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The World and Darfur
International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This updated edition of The World and Darfur brings together genocide scholars from a range of disciplines - social history, art history, military history, African studies, media studies, literature, political science, and sociology - to provide a cohesive and nuanced understanding of the international...
Never Rest on Your Ores
Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
A century ago, a prospector discovered gold at Ontario’s Kirkland Lake and a son was born to British immigrants in Saskatchewan. The boy – Norman Bell Keevil – went on to become a renowned scientist, teacher, and prospector, discovering a small but high-grade copper mine in Ontario. Parlaying...
Back to Beer...and Hockey
The Story of Eric Molson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
To most Canadians, the Molson name is part of the very fabric of Canada. Since 1786, when John Molson founded his first brewery in Montreal, it has become synonymous with beer, hockey, and philanthropy. Few realize, however, how close the family came in recent years to losing control of the enterprise....
To Make a Difference
A Prescription for a Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean? If you think about a life as a chemical equation, then the elements are obvious: family, work, purpose. The key is discovering how to get the balance just right. In To Make a Difference, Montreal entrepreneur and philanthropist Morris...
Cultiver la différence
Prescription pour une vie réussie
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean? If you think about a life as a chemical equation, then the elements are obvious: family, work, purpose. The key is discovering how to get the balance just right. In Cultiver la différence, Montreal entrepreneur and philanthropist Morris...
Wrestling with Life
From Hungary to Auschwitz to Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
George Reinitz was twelve years old when he and his family were taken from Szikszó, Hungary, and deported to Auschwitz, where many of his family members were killed. As a boy on the brink of adolescence, he experienced the horrors of a Nazi death camp. Following his liberation he returned to his...
Expect Miracles
Recollections of a Lucky Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Expect Miracles is the personal and professional story of a leader in the worlds of business and culture. David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive...
Harrison McCain
Single-Minded Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
The only rival to Harrison McCain’s entrepreneurial success was his deep attachment to his Maritime roots. From McCain’s beginnings in Florenceville, New Brunswick, the early mentorship he received from K.C. Irving, to the global success of his corporate empire McCain Foods, Donald Savoie presents...
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Kamala Das (1934–2009) is one of India’s most beloved and controversial literary figures. She was hailed and reviled as the first Indian woman to write an autobiographical cult classic about love and desire. Admirers dubbed her, “The First Feminist Emotional Revolutionary of Our Time.” The tabloid press called her “The Love Queen of Malabar.”
A Complex Fate
William L. Shirer and the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and ’30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their...
by Alberto Savorana
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922–2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part of his life working and studying with Giussani,...
There's Always Something to Do
The Peter Cundill Investment Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In the context of recent financial upheavals and ongoing uncertainty, Peter Cundill's wise and frequently funny reflections are more important than ever. In a seamlessly assembled narrative drawn from interviews, speeches, and exclusive access to the daily journal Cundill kept for forty-five years, Christopher...
Is It Possible To Live This Way?
An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence: Charity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
This volume of Is It Possible to Live this Way, a translation of Luigi Giussani's Si Può Vivere Così?, addresses the virtue of charity. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives...
The Politics of Popular Culture
Negotiating Power, Identity, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Days after the 9/11 attacks George W. Bush sought to reassure the American public that Osama bin Laden would be brought to justice, quipping that "there's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" Bush's invocation of Wild West mythology was neither novel nor unusual -...