Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the ‘Jewish Savannah’, where a vibrant Jewish c...

Shortlisted, Toronto Book AwardsOn May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a battle for hockey supremacy. This was only the fifth tim...

An Atlantic BestsellerFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, cities throughout North America engaged in disruptive periods of massive "urban renewal" of...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionEvery summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wi...

At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white ...

This book is a record of the development of an institution with a remarkable history. Its foundations go back to the early part of the nineteenth c...

Enter and explore the powerful, ancestral world of the whare whakairo, or Māori meeting house, with this engaging illustrated guide. Richly illustr...

The University of Cologne has an unusual history: It was founded - for the second time - by the city council in 1919, more than 100 years after its...

A sweeping account of Irish and Scottish families, this book portrays one woman's resolve to provide her children with a brighter future. This stor...

The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 1945–1989. In the case stud...

Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. W...

A mythical collection assembled by a legendary collector has resided in Philadelphia for more than 30 years. In the Fall of 2008 Dr .Frederick Sime...

From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly im...

Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...

Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two...

Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two...

The Wentworth Lectures honour the contribution of Sir William (Bill) Wentworth to the creation of AIATSIS in 1964; now a world-renowned research, c...

New Zealanders started hearing things in new ways when new audio technologies arrived from overseas in the late 19th century. From the first public...

The 'On Top of the World' Project is a community programme run by Anne Finnegan and Tina Cribbin who work with older people in tower blocks in Hulm...

In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble ov...

Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in U...

The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2...

When Through the Mackenzie Basin was published in 1908, it became an immediate success as an adventure book on the unsettled regions of Northwest C...

A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain rela...