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Mega Rex

“Scotty,” the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in the world, was discovered in 1991. Mega Rex describes the landmark discovery, how to dig up a fossil, and what the unusual features of Scotty’s ...

Canada In The World

By (author) Tyler A. Shipley
Categories: Politics and government

Through a close examination of Canadian foreign policy, from crushing an Indigenous rebellion in El Salvador, “peacekeeping” missions in the Congo and Somalia, and Cold War interventions in Vietnam ...

Pathways of Reconciliation

The essays in Pathways of Reconciliation address the themes of reframing, learning and healing, researching, and living. They engage with different approaches to reconciliation (within a variety of reconciliation ...

Pictura

How do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was a Canadian artist and writer who gifted an extensive body of work that unfolded in nearly every dimension of media. ...

Partisan Odysseys

By (author) Nelson Wiseman
Categories: History of the Americas

In Partisan Odysseys, Nelson Wiseman sets out to survey the history of Canada’s political parties. Uncovering distinctive motifs and events in Canadian party politics from pre-Confederation to the present, ...

Mary Pickford, Queen of the Silent Film Era

By (artist) George A. Walker
Categories: History of art

A successful actress whose work spanned 52 features, Mary Pickford helped establish the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the studio United Artists. She was the first woman to create her ...

Alice Munro Country

This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir by Munro’s renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writers, playwrights, poets, ...

Alice Munro Everlasting

This volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, followed by a major new essay by one of Munro’s most long-standing and most perceptive readers, ...

Quest for Coomaraswamy

Text by Pratapaditya Pal
Categories: History of art

A biography of one of the pioneers in Asian art by the world’s foremost specialist in the arts of India, the Himalayas and South East Asia.

An intimate biography by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, viewed by many ...

Portrait in Poems, A

A delightful introduction to one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century art and literature. Here’s an insider’s tour of the lives of Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, ...