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  • Double Double

    How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of Life, One Cup at a Time

    Everywhere we look, it seems, we see a Tim Hortons restaurant. The chain known foremost for its coffee has become a Canadian icon, ranking with hockey among the country’s cultural touchstones. These pubs without alcohol, as they’ve been termed, have become not only meeting places for regular Canadians, but also must-visit locations for our campaigning politicians and oases for Canadian soldiers ... Read more

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  • God's Mercies

    Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery

    From acclaimed author Douglas Hunter, a searing historical work about death, deceit and dishonour, and the rivalry between Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson–two of the greatest explorers of the seventeenth century.Samuel de Champlain of France and Englishman Henry Hudson were rival explorers in a race to describe and exploit the northern half of North America and, not least, to find a ... Read more

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  • Race to the New World

    Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery

    The final decade of the 15th century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian explorer for hire, John Cabot, set off on his own journey, under England's flag. Here, Douglas Hunter ... Read more

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  • Half Moon

    Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World

    The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has written the first book-length history of the 1609 adventure that put New York on the map.Hudson was commissioned by the mighty Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Creative Dementia Practice Handbook

    Arts for Health and Wellbeing

    This handbook examines why, how and where creative arts can help meet the social, psychological and occupational needs of people living with dementia and their family carers.Bringing together case studies of music, dance, poetry, digital arts and more, this book explores the core skills needed to co-create inspiring programmes in various settings. Foregrounding the lived experience of people ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Beardmore

    The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History

    Series Book 246 - Carleton Library Series
    In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Place of Stone

    Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past

    Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock’s markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The glyphs have been erroneously assigned to an array of non ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Redpoint

    The first in-depth book on redpointing, where the climber does not weight the rope or pull or stand on manmade equipment. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Beardmore

    The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History

    Series Book 246 - Carleton Library Series
    In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Dispatches from the Edge

    A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

    One of America's leading reporters shares a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world.A #1 New York Times BestsellerAnderson Cooper's groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful ... Read more

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  • My Journey

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    Olivia Chow--Member of Parliament, seasoned politician and widow of former New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton--tells her story in this candid memoirWhat drives Olivia Chow? How did she emerge from a turbulent childhood to become an inspiring political force? What influences and events have shaped her life? And how is she continuing her quest after losing her partner in life and politics?When ... Read more

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