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  • A Nation Unlike Any Other

    Essays

    by Gordon Wood ...
    In this remarkable collection of essays—some never published before—the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Gordon Wood unfolds the transformative power of the American Revolution.An urgent and stirring work, A Nation Unlike Any Other gathers writing from preeminent historian Gordon Wood to provide a deeply nuanced portrait of America’s origins. Written over the course of six decades, this work ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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  • The Founder's Children

    Earth's First and Last Interstellar Mission

    by Gordon Woods ...
    16,000 BCE: Celet, a lone alien researcher, discovers a dark truth: the primitive humans of Earth are destined to destroy their world. Defying her orders, she leaves a message of warning—and a thread of hope—for their distant descendants.2264 CE: Earth is dying. When the first interstellar ship is sabotaged, a deep rift between humans and their AI creations is exposed. But the discovery of Celet’s ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works

    by Max Pemberton ...
    In 'The Complete Works' by Max Pemberton, readers are immersed in a collection of his most prolific literary pieces, showcasing his versatility in various genres such as fiction, non-fiction, and journalism. Pemberton's writing style is characterized by its vivid descriptions, sharp wit, and insightful commentary on societal issues of the time. This comprehensive volume provides readers with a ... Read more

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  • The Murder of Gianni Versace

    by Gordon Wood ...
    On the 15th of July 1997 the world of fashion was changed forever. Gianni Versace had decided to have a change of routine. Instead of sending out an assistant, as he usually would, to collect the morning papers, Versace travelled down to his local coffee shop to get them himself. As he returned home to his Miami Beach mansion, Andrew Cunanan pounced. Firing his gun and shooting Versace twice, a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Friends Divided

    John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course.**Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Power and Liberty

    Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Secrets of the Nameless Ship (Sea Adventure Books - Boxed Set) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Iron Pirate, Captain Black, The Sea Wolves, The House Under the Sea & The Diamond Ship

    by Max Pemberton, Everett Ormeray ...
    Secrets of the Nameless Ship gathers Max Pemberton's maritime adventure fiction around one of the genre's most enduring fascinations: the sea as a theatre of secrecy, danger, and moral testing. Written in the brisk, suspenseful manner of late-Victorian and Edwardian popular romance, the volume blends nautical peril, criminal intrigue, and imperial-era restlessness. Its style is direct and vividly ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    “I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun“Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” —The Washington Post Book WorldFrom the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text

    by Ted Widmer ...
    **INDEPENDENCE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and close readings of 68 original texts offer new insights on the American Revolution, the Civil War, and other key moments and figures in American history.**We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . all men are created ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    The Purpose of the Past

    Reflections on the Uses of History

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    History is to society what memory is to the individual—without it, we don’t know who we are and we can’t make wise decisions about our future. But while the nature of memory is constant, the nature of history has changed radically over the past forty years.In The Purpose of the Past, historian Gordon S. Wood examines this sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important ... Read more

    $29.35 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook