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I suspect most Americans know very little about Canada other than it forms our northern border and that its hockey team is one of the most valuable franchises in the NHL. You can repair that gap in your knowledge, for example, with Allan Levine's Toronto: Biography of a City...For anyone who is interested in the development of a dynamic city this book will prove very entertaining.

Now revised and updated, this "inspired, impactful, and important" book shows how to achieve the ultimate success by rectifying the small problems that can sink a business (Stephen R, Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People).Once every few years a book comes along with an insight so penetrating, so powerful--and so simply, demonstrably true--that it instantly changes the way we think and do business. Such a book is Broken Wind...

Now revised and updated, this "inspired, impactful, and important" book shows how to achieve the ultimate success by rectifying the small problems that can sink a business (Stephen R, Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People).Once every few years a book comes along with an insight so penetrating, so powerful--and so simply, demonstrably true--that it instantly changes the way we think and do business. Such a book is Broken Wind...

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The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944--from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is discovered in the bedroom of her New York City Beekman Hill apartment, to the arrest of her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan, for her murder, and his subsequent trial and conviction. But this story goes back in time to the 1920s, when Wayne Lonergan...

In this definitive and meticulously researched account of the Jewish experience in Canada, award-winning and critically acclaimed author Allan Levine documents a story that is rich, accessible, often surprising, and epic in its scope. Relying on an abundance of primary sources and first-hand documentation and interviews, Seeking the Fabled City chronicles the successes and failures, the obstacles overcome and those not conquered, of a historic...

?The era of the Model T transformed Detroit into a leading industrial giant.... With the promise of jobs and a better life in mind, thousands of migrants flocked to the promised land. In this thoroughly documented work, Levine shows that the impact of these newcomers on the city's black population was devastating.... Levine's work is first rate scholarship and belongs in academic libraries.?-Library Journal

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Scrum Wars chronicles fascinating and dramatic confrontations between the prime ministers of Canada and the men and women of Canadas news media.

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It's 1922 and business is booming for Saul and Lou Sugarman-- -thanks to prohibition. But business gets personal when the Sugarmans' brother-in-law ends up dead. Looking for answers, private detective Sam Klein is called in to investigate. What appears to be nothing more than a deal-gone-bad quickly spirals out of control to threaten Sam's own family. How can Sam prevent his loved ones from becoming enmeshed in a bootlegger turf war that's big...

As World War II and the Nazi assault on Europe ended, some 25, 000 Jews--entire families in some instances--walked out of the forests of Eastern Europe. Based on numerous interviews with these survivors, "Fugitives of the Forest" tells their harrowing and heroic stories.

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The image of the scrum -- a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters -- is central to our perception of Ottawa. The modern scrum began with the arrival of television, but even in Sir John A. Macdonald's day, a century earlier, reporters in the parliamentary press gallery had waited outside the prime minister's office, pen in hand, hoping for a quote for the next edition. The scrum represents the test of wills, the contest of ...

Historian Levine presents a vivid and distinctly human perspective on how the Jewish people survived 800 years of persecution. This is an impressive and immensely readable book, one that is an important contribution to the literature of Jewish history.

Historian Levine presents a vivid and distinctly human perspective on how the Jewish people survived 800 years of persecution. This is an impressive and immensely readable book, one that is an important contribution to the literature of Jewish history.