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Making science history
The history of science from 1945 to 2020, told from the perspective of Arnold Thackray, a pioneering expert in the fieldIn this fascinating personal account of what he calls the “American century,” Arnold Thackray, noted historian of the development of science, relates his life’s story, beginning...
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Jesus, the man who lives
"Muggeridge's masterpiece, the greatest achievement of his life as a writer."—The London TimesA stunningly insightful reflection on the life, person, and teachings of Christ. In Jesus, the Man Who Lives, the celebrated British author Malcolm Muggeridge offers a meditation that was deemed by The L...
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Nirenberg
San Antonio's former mayor reveals how principled leadership and compassionate governance can unite communities and navigate any crisis.
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Anna zieglerin and the lion's blood
In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosopher...
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Black woman runner
One Black woman's transformative journey of running through griefIn the wake of profound grief at the loss of her mother, Tiffany Gayle Chenault decided, at age 40, to run a half-marathon in all 50 states. Black Woman Runner explores running as a space of survival, healing, joy, while also sheddi...
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American trojan
American Trojan is the captivating story of a refugee who lost everything and then rebuilt it all, an immigrant who defied the odds and achieved the American Dream; a visionary technologist who transformed the University of Southern California into one of the nation’s most prestigious private re...
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Shirley graham du bois
The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois and her legacy as an artist and activistShirley Graham Du Bois centers her cultural, intellectual, and political significance as a Black radical woman during the twentieth century. The volume traces Graham Du Bois’s travels across t...
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An indian among los indígenas
Now in paperback: a gripping, witty travel memoir that offers "a fascinating look at voluntourism from an Indigenous perspective" (Book Riot)"Ursula Pike's memoir is unlike any other I've read, with her perceptive, always-seeking, and lovely narrative voice." —Susan Straight, author of Mecca"This...
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Inventing paradise
Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and ...
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The inquisition's inquisitor
The first comprehensive biography of Philadelphia’s Henry C. Lea (1825–1909): historian, publisher, political activist, and reformerWriting in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry Charles Lea informed a friend, “I am trying to collect the materials for a history of the Inquisition...
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Instrumental indians
An examination of how settler colonialism shaped the thinking of America’s leading philosopher of democracy and education, John DeweyJohn Dewey is regarded as a towering figure in the history of American philosophy, widely remembered by educators as an advocate for experiential and child-centered...
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The ohlone way
Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle’s as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century.“Beautifully imagined and written.”—Alice WalkerOne of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indi...
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Between two worlds
A memoir of adversity, hope, and the value of the Gurdjieff Work James Opie’s spiritual autobiography is a story of continuous movement. Episodes of youthful right-wing politics, racism, and drug use move into resistance to the draft and Vietnam, and eventually connect with the teaching of G.I. G...
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Inspired and outraged
A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicineA remarkable autobiography—written entirely in free verse—of Alice Rothchild's journey fr...
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Groundbreaking
Clare Cooper Marcus’s Groundbreaking is a sweeping autobiographical memoir that spans nearly nine decades of personal history. Moving from a wartime childhood in England through her academic career in the United States, the book weaves together stories of resilience, intellectual discovery, and t...
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Love and loss after wounded knee
A dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their timeLike any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled to the Dakota...
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The two princes of mpfumo
A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slaveryIn 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo, the capital of Mozambique—boarded a ship licensed by the East India Company bound for England. Ins...
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What you don't know will make a whole new world
From one of California’s most celebrated librarians and public historians, a coming-of-age memoir about the thirst for knowledge and hometown pride.A Best Book of the Year, Oakland Public Library2023 Bronze Winner for the Foreword INDIES Award, Autobiography & Memoir"What You Don’t Know will ...
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Bad indians (expanded edition)
Newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by the likes of Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine.Bad Indians—part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir—is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Widely ...
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Pretzel, houdini & olive: essays on the dogs of my life
A young widow and her five dogs confront life.
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Sixteen tons
Sixteen Tons is the true story of Country Music Hall of Fame member Merle Travis, a brilliant, multi-talented and deeply troubled artist who is widely considered a genius. A world-class guitarist who dazzled audiences with his Kentucky thumb-picking style that came to be known as “Travis-picking,...
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Confronted by god
This unique collection of writings by Verna Dozier, eloquent prophet and teacher of the Bible, features selections from all her available work, including The Authority of the Laity, Equipping the Saints, her unfinished manuscript on the Bible, sermons, and interviews. Many of these materials, des...
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Eleanor roosevelt’s nightly prayer
A deep exploration of how Eleanor Roosevelt’s Christian faith led her to become one of the most well-known and praised humanitarians.“A fresh take on the influences that formed a key figure in 20th-century American history.” –Publishers WeeklyA great woman who was heavily involved in politics, E...
