Reading Time: 4 minutes How much more could you achieve in business and life if you just focused on doing fewer things?
Category: Books
The unsung heroes of Waterloo
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Longest Afternoon, by historian Brendan Simms, provides depth, nuance and new insight
Want to write a book and get published? Here’s what you need to know
Reading Time: 4 minutes Terry Whalin of Morgan James Publishing explains why the author is so important to the marketing process and why e-commerce alone won’t get the job done
Was Richard the Lionheart gay?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The debate is perhaps just a reflection of our modern obsessions and fails to put events in their proper historic perspective
The rise and fall of a Native American empire
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Comanches were very adaptable and formidable. But nature, politics, economics and immigration eventually undid them
Canada helps preserve memory of Holocaust by buying Hitler’s book
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians need to be reminded that conflicts and human tragedies sometimes come perilously close to home
The nationalist revival versus the globalist perspective
Reading Time: 3 minutes The ties that bind aren’t what they used to be – at least for some of us. For others, they are increasingly intense
Endeavour’s voyage of enlightenment added a hemisphere to the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes And, according to author Peter Moore, the endeavour attitude is characterized by dreaming of our better angels, not by acquiring more stuff
Building strong communities with education, innovation – and craft beer
Reading Time: 3 minutes James and Deborah Fallows hopscotched across America to understand what makes the best of Our Towns thrive
One set of laws for all the only way to end racism in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes In his new book There is No Difference, Peter Best details a way to resolve Canada’s legal and social relations with its Indigenous