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For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that ...

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in co...

the Starseed Dialogues is A Clear And Concise Compilation Of Questions Patricia Cori Has Received From Readers, Which She Then Turned Over To The Speakers...

An exploration of Canadian roots and identity from bestselling author Ken McGoogan With Celtic Lightning, Ken McGoogan asks the question: Who do we think w...

A Narrative Account Of The Relationship Between The U.s. And China From The Revolutionary War To The Present Day. Our Relationship With China Remains One Of...

With pages and pages of horrible facts about the Ancient Egyptions, youngnon-fiction lovers will learn all about the dire details of mummy-making, thetruth ...

In This Definitive And Meticulously Researched Account Of The Jewish Experience In Canada, Award-winning And Critically Acclaimed Author Allan Levine Docume...

For How Much Longer Can Canada Expect To Get A Free Ride? With 9/11 And The International “war On Terrorism,” The Time Has Come To Ask Some Hard Questio...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was repr...

Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen by Americansdiplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athleteswho watched hor...

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for gi...

The Most Profound Characteristic Of Western Europe In The Middle Ages Was Its Cultural And Religious Unity, A Unity Secured By A Common Alignment With The P...

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

worshipped By Her Fans, Denounced By Her Enemies, And Forever Shadowed By Controversy And Scandal, The Novelist And Philosopher Ayn Rand Was A Powerful Thi...

A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret...

A Lively, Inviting Account Of The History Of Economics, Told Through Events From Ancient To Modern Times And Through The Ideas Of Great Thinkers In The Fiel...

A Stirringly Evocative, Thought-provoking, And Often Jaw-dropping Account, The Operator Ranges Across Seal Team Operator Robert O'neill's Awe-inspiring Four...

Acclaimed Historian John Boyko Shines New Light On The Kennedy Presidency And Jfk's Critical Battles With America's Trucelent Northern Neighbour.--dust Jack...

A Fascinating Account Of The Music And Epic Social Change Of 1973, A Defining Year For David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, The Rolling S...

For Readers Of The Book Of Negroes, Bound For Canaan, House Girl And The Illegal Comes The Story Of A Fifteen-year-old Escaped Slave Named Cecelia Reynolds,...

Clive Ponting. Previous Ed.: New York: Penguin, 1993. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyEnvir...

Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion, Caroline Walker Bynum here examines diverse mediev...

“Gareth Russell has chosen a handful of passengers on the doomed liner and by training a spotlight on every detail of their lives, he has given us a meti...

This Book Recounts The Story Of Three Cambridge-educated Englishmen And The Women With Whom They Chose To Share Their Commitment To Reason In All Parts Of T...

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the...

In This Brilliant Work Of Historical Reconstruction Neil Macgregor And His Team At The British Museum, Working Together In A Landmark Collaboration With The...

The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s Americ...

This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared r...

Asia's History Has Been Shaped By Her Waters. In Unruly Waters, Historian Sunil Amrith Reimagines Asia's History Through The Stories Of Its Rains, Rivers, C...

The Torture Papers document the so-called 'torture memos' and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive ...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

The Islamic State Has Stunned The World With Its Savagery, Destructiveness, And Military And Recruiting Successes. What Explains The Rise Of Isis And What D...

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the sin...

Love, fame, war, and espionageCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureAsian & Asian American

Our Baffling New Multipolar World Grows Ever More Complex, Desperately Calling For New Ways Of Thinking, Particularly When It Comes To Political Risk. To Da...

Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor? General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray t...

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Midd...

Monica Black's A Demon-haunted Land Is A Revelatory Counterhistory Of Postwar Germany, Not As A Reborn Democracy But As A Nation Convulsed By Apocalyptic Vi...

A Landmark Biography Of The Great American Writer Stephen Crane--Categories: HistoryUnited States

The Hero Of Hammondsport -- The Americas -- The Nancy Boats -- The Roaring Twenties -- Lean Years -- Good Years -- Coming Of Age -- The Great Clippers -- Th...

What Was It Like To Work In A Canadian Second World War Munitions Factory? What Were Working Conditions Like? Did Anyone Die? Just How Closely Did Female Em...

From Religion, To Language, To The Stories Rooted In Our Faith And History Books, The Nile River Has Proven To Be A Constant Fixture In Mankind's Tales. In ...

This Book Is As It Says A Salute To Canada And Canadian Achievement. It Includes Some Well Known, Several Lesser Known And Some Unexpected Canadian Firsts. ...

If you thought you knew Chris Hedges--be surprised. The globally renowned Pulitzer Prize-winner gives us an entirely new view of a nation in crisis in a st...

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events...

Rosemary Neering. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 139) And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: HistoryUnited States

A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal "Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge's pithy A...

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing t...