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With eleven brand new comics created by legendary and upcoming writers and comics artists, Partisans flips a new page in the popular understanding of anti-Nazi and anti-fascist resistance. Through vivid illustrations and compelling narratives, Partisans brings to life...
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Between the Lines
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2025-08-12
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The assyrians’ forced exile of the israelites was not the only time such a fate had befallen them, as made clear by babylonian accounts and the biblical account of the exodus out of egypt, but it was that exile that permanently scattered most of the legendary 12 tribes...
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Rob Satterfield
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2025-08-12
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The babylonians were indisputably a formidable force in the ancient world’s stage, but how did they rise to power three separate times in middle eastern history? What led to their cataclysmic falls? And why did everyone keep stealing their chief god marduk?
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Rob Satterfield
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2025-08-07
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Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-07-25
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The threat of nuclear conflict loomed menacingly over the world during the Cold War. Early warning of an attack was a crucial focus for military and political intelligence. Intelligence networks in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom came together, forming...
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University of Calgary Press
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2025-07-15
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''In that book my theme was the eternal conflict between One Man Government and the Rich. Napoleon said: the only institution ever devised by men for mastering the Money Power in the State is Monarchy. It is obviously true and is the most practically important of all...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-07-08
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As the German army invades his hometown in Poland, young Moishe Kantorowitz decides to mentally record everything he sees. In this movingly descriptive and devastating portrayal of prewar Jewish life and its destruction during the Holocaust, Moishe bears witness to...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2025-06-30
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Gander, Newfoundland, is a rare example of a town that emerged after its airport. Opened in 1939, the airport played a crucial role in World War II, reportedly becoming the world's largest multinational military base. Immediately after the war, a new town developed,...
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Flanker Press
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2025-06-13
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Maria was eight months old in 1942 when a childless couple found her, wrapped in a blanket, at the side of a road near Krosno, Poland. A note pinned to the blanket stated only her first name and her date of birth. The couple picked upMaria and raised her, but she grew...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2025-04-01
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This comprehensive collection presents the essential works of Confucius, one of the most influential philosophers in Chinese history. It includes The Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and Mencius, along with other key texts that have shaped...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2025-03-18
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In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-03-17
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This is the story of the King’s Own Calgary Regiment. Beginning in the last years of collective innocence before the Great War, it follows the regiment to Vimy Ridge, through the short years of peace to Dieppe and the Italian Campaign, through the establishment and...
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University of Calgary Press
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2025-02-28
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This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil sands development....
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University of Calgary Press
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2025-02-25
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Explore the profound depths of human psychology and morality with The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection: Signature Classics. This beautifully illustrated anthology brings together some of Dostoyevsky’s most iconic works, offering timeless reflections on the complexities of...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2025-01-21
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When the Nazis invade Budapest in 1944, Margit Kassai begins to document her life in a diary in the form of a letter to her husband, who has been sent to do forced labour. With wry self-deprecation, dark humour and an incredible attention to detail, Margit describes the...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2025-01-21
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What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky is a groundbreaking and influential novel that shaped Russian literature and revolutionary thought in the 19th century. Originally published in 1863, this philosophical and political work is a vivid portrayal of utopian...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2025-01-20
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Umanista, letterato e diplomatico, Baldassarre Castiglione è una delle figure più significative del suo tempo. Espressione di una nuova cultura e di una diversa attenzione per l'uomo, il suo "Libro del Cortegiano" è un manuale della vita di corte. In esso, si teorizza...
Editeur :
Cactus
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2024-12-19
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WINNER Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research (2025)
WINNER Best Book in Canadian Studies Prize, Canadian Studies Network (2025)
WINNER Best First Book - Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2025)
WINNER CLIO History Prize (North),...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2024-12-13
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Fix Bayonets! offers a vivid, firsthand account of World War I through the eyes of Captain John W. Thomason, an American Marine who witnessed some of the conflict’s most intense and harrowing moments. With striking illustrations and a soldier’s authentic voice, Thomason...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2024-12-11
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In Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs, Arctic historian Kenn Harper takes readers alongside Knud Rasmussen’s spearheading Fifth Thule Expedition. From 1921 to 1924, Rasmussen trekked across Canada’s Arctic to study Inuit there and record their stories, and perhaps most...
Editeur :
Inhabit Media
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2024-12-03
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