These inspiring true stories illuminate the courage and wisdom of five 19th-century Native leaders and famous Métis who fought against impossible o...

Wim Sassen's name has always been linked to the Eichmann case. Little is known about his personal life. Even less is known about the other Sassen f...

Christina Isajiw's book Negotiating Human Rights: In Defence of Dissidents during the Soviet Era. A Memoir chronicles the activities of the Human R...

Nehru: A Troubled Legacy raises a fundamental question: Have we yet made an honest assessment of Nehru—and in effect, an honest assessment of India...

This beautifully illustrated book with photographs by photojournalist Sati Sahni captures the many moods of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, indepe...

Nelson Mandela was the mastermind behind the armed struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Afric...

In this remarkable introduction, Stephen D Smith, the new Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education...

Noted Canadian journalist Peter Stursberg traces his family's history in China through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Second World Wa...

The woman who first brought the issue of spousal abuse to the forefront in Canada presents her memoirs in this interesting, informative, entertaini...

Artist, photographer, writer and explorer Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women a century ago in order to follow her drea...

Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOE’s first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the Geor...

Remember compassionate conservatism and a humble foreign policy? You should. Tarpley reveals that the Obama puppet's advisors are even more radical...

This is the autobiography of a retired Naval Officer who had an extraordinary career spanning over forty-one years during which he served in three ...

Rabbi Eli Fishman began writing about his experiences in the Shoah over sixty years ago, soon after his liberation from Dachau. Mindful of the fact...

From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the ...

The Order of British Columbia was established in 1989 to recognize and honour ordinary citizens who have made a difference in the lives of others. ...

Osama bin Laden as Islamic fundamentalist leader, a self-styled Islamic scholar and a harsh critic of the United States, managed to -- rip a hole i...

The memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny appear here in its first unabridged English edition. Skorzeny's fame began with the successful raid to free B...

The American frontier was a rough place where only the tough survived. Gold and cattle were king, and many took up stealing the former and rustling...

In the Old West, the law was fragile, the men were armed, tempers were short and socializing took place over shots of rotgut whiskey on a card tabl...

The Canadian West has a history littered with tales of robbers and murderers. These frontier days were long before faxes, DNA analysis and e-mail, ...

Annie Garland Foster was born in Fredericton, NB, in 1875. She was an educator, nurse, politician, social reformer, journalist and biographer of Pa...

People of the Troubled Water focuses on stories of people involved in early years of Missouri River history. It describes the adventures of explore...

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitan...

I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live ...

Portrait is an artistic book which uniquely tells the true story of Rita Kasimow Brown's experience of hiding in an underground pit from the Nazi d...

David Finch's highly regarded biography of R.M. Patterson is now available in paperback. The escapades of this great Canadian are brought to life i...

The Raja of Mahmudabad (1914-1973) was the only Treasurer of the All-India Muslim League, as well as the founding President of both its main subsid...

Harry Stallworthy spent 20 years in the Canadian North with the RCMP. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic...

In the twenty years since Richard Nixon's death, both his achievements and his failures remain hotly contested. His domestic achievements included ...

Right Hand Man is the gripping story of Yechiel Kadishai, Menachem Begins right-hand man and confidant. Kadishai was by Begins side for decades, fr...

Nova Scotia’s maritime heritage is brought to life in the story of an adventurer who travelled the world on an epic solo voyage in a 23-foot sailbo...

Widely regarded as one of the great Aboriginal leaders of the modern era, Rob Riley was at the centre of debates that have polarised views on race ...

A quick-paced and engaging biography of Canada's favourite northern poet, Robert Service. Born in England in 1874 to Scottish parents, Robert Willi...

Coming from humble origins in Illinois, Ronald Reagan always carried an optimism that life would get better, and with his education from small Eure...