When A Beauty that Hurts was first published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world's most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of "peace" has come to the country, George Lovell revisits the land...
History and geography
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Author:Lovell, W. GeorgeSummary: - Author:Smart, SusanSummary:
A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of...
- Author:Enns, Richard A.Summary:
Much has been written about the history and the people of northern Manitoba, but until now this body of work has not been readily accessible to the researcher or teacher. This bibliography identifies published sources, such as books and...
- Author:Gross, Kali N., Berry, Daina RameySummary:
A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial...
- Author:Modiano, Patrick, Frenkel, FrancoiseSummary:
"A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer's Wife, this is the remarkable and prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish woman whose beloved...
- Author:Davies, Bryan, Traficante, AndrewSummary:
A proud Newfoundland soldier’s memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War. I’m going to tell my story. With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War...
- Author:Knoll, Andrew H.Summary:
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard's acclaimed geologist."A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you're standing was...
- Author:Rutherford, AdamSummary:
"An effervescent work, brimming with tales and confounding ideas carried in the 'epic poem in our cells.'"-Guardian In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species-births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration...
- Author:Warshaw, MattSummary:
Matt Warshaw knows more about surfing than any other person on the planet, as evidenced by The History of Surfing, Warshaw's definitive take on the sport. Now, he has honed that book into an abridged and excerpted edition for...
- Author:Evans, MikeSummary:
The confluence of the Fraser and Nechako Rivers is a complicated place. Located just before the rivers meet is a place called the Island Cache, where a community of settlers took up residence in the 1920s. The area was initially an...
- Author:Battery RadioSummary:
For more than 40 years, a retired British Army major-general made his home in St. John's, Newfoundland. For all that time, Major General Hugh Tudor shunned photographs and interviews, scrupulously avoided publicity and lived a...
- Author:Kozub, Mark, Kozub, JaniceSummary:
Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta. The roots of great prosperity were growing, despite the fact that politicians and the general public believed the West was...
- Author:Goutor, DavidSummary:
In late 1936, as Franco's armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain "the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind." As a German emigrant to Winnipeg, Hans Ibing recognized the...
- Author:Asim, JabariSummary:
Jabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom and tells a fact-filled history of African Americans through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more.
- Author:Armstrong, Frederick H.Summary:
A City in the Making examines certain of the events that took place in the nineteenth century Toronto, paying particular attention to those who carved a thriving metropolis out of the frontier post that was the town of York.
- Author:Lamp, Kathleen S.Summary:
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to...
- Author:Conrad, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many...
- Author:Goldschmidt, Arthur, Davidson, LawrenceSummary:
The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. The book is distinguished by its clear style, broad scope, and balanced treatment.
- Author:Livi Bacci, MassimoSummary:
An account of the history of the human population of the world including the history of migrations, the effects of plagues, wars, fertility transitions, mortality, fecundity, marriage and family patterns. The author also examines...
- Author:Conant, JennetSummary:
Conant delivers a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an Office of Special Services agent in the Far East. Who would ever suspect that Julia Child--TV's popular cooking show host and master of French cuisine--was once a...
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