Robert McCrum

Robert MacNeil

William Cran

Third Revised Edition

The Story of English

Presents the history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent and fast-growing international language.

In a fictional portrait of the cutthroat world of TV journalism, the pressure for high ratings costs one reputable newsman his job

A Novel

Breaking News

After the 1916 explosion that devastates Halifax, Nova Scotia, Peter Wentworth finds a diary among the rubble containing the confessions of a young woman and becomes obsessed with finding its owner

Burden of Desire

Offers a look at the origins, history, and current state of American spoken and written language, looking at the linguistic traditions in diverse regions of the country and assessing the influence of e-mail and other factors,

Do You Speak American?

Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a climate villain, rejecting global attempts to slow climate change and ignoring ever-increasing emissions at home. How did Canada go from climate leader to climate villain? In Thirty Years of Failure, Robert MacNeil examines Canada’s changing climate policy in meticulous detail and argues that the failure of this policy is due to a perfect storm of interrelated and mutually reinforcing cultural, political and economic factors — all of which have made a functional and effective national climate strategy impossible. But as MacNeil reveals, the factors preventing a sensible, sustainable climate policy in Canada are also the keys to change, and he offers readers an understanding of the strategies and policies required to decarbonize the Canadian economy and make Canada a global leader on climate change once again.

Understanding Canadian Climate Policy

Thirty Years of Failure

The noted journalist chronicles his career from his training as a print journalist to his television career in England and the United States

The Right Place at the Right Time

Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth. Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the Halifax Explosion. She hides her diary in her coat, which is subsequently donated to a clothing drive for the individuals from the north end of the city who've lost everything in the explosion. Peter discovers the diary and becomes fixated on its author, enlisting the help of his friend Stewart to find her. Burden of Desire explores the repression and expression of sexual desire at the time of the First World War. It also offers a compelling fictional account of the impact on Halifax society of the Halifax Explosion.

Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth. Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the Halifax Explosion. She hides her diary in her coat, which is subsequently donated to a clothing drive for the individuals from the north end of the city who've list everything in the explosion. Peter discovers the diary and becomes fixated on its author, enlisting the help of his friend Stewart to find her. Burden of Desire explores the repression and expression of sexual desire at the time of the First World War. It also offers a compelling fictional account of the impact on Halifax society of the Halifax Explosion.

Petra Souisa

Tussen een succesvolle Canadese diplomaat en een volksmeisje uit Brits Guyana dat zich opwerkt tot een veelgevraagd fotomodel en mannequin, bloeit een langdurige liefde.

Dubbelleven

THE SYNAXIS IS BACK! The long awaited sequel to Robert David MacNeil's Sci-Fi thriller, IONA PORTAL, is finally here! Two years have passed since the opening of the Iona portal. A battle continues to rage between two alien races: the warlike Archons from the parallel dimension of Hades, and the benevolent Irin, from the realm of Basilea. The Archons have just set in motion a plan to conquer the human race and take our world for their own. Our only hope lies in the Synaxis, a group of ordinary men and women conscripted by the Irin and given supernormal powers. With mere days left before our world erupts in a fiery nuclear holocaust, three Synaxis members must risk everything in a desperate mission that will take them to the depths of hell itself.

Book Two of the Synaxis Chronicles

Iona Stronghold

In 1920 Julia Robertson is a young, beautiful war widow, aware of the radical new ideas bursting into the settled thinking of post-Victorian Canada. That new thinking, about the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexual frankness, about women as well as skepticism about religion, shaped the emerging 20th century world and infused modern painting, music, and literature. Julia struggles with her conscience over the man she most trusts when she is passionately infatuated with another, an Englishman. He leads her into the orbit of the young and charming Prince of Wales. Leaving behind the stuffy world of Halifax, she goes to London and Paris and then the South of France where she renews her close friendship with one of the great Canadian painters of the period, J.W. Morrice. She becomes part of Morrice's circle of artists and admirers, among them Henri Matisse, who was Morrice's close friend. Ultimately Julia has to resolve a dilemma that dramatically tests all her progressive ideas. With this novel Robert MacNeil returns to a character who first appears in his bestselling novel set at the time of the Halifax Explosion, Burden of Desire. "Julia's appetite for life and her bold embrace of the modern world was so vivid to me that I had to follow her life into the postwar world," says MacNeil. The result is a fascinating account of a young woman in the midst of a world in transformation.

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