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A Uniquely Personal Yet Deeply Informed Exploration Of The Hidden History Of Class In American Life From The Decks Of The Mayflower Straight Through To Dona...

Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden — just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat — Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childh...

Perfect for Canadiens fans who think they already know everythingWhether you're a lifetime fan from the days of Scotty Bowman or a new supporter of Michel ...

An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous mi...

On Its Release, The Seven Volume A People's History Of Christianity Was Lauded For Its Commitment To Raising Awareness Of The Ways In Which Ordinary Christi...

Established In 1898 In The Heart Of Paris On The Place Vendôme, The Hôtel Ritz Instantly Became An Icon Of The City Frequented By Film Stars And Celebrity...

A fascinating profile of two generals who shaped history. In 1759, after the battle on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City, the English general Jame...

Now Available In Paperback And Written By The Author Of The Official British Military Analysis Of The Iraq Campaigns, Blood, Metal And Dust Is The First Aut...

Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book...

Donald Smith, known to most Canadians as Lord Strathcona, was an adventurer who made his fortune building railroads. He joined the Hudson’s Bay Company a...

Paul Adelman seeks to explain the Liberal Party's dramatic transformation in political fortune. This clear, objective up-to-date account of the history of t...

Civilization, events, and major figures of the Middle Ages come alive as students write using IEW's stylistic techniques and the nine structural units. Thes...

The first-person story of Robert J. Middleton, an RCAF WWII No. 6 Group Bomber Command Navigator. It takes us from his childhood days in Toronto, through hi...

In 1604, A Small Group Of Migrants Fled Political Turmoil And Famine In France To Start A New Colony On Canada's East Coast. Their Roughly Demarcated Territ...

There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university stud...

Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel. In many ways, his rise, fall, and rise again is an iconic story: a you...

Huston Smith, The Author Of The Classic Bestseller The World's Religions, Delivers A Passionate, Timely Message: The Human Spirit Is Being Suffocated By The...

With This Spectacularly Illustrated Gift Edition, A New Generation Of Readers Can Walk Beside One Of America's Most Respected Naturalists As He Conveys The ...

With the coming of railroads, upstart Chicago quickly became the Midwest's center for commerce and trade, overtaking its older rival, St. Louis. The first t...

Want To Be The Big Cheese In The Big Apple Where New York Rangers Trivia Is Concerned?never Lose Another Trivia Game Again With This Fact-filled, Fun Ranger...

With sensitivity to the Christian tradition and a rich understanding of postmodern thought, Peter Rollins argues that the movement known as the “emerging ...

This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular court ever seen in...

The murder of a prostitute in 19th-century New York may seem an unremarkable event in 20th-century America, but The Murder of Helen Jewett reveals parallel...

accounts Of Thoreau's Daily Life On The Shores Of Walden Pond Outside Concord, Massachusetts, Are Interwoven With Musings On The Virtues Of Self-reliance ...

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than a...

In A Dual Narrative, Elaine Struggles To Protect Herself And Brother Stephen In 1918 New York City, And Molly, Her Daughter, Does The Same For Her Brother, ...

One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of t...

Containment -- A Bad Ending -- Containment And Its Discontents -- This Changes Everything: The Aftermath Of 9/11 -- The War Of Words -- The Run-up -- The Si...

The Book Pieces Together How Coco Chanel Became A German Intelligence Operative; How And Why She Was Enlisted In A Number Of Spy Missions; How She Escaped A...

in America, In Contrast To Almost Anywhere Else In The World, The Good Life Means Traveling A Long Distance To Get To Work. How And Why This Came To Be Ou...

Leonard W. Levy. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 520-544.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Science

Pt. 1. Ideologies: The American Constitution: A Revolutionary Interpretation / Stanley N. Katz -- The Constitution Of The Thinking Revolutionary / Ralph Ler...

Published Simultaneously In New York By Alfred A. Knopf Under Title: Irresistible North : From Venice To Greenland On The Trail Of The Zen Brothers. Include...

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whippi...

The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent uni...

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-incl...

Sticky Fingers: The Life And Times Of Jann Wenner And Rolling Stone Magazine Is The Story Of How One Man's Ego And Ambition Captured The 1960s Youth Culture...

From 1884 to 1911, over 1.5 million working-class Canadians attended approximately 800 revival meetings held by celebrity American evangelists. Revival in t...

The public called him Scarface; the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One; his associates called him Snorky. But Capone is the name most remember. And John...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (Th...

You might think that an autobiography by the senior chairman of McDonald’s in Canada and Russia would be a modestly boastful, ho-hum business story of exp...

written By An Anonymous English Monk During The Late Fourteenth Century, the Cloud Of Unknowing Is A Sublime Expression Of What Separates God From Humanit...

Dust jacket notes: "Those of us who live beside the great lakes accept their magnitude with scarcely a passing thought," Pierre Berton writes. "We have long...

America's Preeminent Columnist Presents His Penetrating And Surprising Reflections On Everything From Embryo Research To Entitlement Reform, From Halley's C...

Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as the...

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 ...

Oh, Florida! That Name. That Combination Of Sounds. Three Simple Syllables, And Yet Packing So Many Mixed Messages. To Some People, It's A Paradise. To Othe...

Investigating Babyn Yar Tells The Story Of The Murder Of Kyiv's Jews Using Available Fragmentary Evidence. The Book Follows The Trail Of Discarded Property ...