In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "quelques arpents de neige." For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and illustrators...
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Author: Simpson-Housley, Paul; Norcliffe, Glen B.Summary: -
Author: Akers, TimSummary:The Celestial Church has all but eliminated the old pagan ways, ruling the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorize the land, hunted by the warriors of the Inquisition, yet it's the...
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Author: Graeber, ElizabethSummary:A unique and beautiful gift for the redhead in your life.A Field Guide to Redheads celebrates that rarest of creatures'people with red hair account for less than 2% of the population'in...
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Author: Dalton, RyanSummary:It's summer in Emmett's Bluff, and the ice is spreading. Six months after confronting an enemy from the future, Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert have returned to their normal teenage lives. Or, they'...
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Author: Clarke, AustinSummary:Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century's civil rights movement; and a nameless youth, swaggering and beltless, seduced by guns-and-gangs and expensive cars, and perpetually...
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Author: Basso, AdrienneSummary:Scottish Highlands, 1334. Lady Joan Armstrong Fraser was once the indulged and pampered daughter of a laird. But marriage to a brute changed her. When he sets her aside, she has only her wits and...
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Author: Greenidge, KerriSummary:William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness...
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Author: Hill, DonnaSummary:
Jason Tanner, protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been by his mentor's side in New York to spread the message of passive resistance. In Harlem, the epicenter of black culture, poet Anita...
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Author: Parvey, Malcolm; Alston, DeborahSummary:The United States federal government is the biggest customer in the world. It buys 20% of all the services and products produced in the U.S. But of the 22 million registered U.S. companies, fewer...
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Author: Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:
Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is unlike any artistic portrait you've ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Malcolm Gladwell...
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Author: Kiefer, Charles F.; Constable, MalcolmSummary:We have all experienced it: the jolt of an insight arriving like a thunderclap, unexpectedly and without warning. But what if insights could be accessed more reliably? Drawing on years of research...
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Author: Pinker, Steven; Ridley, Matt; de Botton, Alain; Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and...
Genre: Discursive works, Philosophy -
Author: Knowledge@WhartonSummary:
"What if you could sit down with some of today's most successful thought leaders' Now you can. Knowledge@Wharton has interviewed some of today's leading thinkers about what success means to them....
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Author: Fanon, FrantzSummary:A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and...
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Author: Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois parler de Solomon Gursky. Ce personnage mystérieux deviendra bientôt pour lui une obsession qui l'incitera à mener une vaste...