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Beauty and the Beast Around the World

1991
Three captivating stories of romance, where a person's true identity is revealed only after they have found the one they love.

Maple leaf empire

Canada, Britain, and two world wars
2012
To understand Canada's history of Britishness, Vance looks into the military past of both countries. The fabric of Canadian life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries owes a great deal to the presence of British military. And this, observes Vance, is a two-way relationship: he reminds us that during the two World Wars, close to a million Canadians travelled to the United Kingdom. In this form of reverse colonialism, Canadians established modest outposts in Britain, and parts of the country were Canadianized.

The Canadians

1992
Introduces the reader to Canadian people, resources, and economic conditions and discusses its influence on the United States.

The Canadians

1985
Introduces the reader to Canadian people, resources, and economic conditions and discusses its influence on the United States.

Mammals of North America

1999
Describes more than 150 species of wild mammals that live in Canada and the northern United States.

Lakes, peaks, and prairies

discovering the United States-Canadian border
1984

The defenders

1994
Chronicles the history of the Canadians who volunteered to defend their towns from the Americans during the War of 1812.

Argo

how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
2012
An account of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis recalls how six of the intended American hostages escaped from Iranian militants and were rescued by the co-author and his unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders during a high-risk mission in Tehran conducted in the guise of a movie scouting expedition.
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