This playful report on the state of radio broadcasting in Canada travels from St. John's to Vancouver to the Canadian north, taking a critical look at how and why our radio sounds the way it does. It snoops into stations across the...
History
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Auteur:Brookes, ChrisSommaire: - Auteur:Sweeney, EmmetSommaire:
In The Pyramid Age, Northern Irish historian Emmet Sweeney provides evidence suggesting the pyramids were not built around 2350 BC, as is currently thought, but only around 800 BC. Sweeney's book argues that the dating of ancient...
- Auteur:Feinstein, JohnSommaire:
The master sportswriter uncovers the stunning truth behind one of the most violent acts in basketball history -- the moment when the Los Angeles Lakers' Kermit Washington punched and almost killed the Houston Rockets' All-Star team...
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This "radio archaeology project" excavates the chronicle of Saint Brendan in the 21st century with the help of Marcel Proust and modern sound recording equipment.
- Auteur:Mayor, AdrienneSommaire:
Mayor delivers an account of Mithradates, the ruthless visionary who began to challenge Rome's power in 120 B.C. Machiavelli praised his military genius. Kings coveted his secret elixir against poison. Poets celebrated his victories,...
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Auteur:Thompson, Edgar Tristram, Mintz, Sidney W., Baca, GeorgeSommaire:A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic...
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Auteur:Clements, GillianSommaire:History of the buildings that have shaped the world in which we live, ranging from Stonehenge and the Step Pyramid to the high-rises that dominate our city skylines today.
- Auteur:Price, MunroSommaire:
The history of France between 1789 and 1814 is well-known, but what happened in the years that followed? This volume looks at the period from the fall of Napoleon to the revolution of 1848, providing an account of the life of France...
- Auteur:Kaplan, JoshuaSommaire:
In this course, University of Notre Dame professor, Joshua Kaplan provides and understanding of how American politics works and can help make sense of election results and political trends.
- Auteur:Whigham, Thomas L.Sommaire:
Reissued with a new preface by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the deadliest and most extensive interstate war ever fought in Latin America. A 2003 CHOICE...
- Auteur:Peacock, MollySommaire:
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into...
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Auteur:Sommaire:The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievements over 4,500 years, from festival performances in ancient Egypt to international, multicultural...
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Auteur:Moore, WesSommaire:In this memoir, Moore tells the story of his life as a child of Baltimore and the Bronx, an army officer in Afghanistan, a Rhodes Scholar, and a former White House Fellow. In detailing his journey from troubled adolescence to successful...
- Auteur:Lomberg, MichelleSommaire:
Provides information on the Ojibwa Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
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Auteur:Wall, SharonSommaire:Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores the history of summer camps and sheds light on a wider...
- Auteur:Morelli, LauraSommaire:
Two women, separated by 500 years, are swept up in the tide of history as one painting stands at the center of their quests for their own destinies.
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Auteur:Roy, WendySommaire:What happens next? That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers and publishers in a state of...
- Auteur:BEER, Edith HahnSommaire:
Compelling and riveting story, of both disillusionment and faith that provides keen psychological insights into the Nazi propaganda machine.
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Auteur:Friend, DavidSommaire:David Friend examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the tabloidization of pop culture.
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Auteur:Eco, UmbertoSommaire:The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William...
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