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Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the Díaz dictatorship in support of agrarian reform, in defense of their political autonomy, or inspired by a nationalist desire to forge a new...
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Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in MexicoTechnocratic Visions examines the context and societal consequences of technologies, technocratic governance, and development in Mexico, home of the first professional engineering school in the Americas. Contributors focus on the influential role of engineers, especially civil engineers, but also mining engineers, military engineers, architects,...
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The Stations of the Cross in Colonial Mexico: The Via Crucis En Mexicano by Fray Agustin de Vetancurt and the Spread of a DevotionWalking the Stations of the Cross, the Christian faithful re-create the Passion, following the sorrowful path of Jesus Christ from condemnation to crucifixion. While this devotion, now so popular in the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations, first emerged in Jerusalem and began spreading...
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Coming to Canada: The Ultimate Success Guide for New Immigrants and TravelersCongratulations on immigrating to Canada! This journey represents a significant and rewarding milestone. That said, relocating to a new country does not come without its challenges. These challenges have the potential to negatively affect your experience if you do not adequately prepare for them....
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These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence Along the U.S.-Mexico BorderThe U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast sums of money--have burned an abiding image of the border as a place...
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The Fur Trader: From Oslo to Oxford HouseThe Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.'s personal narrative detailing the years (1925-1928) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade. Mortensen's original...
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The Lost ExpertWhen Chris, an unambitious young waiter, walks through the park on his way home from work, he stumbles onto the set of a Hollywood film--and is promptly mistaken for the missing lead actor. Corralled into filming a scene, Chris assumes the identity of the...
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Gold: How Gretzky's Men Ended Canada's 50-Year Olympic Hockey Drought"Now after 50 years, it's time for Canada to stand up and cheer. Stand up and cheer everybody! The Olympics Salt Lake City, 2002, men's ice hockey gold medal: Canada!" --Bob Cole, CBC play-by-play broadcaster There was no iconic Paul Henderson moment, nor a...
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CanadaThe Exploring Countries series takes readers on a worldwide tour to discover diverse countries from around the globe. Learn about each country's land and climate, plants and animals, natural resources, goods and services, indigenous peoples, cultural groups, arts and entertainment, sports, politics and government,...
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Advocating for Palestine in Canada: Histories, Movements, ActionPalestine solidarity activism is on the rise and under siege. Led by a coalition of students, labour unions, church groups, and Palestinian and Jewish community organizations, the movement advocating for Palestinian rights is forced to contend with relentless condemnation, legal sanctions, sidelining, and coordinated...
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AlibiFifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town's ghost walk, which allows Christine to meet all the visitors, including a mysterious young man who...
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Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New FranceWinner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award in History Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to Indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise with integral secular...
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Nanuq's Baby Brother: Bilingual Inuktitut and English EditionNanuq is so excited when she finds out she is going to be a big sister She thinks about all the fun things she will do with her new sibling. But when her baby brother is born, he cries all the time. Her parents...
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Esperanza RisingBook Features: - 48 pages, about 7 inches x 9 inches- Ages 10-15, Grades 5-9 leveled readers- Easy-to-read pages with vibrant photos- Features before, during, and after reading activities- Discussion questions, writing prompts, and projects includedEsperanza Rising: This nonfiction companion to Esperanza Rising discusses...
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The True History of the Conquest of New SpainSoldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expeditions to the New World. The son of a prominent regidor of Medina del Campo, Diaz del Castillo left home in 1514...
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The Good, the Bad and the Innocent: The Tragic Reality Behind Residential Schools, an Albert Etzerza StoryThis book is about the life and struggle of a residential school survivor. Residential schools were not an experience anyone would want to go through. In this book you will get to read the story of one Native out of thousands at residential schools...
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Seven On A Mat: A Story of Faith, Luck and Courage During WWIIAt great risk to their own lives and the lives of their ten children, Bernard and Dora Prinzen sheltered seven downed Allied airmen in German-occupied Holland during the last tumultuous months of World War II. Fifty years later, Doris Mayberry, the wife of one...
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La Revolución mexicana: Una guía fascinante sobre la guerra civil mexicana y cómo Pancho Villa y Emiliano Zapata tuvieron un impacto en MéxicoSi quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la Revolución mexicana, siga leyendo...La Revolución mexicana fue un momento decisivo del siglo XX. La lucha mexicana por la democracia, la igualdad y la justicia ha causado conmoción en todo el mundo. Ningún otro episodio de su...
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Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian PrairiesIn Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. All or parts of modern-day Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, North...
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Traeger Grill & Smoker CookbookThe Traeger Pellet Grill and Smoker is one of the most versatile and convenient cookers on the market, and this book takes you to know and master the Traeger and make your family life better The Complete Traeger Grill& Smoker Cookbook tells you: What...
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