under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, one of a number of court victories that has powerfully shaped Métis...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
John Efford roared down from Ottawa to St. John’s and issued his famous ultimatum to Danny Williams on Paul Martin’s latest offer on the Accord: “Take it or leave it.” Danny’s comeback? “Let me answer Mr. Efford loud and clear. We will...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
Bill Rowe, author of the critically acclaimed political drama Danny Williams: The War with Ottawa (Globe and Mail Bestseller, 2010), is back in fighting form and ready to throw a few more punches at the local, national...
- Author:Edugyan, EsiSummary:
Jusqu'au xxe siècle, les Noirs sont rarement représentés dans la littérature et l'art des nations occidentales et, quand ils le sont, ils n'apparaissent presque jamais comme des êtres humains à part entière. À l'instar des corps...
- Author:Quirion, Jean, Depecker, Loïc, Rousseau, Louis-JeanSummary:
La terminologie, soit l'ensemble des termes spécifiques à une science, à une technique ou à un domaine particulier de l'activité humaine, représente aujourd'hui une discipline à part entière. Elle relève aussi bien de la...
- Author:Skallerup Bessette, LeeSummary:
This collection of essays looks at the body of work of Quebec writer Dany Laferrière, including his notorious first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer, through a variety of critical and analytic lenses. Issues...
- Author:Lambert, TaylorSummary:
Darwin's Moving introduces readers to the colourful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labour with relatively high pay and no need for education of any sort. Movers have a unique window...
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