En estasmemorias sobre una nina, dos culturas y la lucha por la libertad, la periodistaMirtaOjito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambiO su vida para siempre: el Exodo en el 1980 demAs de 125.000...
History and geography
-
Author:Ojito, MirtaSummary: - Author:Croke, VickiSummary:
J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to a job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though they were worried. He had already come back...
- Author:Blakeley, Phyllis R., Grant, JohnSummary:
Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British...
- Author:Morton, AndrewSummary:
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth II and Margaret was dramatically altered.
- Author:Weir, AlisonSummary:
A biography of the first Tudor queen, who was the only living descendant of Yorkist King Edward IV and the mother of the infamous Henry VIII.
- Author:Fryer, Mary BeacockSummary:
The diaries, letters, and sketches of Elizabeth Simcoe are drawn upon as sources in this portrayal of the energetic and remarkable woman who came to Upper Canada with her husband when he was appointed lieutenant governor.
- Author:Close, FrankSummary:
The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the...
- Author:Henry, Natasha L.Summary:
When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now African-American fugitive...
- Author:Dutil, Patrice, MacKenzie, DavidSummary:
Embattled Nation explores Canada’s tense wartime election of 1917. Amidst the drama of the First World War, Canada’s most divisive election ever raised pivotal questions about Canada’s place in the war and the world. This book examines...
- Author:Dixon, Joan, Howard, BarbSummary:
Home front. It’s hard to separate that word from war. In the First and Second World Wars, the home front was a clear entity and location: if you weren’t on the frontlines, you were on the home front. But during current times of...
- Author:Smith, Lisa AnneSummary:
When Emily Patterson arrives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children in 1862, she finds herself worlds away from Bath, Maine, the staunchly pious township of her birth. Up the remote reaches of Vancouver Island’s Alberni...
- Author:Innis, Harold A., Watson, Alexander JohnSummary:
It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and...
- Author:Smith, NormanSummary:
For centuries, some of the world’s largest empires fought for sovereignty over the resources of Northeast Asia. This compelling analysis of the region’s environmental history examines the interplay of climate and competing imperial...
- Author:Hillsbery, KiefSummary:
Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India-a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as...
- Author:Beckert, SvenSummary:
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
- Author:Madden, Thomas F.Summary:
In this course, Thomas F. Madden offers a fascinating series of lectures on the history of the remarkable culture and state that developed out of the ancient Roman Empire, particularly its eastern portion, throughout the Middle Ages....
- Author:Levy, BuddySummary:
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was...
- Author:Gwynne, S. C.Summary:
S.C. Gwynne's New York Times bestselling historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West is now available from Encore for the first time and at a great low price....
- Author:Trentmann, FrankSummary:
The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers...
- Author:Madden, Thomas F.Summary:
Madden explores surprising parallels between the Roman and American republics. By making friends of enemies and demonstrating a commitment to fairness, the two republics--both "reluctant" yet unquestioned super-powers--built empires...
Pages
