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Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER "A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." --Daily Telegraph (London) "Charts the ironies of Adenauer's complicated life....
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Wiley
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2001-06-21
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'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks? Lawrence began the GreatWar as a map-clerk and ended...
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Penguin
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1999-10-28
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'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned'
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-05-06
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'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned'
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-05-06
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The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author ofThe Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the...
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Penguin
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1996-03-07
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In a different lucid dream, the renaissance genius leonardo da vinci becomes the artist of my revelations. With strokes of wisdom, he transforms my prophetic visions into paintings that capture the essence of the predictions, bridging the gap between art and...
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Rob Satterfield
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2025-08-12
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Nostradamus is famous for fighting the bubonic plague and for predicting future events. The Technology Prophecies reveal the connection between the contents of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and the predictions thatNostradamus made about submarine warfare, combat in the...
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Rob Satterfield
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2025-08-07
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In this groundbreaking fusion of historical analysis, quantum theory, and artificial intelligence, the Nostradamus frequency cracks open the encrypted mind of history's most enigmatic seer. Through modern translations, deep pattern recognition, and semantic modeling,...
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Rob Satterfield
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2025-07-31
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Winner, NB Book Award (Non-Fiction) The remarkable life and legacy of an extraordinary man whose influence echoes through time. Tappan Adney travelled from New York to New Brunswick for a summer holiday at the age of 19 in 1887, and it changed the course of his life....
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Goose Lane Editions
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2024-10-08
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As the first Russian bomb drops on Oulu, Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War, Aarne Kovala is a young boy with a great love of the sea. While the war rages, Aarne takes fate into his own hands and joins the Finnish merchant marines. He spends his days delivering...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
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2017-09-28
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Joe LaFlamme lived passion to the limit. In 1920 he settled in Gogama, in remote Northern Ontario, connecting to the wild animals of the boreal forest. Taming wolves turned him into a legend, his fame spreading throughout Canada and the United States. Yet he himself...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
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2017-09-28
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Both Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844–1919) were prolific letterwriters.Lev Nikolaevich wrote approximately 10,000 letters over his lifetime — 840 of these addressed to his wife. Letters written by (or to) Sofia Andreevna...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2017-05-23
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Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A decade later, as she sails away from...
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AU Press
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2017-04-07
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From the trips to the general store to battles with bedbugs and falling cows, Five Pennies brings to life the experiences of a boy growing up in the early west. Filled with details about pioneer life, each story gives insight into the difficulties, challenges, and joys...
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Fifth House Books
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2014-01-30
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In the early 1900s, Charles Noble Lewis and his family were prominent members of St. John’s high society. A chief engineer who worked for Bowring Brothers, Charles fraternized with many of the key players who shaped Newfoundland and Labrador history as we know it today....
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Flanker Press
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2013-01-25
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A transcription of Lucy Peel’s wonderfully readable journal was recently discovered in her descendent’s house in Norwich, England. Sent in regular installments to her transatlantic relatives, the journal presents an intimate narrative of Lucy’s Canadian sojourn with...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-30
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Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Laurence Wilmot’s Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot’s book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2009-10-22
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Life Writing
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La Vie de Michel de Marillac, written by his devoted friend Nicolas Lefèvre de Lezeau, is here presented for the first time in its integrity. Important homme d’état, Michel de Marillac (1560-1632) served the French Crown as councillor in the Parlement de Paris, maître...
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Presses de l'Université Laval
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2007-11-27
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Who was Althusius, and why is the work of a seventeenth- century political theorist important in modern times? Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) was a political theorist and a combative city politician who defended the rights of small communities against territorial...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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