History
- Author:Bell, Richard Q.Summary:
- Author:CHAMBERS, JamesSummary:
CHARLOTTE & LEOPOLD tells the story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle to Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. Charlotte was the only legitimate royal child of her...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the...
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For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life. Existing...
- Author:Hibbert, ChristopherSummary:
Presents a vivid, detailed narrative history of the English Civil War, 1642-1649.
- Author:Campbell, L. A.Summary:
Sixth-grader Hal gets a year-long journal-keeping assignment in his least favorite class, history, much to the delight of his history buff father.
- Author:PLAYFORD, PhillipSummary:
Contents include an introduction to the ship, a description of its voyages and connection to the Dutch East India Company, the fate of the survivors and activities since 1971.
- 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 fascinating lives of some of its most...
- Author:Slade, Arthur, Stewart, Roderick, Macpherson, Margaret, Paulin, Marguerite, Martin, Ged, Argyle, Ray, Ferguson, Julie H., goodall, lianSummary:
Presenting nine titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich political history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential lives....
- Author:Dickason, Olive PatriciaSummary:
Canada's First Nations is a comprehensive history of Canada's original inhabitants. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines techniques from history, anthropology, archaeology, biology, sociology, and political science, the...
- Author:Creighton, DonaldSummary:
- Author:Martel, MarcelSummary:
To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco...
- Author:Martin, PaulSummary:
Dans la conférence prononcée comme récipiendaire de la médaille Symons en 2013, le très honorable Paul Martin, vingt-et-unième premier ministre du Canada, s’appuie sur tout le savoir et le vécu de sa remarquable carrière publique, afin...
- Author:Klosterman, ChuckSummary:
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what...
- Author:Fonte, Gerard C.Summary:
"Work smarter, not harder." Gerard Fonte presents the construction of the Great Pyramid as a wonder indeed, while challenging our cherished notions of the arduous labor and extreme human costs required for the project. Starting with his...
- Author:Oliphant, JohnSummary:
The history of false prophet Brother XII, who operated a spiritual community in British Columbia in the 1920s.
- Author:Mantel, HilarySummary:
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the...
- Author:Lewis, MichaelSummary:
Lewis offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands--and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew--and burst--not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as...
- Author:Robinson, JaneSummary:
"In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would...
- Author:Honey, Michael K.Summary:
The individual stories are arranged thematically in chapters on labor organizing, Jim Crow in the workplace, police brutality, white union racism, and civil rights struggles. Taken together, the stories ask us to rethink the...