Technology & Engineering
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All At Max
Designing, Building, and Certifying the RJ85 Next Generation Air Tanker by Rob Schulz
This book offers a behind-the-scenes account of the design, development, build, and certification of a next-generation airtanker (water bomber), an aircraft designed to assist wildfire-fighting efforts, particularly in Canada, the United States,...
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Go Fast Go Faster
An Advocate’s Journey by J F McDermott
Go Fast Go Faster is a tender, funny, and deeply moving story of a father’s love for his daughter, and how together, they continue to triumph over tragedy. In November of 1995, birth trauma left James McDermott’s daughter Mariel profoundly brain...
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Culture of Control
Farming With the Shackles of the Canadian Wheat Board by Ken Motiuk
In 1935 the Canadian Wheat Board was established to oversee the marketing, handling, and transportation of Western Canadian grain. Under the CWB’s increasingly rigid regulations, farmers in the West were prohibited from responding to free market...
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Introduction to Computer Aided Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
Using Mechanical Model by Prabhu Swaminathan
Introduction to Computer-Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing: Using Mechanical Model is an overview of the process leading up to a manufactured product. Based on core principles of mechanical engineering and applied computer science,...
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Save Our Troubled World
The Unprecedented Innovative Feasible World Salvation Project by James Chen
Today, when natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes seem to be regular occurrences, it can be hard to hold out hope for a better tomorrow. But in Save Our Troubled World, author James Chen dares to dream of a new era where the...
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Farm Stories
Coming of Age on a Mid-20th Century Alberta Mixed Farm by George Rock
George Rock grew up in the 1950’s on a central Alberta farm that was very typical in some ways, but unusual in others. Thanks to the Rock family’s inherited expertise, knack for innovation, and openness to ideas from colleagues and hired hands,...
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Cover Cropping in Western Canada
by Kevin R. Elmy
What is soil health and why is it so important? In short, healthy soil allows farmers to continue to produce our food safely and inexpensively, so it is vitally important to all of us and generations to come. Cover Cropping in Western Canada...
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Smart City Cyber Resilience
Your Perception Matters by Tam Thanh Doan
Smart technologies have quickly evolved to become integral parts of our homes and how we manage our lives, and they’re foreseen to be integral to (or already a part of) the next big steps in urban infrastructure. Along with the convenience and...
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A History of the Murray Canal
by Dan Buchanan
During the 1790s, Upper Canada’s first lieutenant governor, John Graves Simcoe, promoted the idea of a canal in the area between the Bay of Quinte and Presqu’ile Bay on Lake Ontario, but his idea did not come into fruition until decades later....
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The Nisselinka Claims
by Robert Longe
In the early years of the 20th century Edward Wickford, a settler in northern British Columbia, lays claim to a rich vein of copper and gold. But events outside his control wreak havoc with his plans and dreams of wealth. Two world wars and two...
