Signal imprint: 112 books
Miss Lou
Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The career of Louise Bennett ('Miss Lou') is an essential component in any reckoning of Jamaican culture. This book offers a brief account of her life (1919-2006): a story of challenges and blessings, of a journey towards national and international acclaim. It draws on a variety of sources, including...
by David Charles Manners
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
When Bindra contracts leprosy, she is driven from her home in the Himalayan foothills with her two small sons and embarks upon a seemingly impossible course in search of salvation. David's first journey to India is driven by devastating loss, and yet he finds unexepected solace in the discovery of an...
Persona Non Grata
The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
From an acclaimed professor and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue.
In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor...
Frontline Madrid
Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned into a bloody civil war. Hundreds of thousands died in a bitter conflict...
The Idea of Canada
Letters to a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston's frank, informed, and novel thoughts about Canada.
Touching on a wide range of topics...
Siberia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their ‘colony’ in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless...
The Northern Conquest
Vikings in Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conquest period. This book aims to offer an alternative approach by presenting...
Groundswell
The Case for Fracking
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
From the bestselling author of Ethical Oil comes a provocative exploration of the shale gas rush. Levant explains what fracking is and explores what its enemies do not want you to know and why it has the potential to change our future.
In Groundswell, Ezra Levant examines the fracking revolution....
The Trans-Siberian Railway
A Traveller's Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostock. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the line that linked the huge territories which are Russia together. It is a dream...
The Indian Equator
Mark Twain's India Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In 1895/6 the sixty-year-old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which a year later became his final travel book Following the Equator. Two years later he wrote, 'How I did loathe that journey around the world! except...
by Talya Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
St. Kilda is a barren, rocky archipelago 60 km off the west coast of Scotland. In 1930, harsh conditions led the islands’ remaining 36 inhabitants to relocate to the mainland. Left behind were seabirds and a population of feral sheep. In Leaving the Island, her first poetry collection, Talya Rubin...
Out of Essex
Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Beyond the brash modern stereotypes of Essex there exists a landscape that has inspired some of England's finest writing. This book tracks the paths of those literary figures who have ventured into the wilder parts of Essex. Some are illustrious names: Shakespeare, Defoe, John Clare, Joseph Conrad, H....
Extreme Mean
Ending Cyberabuse at Work, School, and Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
From one of Canada's foremost investigative writers, a groundbreaking exposé on the motives and machinations behind cyberabuse - tormenting, trolling, harassment, cyberbullying, stalking, and sexual extortion - and the toll it is taking on children, youth, and adults around the world.
It seems...
The Sahara
A Cutural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and camel trains trudging through sand dunes that roll like the waves on a sea,...