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  • Revolution and Resistance

    Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire

    by David Tucker ...
    This exploration of the links between imperialism and insurgency is "a reliable introduction to a complex subject" (Dennis E. Showalter, coauthor of If the Allies Had Fallen).In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"—including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics—is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Painting To Die For

    by David L. Tucker ...
    In A Painting to Die For**, where art world meets underworld, the question is not what is fake, but who is genuine?**Bill, a struggling Toronto artist, is drawn into a world of art fraud, money laundering, and murder when his uncle convinces him to go to England to check on his estranged daughter. When Bill finds his cousin, and former childhood crush, all grown-up and running a posh Mayfair ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fluid Frontier

    Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland

    Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Veta Smith Tucker ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    New research on the long, shared struggle for freedom by people of African descent in the Detroit River borderland from a uniquely bi-national perspective.As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a ... Read more

    $34.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Battle for the Mediterranean, The

    Allied and Axis Campaigns from North Africa to the Italian Peninsula, 1940-45

    by Anthony Tucker-Jones ...
    Narrated by David Vickery ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    "This book provides a strategic overview of the war that is interweaved with fascinating personal accounts, its campaigns and battles." - Professor Geoffrey Roberts.If the Second World War was Hitler's war, the vast military conflict that engulfed the Mediterranean between 1940 and 1945 was Mussolini's. In this exciting and illuminating account, Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the major campaigns ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Hard Bargain

    Music, Medicine, and My Father (Richard Tucker, Opera Legend)

    by David Tucker, Burton Spivak ...
    The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the American superstar tenor from the golden age of the Metropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his father’s wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage. Their struggle over David’s future—by turns ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • London Walks: London Stories

    by David Tucker ...
    London Walks is the award-winning original walking tour company. Written by the expert and knowledgeable guides who lead the walks, London Stories is the perfect way to discover the rich history of London and its hidden gems, including:Sinister London - haunted London and Jack the Ripper.Literary London - from Shakespeare to Dickens.Public Houses - the old pubs of Soho.Mystery and Secrets - the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rochelle Hudson

    A Biography and Career Record

    by David C. Tucker ...
    Rochelle Hudson's career as an actress was planned from the start (born in 1916) by her ambitious stage mother. Given rigorous dance and musical training as a child, Hudson won her first film contract at the age of 14. A WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931, she co-starred with actors such as W.C. Fields, Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Will Rogers and Fredric March in classic films like Imitation of Life ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Ascension Protocol

    by David Tucker ...
    A rogue AI is evolving beyond human control.A smart city is no longer obeying its makers.And the future humanity engineered is turning against it.When Clara, Alex, and a conflicted government operative uncover the truth behind an evolving artificial intelligence, they are thrust into a race to stop a threat growing faster than anyone predicted.At the centre of it all is Veridian, humanity’s first ... Read more

    $6.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Predators And Ghost

    A realistic guide on tracking, counter tracking, scent elimination, scent cover, and camouflage.

    by David Tucker ...
    Predators and Ghosts explores the quiet skills of tracking, observation, and survival where wilderness instinct and human behavior intersect.Drawing from years spent hunting, studying animal movement, and operating in high-risk environments, this book examines how predators both natural and human move through the world unseen. It focuses on reading terrain, understanding sign, controlling presence ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Local Heroes

    by David Tucker ...
    "David Tucker celebrates the incandescence of the every day, and raises the ordinary to art—a telephone as quiet as an heirloom, the stillness tended like wheat—even as he mourns the quickness of time passing. There are gems on every page, in every line, in poems full of pathos and humor and longing. And always, the last words linger, still shimmering with a reverence for life amidst all the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Women Who Made Television Funny

    Ten Stars of 1950s Sitcoms

    by David C. Tucker ...
    Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but their pioneering Hollywood careers irrevocably changed the face of television comedy. These smart and sassy women successfully negotiated the hazards of the male-dominated workplace with class and humor, and the work they did in the 1950s is inventive still by today's standards. Unable to fall ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Joan Davis

    America's Queen of Film, Radio and Television Comedy

    by David C. Tucker ...
    The Emmy-nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912-1961) was also radio's highest paid comedienne in the 1940s--and she displayed her unique brand of knockabout comedy in more than forty films. This book provides a complete account of her career, including a filmography with critical commentary, and the most detailed episode logs ever compiled for her radio and ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD