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Discover how a boy became devoted to the people who enslaved him, returned to their shores, and changed Ireland forever... He was taken from his home in En...

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air...

Caracalla' Has One Of The Worst Reputations Of Any Roman Emperor. Many Ancient Historians Were Very Hostile And Edward Gibbon Later Dubbed Him The Common En...

A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great histori...

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the ep...

Maude Travers gulped for air. Why had this man struck her? Why was she on this kitchen floor in this ramshackle tenement? Blinking hard she was instantly si...

As Canadian As The Maple Leaf Is How One Observer Summed Up The United Church Of Canada After Its Founding In 1925. But Was This Canadian-made Church Flawed...

A penetrating narrative history of the Crusades that reveals the ominous links and parallels between those medieval clashes and the violent rivalries of the...

a Comprehensive Text That Not Only Introduces Students To The Important Topics In Historical Linguistics But Also Shows Them How To Apply The Methods Desc...

What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material—from government policy to popular me...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

How One Of Canada's Greatest Natural Disasters Has Been Remembered And Forgotten.Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

Here in this critical guide is all the important safety techniques that you’ll need to know in order to survive in just about any condition. From designin...

One of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture, The Book of Five Rings analyzes the process o...

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? Volume 2 is now out with 60 more stories, the same number of pages, but the stories are longer and more intense, ...

Provides An Account Of One Of The Greatest National Disasters The United States Has Ever Experienced And Its ConsequencesCategories: Science & Math Natu...

Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, AMERICA IN THE WORLD tells the...

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone again...

To Live is Christ: The Life and Ministry of Paul - Bible Study Book by Beth Moore provides a personal study experience five days a week plus viewer guides...

WHILE THE CITY SLEPT is a figment of the author's imagination concerning historical preservation and Urban Renewal in the city of Saint John, NB Canada. It ...

Susan Pryke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 95) And Index.Categories: Travel Canada ProvincesOntario

Amin MaaloufCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, Governor General David Johnston and Tom Jenkins have crafted a richly illustrated volume of brilliant Canadian innova...

Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying...

Tells The Story Of The Conservative Economists Espousing Free Market And Deregulatory Policies During The Four Decades Between 1969 And 2008. Leading Figure...

Fosco Maraini Visited Tibet In 1937 And Again In 1948. In 1951 He Published Secret Tibet, An Account That Was A Synthesis Of The Two Journeys. After An Inte...

Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lo...

April 24th, 1951,was a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a few hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their live...

***new York Times Bestseller*** ***best Books Of 2018 Selection By*** * Washington Post * People * Npr * Esquire * Elle * Wired * Refinery 29 * “in A Year...

Discusses The Conspiracy Of Religious Extremists In The Holy Land And Their Efforts To Bring About The End Of The World In Our Time. Taking The Temple -- Th...

Illustrated with more than 150 unique photographs, Abandoned World War II Weapons allows the history buff and general reader to explore the detritus of this...

His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp. On January 17, 1913, alone and nea...

Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role ...

Tom Standage. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [214]-217) And Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Engineering ReferenceHistory

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020\“[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Waveis an unprecedented and ambitio...

J. Timothy Hunt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & Worl...

From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries "We ar...

Beaumont Hamel was the Somme sector assigned as an objective to the independent-minded professional-class reservists of the London Division in 1916; they ac...

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick A Riveting And Illuminating (yuval Noah Harari) New Theory Of How And Why Some Nations Recover From Trauma And Others Don't...

Along the way, Kate Colquhoun asks and answers a fascinating range of questions from the weighty to the lighthearted. Did the Romans use pepper? How did the...

Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of t...

Derrick Jensen's most ambitious, important, and best book to date. Publishers Weekly The author, who in earlier books like The Culture of Make Believe dis...

This stimulating book offers an exciting new approach to the twin themes of the arts of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christian art. Beginning in the sec...

A Modern Mystic Speaks Christina Gallagher, a humble County Mayo housewife, is a prophetic figure for one times. She speaks about the warnings she has rec...

Themes in Roman Society and Culture is a core contributed volume that provides a thematic introduction to fundamental aspects of Roman society-its compositi...

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscoveri...

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both ...