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How the Scots Invented Canada
“…[written with] lively intelligence and [a] keen eye for detail…How the Scots Invented Canada provides a pleasurable way to get to know many of the most colourful men and women in our history.”Globe & Mail “McGoogan’s How the Scots Invented Canada is certainly an inspired work and its author is rapidly becoming the rightful successor to populist historian…
Read More50 Canadians Who Changed the World
“Ken McGoogan is required reading for any Canadian who wants to know the real history of our country.†—Peter Mansbridge “McGoogan is rapidly becoming the rightful successor to populist historian Pierre Berton.†—Toronto Star 50 Canadians Who Changed the World Amazing people who have built our present and are shaping our tomorrow. Using the successful…
Read MoreDead Reckoning
Praise for Fatal Passage: “A passionately and immaculately researched book. A sort of Arctic whodunnit†Beryl Bainbridge “McGoogan tells a riveting story — backed by solid research — that illuminates a fascinating chapter in the annals of Arctic exploration†The Wall Street Journal “In Ken McGoogan’s artful telling, John Rae emerges from the shadows to take…
Read MoreIMAGINING CANADIAN LITERATURE
“Jack McClelland was a pioneer in Canadian publishing. In the late fifties and the sixties – at a time when many Canadians did not believe they had a literature, or if they did have one, it wasn’t very good or interesting – he swung onto the scene like a swashbuckling pirate. He took chances on authors,…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Daughter
“My Mother’s Daughter is a wonderfully honest and enthralling book.â€Alice Munro “It is beautiful and honest and wry and funny and so moving….I certainly plan to urge my students, and everyone else I know, to read [this] book.â€Paula Caplan, author of Don’t Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship “A moving tribute to the unswerving, often unnerving matriarchal…
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Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster
Endorsements for Beyond Intelligence: Secrets of Raising Happily Productive Kids
Manuscript Available Endorsements for Beyond Intelligence: Secrets of Raising Happily Productive Kids I think what I liked most about Beyond Intelligence was that it is not only about raising children, but how we, as parents and individuals look at the world and engage with it. It made me reflect on who I am as a creative person and…
Read MoreThe Unwanted
Oxford US 1985 The UnwantedEuropean Refugees in the 20th Century There have always been homeless people, but only in the twentieth century have refugees become an important part of international politics, seriously affecting relations between states. Since the 1880s, the number of displaced persons has climbed astronomically, with people scattered over vaster distances and for…
Read MoreVichy France and the Jews with Robert Paxton
Basic Books US 1981 Vichy France and the Jews with Robert Paxton “This superb and definitive description of Vichy’s policy…has two conspicuous merits. It pulverizes the defense of those apologists of Vichy who claim that Petain and Laval weren’t as bad as all that. It also allows the historical debate the shift from ‘what happened?’…
Read MoreA Documentary History
Bedford Books/St. Martin’s Press/US96 THE NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL, 1945-46 A Documentary History A short college text examines the most important war crimes trial in history which subjected the Nazi leaders to the judgment of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. The book considers the context of Nazi wartime criminality, discusses the political, legal and ideological…
Read MoreTHE HOLOCAUST IN HISTORY
“The best assessment available on the state of knowledge on the Final Solution, on motives, resistance, and collaboration, as well as the reaction of the outside world. This book is also the best short review of this tragic period.”Walter Laqueur “It is an ideal introduction to the subject for any student of the Holocaust, and…
Read MoreMichael R. Marrus
“Michael Marrus of the University of Toronto sets forth a carefully argued account of those historic lawsuits in Some Measure of Justice. A distinguished scholar of the Holocaust, Marrus approaches the subject as a historian with a special interest in law.”National Post Michael Marrus is a distinguished scholar of the Holocaust and former Dean of Graduate Studies at…
Read MoreLessons of the Holocaust
Michael Marrus is the author of The Holocaust in History, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945-46; A Documentary History, Vichy France and the Jews (with Robert O. Paxton), and Some Measure of Justice, on Holocaust restitution. he is a Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto and the Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies. He is a…
Read MorePower, Prime Ministers And The Press
Robert Lewis began his career as a member of the exalted Ottawa Press Gallery reporting for the Montreal Star. He later was a correspondent for Time-Life News Service, and in 1993, he was appointed editor-in-chief of Maclean’s. In 2001 he became Vice President of Content Development at Rogers Media, and in 2009 he founded Robert Lewis…
Read MoreFINDING OUR WAY: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada
Awards:2004 Killam Prize for Social Sciences FINDING OUR WAY: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada Many people today believe that ethnocultural politics in Canada are spiralling out of control, with ever more groups in society making ever greater demands. Finding Our Way offers a more balanced view. Will Kymlicka argues that the difficulties involved in accommodating ethnocultural diversity…
Read MoreCONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“By far the best introduction to contemporary philosophy currently available.”Philosophical Books “[The book] represents a significant milestone in the renaissance of political philosophy…one of the first high-level surveys of the key lines of development in this renaissance, integrating diverse schools of thought and their literature in an enormously helpful way…For a higher level undergraduate or…
Read MoreAFTER THE SMOKE CLEARED
“After the Smoke Cleared is as valuable a personal chronicle of the restoration of order in the post-war world — and of the restoration of self, dignity, and family — as Child of the Holocaust was for its testimony about the disintegration of these things.”The Toronto Star -Toronto Jewish Book Award-finalist Edna Staebler/Creative Non-Fiction Stoddard CAN/94…
Read MoreChild of the Holocaust
“Remarkable . . . Gripping . . . a child’s struggle for survivalâ€The Globe and Mail “Astounding . . . a work that amounts to a letter from inside a nightmare . . . A miraculous example of the human spirit at its most resilient.â€Toronto Star “Artfully rendered . . . testifying to the spirit…
Read MoreOtto and Daria: A Wartime Journey Through No Man’s Land
Eric Koch who was born in Frankfurt in 1919, lives in Toronto. His grandfather was a court jeweler and his father was an officer in the German army in WWI. Eric was deported to Canada, interned as an enemy alien during WWII. On his release, he remained in Canada, making his career at the Canadian Broadcasting…
Read MoreLAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE
“Martin Knelman probes deeper to find the real John Candy, a much more ambivalent figure… he’s rescued him from the sanctimonious prison of his image. We can laugh now.â€Mark Breslin/Toronto Star Penguin Canada Oct/96St. Martin’s Press (U.S.) Oct/97 LAUGHING ONTHE OUTSIDEThe Life Of John Candy John Candy — the actor and comedian who died of…
Read MoreTHE JOKER IS WILD
Penguin CAN/99 THE JOKER IS WILDThe Life of Jim Carrey In 1976, at a Toronto comedy club, a nerdy 14-year-old from the outskirts of the city turned up to make his debut on amateur night, encouraged by a doting father, himself a frustrated performer. Doing a bad Jimmy Stewart impression, he drew hoots of derision…
Read MoreMIKE’S WORLD
“If Mike Myers ever becomes a Jeopardy! category, this book will win you the big bucks! In fact, author Martin Knelman scores a true daily double with this in-depth, no-holds-barred look into the darker side of Canada’s latest comic enfant terrible.”The Globe and Mail Martin Knelman, a prominent, award-winning Toronto journalist, is the author of…
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