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Auteur:Fernández-Armesto, FelipeSommaire: - Auteur:Smithyman, KathrynSommaire:
Explores how the waters, mountains, and forests of the Pacific Northwest have provided food and shelter for groups such as the Tlingit, the Haida, and the Kwakiutl for thousands of years.
- Auteur:Sellers, BakariSommaire:
Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, Bakari Sellers presents an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future. In his personal history, we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other "...
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Auteur:Taussig, Michael T.Sommaire:In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast....
- Auteur:Douglass, FrederickSommaire:
The second in the series of three autobiographies penned by Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom picks up where Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass left off. This volume recounts more gripping details of Douglass'...
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Auteur:Stevenson, RobinSommaire:Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences. Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn't make it any less...
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Auteur:Neville, PeterSommaire: - Auteur:Bowen, LynneSommaire:
When two thousand British bank clerks, butchers, housewives, saleswomen, remittance men and ex-Boer War soldiers followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister, Isaac Barr, to the Canadian prairies in 1903 their rallying cry was "...
- Auteur:Loo, TinaSommaire:
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people living in rural and urban communities, often against their will, in order to alleviate the all-too-common lack of social services and economic opportunities. Moved by...
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Auteur:Abulhawa, SusanSommaire:Palestine, 1941. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor; the ancient cycle of the...
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Auteur:Gilles LaporteSommaire:A l'été 2009, l'acquisition du club de hockey Canadien par les frères Molson était accueillie par un concert d'éloges. On assiste ainsi au retour d'une grande tradition, et on ramène à la mémoire des gens le...
- Auteur:Horlick, LeahSommaire:
Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she...
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Auteur:Radcliff, Pamela BethSommaire:Modern Spain: 1808 to the Presentis a comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day. -Places a large emphasis on Spain's place within broader European and global history -The chronological...
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Auteur:Weight, RichardSommaire:Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.
Mod began life as the quintessential...
- Auteur:Harper, KarenSommaire:
A young widow and candlemaker, Varina Westcott, agrees to travel to Wales to investigate the suspicious death of the newly married Prince Arthur as a secret request of Queen Elizabeth of York, the wife of Henry VII. But with each clue,...
- Auteur:Brookes, ChrisSommaire:
How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon, a famous satirical magazine, and a four-century-old folkplay cherished by small children for enacting horrendous acts of violence.
- Auteur:Johnson, CharlesSommaire:
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave from an Illinois farm, travels to New Orleans only to discover that nothing but misery awaits him in the big city. Sitting on a pier as he contemplates his life, he decides the sea holds his...
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Auteur:Hogue, MichelSommaire:Metis and the Medicine Line tells the remarkable story of the Plains Metis and the violent birth of the Canada/U.S. border.
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