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Harvey Comes HomeThe award-winning story of a lost West Highland Terrier warming hearts and bringing generations togetherA dog's world is a world of scents, of adventure. When a Harvey the West Highland Terrier wanders out of his old life guided only by his nose and his...
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Popular Day Hikes: Vancouver Island a Revised & Updated: Vancouver Island a Revised & UpdatedThis unique and colourful guidebook sorts through all of the various possibilities and selects for the reader the very best day hikes on Vancouver Island, with locations throughout the region, including: Carmanah Walbran Matheson Lake to Roche Cove Mount Finlayson Gowlland Tod Park Jocelyn...
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Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in CanadaArt has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poems, pamphlets, and comics, have inspired workers to take action against greedy bosses and helped shape ideas of a more equal world. They also help fan the flames...
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Lost Breweries of TorontoNoted beer expert and writer Jordan St. John shows readers the rich history of Toronto's heritage breweries, many of which still exist today. Explore the once-prominent breweries of nineteenth-century Toronto. Brewers including William Helliwell, John Doel, Eugene O'Keefe, Lothar Reinhardt, Enoch Turner, and Joseph...
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We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of MexicoHistorians are concerned today that the Spaniards' early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas should be balanced with accounts from the Indian perspective. 'We People Here' reflects that concern, bringing together important and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl...
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The Zapatista ReaderThe electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year's Day, 1994, has provided inspiration for activists all over the world. A remarkable synergy has also...
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Baseball Bats for ChristmasLife in the high Arctic is beautifully captured in this classic picture book by award-winning Inuit author Michael Kusugak. The year is 1955 and Arvaarluk and his friends watch as Rocky Parsons lands his plane on the ice in Repulse Bay, a tiny community...
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Hard Ticket: New Writing Made in Newfoundlandhard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by critically acclaimed author Lisa Moore, these previously unpublished stories highlight the charged and magnetic work...
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Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge CommunityIn 1942, the west coast of North America was under threat after the attack on Pearl Harbor, prompting the US government to build a military road from Dawson Creek, BC, to Delta Junction, AK. Renowned as a driving challenge and for its remote scenic...
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On Remembrance DayAn exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions.Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory? For children learning about remembrance and the human toll of war, there can be...
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The History of MexicoThis narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will readers understand the lively and sometimes turbulent history of our neighbor to the south. Surveying Mexico from the arrival of the first humans in the Western Hemisphere to current issues at the turn of the new...
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La Sangre Desconocida / Unknown Blood«No sólo el cartel está manchado de sangre, también lo está el vestido que Mamá Flor guarda como recuerdo de su hija. [...] Cuando la muchacha no volvió, Mamá Flor intentó lavarlo y remendarlo. Pero nada es tan difícil de limpiar como la sangre....
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A Marvelous Mexican MisunderstandingSometimes a cheeky sister is enough to create the most marvelous misunderstanding! And that's exactly what happens when Adri and his family move to Mexico. Tag along and discover how Adri's biggest fear turns into one of the best days of his life. There...
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Beyond the Horizon: A Travel Memoir"Beyond the Horizon: a travel memoir" is a compilation of the author's fascinating travel experiences to different parts of the world. This book was motivated by the author's desire to chronicle her travel memories. Vivid portraits of destinations, reflections of unforgettable events and the...
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Lessons from Mother EarthTess has visited her grandmother many times without really being aware of the garden. But today they step outside the door and Tess learns that all of nature can be a garden. And if you take care of the plants that are growing, if...
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The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920The Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, and volunteers, a refuge for personnel, an arena for propaganda, and a market for revolutionary loot. El Paso, the largest...
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History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex ChimalpopocaOne of the great documents of colonial Mexico, the Codex Chimalpopoca chronicles the rise of Aztec civilization and preserves the mythology on which it was based. Its two complementary texts, Annals of Cuauhtitlan and Legend of the Suns, record the pre-Cort sian history of...
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Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial MexicoMaría Elena Martínez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's sistema de castas, a hierarchical system of social classification based primarily on ancestry. Specifically, it explains how...
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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian WestEpic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770-1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America, between the Hudson's Bay Company and its Montreal-based...
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Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican RevolutionA stirring, authoritative account of the Mexican Revolution, told through the lives of its infamous rebel-outlaws: Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata Villa and Zapata vividly chronicles the decade of bloody events that followed the eruption of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and made legends...
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