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Rochdale: The Runaway CollegeThe fascinating story of Toronto's experimental Rochdale College's rise and fall, now reissued in a handsome A List edition.Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbol of the flower-child sixties, a financial and social controversy. In...
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1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and DemocracyRecognizing the fiftieth anniversary of the protests, strikes, and violent struggles that formed the political and cultural backdrop of 1968 across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Susana Draper offers a nuanced perspective of the 1968 movement in Mexico. She challenges the dominant...
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Anne of InglesideAnne of Ingleside' is the sixth book in the 'Anne of Green Gables' series. Seven years on from 'Anne's House of Dreams' the Blythes have set up home in a house they affectionately name Ingleside. Anne and Giblert now have several children who engage...
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Ghosts of Niagara-On-The-LakeA new, expanded edition detailing Niagara-on-the-Lake's ghostly inhabitants. Long-dead British soldiers, grieving lovers, lingering spirits -- Niagara-on-the-Lake's long and colourful history is kept alive by ghosts of its past. Through historical investigation and eyewitness accounts, Andrew Hind and Maria Da Silva share over two...
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Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in CanadaShining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada.Take a journey through notable cases in Canada's criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada's most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock...
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Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital RegionA supernatural tour of the Ottawa region with ghostwatcher Mark Leslie as your guide. Come along with paranormal raconteur Mark Leslie as he uncovers first-person accounts of ghostly happenings throughout Ottawa and the surrounding towns -- the whole region is rife with ghostly encounters...
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Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and...
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Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918, Second EditionThe horrors of the First World War were the product of a new and unprecedented type of industrial warfare. To survive and win demanded not just new technology but the techniques to use it effectively. In Surviving Trench Warfare, Bill Rawling takes a close...
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Border Towns and Border Crossings: A History of the U.S.-Mexico DivideThe U.S.-Mexico border is far more than a line that separates two countries. A winding path of nearly 2,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, it is history, commerce, and culture. In recent years, however, attitudes about border crossings and...
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Bones Are Forever#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, a producer of the Fox hit show Bones, is back with her fifteenth "pulse-pounding" (Publishers Weekly) novel featuring North America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan--a story of infanticide and murder set in the high stakes, high...
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The Rancher Takes a Wife: A True Account of Life on the Last Great Cattle FrontierContinue on the adventure with The Rancher Takes a Wife, the conclusion to Richmond Hobson's western frontier trilogy The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a vast and still barely explored wilderness,...
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Talavera Designs Entspannendes Malbuch: Mexikanisches Fest Färben Sie Ihre beste Talavera-Keramik Meditation und StressabbauGenie en und entlasten Sie Stress mit dieser wunderschön dekorierten Talavera-Keramik und seien Sie kreativ und voller Inspiration, um diese traditionelle mexikanische Kunst in Ihrer Notiz auszumalen. Merkmale: - Über 35 Malvorlagen. - Doppelte Bilder - Färben Sie Ihre Lieblingsbilder zweimal! - Einseitig bedruckt,...
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Letters from Montreal: Tales of an Exceptional CityLetters From Montreal documents the experiences of Montrealers past and present, creating a portrait of the storied city unlike any other. Drawn from the celebrated column in Maisonneuve magazine, this anthology features writers documenting a quintessential part of local life. Narrated with the intimacy...
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Emily ClimbsWritten by the author of Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs is the enchanting story of a girl destined to write. Emily Starr, an orphan living on New Moon Farm, wants nothing more than to attend Queen's Academy and earn her...
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Northern Lights: A Practical Travel GuideWritten by Arctic expert Polly Evans, this new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of Bradt's Northern Lights: a Practical Travel Guide does what it says on the tin, providing practical guidance to the best places to view the natural phenomenon also known as the aurora...
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Epn: El RetrocesoAuthor: Luis PazosPublisher: Planeta PublishingPublished: 03/07/2017Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9786070737923Language: Spanish
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Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec CultureThe history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender...
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Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Intercultural Transfers, Intellectual Disputes, and TextualitiesIn recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain's American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a...
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D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe (The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-day)This enthralling history of the road to d-day should essential reading for fans of anthony beevor, max hastings and alex kershaw.Second front now! Examines the most contentious political and military issue of the second world war: namely, whether, where and when a second front...
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A Century of Service: The Story of The Kiwanis Club of Casa LomaIn 1933, the fate of Casa Loma, a once-proud edifice in the heart of Toronto, hung in the balance. Initially built as a private residence, the castle was languishing in the post-war depression, and the City of Toronto was prepared to accept tenders for...
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