Beggars cannot be choosers. We wanted just companies, we gave a damn who they were, we had no prejudice against them. We went to Germany because Europe was scared of Soviet Russia and saw a communist revolution coming. The German...
History and geography
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Author:Bassler, Gerhard P.Summary: - Author:Scandiffio, LauraSummary:
In 1979, the streets of Iran’s capital city, Tehran, turned ugly. Six Americans caught in the uprising found protection at the Canadian embassy. Through the feverish efforts of the embassy staff, the fugitives were disguised as...
- Author:Pierkarski, KonSummary:
Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald – where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value....
- Author:Horn, BerndSummary:
Regimental histories are a virtual window to a nation. They provide insight into a country’s culture, values, and martial spirit. But more specifically they tell the story of the men and women who fight their nation’s wars.Created as an...
- Author:Potkay, Monica BrzezinskiSummary:
In this course, College of William & Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay provides an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail.
- Author:Stouck, DavidSummary:
Although she fostered a reputation for being an unambitious latecomer, a happily married doctor's wife who wrote for her own pleasure, Wilson in fact took her writing very seriously, trying for several years to place her work with major...
- Author:Ellenberger, Henri F.Summary:
What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles...
- Author:de Rochmondet, G.M., Léger, BenoitSummary:
En 1830, Madame G.M. de Rochmondet publie à compte d'auteur les Études sur la traduction de l'anglais, un ouvrage qui se distingue des ouvrages antérieurs sur la question de la traduction de l'anglais vers le français....
- Author:Royce, MarionSummary:
From Pioneer Public Health Nurse to Advocate for the Aged: Eunice Henrietta Dyke. A dynamic personality whose determination improved public health care and nurses’ education, and began the recognition of senior citizens’ needs; yet she...
- Author:Henderson, Bob, Raffan, JamesSummary:
LIMITED TIME OFFER Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination. Scattered across the land are incredible tales of human life over the centuries....
- Author:Rozzo, MarkSummary:
The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak "Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life....
- Author:Treuer, AntonSummary:
Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives a frank, funny, and personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
- Author:Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, Schaffer, MarySummary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to...
- Author:Hartson, TamaraSummary:
For this edition of Super Explorers, you better bundle up! Come explore the Arctic and Antarctic and all the creatures that make these icy places their homes. To survive in such places, these plants and animals have to be tough. -...
- Author:Soucoup, DanSummary:
In December 1917, one of the greatest natural harbours in the world was humming with excitement. Halifax Harbour was filled with naval convoys and merchant vessels while factories worked overtime in support of the Allied war effort in...
- Author:Klassen, Henry C.Summary:
Calgary and the Bow Valley's business climates were lively, competitive, and capitalistic in the late 1800s. Eye on the Future sheds light on the challenges of building and maintaining business in this area during this time of vast...
- Author:Fried, Lisabeth S.Summary:
The historical Ezra was sent to Jerusalem as an emissary of the Persian monarch. What was his task? According to the Bible, the Persian king sent Ezra to bring the Torah, the five books of the Laws of Moses, to the Jews. Modern scholars...
- Author:WISEMAN, Nicholas PatrickSummary:
This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from a noble Roman family....
- Author:Cummins, BryanSummary:
John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture...
- Author:Ribeiro, AileenSummary:
Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have been made to define beauty in art and life, especially with regard to women's bodies and faces. Facing Beauty examines concepts of female beauty in terms of the...
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