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The 3a.m. Handbook is the practical, best selling question-and-answer guide for parents. Produced in conjunction with world renowned Hospital for Sick Children, this excellent reference answers some of the most commonly asked questions parents have about their child’s health. Based on sound scientific criteria and written by a team of highly trai …

George Bowering is one of the country's most respected and beloved authors. In his remarkable career, he has written more than forty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, winning the Governor-General's Award twice. A Magpie Life is a memoir of a literary life. It is vintage Bowering - funny, self-deprecating and perceptive - and as wide-ranging …

The Wiebo Ludwig affair brought to the forefront the often explosive relationship between the oil and gas industry and the ranchers and farmers who live under the shadow of its rigs. But behind the headlines, an unreported sea-change is taking place in the long history of these very different players. Canada's petroleum industry is in the middle of …

The onset of a sudden disability can be devastating, but doesnt have to spell the end of a full and active life. After Disability: A Guide to Getting on with Life is the information- packed resource that will help readers reclaim their lives one step at a timefor themselves and for their families.More than 3.6 million Canadians are living with some …

A 2000 Torgi Award winner, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man is a charming and engaging memoir about growing up poor in an English working-class family during the Depression. Wright was born into a family of ten children. His father was a carter who drove horses and his mother worked as a tailoress. With no hot water, baths once a week and often s …

Since 9/11, the United States has abandoned its implied foreign policy of minimal international engagement. Instead, it has undertaken one of the most ambitious and risky ventures in international affairs: the quest to bring democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. may see itself as a reluctant empire, but President Bush has embarked on a policy …

Simpson examines the leaders we chose and why, from the legacies of the Trudeau years to the rise of the Reform party. Here are devastating portraits of our politicians—from Brian Mulroney’s farewell world tour and the wholesale destruction of the Conservative party to the anointing of St. Lucien as patron saint of Quebec.