The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and injurious habits of...

In the winter of 1948, only a few months before the establishment of the State of Israel, the tension mounted between the Haganah and the Irgun, tw...

Scriptures and holy books are not understood in their right perspective unless one becomes an initiate or twice born. However great a scholar one m...

This book is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock b...

Racism crushes bodies and souls. In Human Rights and Human Wrongs Colin Tatz - a world authority on racial conflict and abuse, a key figure in Abor...

In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cari...

Pilot, scholar, daredevil, general . . . James "Jimmy" Doolittle was one of America\s greatest heroes. In a life filled with adventure and achievem...

In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. R...

Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journ...

This book utilises the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-19...

At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canad...

Don't let the quaint and homespun title fool you. This book is a beautifully written and engaging homage to Evelyn Losack, a woman farmer and water...

In this expanded revision, one of Inayat Khan’s disciples sketches from her experience several aspects of being in his presence. These Images of In...

In Impact, 21 women writers consider the ramifications of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the p...

The day her fiancé died suddenly of a heart attack, Katie Swenson retreated to "Bohemia," the third-floor loft that the couple had renovated in the...

An unflinching memoir that honours the girls and women that influenced Kirkpatrick as they are forced to deal with life crisises that are often kep...

Living is a process of continuous transformation: we have been embryos, children, adolescents, thin, fat, sick, better again. And as humans, we are...

C J Wills was an English physician who travelled widely in Iran from 1866-81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a disce...

Simply and without bitterness, Shuguba tells his story: he speaks of the Chinese invasion and Tibetan military resistance against overwhelming odds...

"In the Skies of Europe" is an eyewitness account of an important chapter in the history of German military aviation. When WWII started, Scholz was...

Folk hero Elfego Baca (1865-1945) is best remembered for his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys who fired a reported 4,00...

The Book is a story of survival and hope in the Central Canadian Arctic. Father Raymond's first hand accounts of survival and life with the Eskimo....

For the first time, a detailed history of a little known aspect of the Great War in the air: the forty-two Italian aces. From legendary personaliti...

The skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Add...

J P E Hartmann (1805-1900) is one of the most renowned figures within Danish musical history. In the course of his lifetime he corresponded with ma...

This biography of one of New Mexico's most distinguished citizens, J Paul Taylor (born 1920) recounts the life of the legislator, educator, communi...

Many of Canada's superb national parks owe their existence to James Bernard Harkin (1875-1955), the first commissioner of Canada's new Dominion Par...

This is the story of the first three years of the Jackson presidency. The book covers other events in the United States during that period. Andrew ...

The Age of President Garfield was an exciting age as it featured the music of John Philip Sousa's marching bands, the new dime novels, captains of ...