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Provides insights into the geography, daily life, culture, and history of Canada through a look at the country's foods, cooking traditions, customs, eating habits, and food sources.

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.

In 2000, an unknown attacker brought down the websites of Amazon, CNN, Dell, E-TRADE, eBay, and Yahoo!, inciting panic from Silicon Valley to the White House. The FBI, police, and independent security experts launched a manhunt as President Clinton convened a cyber security summit to discuss how best to protect America's information infrastructure from future attacks. Then, after hundreds of hours of wiretapping, law enforcement officials executed a late-night raid and came face-to-face with the most wanted man in cyberspace: a fifteen-year-old whose username was "Mafiaboy." Despite requests from every major media outlet, that young man, Michael Calce, has never spoken publicly about his crimes-until now. Equal parts true-crime thriller and expos?, Mafiaboy will take you on an electrifying tour of the fast-evolving twenty-first-century world of hacking-from disruptions caused by teens like Calce to organized crime and other efforts with potentially catastrophic results. It also includes a guide to protecting yourself online.

Profusely illustrated text and color photographs describe Canada's wild hinterlands.

An illustrated guide to battlefields and historical sites of the War of 1812, with colorful photographs, archival paintings, descriptions, and eyewitness accounts.

Best friends Hamza and Yehat find their friendship tested when they both fall for the same woman, the beautiful, successful Sherem.

Reviews the imperiled birds of the U.S. and Canada, and tropical birds that survive in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

Traces the life and career of the young Canadian actor whose move to the United States brought him enormous success in television and films.

Tells the story of the gold rushes of Canada, with information on the reasons for the value of gold, and how to pan for gold.