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Operation Mexico! Carl Kiekhaefer vs. the 1951-1953 Pan American Road RaceCarl Kiekhaefer vs the 1951-53 Pan American Road Race For five years, Mexico staged a car race that held the sporting world mesmerized for a week of thrills, spills, and chills. Competitors came from all around the world to participate in this brutal race...
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100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know & Do Before They DiePlenty of Canucks fans have taken in a game at Rogers Arena and will tell you they know just how to tell the Sedin twins apart. But only real fans can immediately recall Pavel Bure's penalty shot in the 1994 Stanley Cup final, or...
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MexicoMexico is a cactus capital. Giant cardon, the world's tallest cactuses, grow in the Sonoran Desert. They reach heights up to 63 feet And Mexicans also eat the stems of prickly pear cactuses like vegetables This country profile takes kids south of the border...
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'68: The Mexican Autumn of the Tlatelolco MassacreIn Mexico City on the night of October 2, 1968, at least two hundred students--among thousands protesting election fraud and campaigning for university reform--were shot dead in a bloody showdown with government troops in Tlatelolco Square. The bodies were collected and trucked away and...
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Citizen Illegal"Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it." --Eve Ewing, author of Electric ArchesIn this stunning debut, poet Jos Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions,...
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the IndiesAuthor: Bartolome de Las CasasPublisher: www.bnpublishing.comPublished: 08/03/2011Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dISBN: 9781607963714
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Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas VolunteersSilver Medal winner for Military Non-Fiction category Military Writers Society of America 2008 AwardsThe Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio La Bahia Award, 2nd PlaceTexas lost many volunteers during its hard-won fight for independence from Mexico, but one harrowing episode stands out. Following...
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F Is for French: A Quebec AlphabetFounded in 1608, what city is one of the oldest in North America? Where and when was Canada's first road built? What world-famous circus was the inspiration of Baie-Saint-Paul street performers? Discover the answers to these questions, along with other facts, in F is...
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I Is for Island: A Prince EdwaLocated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the east coast of Canada, Prince Edward Island measures only 5,660 sq km. But what this island province lacks in size, it more than makes up for in abundant natural beauty, as well as the scope...
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Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable UtopiaThe first translation of Julio Cort zar's genre-jumping meta-comic/novella, featuring Cort zar himself, Susan Sontag, and Octavio Paz in a race to prevent international bibliocide.Octavio Paz: If you love art, do something, Fantomas Fantomas: I will, you can depend on it.First published in Spanish...
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Claude Vivier: A Composer's LifeIn 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted access to Vivier's personal archives, this book is the first to tell his story. Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world....
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Feminism, Nation and Myth: La MalincheDrawing from the humanities and the social sciences to interrogate the development of feminism, queer studies, and Latina/o studies, the editors of this volume examine the literary and cultural debates the figure of la Malinche has generated in critical circles by addressing the state...
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The Oak Island Mystery: World's Greatest Treasure HuntThe Oak Island mystery has been the world's greatest and strangest treasure hunt, and after years of research the authors have finally solved the sinister with an answer that is challenging, controversial, and disturbing. In 1795 three boys discovered the top of an ancient...
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Silver Islet: Striking It Rich in Lake SuperiorBetween 1870 and 1884 over three million dollars in silver was mined from a skull-shaped island rock, a small outcropping in Lake Superior known as Silver Islet.The account of one of Ontario's earliest mines, and the world's leading silver producer in its day, rates...
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Call Me AramOntario Library Association's Golden Oak Award nominee 2010 OLA's Silver Birch Express nominee 2010 Aram Davidian is one of a group of Armenian refugee orphans who made the trip from Corfu, Greece to a new home in Canada, at a farm in Georgetown, Ontario....
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Maps and DreamsThis print-on-demand title is available by request from most booksellers.Author: Hugh BrodyPublisher: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Published: 12/01/1992Pages: 322Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9781553657262This title is not returnable
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Monsters"The ending...is so unexpected that readers will eagerly anticipate [the] third volume."--Kirkus ReviewsCole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer but the trouble is far from over. A creature lurks in the...
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Historical Atlas of TorontoRenowned map historian Derek Hayes provides a unique perspective on Toronto's colourful past. In just two centuries, Toronto has grown from a tiny outpost of the British Empire to a world-class city, by far the largest in Canada. First a native village, then a...
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The European Roots of Canadian IdentityWhat makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the European historical underpinnings both...
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Twenty-First Century Irvings (Revised)Three generations after the Irving family arrived in Canada from Scotland, the name K. C. Irving hit the Forbes top billionaires list, making K. C. one of the richest men in the world and the most powerful businessperson in Canada.But there is much more...
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