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A Half Century of Conflict
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 4.99Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume 1, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements in... more...
Het hoge woord
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 35.50'Het is bij mij begonnen met nieuwsgierigheid', zo verwoordt August Willemsen (1936) zijn levenslange toewijding aan het vertalen, in het bijzonder van Portugese en Braziliaanse literatuur. In Het hoge woord schrijft hij virtuoos over leven en werk van de door hem in Nederland geïntroduceerde Fernando Pessoa, maar ook over de architectuur van... more...
Champlain
Tundra 2010; US$ 18.95?One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure.? So begins Christopher Moore?s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring ?father of New France.? Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village... more...
Young Trudeau: 1919-1944
McClelland & Stewart 2010; US$ 20.95This book shines a light of devastating clarity on French-Canadian society in the 1930s and 1940s, when young elites were raised to be pro-fascist, and democratic and liberal were terms of criticism. The model leaders to be admired were good Catholic dictators like Mussolini, Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain, and especially Pétain, collaborator... more...
Problèmes politiques
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1994; US$ 18.75Dans cet ouvrage l'auteur examine quelques-uns des problèmes politiques qui opposent le Canada et le Québec : les autorités politiques sont-elles crédibles aux yeux de l'électorat ? La population est-elle satisfaite de la gestion des finances publiques ? Les politiques sociales satisfont-elles les aspirations de toutes... more...
Voices of British Columbia
D & M Publishers 2010; US$ 24.00Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province?s pioneers. The resulting collection ? 2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday experiences ? is considered by historians to be one... more...
Holding Juno
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 19.95Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach , and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland ? the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this... more...
The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siècle
University of Ottawa Press 2003; US$ 24.99In this collection of essays some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the dynamism and change possible in Canadian society, they also call for a re-examination of Canada's past in order to chart its future.... more...
Le Processus politique
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2000; US$ 24.99Avec les bouleversements que connaissent nos sociétés, e à cause de la rapidité et de l?ampleur avec lesquelles ils se produisent, les événements politiques sont difficiles à suive et à expliquer. C?est pourquoi les auteures de cet ouvrage nous amènent à examiner en profondeur les phénomènes politiques importants en appuyant leur démonstration sur... more...
52 Best Day Trips from Vancouver
Greystone Books 2011; US$ 15.95Jack Christie has been sharing his enthusiasm for the outdoors since the 1980s. Through his popular guidebooks and media appearances, he has helped countless Vancouverites and visitors alike appreciate the renowned natural beauty and diverse recreational opportunities of the Pacific Northwest. From the first time he combed through his files and... more...









