When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was just a robot. The much-anticipated crewed mission failed to materialise, defeated by...
History and geography
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Author:May, AndrewSummary: - Author:Allison, GrahamSummary:
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as...
- Author:Poolton, Jack A., Poolton, Jayne TurveySummary:
Private Jack Poolton was among the Canadians landing at the disastrous raid on Dieppe. Fortunate to have survived, Jack was taken to a prisoner of war camp in Germany. In Destined to Survive: A Dieppe Veteran’s Story, Jack Poolton...
- Author:www.accessible-devices.comSummary:
A short history of the National Library Service of the Library of Congress of the United States.
- Author:Prioleau, BetsySummary:
The first major biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie, titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women's suffrage Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt—is a forgotten figure...
- Author:Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
Manitoba has been at the crossroads of many of the important debates and events in Canadian history. From the early fur trade to the Riel Rebellion to the Winnipeg General Strike, Manitobans have frequently played crucial roles in...
- Author:Mellor, JohnSummary:
Gripping in its intensity, excruciating in its detail, John Mellor's account of the 1942 Canadian raid on the well-fortified beach town of Dieppe, France, is written with the fairness of a good historian, the eloquence of a well-...
- Author:Inskeep, SteveSummary:
An instant New York Times bestseller. A compelling and nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln's political acumen, illuminating a great politician's strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present. In...
- Author:Graphic History CollectiveSummary:
Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poems, pamphlets, and comics, have inspired workers to take action against greedy bosses and helped shape ideas of a more equal world. They...
- Author:Mole, RichSummary:
In October 1935, three prairie farm boys embarked on a deadly trail of robbery and murder that stretched across three western Canadian provinces and made newspaper headlines from coast to coast and as far away as Los Angeles. By the end...
- Author:Scahill, JeremySummary:
Journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us into the heart of the War on Terror's most dangerous battlefields as he chases down the most important foreign policy story of our time.
- Author:Withers, A. J.Summary:
An accessible introduction to disability studies, Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from the late 19th century to the present....
- Author:Solomon, MatthewSummary:
Solomon revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. While others have called upon magic as merely an evocative metaphor for the wonders of cinema,...
- Author:Anaïs, SeantelSummary:
Non-lethal weapons take many forms – from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices – which their proponents argue are ethical, legal, and humane. Social scientists, historians, legal scholars, and activists have...
- Author:Looker, JanetSummary:
Explores the history of the country's most devastating catastrophes. Some are caused by powerful natural phenomena and erratic weather patterns, others can be put down to tragic human error. These stories expose the human core: our will...
- Author:Mileti, Dennis S.Summary:
Disasters by Design provides an alternative and sustainable way to view, study, and manage hazards in the United States that would result in disaster-resilient communities, higher environmental quality, inter- and intragenerational...
- Author:Biberstein, RenéSummary:
This book recounts many of Ontario's worst disasters, both natural and manmade. Among them are the American burning of Toronto in 1812, the Honeymoon Bridge disaster at Niagara Falls in 1938, the Mississauga train derailment of 1979 and...
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
The history of western Canada has its share of disasters, both natural and man-made. The devastation, the loss of life and the courage in the face of adversity make for powerful and poignant stories that are well told in this collection...
- Author:Foucault, MichelSummary:
Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence...
- Author:Sanders, Joe SutliffSummary:
At the heart of some of the most beloved childrens novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental...
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