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The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity, ambiguity, volatility, and constant danger. It is a human invention that requires a human solution. Special operations forces (SOF), a group comprised of highly trained personnel with the ability to deploy rapidly and apply special skills in a variety of env...

Everyone will know the score with this grand slam of Q&A, that's sure to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Doug Lennox hammers it out of the park by filling us in on who's won the most Cy Young Awards and the five ways that a player can be called "out." This is a treasure trove of baseball lore.

In June 1910, the new steam ferry for the Toronto Island Company was launched and christened the Trillium. As it reaches the century mark, Mike Filey revisits the history of the memorable Canadian landmark. With updated photographs, Filey traces the Trillium's remarkable rise and fall and commemorates one of Toronto's finest treasures.

In 1889, John West and James Peachey unveiled their new invention, a steam warping tug that would revolutionize the Canadian pine-logging industry. These tugs became known as northern alligators and helped loggers access and move timber in the distant hinterlands, overland and overwater.

Executives, politicians, and entrepreneurs are increasingly being evaluated by how well they speak. In todays communication-saturated age, the ability to address others effectively has become essential. How Leaders Speak covers the five keys to speaking like a leader: preparation, passion, certainty, engagement, and commitment.

Why write in the first place? It's the second most satisfying thing you can do lying down. You must need to write. After 73 years of scribbling, Eric Nicol holds forth on dangling participles, punctuation, and literary jargon before examining his own career in a series of essays.

Detailing the life within Toronto's Beach community in the 1930s and '40s from the vantage point of her front verandah, which abutted the boardwalk, the author reveals numerous hidden facets of the heritage of this exceptional neighbourhood.

Jack Taggart goes undercover to follow the trail of a cheap weapon found at the scene of a murder. He traces the gun to a suspected heroin importer and penetrates the crime ring, only to discover that the real boss is a mysterious figure out of Asia.

This collection of essays is published as a tribute to the eminent Canadian scholar, J. Wreford Watson. The studies focus on subjects which formed the basis of his life's work -- the changing character of Canadian landscape and society, and the urbanization of that society, including aspects of its historical evolution, its present spacial forms and current social issues. This is a book about people and places. It is broadly concerned with "wh...

A continuation of Fryer's thorough and lively examination of Canada's military history.

L'ouvrage intitulé Une guerre difficile : Points de vue sur l'insurrection et les FOS aborde les concepts théoriques liés aux insurrections et à la pratique de la guerre irrégulière. Le présent volume s'intéresse dans une large mesure aux forces d'opérations spéciales, car elles constituent un élément intégral des mesures de contre insurrection. Ce recueil aidera les membres de la profession des armes à comprendre ce qu'est l'insurrection, ou ...

This definitive collection from the Grand Dame of Canadian letters charts the fascinating domains of her own life and the universal struggles we all share.

A humorous look at the problem of democracy in a country that is too big to digest without getting gas.

Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly with her dog, tropical fishes and classic film collection. But the snow-laden tranquillity is tragically disturbed when a good friend is lost in a freak snowmobile accident on an isolated lake. Or so it seems.

Writer, activist, and politician Nellie McLung (1873-1951) was a strong and effective voice for the women's movement. She was one of the Famous Five suffragists from Alberta whose court challenge in the Persons Case led to women in Canada being declared to be legal "persons" in 1929. Margaret Macpherson holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a teacher and journalist in Halifax, Berm...

Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious "torso murderer" acquitted on appeal of dismembering her husband, and convicted of killing her infant son. In 1958 she was paroled, and disappeared into the mists of history. In Blue Moon, James...

This revised edition is an indispensable language guide for anyone writing in the English language in Canada today.

When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down ferry service to Ragged Island, its residents see their world beginning to disappear.

In 1924 Phyllis Munday did what no other woman had done before -- reached the summit of Mt. Robson. She climbed close to 100 mountains in her lifetime.

For the Allies, it was the "dawn of victory, " the battle that paved the way for the Armistice 100 days later.