Richard Salisbury (1926-1989) was a pioneer in development anthropology and one of the founders of McGill University's anthropology department. His work had immense influence in the areas of economic ...

Autumn Harvest brings a decade of Stanley Frost's poems together in one anthology that is varied in both style and content. Spiced with humour, children's verses, Chaucerian-style narratives, and incisive ...

After authoring the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the request of Eleanor Roosevelt, he shepherded the Declaration project through to its completion in 1948. He was involved ...

During this period Secretariat employees came under scrutiny by un-American activities committees in the United States and Dag Hammarskjold replaced Tryve Lie as secretary-general. With a mandate to cut ...

In addition to standard works, the collection includes many rare books, most of which have been preserved in vintage condition by beautiful hand-made jackets fashioned by Fishstein. The collection also ...

"Evident in recent decades is a significant rise in the use of iconography among scholars dealing with the art of the Modern period. With the shift away from the once dominant formalist approach, greater ...

Bourne led the "Great Triumvirate" of Montreal anaesthetists - himself, Harold Griffith, and Digby Leigh, who dominated much of anaesthesia in the 1940s. Responding to wartime needs, they started training ...