In this course, Wheaton College professor John Kricher provides a history of the discovery of dinosaurs, and he discusses the timeline and variations of dinosaurs, including their ultimate demise.
History and geography
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Author:Kricher, John C.Summary: - Author:Sheppard, N. W.Summary:
The history of Bell Island, Newfoundland, is an amazing one of a strong and courageous people who overcame the challenge of creating a community exposed to the mighty North Atlantic Ocean. Bell Island: Dawn of First Light covers the...
- Author:Boyce, GerrySummary:
Winner of the 2010 Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History. Belleville, on the shores of the Bay of Quinte, traces its beginnings to the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists. For 30 years the centre of...
- Author:Schama, SimonSummary:
Spans centuries and continents: from the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it navigates miracles and massacres, wandering, discrimination, harmony and tolerance; to the brink of the twentieth century and, it seems, a point of...
- Author:Fishburne, Anne Sinkler, LeClercq, Anne Sinkler WhaleySummary:
“Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach,” begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne's reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located between Santee River and Eutaw Creek near present day Eutaw Springs,...
- Author:Jenkins, PhilSummary:
George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a canoe. A tough job for anyone, it was an...
- Author:Sesay, IshaSummary:
The first definitive account of Boko Haram's abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay. The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by...
- Author:Vautier, ClarenceSummary:
The waters off the east coast of Canada have seen their share of accidents and disasters during the twentieth century. In Newfoundland alone, countless lives have been swallowed up by the angry seas of the North Atlantic or have fallen...
- Author:Isaacson, WalterSummary:
In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father.
- Author:Kempe, FrederickSummary:
Shares controversial perspectives on a defining event in the Cold War, revealing how nearly American and Soviet troops came to waging nuclear war while citing the specific challenges that were faced by international leaders.
- Author:Watkins, Daniel J.Summary:
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieuwas an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French...
- Author:Ridley, JaneSummary:
Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian Age but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power in 1901. He was only king for the last nine years of his life. The eldest son of Victoria and Albert, Bertie...
- Author:Nelson, Holly Faith, Alker, SharonSummary:
Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the...
- Author:Stewart, Roderick, Majada, JesúsSummary:
Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce...
- Author:Zemel, JoelSummary:
Before the Halifax Explosion, F. Evan Wyatt was a recently-married officer with a promising career in the Royal Canadian Navy. He also enjoyed popularity among those in the city’s elite society. But little else is known about the only...
- Author:Doucette, FredSummary:
Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and ’80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to New Brunswick in 1999 after his last overseas...
- Author:Franz, MargaretSummary:
The courageous life and tragic death of a brave and passionate young social worker and prison justice advocate, caught up in the terror of a hostage-taking at the B.C. Penitentiary in June 1975.
- Author:Proulx, GillesSummary:
Between France and New France is an absorbing look at life abroad the sailing vessels which plied the North Atlantic during the French colonial era in North America. Focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century and the Seven...
- Author:Kinch, Michael S.Summary:
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing - cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities...
- Author:Boissery, Beverley, Short, BronwynSummary:
Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s. Most were ill equipped for the difficult terrain, the icy water, and the...
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