Dundurn: 2215 books
Now You Know
The Book of Answers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Why are golf assistants called caddies? Why do the British drive on the left and North Americans on the right? Why is football played on a "gridiron," and a leg injury called a "Charlie horse"? The answers to these questions and the origins of hundreds of other expressions and customs are brought...
Deadly Encounters
True Crime Stories of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Quiet pleasant communties, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem.
From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and amaze you.
Mystery still surrounds the fate of pro golfer...
Stranded
Alaska’s Worst Maritime Disaster Nearly Happened Twice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska’s worst maritime disaster — until it nearly happened again.
In 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia left Skagway, Alaska, on her last trip of the season to Vancouver. She never made it. Battered by...
Women in Canadian Politics
Volume 6: Toward Equity in Representation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
"Women are the most under-represented social group in the elected assemblies of the worl. Women everywhere constitute m ore than one-half of the population and ... rarely, are more than a handful of the political elite."
The studies in this volume examine women's involvement in political...
by Harold A. Innis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement...
In the Shadow of the Pole
An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the Shadow of the Pole explains how the Arctic came to be part of Canada.
In the Shadow of the Pole tells the history of how the Arctic became part of Canada and how the Dominion government established jurisdiction there. It describes the early expeditions to Canada’s North, including...
The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.
Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of...
Unbuilt Calgary
A History of the City That Might Have Been
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Calgary is a typical boom-and-bust town that was first based on ranching and farming, then oil and gas, and now energy. And energy is what its citizens have, whether for skiing, work, or construction. It is a city that leaps ahead eagerly to new futures and rarely looks back., but Calgary can also...
by Mark Osbaldeston
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Finalist for a 2017 Hamilton Literary Award, the Kerry Schooley Award
Unbuilt Hamilton presents the Ambitious City at its most ambitious, exploring the origins and fates of unrealized building, planning, and transportation proposals from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first.
Marvel...
Historic Unionville
A Village in the City
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
A guided tour of historic Unionville, a little Ontario village bursting with historic buildings full of stories.
Unionville is a village in the city — an unexpected oasis where time seems to move a little more slowly than in the hectic world of condos, commercial strips, and traffic gridlock....
Legal & Financial Aspects of Architectural Conservation
The Smolenice Castle Conference Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
How do governments design their strategy for heritage property? What do they try to accomplish in their laws and their tax systems to favour the re-use of older buildings, districts, and cities? What institutional framework can assist the restoration of tourist designations and the conservation of...
Now You Know — The Big Books Bundle
Now You Know Big Book of Answers / Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Presenting two books in the popular and exhaustive trivia series. They are a treasure trove of his favourite trivia culled from previous Now You Know books, answering such brain-teasers as: Why is an evil adversary called a "villain"? Why is football played on a "gridiron" and a leg injury called...
A Brief Time in Heaven
Wilderness Adventures in Canoe Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
What starts as a simple fishing trip becomes a cathartic experience in the untamed wilderness of Ontario’s northwestern canoe country.
A nine-day fishing trip turns into a profound life-altering event and marks the beginning of a lifelong love affair with the untamed wilderness of Canoe Country...
Food, Sex, and You
Untangling Body Obsession in a Weight-Obsessed World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
A look at our relationship with food and sex, what happens when we become too dependent on either, and how to start recovering.
The need for food and the desire for sex are powerful forces, so powerful they can turn our bodies into battle grounds. Bingeing, exercising to exhaustion, even entering...