A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But...
History and geography
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Author:Ogas, Ogi.Summary: - Author:Kalbfleisch, JohnSummary:
A Mohawk who thought he was the rightful king of France, an Anglican priest who could barely speak English and just maybe the assassin of Abraham Lincoln: what do these three men have in common? Not much, perhaps, except the Montreal...
- Author:Fehrenbach, T. R.Summary:
The authoritative, highly acclaimed classic history of the Korean War, This Kind of War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it.
- This place is who we are : stories of Indigenous leadership, resilience, and connection to homelandsAuthor:Gordon, Katherine PalmerSummary:
This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters-and growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are...
- Author:Levy, Debbie, Boyce, Jo Ann AllenSummary:
In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, 14-year-old Jo Ann Allen was one of 12 African American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee....
- Author:Quiney, Linda J.Summary:
With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War. This book tells the story of the nearly 2,000 women from Canada and...
- Author:Pollon, Earl K., Matheson, Shirlee SmithSummary:
This Was Our Valley was a phenomenal success when first released in 1989, winning the Alberta Culture Nonfiction prize as well as the Silver medal for the Roderick-Haig Brown BC Books award. Construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam...
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Philosopher, diplomat, politician, inventor, writer, architect, even gardener, from a historical perspective Thomas Jefferson emerges as an extraordinary individual one who was clearly many things to many people. But, too, precisely...
- Author:Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted’s new look at some of the most fascinating events and...
- Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:
For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the...
- Author:BRUNE, PeterSummary:
The Kokoda Trail is part of Australian military folklore. This is the story of the Kokoda Campaign, portrayed through the eyes of the Australian soldiers who fought the battle.
- Author:Collier, EricSummary:
In 1930, Collier, his wife and young son reached the Stack Valley in B.C., where they lived in an abandoned cabin. He and his wife had promised her grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area that she knew as a child before the...
- Author:Purves, BillSummary:
Let me introduce you to Andrew, Pat, and Dr. Su: … three Chinese friends of mine. Andrew is a computer science professor at a university in Taipei; Pat works in the administration of a private club in Hong Kong. Dr. Su works in a...
- Author:Baier, BretSummary:
1,000 MILES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM The #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier reveals as never before Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War. In his...
- Author:Baier, BretSummary:
A gripping historical account of President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, adapted for young readers from the book by #1 bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier On May 31, 1988, President Ronald Reagan...
- Author:Hoang, Jolie PhuongSummary:
Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded "new economic zone....
- Author:Brady, TimSummary:
May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and...
- Author:Carroll, AbigailSummary:
We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we...
- Author:Booth, MichaelSummary:
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and...
- Author:Taddeo, LisaSummary:
"Extraordinary. A nonfiction literary masterpieceI can't remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women." -Elizabeth Gilbert "Beautifully written. This is one of the most riveting, assured,...
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