A biography of coach Wayne Bennett
History
- Author:Bennett, WayneSummary:
- Author:Freeman, VictoriaSummary:
In this fair-minded and highly readable book, Victoria Freeman traces her European ancestors’ involvement in settling lands occupied by indigenous peoples in what would become New England and Ontario. It is a story of land fraud, broken...
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A collection of stories from Mormon church history.
- Author:Krotz, LarrySummary:
Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not...
- Author:DE VRIES, SusannaSummary:
In the 1890s when most women were content to marry well, Daisy Bates, an Irish-born, former charity case orphan, reinvented herself from governess to heiress to anthropologist. She would become one of the best known, and most...
- Author:Beckwith, Charlie A.Summary:
Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both.With this call to arms, Charlie Beckwith revolutionized American armed combat. Beckwith's acclaimed memoir tells the story of Delta Force as only...
- Author:Carbin, Clifton F.Summary:
Dr. Carbin describes Deaf Heritage in Canada as "a window through which we can catch a glimpse of deaf Canadians as they go about their everyday lives, responding to events around them and making a difference in the future of their...
- Author:Vansina, Jan.Summary:
Dans un précédent article, auquel celui-ci fait suite, l’auteure avait posé la question suivante : les historiens non autochtones possèdent-ils les outils linguistiques et analytiques propres à interpréter les récits relevant de la...
- Author:Diamant, AnitaSummary:
Diamant pens the tale of four women who flee Nazi Europe. Landing in a postwar British camp in Palestine, the women make extraordinary discoveries about themselves, humanity, and each other.
- Author:Harding, StephenSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Harding explores the little-known episode of a US cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and...
- Author:Miles, TiyaSummary:
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated...
- Author:Kaplan, Fred M.Summary:
As cyber attacks dominate front-page news, Fred Kaplan probes the most secretive government agencies to tell the never-before-told story of the policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised a new form of warfare and who have been...
- Author:Mazower, MarkSummary:
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- Author:ORMSN, LorraineSummary:
In Marlborough Sounds in the 1820s sixteen-year-old Lizzie is forced to become the child bride of a notorious whaler. Her life is a living hell, until she meets a young Maori preacher. In the present day Bel, also aged sixteen, is sent...
- Author:Gebhardt, MiriamSummary:
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully...
- Author:Flores, Dan L.Summary:
Dan Flores races both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the...
- Author:Elofson, W. M.Summary:
- Author:Dolan, Samuel K.Summary:
Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper...