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Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill by Elena Hannah Publisher Comments Recently we have seen a heightened awareness of the unequal treatment of women in the academic community in general and, in particular, of how part-time, sessional, and contract positions are being used to exploit academics. Women in the Canadian... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Too Close for Comfort: Canada's Future Within Fortress North America by Maude Barlow Publisher Comments Canadas greatest advocate considers our place in Bushs world order. Not since 1984, when Brian Mulroney went to New York and told a blue-chip business audience that Canada was “open for business,” has there been such a push toward continental... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes: Stories From Canada's British War Brides by Linda Granfield Publisher Comments Canada’s war brides were the young women who met, fell in love with, and married Canadian servicemen in Europe in World War II. Forty-eight thousand from Britain, with 22,000 children, followed their husbands to Canada during and just after the war.... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How Ottawa Spends, 2004-2005: Mandate Change and Continuity in the Paul Martin Era (How Ottawa Spends) by G Bruce Doern Publisher Comments The twenty-fifth edition of How Ottawa Spends assesses the priorities, initial spending, and policy initiatives of the new Paul Martin era. Writing in the context of the Liberal Party's internal regime change and the formation of a new Conservative Party,... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec (New Directions in Anthropological Writing) by Richard Handler Review “An important book, one which will repay reading and re-reading by students of social science, of nationalism, and of Quebec.”—Queens... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Betrayal Agricultural Politics in the Fi by Herbert Schulz Publisher Comments Herbert Schulz gives us an insiders account of the hardscrabble and often heartless prairie farm politics of the 1950s. The son of a CCF member, Schulz was an early organizer for the Manitoba Federation of Agriculture and later an executive in the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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George Grant & Subversion of Modernity by Arthur Davis Publisher Comments George Grant's mystique as a public philosopher is due in part to the seemingly contradictory political stances he took through the years. His opposition to the Vietnam war and his linking of liberalism with technological progress and imperialism brought... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Raincoast Chronicles 15 (Raincoast Chronicles) by Harbour Publishing Publisher Comments This is a cornucopia of coast history - Saturna Island in the old days, One-Arm Willy and the tattooed lady and the strong man, Dr Darby at Bella Bella, how telephone communication came to the rugged BC coast, stories of bears and the Union Steamships... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Publisher Comments On Haida Gwaii, human occupation goes back some 9,000 years, with hints of a people there before. Lillard tells the story of these islands, through explorers and settlers to the present day.... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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University of Alberta Library by Merrill Distad Book News Annotation The University of Alberta Library is now the second largest library in Canada and one of the top twenty academic research libraries in North America. Over the past one hundred years it has gone through reconstruction and moves, additions of new wings... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mad Trapper: The Incredible Tale of a Famous Canadian Manhunt (Amazing Stories) by Helena Katz Publisher Comments This is the incredible story of Canada's largest manhunt. Hundreds of men spent 7 weeks tracking the elusive Albert Johnson for 240 kilometres across the frozen North. He was eventually caught and killed, but the identity of Albert Johnson, the Mad... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships by Peter Wilto Johnson Publisher Comments A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. Why did these shiploads of women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast.The answers lie... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave by Daniel Hays Publisher Comments After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married. But as it turned out, in the real... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada by Bruce Mccall Publisher Comments His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Klondike Cattle Drive: Classics West Collection Series by Norman Lee Publisher Comments The latest addition to TouchWood Editions' Classics West Collection, this is the colourful tale of a formidable trek undertaken by legendary Cariboo rancher Norman Lee. In 1898, Lee set out to drive 200 head of cattle from his home in the Chilcotin area... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heading for Home by Zahava Hanan Publisher Comments Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for her rights in Western Canada. Heading for Home gives a very warm account... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Anne of Green Gables VS Gi Joe by Allan Gould Publisher Comments Was it better that our ancestors chose to migrate to Canada, or should they have gone to the U.S.? Snow and ice and high taxes? Or unaffordable health care, guns in kindergarten, and great weather? And didn't they have to film the hit movie Chicago in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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So, You Want to Be Canadian: All about the Most Fascinating People in the World and the Magical Place They Call Home by Kerry Colburn Publisher Comments So, you want to be Canadian? Who doesn't these days? Canucks are enjoying a major renaissance in attention, from their enlightened social policies to their wild and wooly pop culture. This playful, trivia-packed book is a long-overdue celebration of all... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Calling the Maritimes Home: Origins, Attitudes, Quirks & Curiosities by Julie V Watson Publisher Comments From Anne of Green Gables to Ashley MacIsaac, from the Cape Breton Highlands to the Bay of Fundy, the Maritimes offer a rich variety of culture and history. This book, written by the author of "Simple Pleasures from Our Maritine Kitchens," celebrates... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Canadians Think by Darrell Bricker Publisher Comments -What percentage of Canadians would prefer a good nights sleep to good sex? -What percentage of Canadians mow the lawn wearing open-toed shoes? -Which gender is more likely to be left standing at the altar? -What percentage of Canadians supports... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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