When Thurgood Marshall-the great-grandson of a slave-was born, African Americans were denied equal rights in America. Segregation was legal. Lynching was common. In some places, African Americans...
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Author: Kanefield, TeriSummary:
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Author: Fitzgerald, JudithSummary:
Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964. McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms...
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Author: Neufeld, JamesSummary:
Although she called herself "just a singer," soprano Lois Marshall (1925-97) became a household name across Canada during her thirty-four year career and remains one of the foremost...
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Author: Strong-Boag, VeronicaSummary:
The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy. Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882–1964) was the last suffragist in Canada...
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Author: Nelson, Vaunda MicheauxSummary:
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson received the Coretta Scott King Award for her children's book Almost to Freedom . Here she relays the extraordinary story of Bass Reeves, a lawman in the Old West who...
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Author: Fitzgerald, Judith, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: John Franklin, while not a Canadian, an...
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Author: Nicks, John, Nicks, DenverSummary:
In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D. Lyons, who was arrested and tortured into signing a...
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Author: Betts, Gregory, Hjartarson, Paul, Smitka, Kristine, Surette, Leon, Lamberti, Elena, Hammond, Adam, Welch, Adam, Tiessen, Paul, Monk, Philip, Irvine, Dean, Morra, Linda, Wershler, DarrenSummary:
In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in...
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Author: McMillan, L. JaneSummary:
The name "Donald Marshall Jr." is synonymous with "wrongful conviction" and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan - Marshall's...
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Author: Maes, Nicholas, Fitzgerald, Judith, Rigelhof, T.F., Cowley, DeborahSummary:
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent people in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich academic and philosophical history through the...
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Author: Fitzgerald, Judith, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: John Franklin, while not a Canadian, an...
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Author: Fitzgerald, Judith, Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Braid, Kate, Rigelhof, T.F., Plante, Raymond, Slade, Arthur, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Stewart, Sharon, Macpherson, Margaret, goodall, lian, Paulin, Marguerite, Legaré, Francine, Evans, Gary, Cowley, Deborah, Shardlow, Tom, Kirk, Heather, Cimon, Anne, Vanasse, André, Larsen, Wayne, Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Ferguson, Julie H., Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy Dymond, Sadlier, Rosemary, Argyle, Ray, Tidridge, Nathan, Martin, GedSummary:
This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of...
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Author: Moss, John, Morra, Linda M.Summary:
At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex...
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Author: Konieczny, Vladimir, Dunton, Darcy, Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Rigelhof, T.F., Slade, Arthur, Plante, Raymond, Braid, Kate, Fitzgerald, Judith, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: Emma Albani, a nineteenth century opera...