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  • The Professionalization of History in English Canada

    by Donald A. Wright ...
    The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one. The Professionalization of History in English Canada charts the transition of the study of history from a leisurely pastime to that of a full-blown academic career for university-trained scholars - from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century.Donald Wright argues ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Donald Creighton

    A Life in History

    by Donald A. Wright ...
    A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it “had happened,” he said, “the day before yesterday.” And as a public ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Canada

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald Wright ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this contemporary openness Canada also has its own history to contend with; with a legacy of broken treaties and residential schools for its Indigenous peoples, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Vanguard Of Valor : Small Unit Actions In Afghanistan Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]

    by Donald P. Wright ...
    Series series Vanguard Of Valor
    Illustrated with 22 photos, maps and plans.Beginning in 2009, the U.S. and many of its NATO-ISAF partners dramatically raised their levels of effort in Afghanistan. The "Afghan Surge," as it came to be known, was most evident in the number of additional US and allied troops that arrived in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010. Their mission was clear: To reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John A. MacDonald

    The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain

    by Donald Creighton ...
    First published in 1952 and 1955, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain remains a classic in Canadian arts and letters. Described as the greatest biography ever written in Canada, it earned Donald Creighton two Governor General's Awards. In 2013, the Toronto Review of Books recommended it to anyone who wished to become a better Canadian.In this book, Creighton examines the ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Vanguard Of Valor : Small Unit Actions In Afghanistan Vol. I [Illustrated Edition]

    by Donald P. Wright ...
    Series series Vanguard Of Valor
    Includes 35 illustrations.Since 2001, the US Army in Afghanistan has been conducting complex operations in a difficult, often dangerous environment. Living in isolated outposts and working under austere conditions, US Soldiers have carried out missions that require in equal parts a warrior's courage and a diplomat's restraint. In the larger discussions of the Afghanistan campaign, the experiences ... Read more

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  • The Quantum Alchemist

    by Donald J. Wright ...
    Dr. Evelyn "Evie" Reed, a brilliant but unconventional historian specializing in obscure alchemical theories, finally gets her chance at academic validation when she inherits her eccentric great-aunt's bizarre collection. Hidden within it, Evie discovers "The Chrono-Alchemist's Ledger," a meticulously coded journal by the notorious 17th-century alchemist, Marius Thorne. The Ledger details not the ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cartersville Convergence

    "Some stories write themselves. Others write you."

    by Donald J WRIGHT ...
    "A haunted house story where the house doesn't just scare you-it writes you. A failed novelist discovers a manuscript in his own handwriting that predicts his future, and a town where stories are alive, hungry, and waiting to consume him. "The house waited for him.When failed novelist William Varn arrives in Cartersville, he expects cheap rent and quiet nights. Instead, he finds a Victorian ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Fault Lines of the Heart

    by Donald Wright ...
    The animals know it's coming. He can prove it. They will kill to keep it a secret.Professor Elias Quinn, a brilliant but disgraced anthropologist, believes he can predict natural disasters by listening to the Earth's oldest warning system: its animals. His controversial AI, Prometheus, analyzes patterns in animal behavior that science has long dismissed as folklore.Dr. Mara Lang is a geologist who ... Read more

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  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 33 No. 2, 2023

    by Benjamin Bryce, Benjamin Bryce, Julie McIntyre*, Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Chelsea Davis, Steve Stein, Kathleen A. Brosnan, Marie-Joëlle Duchesne, Sarah Carter0, M. Max Hamon1, Grace Peña Delgado2, Benjamin Hoy3, Andrew Watson4, Brian Froese5, Royden Loewen6, Donald Wright7, Hamar Foster8, Jan Noel9, Donald Smith0 ...
    Series Book 33 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Sometime in 1866, a Spaniard named Josep Soler (1840–1906) arrived in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Constantí in the Camp de Tarragona winemaking region south of Barcelona, Soler came from a winemaking family and was a winemaker himself before leaving Spain. He planted his first New Zealand vineyard shortly after arriving in Whanganui, and his business life was one of uninterrupted ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Mother That Waits

    by Donald Wright ...
    The city is waking.And it knows her name.When cybersecurity expert Ella Voss begins experiencing impossible hallucinations tied to her pregnancy, she assumes stress is to blame—until Savannah With the help of her partner Julian and a fractured circle of technomancers, Ella uncovers a truth that blurs the line between salvation and possession: the entity beneath the city doesn't want to conquer ... Read more

    $7.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 33 No. 1, 2023

    by Benjamin Bryce, Benjamin Bryce, Donald Wright, James W. St. G. Walker*, Claudine Bonner, P. E. Bryden, Lara Campbell, Adele Perry, Allan Downey, Nathan Ince0, David Bigaouette1, David R. Quintyne2 ...
    Series Book 33 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    What can be said about one hundred years of historical writing in the journals of the Canadian Historical Association, as they have evolved from the Report of the Annual Meeting|Rapport de l’assemblée annuelle (1922-1965, the journal only took on a bilingual name in 1951) to Historical Papers|Communications historiques (1966-1989) and then to the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association ... Read more

    $15.99 USD