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  • Living With Honour

    A Pagan Ethics

    by Emma Restall Orr ...
    A provocative,articulate and uncompromising exploration of how Paganism can provide the philosophical guidance to live honourably in a twenty-first Western society. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Updated Edition

    by Matthew Restall ...
    An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

    by Matthew Restall ...
    **“Entertaining and unpredictable.… [S]urprising and significant.” —Andrés Reséndez, New York Times Book ReviewA gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbus—his life, his legacies, and the controversies that outlived him.**Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Wakeful World

    Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature

    by Emma Restall Orr ...
    Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naïve and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul.Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall Orr explores the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane ...
    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    by Matthew Restall ...
    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Conquest of Mexico

    500 Years of Reinventions

    by Matthew Restall ...
    The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed.In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Field Guide to the Birds of Venezuela

    by David Ascanio, Gustavo Rodriguez, Mr Robin Restall ...
    Series series Helm Field Guides
    A comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds of Venezuela, covering all 1,400 species.Covering the sixth largest avifauna in the world, this guide is essential for anyone exploring the diverse habitats of this beautiful South American country as well as Guyana, northern Brazil and west Suriname. Birds of Venezuela - complete with authoritative text and superb colour plates - ... Read more

    $110.89 CAD

  • Kissing the Hag

    by Emma Restall Orr ...
    Kissing the Hag by Emma Restall Orr is based upon the old tale of The Marriage of Sir Gawain, and carries us from girlish innocence through to the nauseating horror of the hag - the raw side, the dark side, the inside of a woman's. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Maya

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas — and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mesoamerican Voices

    Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala

    Edited by Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, Kevin Terraciano ...
    Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD