Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nationwide. Drawn from more than 200...
History
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Auteur:Liddell-Westefeld, ChrisSommaire: - Auteur:PUCKRIDGE, Doreen KSommaire:
Story of a remarkable family whose fortunes have been linked so intimately with the history of Port Lincoln, South Australia.
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Auteur:Mohnhaupt, J. W., Frisch, ShelleySommaire:The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall.
Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a... - Auteur:Cherry-Garrard, ApsleySommaire:
This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from...
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In this course, London Metropolitan University British and Commonwealty history professor Denis Judd will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history--the British Empire--beginning with the late 15th-...
- Auteur:Judd, DenisSommaire:
This course will examine the development of the British Empire from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, via its greatest terretorial extent in 1919 to its eventual decline and end in the years after World War II, and its final...
- Auteur:Diamond, Jared M.Sommaire:
Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
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Auteur:Lund, Gerald N.Sommaire:Despite ongoing trials, they feel that God has granted them this season of relief, hope and joy.
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Auteur:Lund, Gerald N.Sommaire:Thy Gold to Refine covers one of the stormiest and trying, yet inspiring periods of Church history. The Steeds are reunited in Far West, Missouri, all the while animosity towards the Mormons is growing unchecked. Violence erupts and...
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Auteur:Lund, Gerald N.Sommaire:For the Steeds, the years between 1836 and 1838 are a time of separation and reunion, committment and apostasy, heartache and hope. Nathan Steed joins Parley P. Pratt on a challenging mission to Upper Canada. Jessica, Joshua's ex-wife,...
- Auteur:Lund, Gerald N.Sommaire:
Pillar of Light — the first volume in the series The Work and the Glory — begins the epic story of the Benjamin Steed family. In the 1820s they move from Vermont to Palmyra Township in upstate New York in search of better farmland....
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Committed to an insane asylum in 1860 to keep her in line, Elizabeth Packard refused to be silenced and challenged the medical science of the day.
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Auteur:Brinkley, DouglasSommaire:Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early...
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Auteur:Siler, Julia FlynnSommaire:A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first hundred years of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and an in-depth look at the "safe house" that became a refuge for...
- Auteur:Wooldridge, Adrian, Micklethwait, JohnSommaire:
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western...
- Auteur:Macintyre, LindenSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary." —Postmedia
A Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean's Book of the Year
In the vein of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm and Dead Wake comes an... - Auteur:Swift, Jamie, McKay, IanSommaire:
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this...
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Auteur:Homer-Dixon, ThomasSommaire: - Auteur:Connerney, RichardSommaire:
India's future will be determined not only by economic development, but also by a dynamic traditional culture that continues to develop along its own lines sometimes in concert, and sometimes in conflict with material enrichment. India...
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