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America's bishop
Among Fulton J. Sheen's thousands of converts were celebrities such as Clare Booth Luce and Henry Ford II, and former communists Louis Budenz and Elizabeth Bentley. Reeves discusses these conversions and Sheen's close friendship with J. Edgar Hoover, and details for the first time the struggle be...
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Icons of style: chappell roan
Camp, theatrical and fierce. Chappell Roan is serving fashion with a plot twist on stage and the red carpet.From her humble midwestern roots to her rapid rise to global pop superstar, Chappell Roan is known for turning a look and putting on a show. Creating her own definition of camp, wearing cha...
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Tales of spirit rising and sometimes falling
A modern prophet looks back on seven decades of activism. Ask an expert who are the 5 most influential American Jewish leaders of the last century and Rabbi Arthur Waskow will make most of the lists. The author of the original Freedom Seder and legendary social justice activist is now in his 90s,...
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The diary of elizabeth drinker
The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marria...
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Stuff
Colorfully written and illustrated memoir of the activist art writer Lucy LippardStuff: Instead of a Memoir is a short, abundantly illustrated autobiography of the American art writer, activist, and sometime curator Lucy R. Lippard. Describing tchotchkes, photographs, and art in her unpretentious...
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Treason on trial in revolutionary pennsylvania
In the fall of 1778 John Roberts, a prosperous Quaker miller who owned valuable property located about 10 miles from Phila., stood trial before a jury that found him guilty of having committed treason. If not entirely innocent, did Roberts nevertheless deserve a trip to the gallows a month after ...
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Role of a lifetime: larry farmer and the ucla bruins
Role of a Lifetime is the story of the crucial role Larry Farmer played on teams that won three NCAA titles for UCLA under Coach John Wooden. Farmer’s record at UCLA was 89–1, the greatest winning percentage in NCAA history. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was 88–2.) Role of a Lifetime also details how Far...
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How the hell did i not know that?
A witty memoir about the power of curiosity and learning how to laugh at inappropriate things
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I am not your enemy
*NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE * *As heard on FRESH AIR and THIS AMERICAN LIFE*“A hero for these times…Read her story and let it move you, infuriate you, and inspire you.”—Chelsea Handler“A unique and urgent story of what happened to a young woman who spoke out against the power of the state.”—P...
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John woolman's path to the peaceable kingdom
The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed in his lo...
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The autobiography of thomas jefferson, 1743-1790
In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled in the Virginia colony. Jefferson's father, although uneducat...
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26 weekends in county jail
In 1995, after hearing Madeleine Albright say on national television that she felt sacrificing 500,000 children to punish Saddam Hussein was “worth it,” Quaker pacifist Joseph Olejak became a political activist. As a form of civil disobedience, he refused to pay income tax, since his tax dollars ...
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A hard place to leave
“Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer…a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.” —Melissa Febos, The New York Times Winner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award“DeSanctis encounters...
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In the key of new york city
In this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conversations on park benches, songs and cries sifted through apartment walls, and in encounters with street people dispensing unexpected wisdom. Having upr...
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The third beat
Lauren Lavín is trying to embrace the boundaries imposed upon life by love and death. But there are distractions: the younger brother she lost to suicide, the friends and ex-lovers who’ve passed, her husband’s illness and fear of dying, her own pull toward the abyss. In The Third Beat, Lavín exam...
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Avidly reads making out
“Here’s the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.”Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who you’re kissing, where it’s leading? It can feel luscious, libidinal, friendly, but are we trying to make out something through our kissing? For Kathryn Bond Stockton, making out is a ...
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Five star white trash
An unforgettable journey from seventh-grade dropout to celebrated professor Her family was white, but not the right kind of white. They were five star white trash. They borrowed money and tried to buy class.In this unflinching response to JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, Georgiann Davis guides us thro...
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I don't do disability and other lies i've told myself
“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA raw and intimate portrait of family, love, life, relationships, and disability parenting through the eyes of a mother to a d...
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Land of women
A bestseller memoir in Spain that calls us to reexamine how we view women and rural life
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Notes from the other side of night
A lyrical memoir of living under, and escaping from, anti-Semitism and the tyranny of communism.“There are scenes in this book that the reader will never forget.”—Mircea EliadeWith a new Afterword by the author and a new Introduction by bestselling historian Wilfred M. McClayIn Notes from the Oth...
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The learned king
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Clara barton, professional angel
Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman.Based...
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American freethinker
The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer, who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speechWhen the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required ...
