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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Auteur:Sommaire: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...
- Auteur:Merrett, Robert JamesSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Grassie, SeanSommaire:
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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This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work and is regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic". I Am That...
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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...
- Auteur:Phillips, TomSommaire:
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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Poet and educator Clint Smith explores the places where the history of slavery has been preserved, if not fully reckoned with. Included are New Orleans, Monticello Plantation, Angola Prison, Blandford Cemetery, and others hidden in...
- Auteur:Byrne, DavidSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Bond, MartynSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Marsan, Jean-SébastienSommaire:
Après le tome I de l'Histoire populaire de l'amour au Québec, portrait des mœurs des Premières Nations et de la Nouvelle-France, ce second tome couvre un siècle, de la Conquête en 1760 à l'orée de la décennie 1860. Aux...
- Auteur:Moal, Frédéric LeSommaire:
Qu'est-ce que le fascisme ? Cette question ne cesse de se poser aux historiens avec la même force qu'elle le faisait aux contemporains de Mussolini. Fut-il un mouvement réactionnaire, conservateur ou révolutionnaire ? Se situait-il...
- Auteur:Düppe, TillSommaire:
Notre héritage culturel regorge d'idées à propos de l'économie et, aujourd'hui encore, les débats font rage sur le rôle et les mérites respectifs de l'argent et de la richesse, sur la justice et l'égalité des...
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