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  • Adaptation and Natural Selection

    A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought

    by George Christopher Williams ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Biological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams’s famous work in favor of simple Darwinism over ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Ink and Daggers

    by Ann Cleeves, Chris Simms, Christine Poulson, Christopher Fowler, Conrad Williams, George Pelecanos, James Sallis, John Lawton, Ken Bruen, Kevin Wignall, Lavie Tidhar, Martyn Waites, Max Allan Collins, Maxim Jakubowski, Mickey Spillane, Neil Gaiman, Peter Robinson, Simon Brett, Stuart Neville, Val McDermid, Victoria Selman ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Toby Longworth, Eilidh Beaton, Jeff Harding, Samuel Eldritch ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 27 min

    An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan.Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid.OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN CRIME FICTIONLegendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

  • “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

    Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

    by W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, Wendy Kramer, William R. Swezey ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    300 Quotes from English Writers

    by Jane Austen, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ...
    Narrated by Katie Haigh ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 27 min

    '300 Quotes from English Writers' is a carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of England's greatest-ever writers, including Jane Austen and William Shakespeare.Between them, they are responsible for many of the world's most famous literary works, such as 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth', 'Sense and Sensibility', and 'Pride and Prejudice'. This compilation contains many famous quotes and is guaranteed ... Read more

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  • The Name of War

    King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

    by Jill Lepore ...
    BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tomahawk and Musket

    French and Indian Raids in the Ohio Valley 1758

    by René Chartrand ...
    Series Book 27 - Raid
    In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley.As his army closed in upon the fort, he sent Major Grant of the 77th Highlanders and 850 men on a reconnaissance in force against the fort. The French, alerted to this move, launched their own counter-raid. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Ancient Pueblo Peoples ''Anasazi''

    by Sohrab ChamanAra ...
    **File information and download instruction**The eBook file is in Fixed layout. You are not able to adjust the size of the text. If your device is capable, you may be able to zoom in and out of the pages.After the payment is made, click on the DOWNLOAD NOW button on the screen. Select which file is compatible with your device and save it on your local drive.If you are using an eBook device to read ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Blackfoot Redemption

    A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

    by William E. Farr ...
    In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Custer's Last Stand

    The Unfinished Manuscript

    by Norman Maclean ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim—as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. When he died in 1990, Maclean left behind an earlier unfinished project, on a topic that had held his attention for decades: General ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Paper Cadavers

    The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala

    by Kirsten Weld ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America

    by Pedro Velasquez ...
    Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America is a compelling account by Pedro Velasquez that chronicles his adventures during an exploratory expedition in Central America. Published in 1852, this memoir offers readers a vivid portrayal of the region's diverse landscapes, cultures, and challenges faced by explorers during the mid-19th century. Velasquez, an intrepid traveler and keen ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fatherly Eye

    Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939

    by Robin Brownlie ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration Canada's 'Indian' policy. In A Fatherly Eye, historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD