Robert Pasternak (NAK) is a virtuoso of the sequential art form. An adept panelologist and painstaking craftsman. Despite a loyal and attentive following, awareness of his work is limited. In many ways, what may appear to be a...
Canada
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Author:Pasternak, RobertSummary: - Author:Horwood, Harold, Butts, EdwardSummary:
Tells the stories of privateers, pirates, train robbers, early explorers, desperados, mutineers, traitors, gangs of outlaws, and fugitives tracked down by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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Author:Laut, Agnes C., Neering, RosemarySummary:In the early sixteenth century, the first exploratory ships arrived on the Pacific Coast of North America. These rovers were seeking gold and silver, fur pelts, a safe passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and above all, adventure....
- Author:Hill, John L.Summary:
Pine Box Parole begins with convicted murderer Terry Fitzsimmons hanging himself in Kingston Penitentiary. Subsequent chapters delve into the killer's background and describe the senseless killings upon which he embarks after spending...
- Author:Battigelli, Rosanna MicelottaSummary:
The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit...
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Author:McKillop, A. B.Summary:The life of one of Canada's best-known and most colourful personalities: a journalist, broadcaster and Governor General's Award-winning author.
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As Trudeau's close friend, Southam has gathered more than 150 reminiscences about him from all over the globe. The stories are from employees, friends, journalists, former world leaders, his sons' friends, bodyguards,...
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Author:Newman, Carey, Hudson, KirstieSummary:Picking Up the Pieces tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a living work of art conceived and created by Indigenous artist Carey Newman. It includes hundreds of items collected from residential schools across Canada,...
- Author:Bridge, Kathryn AnneSummary:
In 1924, Phyl Munday did what no woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson, the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. She climbed nearly 100 mountains; her physical prowess legitimized her in the largely male world of...
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Author:Stewart, Roderick, Stewart, SharonSummary:In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his...
- Author:Watkins, G. Campbell, MacFadyen, AlanSummary:
Winner of the 2014 Book of the Year Award from the Petroleum History Society! The importance of energy to the functioning of any economy has meant that energy industries are amongst the most regulated of industries. What might appear to...
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Author:Fleming, R. B.Summary:Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning...
- Author:El Hadj-Moussa, ToufikSummary:
« Le Canada a engendré plusieurs héros. La série de la bande dessinée historique Personnages illustres du Canada met de l'avant quelques-uns des Canadiens qui se sont illustrés sur la scène nationale et mondiale, en...
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Author:Tyson, Eric, Carlson, BobSummary:Are you nearing (or already basking in) retirement? This helpful guide addresses the unique financial opportunities and challenges you'll face as you enter your golden years. Personal Finance For Seniors For Dummies empowers you to...
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Author:Greaves, LorraineSummary:Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the "second wave" women's health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-centered spaces and...
- Author:McCandless, RowanSummary:
After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing. She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell....
- Author:Faires, Nora, Smith, David R., Widdis, Randy W., Bukowczyk, John J.Summary:
From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through nineteenth-century changes in transportation and communication, to globalization, the history of the Great Lakes Basin has been shaped by the people, goods, and capital crossing and...
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Author:Marland, Alex, Giasson, Thierry, Esselment, Anna LennoxSummary:Election campaigning never stops. That is the new reality of politics and government in Canada, where everyone from staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office to backbench MPs practise political marketing and communication as though each...
- Author:Archibald-Barber, Jesse RaeSummary:
Comprised of multidisciplinary and diverse perspectives, Performing Turtle Island considers theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance, and examines how communities in turn influence the construction of...
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Author:Sutherland, SamSummary:A forgotten musical and cultural history of drunks and miscreants, future country stars and political strategists. Perfect Youth is the story of the birth of Canadian punk, a transformative cultural force that reared its head...
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