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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Blood The Stuff of Life House of Anansi Press	With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us …	Lawrence Hill	386	2013	View
From NEW! Blue Wilderness From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene traces the 1992 to 1994 campaign to establish a national park at Little Limestone Lake and Long Point in Manitoba’s northern Interlake.	Roger Turene	11	2025	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Bob Callahan: A tribute From: Blind Persistence View Baraka Books	This chapter is a tribute by Pat Goggins, celebrating Bob Callahan, a cultural figure from Connecticut and Columbia University who became central to San Francisco’s Irish and creative …	Pat Goggins	4	2025	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Bobby and Pierre From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	In the spring of 1968, the political campaigns of Robert Kennedy in the United States and Pierre Trudeau in Canada generated wild crowd scenes featuring passionate adoration of the candidates. …	Paul Litt	23	2021	$2.30 Add
From Bomb Scare From: The Ward Uncovered View Coach House Books		Holly Martelle	6	2018	$0.60 Add
NEW! Bombs and Barbed Wire Stories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Goose Lane Editions	Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada’s armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war …	Ronald Cormier	204	2022	View
From Bombs, Damage and Compensation From: Big Business and Hitler View James Lorimer and Company	Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the American companies who amassed profits during World War II with emphsis on the increase in profits for firms with German holdings (1942-1948).	Jacques R. Pauwels	10	2017	$1.00 Add
From Books, 1943–52 68 From: A Halifax Boyhood View Formac Publishing	Looks at the books he read as a boy 1943-52	Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Boomtown From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines Toronto’s explosive postwar transformation from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, when a million new residents reshaped the city. The narrative traces the housing …	Gilberto Fernandes	12	2026	$1.20 Add
From Boomtown Toronto From: Sweethearts View James Lorimer and Company	1960s looks at appartment developers and the boom in high rise appartments in Toronto, which renewed commericial and downtown development	Catherine Wismer	9	2014	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Border Cultures: A Retrospective Part 1. A Context for Border Cultures and Conversations with the Curator From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization View University of Ottawa Press	In the years 2013, 2014, and 2015, the Art Gallery of Windsor featured consecutive exhibitions of Border Cultures, a landmark series of forty-five artist projects and essays on the “real, …	Victor Konrad	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Borderlands From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 1 explores the turbulent history of Poland leading up to the Second World War, in particular, the borderland region of the Kresy that straddles the modern day borders of Poland, Belarus …	Marsha Faubert	15	2023	$1.50 Add
NEW! Bottoms Up A History of Alcohol in Newfoundland and Labrador Breakwater Books	In 1617, Lord Falkland’s colonists in Newfoundland were instructed to bring, among other things, 20 barrels of caske (ale), 90 bushels of malt, a malt mill, 4500 pounds of hops, 1 firkin of …	Sheilah Roberts Lukins	272	2020	View
From Bound For Canada From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the factors that led millions of Italians to emigrate in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts.	Jean Smith Cavaluzzo; Pamela Hickman	16	2012	$1.60 Add
From Bourgeoisie, Aristocracy, Church, and Socialists Confront War and Revolution From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View James Lorimer and Company	Of an apparently unavoidable Great War, the industrial bourgeoisie expects considerable economic advantages. But the other pillars of the elite, the nobility and the church, also entertain high …	Jacques R. Pauwels	14	2016	$1.40 Add
From Boys’ Parliament, 1950–52 60 From: A Halifax Boyhood View Formac Publishing	Looks at his involvement with the Maritime Provinces Tuxis and Older Boys’ Parliament 1950-52	Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel	4	2014	$0.40 Add