Dundurn: 2215 books
Fighting to Lose
How the German Secret Intelligence Service Helped the Allies Win the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
Startling new revelations about collaboration between the Allies and the German Secret Service.
Based on extensive primary source research, John Bryden’s Fighting to Lose presents compelling evidence that the German intelligence service — the Abwehr — undertook to rescue Britain from...
NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat
Canada’s Secret Electronic Air War
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2012
NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic...
The Avro Arrow
For the Record
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2019
Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow.
The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow — an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation — continues to fire debate today. When the program was scrapped...
Food Junkies
The Truth About Food Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
A fact-filled guide to coping with compulsive overeating problems by an experienced addictions doctor who draws on many patients’ stories of recovery.
Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia: Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from...
Running Away to Sea
Round the World on a Tramp Freighter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
At a turning point in his life, George Fetherling embarked on an adventure to sail round the world on one of the last of the tramp freighters. The four-month voyage carried him 30,000 nautical miles from Europe via the Panama Canal to the South Pacific and back by way of Singapore, Indonesia, the...
Government Digital
The Quest to Regain Public Trust
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Governments all over the world are consistently outpaced by digital change, and are falling behind.
Digital government is a better performing government. It is better at providing services people and businesses need. Receiving benefits, accessing health records, registering companies, applying...
Peggy Henderson Adventures 3-Book Bundle
Bone Deep / Broken Bones / Reading the Bones
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
This three-book bundle collects the adventures of 12-year-old adventurer and bone expert Peggy Henderson. In Reading the Bones, due to circumstances beyond her control, Peggy has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, B.C., to live with her aunt and uncle. She learns that her home and the entire...
Dysfunction
Canada after Keystone XL
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The demise of Keystone XL represented a great economic loss to Canada, measured annually in the billions of dollars, for a project that would have had an economic life in excess of thirty years
Sets out how Canada can apply the lessons from the Keystone XL experience as it goes forward to deal with...
Tales from the Great Lakes
Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.
C.H.J. Snider...
Lost Beneath the Ice
The Story of HMS Investigator
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin,...
The Mission at Verona
Safe House Short Story Singles
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.
Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
In the simplest of terms, leadership is about influencing people to achieve an objective that is important to the leader, the group, and the organization. It is the human element -- leading, motivating, and inspiring, particularly during times of crisis, chaos, and complexity when directives, policy...
Touch
Five Factors to Growing and Leading a Human Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
In today’s technology-led pursuit of efficiency, we’ve removed the humanity from business. Here’s how to correct that.
For better or worse, digital business has fundamentally changed how organizations hire staff, market their services, and connect with stakeholders. The problem is, in...
A Legacy of Caring
A History of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Begun in 1891, the Children's Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America. It has played a leading roll as an advocate of children's welfare; it has been instrumental in influencing child welfare practice not only in Ontario but all of Canada and elsewhere. With an...