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On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That acc...

Tobin Met Ozella Williams In The Old Market Building In Charleston, South Carolina, And Learned Of The Oral Tradition And Coded Quilts Used To Navigate Esca...

A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective. In March of 1943, Scott Chantle...

K.n. Chaudhuri. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 252-262.Categories: HistoryMiddle East

A visual and informative guide to one of the longest and most controversial wars in American history, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitne...

Congolese fiction and memoir writers, and everyday voices revisit the photographic archives of the colonial Congo With contributions from celebrated authors...

A journey through a colorful period in history presents life in the latter part of the nineteenth century, from the small innovations that began to transfor...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geog...

In Thomas Dixon's Novel That Became The Film The Birth Of A Nation, The Scalawag - A White Southerner Who Supported Congressional Reconstruction And The Rep...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

Amin MaaloufCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

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...

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...

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...

A Critique Of The White American Class Structure Argues That The Paths Of Social Mobility That Once Advanced The Nation Are Now Serving To Further Isolate A...

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...

the Daughter Of A Algonquin Mother And An Iroquois Father, Catherine/kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) Has Become Known Over The Centuries As A Catholic Conve...

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

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. ...

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end ...

*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK ...

The Diviners Are Back In This Thrilling And Eerie Third Installment By #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Libba Bray. New York City.1927.lights Are Bright...

Memoir About Vladek Spiegelman, A Jewish Survivor Of Hitler's Europe, And About His Son, A Cartoonist Who Tries To Come To Terms With His Father, His Story,...

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has been a part of the arts scene in Toronto for eighty years. Richard Warren, the orchestra's archivist since 1976, uncover...

This book combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure. In this way, the book he...

Want To Impress Your Buddies At The Bar? Need To Think Of Something Interesting To Do At The Next Family Gathering? Want To Learn A Bunch Of Random Facts Ab...

Words are the strongest thing in the World The words that you use can put you at the top of the world or keep you down. Many people have been slave of their...

What do we really mean by phrases such as western Canadian political culture, the centrist political culture of Ontario, Red Toryism in the Maritimes, or P...

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill ...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE. Celebrate thirty years of...

No matter where you enter the history of Canada – through exploration, politics, business, education or literature -- you find that the Scots and their d...