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Reckoning with race
Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem—race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's exclusive racial scapegoat. The book moves to...
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Meeting the moment
The experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in their own wordsCurated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity for performance artists in the Uni...
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The long revolution
An essential work on theatre in America by one of its foremost practitioners.
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Creating q*bert and other classic video arcade games
Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games takes you inside the video arcade game industry during the pivotal decades of the 1980s and 1990s. Warren Davis, the creator of the groundbreaking Q*bert, worked as a member of the creative teams who developed some of the most popular video gam...
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Marianne faithfull
As Years Go By is a richly detailed portrait of a woman who has lived an incredible life, one that far transcends her best known role as courtesan to the chief Rolling Stone. From aristocratic lineage to convent school, stardom to attempted suicide, junkie to punk, folk singer to torch chanteuse...
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Prince
The newest, most updated book on Prince available today—now updated with information about the afterlife of his work following his untimely death. Famously reticent and perennially controversial, Prince was one of the few music superstars who remained, largely, an enigma—even up to his premature ...
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Finding home
“This stirring memoir proves what readers of Nicholas’s debut novel, Freshwater Road, already know: that Nicholas, a pioneer Black actress, is also a writer of deep talent and understated eloquence. This is not your typical Hollywood tell-all, full of ‘I did this, and I did that,’ complete with c...
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Radical empathy
Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country’s founding. Although the country has made some progress towards a more equal society, political developments in the 21st century have shown that deep divides remain. The persistence of ineq...
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The chicago way
"[A] must-read for Chicago’s foodies."— Publishers WeeklyThe untold stories behind Chicago's globally celebrated culinary scene—from revolutionary chefs to kitchen disasters to public uproars to Michelin stars, told by the cooks, servers, restaurateurs, critics, dreamers, and rebels who built Ame...
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Becoming story
A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris—whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones—presents a book about his own life. In Becoming Story he asks: What do...
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Only what we could carry
The definitive anthology of Japanese American internment."In these stories are lifted up our humanity, our indomitable spirit and dignity, an implacable quest for justice"—Janice MirikitaniShortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States government uprooted 120,000 people of Ja...
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John james audubon
John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity scientist.In this fresh approach to Au...
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Beyond repair
After recovering from a head-on collision and its attendant trauma, the author struggles to reconnect to a world in the throes of a form of cultural PTSD.
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Over the green hill
Originally published in Germany in 1997, Lotte Strauss's Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43, was begun in 1975 as a letter to her daughter. It took twenty years to write the complete story, and by then, was no longer a letter, but a book. Lotte Strauss was born one year before ...
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Hollywood eden
Now in paperback — from surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Byrds, and the Mama’s & the Papa’s, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the Califor...
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Between the river and the sea
In this powerful illustrated memoir, Hillel Cohen—journalist, political activist, and a leading expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—sets aside cultural bias and professional neutrality to trace his own travels through the West Bank as a youth. Fervent and naive, the teenage Cohen wanders t...
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Saint benedict
Adalbert de Vogue has been called the greatest modern commentator on the Rule of Saint Benedict. This monk, who has been living as a hermit for many years, presents us an in-depth study and an absorbing new look at St. Benedict, the man who transformed Europe and Western Civilization. It is a def...
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One-man show
Bernard Perlin was an extraordinary figure in twentieth century American art and gay cultural history, an acclaimed artist and sexual renegade who moved in the upper echelons of New York’s glittering gay society of the 1930s, forties, and fifties, as well as its underground. In One-Man Show, Mich...
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Homo odyssey
A young gay man lost on the highways of Los Angeles; a gay Muslim in Berlin; a rent boy in Shanghai … blazing through 17 countries on six continents, “Homo Odyssey” is an upfront, edgy, often funny, travel memoir that will leave you seeing the world and yourself with different eyes.
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On the pulse of time
This book brings together, for the first time, the bilingual collection of journalistic writings on India by the Nobel Prize-awarded Guatemalan-Spanish writer, Miguel Ángel Asturias.
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Medicine of the highest order: the university of rochester medical center at its centennial
Chronicling the last 25 years of URMC's one-hundred-year history, this book updates previous histories in celebration of the organization's centennial by detailing developments at both strategic and departmental levels.In the mid-1920s, some of the most progressive minds in the nation united to c...
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Whistler and his mother
A unique insight into Whistler's famous portrait of his mother, Arrangement in Grey and Black.James McNeill Whistler made sure that his dazzling life — Monet, Manet and Proust, modelling ‘Elstir’ on him, were friends and acquaintances — was well-documented for posterity. Even Monty Python picked ...
