Cities in civilization

Ranging over 2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing...

Besler florilegium

Originally published in 1613, this florilegium by Basilius Besler of Nuremberg contains more than 1000 drawings of ornamental flowering plants....

The ancient oracles making the gods speak

For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the...

Medical blunders

A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg...

I remember sunnyside

First published in 1982, I Remember Sunnyside is a mine of golden memories, bringing back to life an earlier Toronto,...

Celebrating canada holidays

Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada,...

Acting for freedom fifty years of civil liberties in canada

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a...

Pickett's charge the last attack at gettysburg

Pickett's Charge is probably the best-known military engagement of the Civil War, widely regarded as the defining moment of the...

The mexican revolution

This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great...

Atlas of cursed places a travel guide to dangerous and frightful destinations

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Oliver Le Carrer brings us a fascinating history and armchair journey to the world's most dangerous...

Fighting sail on lake huron and georgian bay

Redcoats and patriotes the rebellions in lower canada

Book and jacket in very good condition.

The oxford companion to canadian military history

Winner of the 2011 C.P. Stacey Award. The battle of Vimy Ridge, the Dieppe raid, the Italian Campaign: the Canadian...

William barker

A True Canadian Hero! William Barker is Canada's most-decorated Great War hero. Born in Dauphin, Manitoba on Nov. 3, 1894,...

Mopping up princess patricia s canadian light infantry

Earth

The contributors use a holistic approach comprising the four elements — earth, water, air, and fire — to address the...

Canada's rights revolution social movements and social change

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human...

Dream of reason a history of philosophy from the greeks to the renaissance

Already a classic in its first year of publication, this landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at...

House of wisdom

The remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy―and of the itinerant Europeans who...

Voices of the left behind project roots and the canadian war children of world war ii

Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by...

Enemies within italian and other internees in canada and abroad

In the recent campaign led by the National Congress of Italian Canadians to gain redress for compatriots interned during the...

Early voices portraits of canada by women writers

This selection of writings by 29 women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through...

Our glory and our grief torontonians and the great war

The citizens of Toronto were thousands of miles behind the front-lines, shielded by the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. They...

Where they rest in peace a guided tour of seven historic cemeteries in kings county