CharlesDexterWard

The untold story of the explosive 1960s music scene that transformed a quiet neighbourhood into one of North America's most influential creative hubs. Yorkville: How a 1960s Coffeehouse Scene Rewrote Popular Music traces the rise and fall of the...

The untold inside story of the board game that conquered the world.My Trivial Pursuits is the definitive account of how Trivial Pursuita cardboard sketch dreamed up in a smoky Montreal kitchenexploded into one of the bestselling and most...

Five stories of desire, betrayal, and awakening-where every choice has a price.

How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt--but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation. From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the...

The global history of the rise and transformation of bookstores, from medieval book merchants to today's neighborhood indies Whether it's a local indie bookshop, an online megaretailer, or a chain bookstore, the place we buy books is an...