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  • Solomon Northup

    The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave

    by David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown Jr., Rachel Seligman ...
    A companion to the classic African-American autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup.Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave provides a compelling chronological narrative of Northup's entire life, from his birth in an ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Solomon Northup's Kindred

    The Kidnapping of Free Citizens before the Civil War

    by David Fiske ...
    Kidnapping was a lucrative crime in antebellum America, and many American citizens—especially free blacks—were abducted for profit. This book reveals the untold stories of the captured.The story of Solomon Northup, subject of the Academy Award-winning best picture 12 Years a Slave, is representative of the deplorable treatment many African Americans experienced in the period leading up to the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Energizing Sustainable Cities

    Assessing Urban Energy

    Edited by Arnulf Grubler, David Fisk ...
    Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts. The twenty-first century will be increasingly urban. Sustainable development therefore needs first to be defined and analyzed, and then realized in urban settings. Energy is one of the key challenges, but also one ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Taking Socialism Seriously

    by Ann Ferguson, John L. Hammond, David Schweickart, Karsten Struhl, Milton Fisk, Tony Smith ...
    Series series Critical Studies on the Left
    Taking Socialism Seriously raises essential questions about what socialism is and how socialists can reach it by addressing a long list of potential quandaries. The contributions compiled by Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt describe how socialism differs from a reformed and more humane form of capitalism. Various chapters discuss suitable forms of love and family in a socialist society and ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Twelve Years a Slave

    The Black History Classic

    by Solomon Northup, Tom Butler-Bowdon ...
    Series series Capstone Classics
    DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITYTwelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. His true tale of captivity, torture and abuse brings to life the unimaginable evils of slavery in a time when it was yet to be outlawed. Equal parts slave, travel, and spiritual narrative, Twelve Years A ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Navigating Water Quality Outcomes in American Watersheds

    by David Prescott Adams, Jonathan Marc Fisk, John Charles Morris ...
    Whether due to climate change, drought, flooding, competing demands, or pollution, watersheds across the globe are under significant duress. To respond to these complex challenges, collaborative approaches to watershed governance have increasingly been adopted in the United States, but very few studies have yet to systematically assess their true effectiveness. This book addresses a significant ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • The Shale Renaissance

    How Fracking Has Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, David Allen Good Jr. ...
    Series series Regional
    Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing—more commonly known as fracking—was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation that stretches from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York did not begin in earnest until the twenty-first century. Unconventional natural gas production via fracking has ignited debate, challenged regulators, and added ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Sinless in Sin City

    From Gambling to God

    by David T. Fiske ...
    Do you have a demon that you cannot get rid of? Has God tried to get your attention? God finally got my attention and showed me the way, the truth, and the life that set me free. Free from an addiction that was destroying me and my family and my friendships. I had gambled compulsively for ten years. I was in deep debt, and no one knew itexcept God. Then my family began to figure out that I had a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Bound for the Promised Land

    Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

    by Kate Clifford Larson ...
    The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review).Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Escape on the Pearl

    The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad

    by Mary Kay Ricks ...
    The largest mass escape of fugitive slaves in American history is thrillingly chronicled in this "readable . . . valuable account" ( Kirkus).On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North—and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One More River to Cross

    by Bryan Prince ...
    In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus