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  • The Privileged Pincer-Metal Platform: Coordination Chemistry & Applications

    Edited by Robert A Gossage, Gerard van Koten ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The series Topics in Organometallic Chemistry presents critical overviews of research results in organometallic chemistry. As our understanding of organometallic structure, properties and mechanisms increases, new ways are opened for the design of organometallic compounds and reactions tailored to the needs of such diverse areas as organic synthesis, medical research, biology and materials science ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Making Men, Making History

    Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place

    by Peter Gossage, Robert Rutherdale ...
    What has it meant to be a man in Canada? Alexander Ross, fur trader; Percy Nobbs, architect, fisherman, fencer; Andy Paull, residential school survivor and athlete; Yves Charbonneau, jazz musician and commune member; “James,” black and gay in postwar Windsor. Who were these men, and how did they identify as masculine?Populated with figures both well known and unknown, Making Men, Making History ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Unfinished Canadian

    The People We Are

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians.What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the same region, use the same money, read the same books, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Sorry, I Don't Speak French

    Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away

    by Graham Fraser ...
    As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided countryCanada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success in staying together depends on making ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians Pierre Elliott Trudeau

    by Nino Ricci ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Love him or hate him, Pierre Trudeau has marked us all. The man whose motto was "reason over passion" managed to arouse in Canadians the fiercest of passions of every hue, ones that even today cloud our view of him and of his place in history. Acclaimed novelist Nino Ricci takes as his starting point the crucial role Trudeau played in the formation of his own sense of identity to look at how ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Trudeaumania

    The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

    by Robert Wright ...
    Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book PrizeA Hill-Times Best Book of the YearNearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of time, he still holds court in the minds of many, and today his son Justin now lives at 24 Sussex Drive, his own man, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Legacy

    How French Canadians Shaped North America

    Edited by Andre Pratte, Jonathan Kay ...
    A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret Atwood, Lucien Bouchard, Dr. Samantha Nutt, Ken Dryden, etc. -- tells the story of the extraordinary legacy of the French contribution to our very way of life.In 1913, schoolgirls found a heavy metal plaque peeking out of the soil in St-Pierre, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Arrival

    The Story of CanLit

    by Nick Mount, 3M National Teaching Fellowship ...
    “The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” — Winnipeg Free PressA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookNational Post 99 Best Books of the YearIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections Of A Siamese Twin

    Canada At The Beginning Of The Twenty First Century

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye from a reinterpretation of the Western world to an examination of Canada itself. Caught up in crises—political, economic, and social—Canada continues to flounder, unable to solve or even really identify its problems.Instead, we assert absolute differences between ourselves: we are English or we are French; Natives or Europeans; early immigrants ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Canada's 1960s

    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

    by Bryan Palmer ...
    Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Most of What Follows is True

    Places Imagined and Real

    by Michael Crummey ...
    Series series The CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    The prizewinning author of The Innocents examines the relationships among fact, fiction, fictionalization, and appropriation in this thought-provoking work."In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business."In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey examines the complex ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

    by Aaron W. Hughes ...
    Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey’s Summit ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD