Major General Isaac Brock won a stunning victory at Detroit at the outset of the War of 1812 and was recognized as the Hero of Upper Canada. With his untimely death leading a heroic, ill-fated charge during the Battle of Queenston Heights, Brock's fame became firmly entrenched in the Canadian psyche. In High Upon His Pedestal Guy St-Denis ......
Major General Isaac Brock won a stunning victory at Detroit at the outset of the War of 1812 and was recognized as the Hero of Upper Canada. With his untimely death leading a heroic, ill-fated charge during the Battle of Queenston Heights, Brock's fame became firmly entrenched in the Canadian psyche. In High Upon His Pedestal Guy St-Denis ......
In My Love is a Durian, Singapore and Canada twine and intertwine, the places adopted and left behind bunch and twist. Kelly Kaur leads readers through markets in Singapore and up mountainsides in Kananaskis. These poems enliven the senses, from the taste of durians eaten fresh to the chill of snow melting on the cheek, as they dance the ......
In My Love is a Durian, Singapore and Canada twine and intertwine, the places adopted and left behind bunch and twist. Kelly Kaur leads readers through markets in Singapore and up mountainsides in Kananaskis. These poems enliven the senses, from the taste of durians eaten fresh to the chill of snow melting on the cheek, as they dance the ......
A 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Title From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of sexuality. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by ......
The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first ......
A Family Story of Genesis, Annihilation and Survival
Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his father's journey through the Holocaust and find his family's genesis. He visits the homes, factories, and synagogues in which the Frydmans made their lives and the ghettos and camps in which ......
A Family Story of Genesis, Annihilation and Survival
Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his father's journey through the Holocaust and find his family's genesis. He visits the homes, factories, and synagogues in which the Frydmans made their lives and the ghettos and camps in which ......
The Multiverse is an introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Philosophers have proposed that all logically possible universes are equally real. In physics, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics proposes that every possible outcome of a quantum event exists in its own world. Leading philosopher ......
