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  • Tragedy to Triumph

    The Story of Tom’s Heart

    Tragedy to Triumph—The Story of Tom's Heart provides an up-close and personal look at the journeys of two individuals facing death as they present their individual perspectives as the donor family and the recipient.There are very few stories in life that grip you like the loss of a child. When that story hits home, it can feel like your very heart is being ripped out. This story is about life and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Half-Hours with Great Scientists

    The Story of Physics

    Series series Heritage
    The present age is sometimes called the Scientific Age. This does not imply that every member of the community is an expert scientist—far from it. It does mean, however, that the labours of the scientists have given the age certain features which influence the life of every citizen to some degree. Accordingly it is desirable that as many as possible should have some understanding of the scientists ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Harold Adams Innis

    Portrait of a Scholar

    Series series Heritage
    Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sidney Earle Smith

    Series series Heritage
    The career of Sidney Earle Smith, Dean of Law, Dalhousie University (1929-34), President of the University of Manitoba (1934-44), President of the University of Toronto (1945-59), had a variety of backgrounds which were significant in determining his impressive achievement in Canada's humanistic tradition. He was reared in the vigorous landscape and living of the Maritimes, rigorously trained in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Slice of Canada

    Memoirs

    Series series Heritage
    Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the founding father and first chairman of the Humanities Research Council, a charter member and national president (1942-44, 1956-58) of the Canadian Authors Association, and has shared in university life ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Einstein: Verdades e Mentiras

    Einstein era um grande gênio ou plagiou as suas descobertas? (toda a polêmica envolvendo o físico brasileiro César Lattes e vários cientistas que acusaram Einstein de plagiar Poincaré. Com opiniões de Marcelo Gleiser e Stephen Hawking). Será verdade?Einstein era religioso ou ateu?Einstein ajudou a construir a bomba atômica? (nesse livro os bastidores da corrida armamentista entre os aliados e os ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measure of the Rule

    Series series Heritage
    Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian connection, Barr deserves attention. The Measure of the Rule, originally published in 1907, is ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Halfway up Parnassus

    A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

    Series series Heritage
    Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Research Is a Passion With Me

    The Autobiography of a Bird Lover

    In her incredibly productive lifetime (1883-1974), American-born ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice earned the admiration of ornithologists and naturalists in far distant lands.Research Is a Passion With Me is an enthralling autobiography of one of the great individuals in her field and of her time. The prominent California nature writer, Donald Peattie, in commenting on Margaret Nice’s writing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Prince 1796-1870

    A Collection of Documents

    Edited by R. Alan Douglas ...
    Series series Heritage
    John Prince was a lawyer, farmer, military officer, politician, judge, and entrepreneur. Born at Hereford, England, in 1796, he emigrated to Upper Canada in 1833 because he was ashamed of his ne'er-do-well father. His interest in farming took him to Sandwich where he became involved in the many careers open to him.An unhappy and volatile man, he was constantly at odds with himself, his family, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Attracting Birds

    Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-64

    by Olwen Woodier ...
    Series Book 64 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • With Head and Heart

    The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

    “One of the great religious leaders of [the twentieth] century” tells his story of growing up under segregation and finding his calling as a minister (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).Howard Thurman was a singular man—a minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched the lives of countless people of all races, faiths, and cultures.In his moving autobiography, Dr. Thurman tells ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Attorney for the Frontier

    Enos Stutsmon

    The purpose of this biography is to bring to public attention the importance of the contributions made by Enos Stutsman, an American, to the history of the province and the Northwest generally. It also attempts to impress and entertain the reader by highlighting Stutsman’s personal qualities. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sir John Beverley Robinson

    Bone and Sinew of the Compact

    by Patrick Brode ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its devotion to the Crown, with little room for dissent. As a true loyalist son, educated by John Strachan, Robinson ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Self-Made Anthropologist

    A life of A. P. Elkin

    by Tigger Wise ...
    This is an account of the remarkable life of Australia's first professor of anthropology, the author of the immensely influential The Australian Aborigines, whose national and international reputation as a champion of the Aboriginal people, built over 50 years, is now the subject of considerable controversy.Drawn from unpublished letters, diaries and documents, interviews with friends and foes, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mar

    A Glimpse Into the Natural Life of a Bird

    "Writing with uncanny skill, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence leads us gently into the world of birds. Her perception, intuition and experience give her insights that she here freely shares with us all."I knew this remarkable lady for years, and had previously read her Mar, but on re-reading it, I was struck with the sensitive, magical way she reveals the behaviour of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers."At her ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Du côté de chez Monsieur Pasteur

    by Pierre Gascar ...
    L'aventure commencée par Pasteur et ses proches disciples se poursuit aujourd'hui à l'Institut Pasteur. Les chercheurs y sont animés par la même ambition de percer les secrets du vivant et par la même volonté d'éradiquer les grandes maladies - du cancer au sida - dont souffrent encore les hommes. Mettant en évidence l'unité profonde qui peut exister entre un destin, une œuvre et une postérité, ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • The Space Station

    A Personal Journey

    by Hans Mark ...
    This insider's account, a penetrating view of science policy and politics during two presidencies, captures the euphoria that characterized the space program in the late seventies and early eighties and furnishes an invaluable perspective on the Challenger tragedy and the future of the United States in space. President Reagan's approval of $8 billion for the construction of a permanently manned ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Earl Warren

    A Public Life

    This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar. In the late 1970s, Earl Warren's papers were opened and G. Edward White, a former law clerk of Warren, was given complete access to research this book. The result is the first study of the Chief Justice to cover his entire political career and to examine aspects of Warren's ... Read more

    $67.99 USD $52.99 USD

  • C'est de l'homme qu'il s'agit

    by Jean Bernard ...
    Un combat de soixante ans contre la leucémie. La vie, la carrière d'un grand savant qui contribua à la renaissance de la recherche médicale en France et participa à l'une des aventures scientifiques les plus importantes de notre siècle : l'exploration du sang. Dans ce livre de souvenirs et de méditation, ce n'est pas seulement l'itinéraire d'un homme de science que le lecteur découvrira, mais ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Sir Robert Falconer

    A Biography

    Series series Heritage
    Biblical scholar, social critic, and internationalist, Robert Alexander Falconer was also the foremost Canadian university leader of his generation, serving as president of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932. James Greenlee's biography chronicles his development as an academic leader and a public man. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park

    A history of this national park written in conjunction with its 50th anniversary. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Mind is Not the Heart

    Recollections of a Woman Physician

    by Eva J. Salber ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, Eva Salber's The Mind Is Not the Heart (originally published in 1989), is the personal and political story of a white, Jewish, South African woman who practiced medicine for over fifty years among the impoverished—both rural and urban, black and white, in South Africa and later in the United States. Her lifelong dedication to providing health care to poor ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Among Schoolchildren

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s classic, “brilliantly illuminated” account of education in America (*TheNew York Times Book Review*).**Mrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an “old-lady teacher.” (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is infamous for her discipline: “She is mean, bro,” says one of her students. But children love her, and so will the reader ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus