History

This indispensable new guide to Canadian history is comprehensive, authoritative, and--above all-- companionable. It the essential guide to the significant ...

We are all fascinated by lives led outside mainstream society. Photographer Carl Hiebert spent seven years documenting the Mennonite way of life for this ...

Will Millions of Christians suddenly vanish someday? A careful investigation of the rapture theory, which forms the basis for the Left Behind fantasy, revea...

Explores The 1915 Murder Of Charles Bert Massey, A Member Of One Of Canada's Wealthiest Families And The Trial Of Carrie Davies, An Eighteen-year-old Pennil...

Finalist for the National Business Book Award While much has been written about his father, Sam, a titan of industry, there is no public record of Charles ...

The most breathtaking work of history since Paris 1919.Europe, early in the 20th century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. ...

In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations ...

A family-focused guidebook to Washington, D.C., for traveling with children ages 4 to 12. DK Eyewitness Travel: Family Guide Washington, DC gives parents w...

A Call to Stand Apart is for the twenty-first century. It deals with issues faced by contemporary young adults, drawing together a variety of previously pub...

Contains Thirty-two Full-text Primary Source Documents That Helped To Shape American Society From 1763 To 1823 Including The Proclamation Of 1763, Treaty Of...

this Magisterial Survey Of The Historical Geography Of The West Indies Is At Bottom Concerned With The Causes And Consequences Of Three Complex And Inter-...

Details what ordinary life was like during the extraordinary years of the reign of Soviet Union. Thirty-six illustrations, thematic chapters, a glossary, ti...

A stunning year-by-year chronicle of world history from AD 1000 to the present day. From the great voyages undertaken by the Norse peoples at the dawn of t...

this Book Explores A Widely Lived Yet Little Remembered Facet Of America's Cultural And Political History: The Cold War As Experienced At The Grassroots L...

Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a di...

Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Weste...

International Bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explore...

The Twentieth Century Has Been Called 'the American Century', Given Its Economic And Military Rise To Superpower Status In World War Ii, As Well As Its Seem...

paradise Valley, Located Midway Between Gardiner And Livingston, Montana, Is Aptly Named. The Area Is Surrounded By Spectacular National Parks And Forests, ...

A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945 provides an analytical narrative of the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War. But the book i...

The perfect guide to the British Army during the Second World War · To encapsulate the British Army in one book is no easy task, but here, Geor...

Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost...

JAPANESE ACCENTS IN WESTERN INTERIORS by Peggy Landers Rao and Jean Mahoney, photographs by Toshiaki Sakuma 1988 Third printing hardcover 168 pages Shufunot...

The riveting story of a Canadian who serves as a senior officer in Israel's legendary Mossad. In 1982 a young Michael Ross joins the legion of Canadian twen...

Reenacts the events of the Bataan and Corregidor battles of World War II through the eyes of the doctors, nurses, and soldiers interviewed after the warCate...

Paperback McGraw-Hill CollegeCategories: HistoryHistorical Study & Educational Resources Reference Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophy Book d...

The ships of any age express the needs and ambitions of the people who build them. They also reflect the state of technology at the time. But the history of...

In His Controversial And Award-winning 2003 Book Fields Of Fire, Terry Copp Offered A Stunning Reversal Of Accepted Military History, Challenging The Conven...

Book by Greiss, Thomas E.Categories: History MilitaryGeneral

In This Extraordinarily Rich And Engaging Book, John Hale Has Painted, On A Grand Canvas, What He Calls An Investigative Impression Of One Of The Highest Po...

History with the nasty parts left in! The Rotten Romans follows life for folks in Roman Britain from Nasty Nero and other awful emperors, to Brave Boudicca ...

This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Ser...

An Instant Best-seller When First Published In 1841, Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan By John Lloyd Stephens, With Illustrations...

Now in paperback, Canada's leading public intellectual's powerful entry into the national discourse on Aboriginal rights and the renaissance of Canada     ...

Pastor Jim Lyon has a premise: whenever you have questions about life, the first places you should search for answers are the Bible and the church. So he po...

Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female ...

From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxi...

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...

Paul Axelrod. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Education & Teaching Schools & Teaching Education TheoryHistory

On May 16, 1853, the first passenger train steamed out of Toronto from a wooden depot that was located near the site of today's Union Station. Over the ne...

Peter Caddick-Adams, one of the world's authorities on battle field history, writes a compelling and authoritative account of the greatest battle of the Ita...

In this book the 2,000-year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way ...

Book by Cederberg, FredCategories: History MilitaryWorld War II

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would re...

The Great Biblical Flood Described In Genesis Has Long Been A Subject Of Fascination And Speculation. In The 19th Century The English Archbishop James Usshe...

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing framew...

Robert Service. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & SpiritualityOccult & Paranormal

Epoch-making political events are often remembered for their spatial markers: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the storming of the Bastille, the occupation of T...