You don’t have to be a professional public speaker to make an effective speech in public. Using this book as a guide, you can learn the simple, proven techniques for effective speechmaking, whether ...

Study Smarter, Not Harder is ideal for everyone - whether you are a student aiming to get into a post-secondary institution or a graduate program, or a businessperson aiming at different or higher career ...

Newspaper editorials are as sober, passionate, insightful, witty and often as nutty as the writers who pen them, says veteran journalist Don Sellar in his introduction to this entertaining and thought-provoking ...

If you can imagine it, somewhere there's probably a law against it. Laugh out loud over some of Canada's strangest laws -- but not too loudly, or you might get a ticket: * Until 2002 in BC, you couldn't ...

This new volume of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada (DCB / DBC) presents well-written, carefully documented and meticulously edited biographies of Canadians from ...

Following the success of First Invaders, Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded aboriginal authors.

Taking the reader ...

Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing nominee, 2005 In Saskatchewan: A New History, award-winning author and historian Bill Waiser presents a fresh, entertaining account and interpretation of Saskatchewan?s ...

More than 14,000 individual date-by-date entries in this single volume chronology of Canadian history

This single-volume chronology of Canada from its prehistoric beginnings to the social, cultural, business ...

This unprecedented volume about British Columbia’s earliest authors and first explorers (prior to 1800) provides a fascinating range of characters, events and intrigues. The names Cook and Quadra ring ...

"Somebody commissioned to design the perfect writing mentor would probably come back with Fred Stenson. Stenson is wise, funny, and blessedly enthusiastic about the craft of writing. This is a book real ...