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Canadian Politics Unplugged by Eric Nicol Publisher Comments Canadian politics is/are not well understood, no authority being prepared to say whether it/they is/are singular or plural. Canadian Politics Unplugged bravely breaks new ground in ignoring this question. The book concentrates on the central problem of... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney and the Public Trust by William Kaplan Publisher Comments Within weeks of leaving office, Mulroney was paid at least $225,000 in cash by Karlheinz Schreiber, an international arms dealer wanted in Germany for bribery and tax evasion. When confronted by Kaplan about the unexplained payment, Mulroney vehemently... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages by Richard Harris Synopsis While there is a broad consensus that North American economic integration has benefits for Canadians' standard of living, there are also concerns that deeper economic integration may restrict Canada's ability to pursue domestic goals in a number of... (read more) List Price $88.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror by Daniel Francis Publisher Comments Seeing Reds tells the story of a turbulent period in Canadian history, when in 1918-19 the Canadian government, fearful in the wake of the Russian Revolution, tried to suppress radical political activity at home by branding legitimate labor leaders as... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. Born on France's Atlantic... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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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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Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West by David Cruise Book News Annotation Documents an almost impossible mission accomplished by an improbable posse of recruits in 1873. With little training and less experience, 150 men embarked upon a 900 mile march from civilized Toronto to a trading post at the heart of the wild frontier.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 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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Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador by John Gimlette Publisher Comments An extraordinary journey across the magnificent, delinquent coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. John Gimlette's journey across this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Northern Nurse (Regional Interest) by Elliott Merrick Publisher Comments The public agreed, keeping it on the New York Times bestseller list for 17 weeks. Now a new edition of this classic is available from The Countryman Press. By turns lyrical, comic, and genuinely moving, Northern Nurse tells the story of Australian nurse... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice by Roy Miki Synopsis Redress takes an unflinching look at the controversial movement to right the wrong done to thousands of Japanese Canadians during the war. Applying the concept of “negotiations” to the 20th-century history of Japanese Canadians, Roy Miki... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 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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Urban Nation: Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong by Alan Broadbent Publisher Comments Canada’ s cities are crippled by a lack of financial and governing clout. Their infrastructures are crumbling and their citizens are disaffected by the inability of municipal government— or any government, for that matter— to act on the issues that... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Trafficking in Sheep: A Memoir: From Off-Broadway, New York, to Blue Island, Nova Scotia by Anne Barclay Priest Publisher Comments A poignant story of one woman's determination to start a life anew in idyllic Nova Scotia, far away from her jetsetting-New Yorker roots. <BR>A working actress and divorced mother of two young boys takes off for the summer to the coast of Nova... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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