Nation Maker

Hardcover | 688 pages | Random House Canada | History - Canada; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-307-35644-4 (0-307-35644-2)

September 27, 2011 | $37.00



#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.

John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who...

Into the Silence

Hardcover | 672 pages | Knopf Canada | History - Great Britain; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers
978-0-676-97919-0 (0-676-97919-X)

September 27, 2011 | $35.00



A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war...

1493

Hardcover | 560 pages | Knopf | History - America (North, Central, South, West Indies); History - Expeditions & Discoveries; History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
978-0-307-26572-2 (0-307-26572-2)

August 9, 2011 | $34.50



From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically...

A Train in Winter

Hardcover | 384 pages | Random House Canada | History - Holocaust; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-307-35694-9 (0-307-35694-9)

November 1, 2011 | $32.00

“How can you do this work if you have a child?” asked her mother.

“It is because I have a child that I do it,” replied Cecile. “This is not a world I wish her to grow up in.”

On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on...

The Moral Lives of Israelis

Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | History - Israel; Social Science
978-0-307-35629-1 (0-307-35629-9)

August 23, 2011 | $32.00



Brave, intensely personal and politically incisive — an essential and thought-provoking look at the state of Israel today from an Israeli-Canadian's perspective.

The Moral Lives of Israelis explores the last ten years of life in Israel, a sixty-one-year-old country that has never not been in a state of war. It began in...

The Beautiful and the Damned

Hardcover | 272 pages | Bond Street Books | Social Science; History - India
978-0-385-66528-5 (0-385-66528-8)

August 9, 2011 | $32.95



The one book you need on the New India.

In 2004, after six years in New York, Siddhartha Deb returned to India to look for a job. He discovered that sweeping change had overtaken the country. With the globalization of its economy, the relaxation of trade rules, the growth in technology, and...

Two Generals

Trade Paperback | 152 pages | Emblem Editions | History - Canada; Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-7710-1959-3 (0-7710-1959-9)

September 27, 2011 | $19.99

A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective.
 
In March of 1943, Scott Chantler's grandfather, Law Chantler, shipped out across the Atlantic for active service with the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, along with his best friend, Jack, a fellow officer...

The Anatomy of Israel's Survival

Hardcover | 288 pages | Signal | History - Israel; Political Science
978-0-7710-3405-3 (0-7710-3405-9)

August 30, 2011 | $32.99



For readers of Michael Oren, Alan Dershowitz, and George Gilder comes a new perspective on a hot topic: the future of Israel.

"Can Israel survive?" has been the essential question for Israelis -- and Jews worldwide -- since the Holocaust. Now a renowned Israeli journalist and security expert conducts a "strategic state...

Mary Boleyn

Hardcover | 400 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - Great Britain
978-0-7710-8922-0 (0-7710-8922-8)

October 4, 2011 | $32.00

Sister to Queen Anne Boleyn, seduced by two kings, she was an intimate player in one of history’s most gripping dramas. Yet much of what we know about Mary Boleyn has been fostered through garbled gossip, romantic fiction, and the misconceptions repeated by historians. Now, in her latest book, New York...

Egg on Mao

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science; History - China
978-0-307-35580-5 (0-307-35580-2)

August 30, 2011 | $21.00



The eagerly-awaited new book by Denise Chong, author of the award-winning, national bestseller, The Concubine’s Children.

In her first book in a decade, beloved author Denise Chong, tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of...

In Ishmael's House

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Emblem Editions | History - Modern - 21St Century; History - Jewish; History
978-0-7710-3569-2 (0-7710-3569-1)

September 20, 2011 | $21.00



From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.

In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of...

Borderlands

Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Travel - United States; Travel - Road Travel; History - North America
978-0-307-39863-5 (0-307-39863-3)

October 4, 2011 | $19.95



"The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions - but also its virtues - irrepressibly bubble up as its people confront the 'other' whom they admire, or fear, or hold in contempt...

Why the West Rules - For Now

Trade Paperback | 768 pages | Emblem Editions | History - Civilization; History - Social History; History - World
978-0-7710-6456-2 (0-7710-6456-X)

December 6, 2011 | $26.99



Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and...

Pierre Berton's War of 1812

Trade Paperback | 928 pages | Anchor Canada | History; History - Canada - Pre-Confederation (To 1867)
978-0-385-67648-9 (0-385-67648-4)

November 1, 2011 | $29.95



To commemorate the bi-centenary of the War of 1812, Anchor Canada brings together Pierre Berton's two groundbreaking books on the subject. The Invasion of Canada is a remarkable account of the war's first year and the events that led up to it; Pierre Berton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that...

A Wicked Company

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Emblem Editions | History - Europe
978-0-7710-1649-3 (0-7710-1649-2)

November 1, 2011 | $22.99



The acclaimed author of The Vertigo Years tells the remarkable story of the Parisian salon that brought together the greatest minds of the 18th century - Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin - and changed the world forever.

The Paris salon of Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach - where friendship and radical philosophy...

The Balfour Declaration

Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Great Britain; History - Israel; History - Military - World War II
978-0-385-66259-8 (0-385-66259-9)

January 3, 2012 | $24.95

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award

Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day...