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Audrey in paris
A charming, illustrated gift book combining two timelessly stylish subjects - Audrey Hepburn and the city of Paris.Both classic, both inimitable, both fashion icons - Audrey Hepburn and Paris are a match made in heaven. Falling in love with the city at a young age, Audrey returned to Paris again ...
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Thirty-six fighting holes
The few. The proud. The Marines. Do you have what it takes…not just to join them, but to talk others into joining? Can you occupy an isolated outpost—a strip mall, a small office, a lonely building on a busy street—and work the phones and set appointments and bring people in? Can you dress up in ...
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Ripening
In Ripening Dr Sharon Blackie starts from the beginning, and writes about a woman’s journey to midlife using European fairy tales as inspiration. Ripening is a book about thriving in the first half of life. It’s a book about taking back our stories, and navigating a hazardous world with confidenc...
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Decolonizing ourselves
A memoir, by a woman anthropologist, appealing to those who want to read about interesting women’s lives, their chronology. Portrays the changes in global expectations, assumptions, and interests in development as these have evolved over time. Most fundamentally, and pragmatically, ...
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Singing from the darktime
Singing from the Darktime is a compelling picture of a rural childhood in Germany at a time when the world was about to change. By 1937 Hitler's power was beginning to penetrate the peaceful agricultural village in the Rhine Valley where S. Weilbach lived with her family. Without warning, her car...
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Claude jutra
Although Claude Jutra has been widely acclaimed, there has been surprisingly little critical literature about his work. Best known as the director of Mon oncle Antoine, often considered the greatest Canadian film ever made, Jutra's career spanned almost four decades - from 1948 till his death in ...
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The embattled general
A re-evaluation of a controversial Canadian general that overturns much of what is known about him.
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And we go on
And We Go On is a nuanced response to the trauma of war, suffused with an interest in the spiritual and the paranormal not found in other war literature. Long out of print, it is a true lost classic that arguably influenced numerous works in the Canadian literary canon, including novels by Robert...
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The life of luigi giussani
A detailed account of the life and legacy of the founder of the Communion and Liberation movement.
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Research and reform
The untold story of a Canadian pioneer in genetics, undergraduate science education, and the establishment of Medicare.
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Red travellers
Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation of Canadian Communists. Andrée Lévesque's powerful account of the experiences of Corbin and her female comrades reveals the essential role women played in the movement. Lévesque also shows that, despite some efforts to construct ...
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Up and to the right, second edition
The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship.
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Canadian primal
Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets – Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn – are major voices in an era of ecological devastation and spiritual...
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Popper’s legacy
Karl Popper has had an extraordinary influence on scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the "open society." Popper's Leg...
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Lord lyons
A biography of a man for all international crises.
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The changing canadian population
Informative and helpful essays that study census data regarding developments in Canadian society.
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In twilight and in dawn
An informative study of the evolution of a discipline focused through the life of one of its leading practitioners, In Twilight and in Dawn is an illuminating look at anthropological thought and practice in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Hitler's cosmopolitan bastard
In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. Timely and capitivating, Martyn Bond's biography ...
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Margaret macdonald
"As a pioneer in her field who helped pave the way for women to participate in the Canadian military, Margaret Macdonald's story is one worth reading." Canadian Military History
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Connecting the dots
An intellectual memoir by one of Canada's leading legal scholars. Copublished with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
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Giuliano de' medici
Unfairly maligned for over five centuries, Giuliano de’Medici at last receives his first major and sustained biography.
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The legendary jackrabbit johannsen
This is the story of the remarkable Norwegian-Canadian who pioneered cross-country skiing in North America. A warm and personal portrait written by his daughter, it also places Johannsen's life in the context of the milieux in which he lived, and adds an element of objectivity and clarity to the ...
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The dillon era
Douglas Dillon advocated for evolution and reform over radicalism and placed the national interest above party interest. With exclusive access to the family’s archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in American history, unfolding a deeply influential ...
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Letters from the afterlife
Letters from the Afterlife chronicles the experiences of writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, Holocaust survivors from Poland, as they adjusted to life in their adopted countries of Canada and Sweden.
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On architecture
An indispensable and richly illustrated collection of essays by Melvin Charney, with interpretations by established scholars.
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A secret trial
In his best-selling Presumed Guilty William Kaplan chronicled the corruption charges surrounding the $1.8 billion purchase by Air Canada of passenger airplanes from European giant Airbus Industries and concluded - based on the evidence available at the time - that former Prime Minister Brian Mulr...
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They shot, he scored
The remarkable story of Eldon Rathburn, prolific Canadian composer, legendary NFB collaborator, railway enthusiast, and chronicler of his life and times.
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