This concise anthology of primary sources designed for use in an ancient philosophy survey ranges from the Presocratics to Plato, Aristotle, the Hellenistic philosophers, and the Neoplatonists." "The second edition features an amplified...
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Auteur:Reeves, RichardSommaire:Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army...
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A collection of perspectives by and about Indigenous Toronto, past, present, and future. Beneath every major city in North America lies a deep and rich Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and ignored. Few of its...
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Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or '...
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Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will...
- Auteur:Gifford, BlytheSommaire:
To live the life of independence she craves, Jane de Weston disguises herself as a young man. She doesn't foresee her attraction to Duncan, who stirs unknown but delightful sensations in her highly receptive, very feminine body. When...
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Auteur:Dafoe, ChristopherSommaire:This is the story of the formative years of Canada’s most famous newspaper editor, John Wesley Dafoe. Written by his grandson, it is an honest account of the man that his family and his friends knew, from his unpromising beginnings in...
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In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of...
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At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial...
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The book consists of 150 stories from 150 years of Manitoba sports history (1870-2019). There are stories on athletes, teams, events, and iconic sports moments. Cindy Klassen and Clara Hughes, who each won six Olympic medals, are among...
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Auteur:Gwynne, S. C.Sommaire:From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yellcomes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War. The fourth and final year of the...
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Auteur:Johnson, Michael LSommaire:"Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the...
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Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade--on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing, and...
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Auteur:Streeck, Wolfgang, Birch, AdelynSommaire:The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical...
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Auteur:Bragg, GeorgiaSommaire:A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.
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A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.
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Auteur:Gyasi, YaaSommaire:Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of...
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The hilarious and heartbreaking story of two William Pings in Newfoundland--the lost millennial and the grandfather he knows nothing about William Ping's millennial life revolves around eating at restaurants, posting online about eating...
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In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a...
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Auteur:Meltzer, BradSommaire:Everyone loves a good mystery. And the only thing people love more than a good mystery? A real mystery. This book, based on the popular History Channel show Decoded, explores history's ten greatest conspiracies. Each chapter explores a...
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