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Too Young to Die Canada's Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War

Boileau John, Black Dan

ISBN: HB: 9781459411722, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, March 2016
488 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 black&white illus., 10 maps

John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths – some as young as fourteen – who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors'’ popular 2013 book Old Enough t...

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America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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Women Studies

That Monstrous Regiment The Birth of Women's Political Emancipation

Stone Harry

ISBN: PB: 9781861513137, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, June 2015
268 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man's wo...

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Jewish Studies

Three Books 3 Volumes set

Tracz Tamara

ISBN: HB: 9781910221044, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, June 2015
0 pp., 21x13.5 cm

"Three Books" by Tamara Tracz is a very special three-hardback-volume slipcased book. It is, first and foremost, a story that follows several generations of a family as their lives unfold in various cities, countries and continents during the course...

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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Telling Deaf Lives Agents of Change

Snoddon Kristin

ISBN: PB: 9781563686191, Gallaudet University Press, October 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos, tables, figures

In July 2012, the 8th Deaf History International (DHI) Conference featured 27 presentations from members of Deaf communities around the world who related their own autobiographies as well as the biographies of historical Deaf individuals. The present...

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Biography & Memoires

Thomas Aquinas A Portrait

Turner Denys

ISBN: PB: 9780300205947, Yale University Press, July 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher, and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered...

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To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey

Fischer Victor, Wohlforth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...

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Triumph of Human Empire Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

Williams Rosalind

ISBN: HB: 9780226899558, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 11 halftones

In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of...

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Totally Unofficial The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

Frieze Donna-Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300186963, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "geno...

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History of Art

Ted Lambert The Man Behind the Paintings

Lambert Ted

ISBN: PB: 9781602231658, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 colour illus.

Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a co...

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