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This special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.

In this engaging and award-winning account, historian Michael Bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin – a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and scientific genius.

The transcript of Louis Riel’s trial has never been readily accessible to the general reader interested in the 1885 Rebellion and related events. This work will promote knowledge of the facts, and illustrate a social phenomenon of nineteenth-century Canada.

There is a richness and distinctiveness to the vast range of topics, events, issues, and ideas that comprise a nation's social history. The demands for material relevant to Canadian social history have been matched only by the frustrations raised by the inaccessibility. It is the purpose of this new series to help meet these demands.

There is a richness and distinctiveness to the vast range of topics, events, issues, and ideas that comprise a nation's social history. The demands for material relevant to Canadian social history have been matched only by the frustrations raised by the inaccessibility. It is the purpose of this new series to help meet these demands.

Osler rose from obscurity to become the greatest medical teacher and writer in three countries, revered as a major figure in the advent of 20th-century medicine. The first full-scale biography of Osler since 1925.

Bliss's Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery breaks new ground in medical biography. It will have a profound and lasting impact of the view of early-twentieth-century medicine and the lives of those who shaped it.

Conscience and History is a thought-provoking personal look at the ethical questions Canadians have faced in the past fifty years written by one of our leading historians.

Social Planning for Canada was published in 1935 and marked a turning point in Canadian political history. It was the first comprehensive democratic socialist book about Canada. It is the most comprehensive study by the Canadian left of an economic and social alternative to Canadian capitalism.

A tour de force, The Making of Modern Medicine is an essential summation of the work of Canada's leading historian of medicine.

Michaeal Bliss's highly acclaimed biography explores the life of a scientist who during his lifetime was the most famous of all Canadians, but who in his private life stands revealed as a passionate, troubled man, in many ways the victim of his own fame.

This intimate biography of the man is also a history of the origins and development of big business in Canada, of the corporations and institutions that became an integral part of Canadian life during Joseph Flavelle's lifetime.