Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops and kids. Gone was the beat officer...
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Auteur:Myers, Tamara GeneSommaire: - Auteur:Gossard, Julia M.Sommaire:
Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young...
- Auteur:Frankl, Viktor E.Sommaire:
Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international best seller Man's Search for Meaning.
Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E.... - Auteur:KRAKOUER, RaySommaire:
Author has a personal connection to the WA wreck of the Alkimos, as the stories he recounts make clear.
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From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King...
- Auteur:Bausum, Ann.Sommaire:
Chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, and includes profiles of notable women in the struggle.
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Auteur:Schanzer, RosalynSommaire:Recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. After two girls exhibit strange behavior, the colonial town's doctor concludes their symptoms are the result of witchcraft...
- Auteur:Farrall, PamelaSommaire:
Set entirely in Western Australia it traces the seven generations of this one man Anthony Barnabas Curtis who had humble beginnings at the Swan River Colony (now known as Fremantle) in 1830, just 14 months after it was founded.
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Holden's portrayal is a racy, incident-packed account of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, poet and Stratford lad who found subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London.
- Auteur:Skrabec, Quentin R.Sommaire:
William McKinley was the first U.S. president to address globalization; his legacy in protectionism and immigrant labor offer lessons for the current era. He orchestrated an alliance between big business and the American worker that...
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Long before it was dredged into a shipping channel or romanticized into myth, the untamed Mississippi--the lifeblood of communities that rose and fell along its banks--spawned a motley array of pirates and dignitaries, visionaries and...
- Auteur:Cassidy, CodySommaire:
Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire - and most critically, who was the first to brave the...
- Which Chosen People? Manifest Destiny Meets the Sioux, As Seen by Frank Fiske, Frontier PhotographerAuteur:Dodge, Robert V.Sommaire:
Frank Fiske was a young boy in 1890 when he moved to Fort Yates on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where Sitting Bull was being held in a form of house arrest. He observed the confrontation of two chosen people. The whites believed...
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Auteur:Van Buren, Abigail, Salinger, PierreSommaire:In October 1992, Dear Abby asked her readers, "Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?" More than 300,000 people took the trouble to respond. While several responses were published in December 1992, it became obvious...
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Auteur:Robinson, RogerSommaire:Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian's insight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 "Austerity Olympics" in London as a young spectator to...
- Auteur:Kerr, JudithSommaire:
In 1933, nine-year-old Anna is too young to worry about Adolf Hitler and about being Jewish in pre-war Berlin. Suddenly, however, everything changes..
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Auteur:Macy, Sue.Sommaire:Discusses how the invention of the bicycle allowed women to take charge of personal transportation and set the stage for women's future battles for rights equal to men. Discusses how the bicycle has evolved throughout the ages and...
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Auteur:Greenwood, ThereseSommaire:Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly...
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Auteur:Rather, Dan.Sommaire:"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." -Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity...
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Auteur:Lowinger, Kathy, Yellowhorn, EldonSommaire:What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the...
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