May 1940. Britain is losing the war. Churchill is desperate for bombers. Aircraft deliveries from U.S. factories are being ravaged by German U-Boats at sea. Can the planes be flown across the storm-swept North Atlantic to Britain? A...
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Auteur:Cuthand, DougSommaire:Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past, present, and future of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal people.
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The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community's rich history of activismThrough the unique lens of "...
- Auteur:De Ruyter, KittySommaire:
Like Anne Frank, Corrie ten Boom, and Viktor Frankl, Kitty de Ruyter-Bons endured the terror of man's inhumanity to man during World War II. In this inspiring and powerful true story, Kitty testifies of the triumph of the human spirit...
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Auteur:Stokstad, MarilynSommaire:Based upon the widely acclaimed Art History by renowned author Marilyn Stokstad, Art: A Brief History combines a richly illustrated survey of Western art with extensive coverage of other continents including Asia, Africa, and the...
- Auteur:Lawson, GuySommaire:
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a...
- Auteur:Cruickshank, DanSommaire:
Cruickshank's selection represents key moments in architectural history and it is truly global in scope. It includes many of the world's best-known structures, and many less obvious ones, the unsung heroes of this great and...
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Auteur:Struthers, Joel AdamSommaire:Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author's six years as a professional soldier during the 1990s, and his experience in the Legion's elite Group Commando Parachutistes (GCP). Joel Struthers...
- Auteur:Turcotte, RoxanneSommaire:
Antoine Labelle naît au Québec en 1833. Contemporain de la rébellion des Patriotes en 1837-1838 et de l'union du Bas-Canada au Haut-Canada, il vit son adolescence au sein de conflits incessants. Ordonné prêtre en 1856, il devient...
- Auteur:Cooper, JillySommaire:
Cooper pays tribute to the role of animals in wartime with a collection of stories from the tragic to the hilarious, which illustrate how important "non-human combatants" have been throughout the history of warfare.
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In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the...
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Auteur:Raab, Elisabeth M.Sommaire:“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang...
- Auteur:Barnhart, EdwinSommaire:
For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North America came from reports authored by the conquerors and colonizers who destroyed them. Now-with the technological advances of modern...
- Auteur:SCHUBERT, L. ASommaire:
A family escaping from religious persecution in Prussia to settle in South Australia in 1838 migrate to Western Australia in 1929. The Odyssey moves away from the family home to the Pilbara and the Kimberleys.
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Auteur:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSommaire:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes listeners on a tour through the segregated days of early basketball, including the remarkable story of the Harlem Rens--the first professional champions of basketball. Along the way, hoops icons like Charles...
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Auteur:Harjo, JoySommaire:A collection of poems from the first Native American US Poet Laureate, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land, that opens a dialogue with history.
- Auteur:Viau, RolandSommaire:
De nos jours, on ne défend plus l’idée que les peuples autochtones conquis et colonisés étaient sans culture ou sans histoire, tout en reconnaissant néanmoins que leur histoire était obscure et leur univers culturel opaque pour les...
- Auteur:Cannato, Vincent J.Sommaire:
Cannato delivers a definitive history of America's landmark port of entry. From eyewitness accounts, Cannato weaves together a poignant testament to the hopes and fears of "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
- Auteur:Schrecker, EllenSommaire:
In this course, Yeshiva University history professor Ellen Schrecker investigates the early years of the Cold War and the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism as it swept through Americna society.
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