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Delving into Canadian athletes and the sports they played to help explain the nation's complicated history, sporting and otherwise. It is an exploration that reveals the socio-cultural trends that have shaped Canada since Confederation.

Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. His is a special case. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Life goes on, after a fashion, but there are consequences to surviving.

Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in Canada. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary interests.

During the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the "King of the Rumrunners." The U.S. Coast Guard put him at the top of the most-wanted list and offered a reward of $5, 000. But ending up in Club Fed was not Kerr's only worry - he had to contend with Hamilton crime lords Rocco and Bessie Perri. Whisky and Ice takes the reader back to the Prohibition era, when Canada and the United States were obsessed with "demon liquor" (not to mention th...

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A series of essays on Canadian authors profiling the writers work, providing insight into themes, and giving a chronology of the authors life.

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Death of a Hero", published in 1929 was the author's literary response to the war. He went on to publish several works of fiction. In 1942, having moved to the United States, he began to write biographies. This last work was very controversial, as it was highly critical of the man still regarded as a war hero.

A popular history of the UFO phenomenon in Canada, which has captured the imaginations of young and old alike.

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To honour the Queen Mother and mark the occasion of her 100th birthday, Dundurn is publishing a biography of this remarkable woman in words and pictures.

A detailed account of the CF-105 Arrow, the plane that was supposed to put Canada on the map as a leader in supersonic flight technology.

In Alice Munro, Brenda Pfaus provides a unique and intriguing look at one of Canada's greatest living writers.

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The essential reference for writers in Canada describes standards for publishable writing, shows writers how to get there, and reveals how publishing in Canada works. Filled with Canadian references and examples, it supplies Canadian writers with the practical, insider information they need to refine their work and reach an audience.

In Forbidden Knowledge, drug safety advocate Terence Young reveals how Big Pharma came to hold all the power in the pharmaceutical industry, and empowers patients to partner with their doctor to talk openly and plainly about prescription drugs to avoid adverse drug reactions. This is your survival guide to Big Pharma.

While planning a tour on rugged Vancouver Island, Amanda Doucette befriends a fiercely private old artist whose traumatic, tangled past catches up with him when the body of a surfer washes up on a beach near his retreat.

In 1789, the first dockyard was built at Point Frederick opposite present-day Kingston, Ontario. French and British shipwrights made warships that forced Americans into port in 1814, leading to their withdrawal from Canada. The dockyard was closed in 1853. It is now the home of the Royal Military College.

From the tenements of Dublin to the slums of Toronto, Terry Burke paints a graphic picture of his boyhood, as part of an Irish immigrant family struggling to survive on the streets of Cabbagetown, at the beginning of the 1960s.