In this two-book bundle, Alan Bowker sheds new light on two subjects with a surprising connection: the great Canadian writer Stephen Leacock and the rise of Canada on the world stage, which Leacock profiled with keen wit and...
History and geography
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Author:Bowker, AlanSummary: - Author:Ronaghan, Brian M, Beaudoin, Alwynne B., Blakey, Janet, Bouchet, Luc, Burns, James A., Clarke, Grant M., Fedirchuk, Gloria J., Fisher, Timothy G., Froese, Duane G., Gryba, Eugene M., Ives, John W., Le Blanc, Raymond J., Lobb, Murray, Lowell, Thomas V., Reeves, Brian O. K., Robertson, Elizabeth C., Roskowski, Laura, Saxberg, Nancy, Tischer, Jennifer C., Wolfe, Stephen A., Woywitka, Robin J., Young, Robert R., Younie, Angela M.Summary:
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind...
- Author:Kanefield, TeriSummary:
The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America...
- Author:Murray, Joseph A.Summary:
Alexander Hamilton: America's Forgotten Founder describes the character and achievements of a man who was instrumental in casting the form of our government and especially its strong financial structure. His financial innovations...
- Author:Abbott, JacobSummary:
Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ancient history because of his legendary conquests throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was born in 356 BC to the noble family of Macedon. As such, he was afforded with great luxuries...
- Author:Tootell, BettySummary:
In June 1982 British Airways Flight BA 009, an American-built Boeing 747 in the command of Captain Eric Moody, took off on the Kuala Lumpur-Perth sector of its London to Auckland flight. Over Java the night was suddenly illuminated by...
- Author:Rosengarten, TheodoreSummary:
Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white...
- Author:Henshaw, BlainSummary:
Chronicles the last voyage of the gypsum freighter SS Novadoc as she sailed from the Annapolis Basin into a raging nor'east storm in the Bay of Fundy in March 1947. Loaded with 4,000 tons of Nova Scotia gypsum, she foundered off...
- Author:Bärtås, Magnus, Ekman, Fredrik, Vogel, SaskiaSummary:
In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung. In 1978, North Korea celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, and Kim Jong-il, who at the time is the head of the Propaganda and...
- Author:LaDuke, WinonaSummary:
Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters...
- Author:Miles, TiyaSummary:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST -KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST -A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the...
- Author:Donner, RebeccaSummary:
Born in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began secret resistance meetings in her apartment, then became a spy. When the...
- Author:Hakim, JoySummary:
Covers the period of American history from 1945 to 1998, from the end of World War II to the Clinton administration.
- Author:Fryer, Mary BeacockSummary:
Born on the Isle of Mull to an impoverished lair of the clan Maclean, young Allan fought his first battle — for Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden — from a sense of deep conviction and family loyalty. He fled into exile when the Stuart...
- Author:Burch, Ernest S.Summary:
Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of inter-societal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient...
- Author:Barrett, Harry, Coons, Clarence F.Summary:
The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s. This warping tug was capable of towing a log boom across a lake and then portaging itself to the next body of water. Steam-powered and rugged, it...
- Author:Taim, AstridSummary:
The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 km corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers and a lively history. Once...
- Author:Taim, AstridSummary:
The Almaguin Highlands is a region that was once coveted for its game, silver birch and majestic white pine. For centuries this area stretched up to the shores of Lake Nipissing and embraced an unbroken forest that remained largely...
- Author:Wolman, DavidSummary:
In August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world's greatest rodeo. Steer-roping virtuoso Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka'au'...
- Author:Tom, PaulSummary:
Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story...
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