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  • Aware

    An accident in space has left Navigation Specialist Jenkins alone on a ship that is dying. She is almost certain that the initial malfunction was caused by a robot, proving in her mind that all robots are useless. Jenkins finds this conviction challenged by Repair Bot 3, the last of three bots that is struggling with becoming aware. The two advisories must find a way to understand each other and ... Read more

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  • Spirits Last Vision

    The Mars rover Spirit far exceeded its expectations, running longer and discovering more than hoped. Along the way it gained many fans with it seemingly human ability to keep going in the face of failure. What if its greatest discovery is yet to be known? ... Read more

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  • Walt Whitman's America

    A Cultural Biography

    Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award andFinalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle AwardIn his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Slow Road to Brownsville

    A Journey Through the Heart of the Old West

    An adventurous Englishman explores the forgotten landscape of America's Wild West in this "illuminating, elegantly written travelogue" ( Financial Times).In his acclaimed memoir Swan River, David Reynolds invited readers into the world of his youth, growing up in Manitoba, Canada. Now, in Slow Road to Brownsville, Reynolds brings readers on a road trip along Highway 83, a little-known two-lane ... Read more

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  • From Munich to Pearl Harbor

    Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War

    Series series
    A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. -Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways Series. ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • From World War to Cold War

    Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s

    The 1940s was probably the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War from the vantage point of two of the great powers of that era, Britain and the USA, and of their wartime leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt. It also looks at their chequered relations with Stalin and at how the Grand Alliance crumbled into an ... Read more

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  • John Brown, Abolitionist

    The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

    An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him ... Read more

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  • Britannia Overruled

    British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century

    Series series Studies In Modern History
    This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of policymaking. For this Second Edition, David Reynolds has added a new chapters and extends his lively and incisive analysis to the beginning of the ... Read more

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  • Mirrors of Greatness

    Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

    A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" (Wall Street Journal) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as a leaderWinston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the Churchill we know today is a mixture of history ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Island Stories

    An Unconventional History of Britain

    This history of Britain set in a global context for our times offers a new perspective on how the rise and fall of an empire shaped modern European politics.When the British voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the country's future was thrown into doubt. So, too, was its past. The story of British history is no longer a triumphalist narrative of expanding global empire, nor one of ever ... Read more

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  • The Lady in the Park

    Clever, humane, affectionate and realistic crime writing at its best. Maxim Jakubowski. Introducing a unique and unorthodox crime solving duo - ex Met DI Jim Domino, and his inquisitive six-year-old grandson, Danny. When a woman is found unconscious on a ping-pong table in Peckham's Warwick Gardens, it looks like a case of mistaken identity. Why would anyone want to injure this popular local mum ... Read more

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  • Summits

    Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century

    The Cold War dominated history for nearly half a century, locking two superpowers in a global rivalry that ended only with the collapse of the Soviet Union. For millennia, the outcomes of war had been determined on the battlefield, but the most decisive moments of the Cold War occurred in the carefully worded exchanges of world leaders meeting face to face. In the shadow of the bomb, the summit ... Read more

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