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  • American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition

    by Kenneth D Rose ...
    Series Book 17 - The American Social Experience
    In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First. Many factors helped create this remarkable turn of events. One factor that was essential, Kenneth D. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myth and the Greatest Generation

    A Social History of Americans in World War II

    by Kenneth Rose ...
    Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw.Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II than is ... Read more

    Was $83.81 CAD Now $74.19 CAD

  • One Nation Underground

    The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

    by Kenneth D. Rose ...
    Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experienceFor the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    100neHundred

    by Laura Besley ...
    Narrated by Ben Clifford, Beth Frieden, Cornelia Colman, Kenneth Michaels, Lisa Rose, Margaret Ashley, Olivia Rose-Michaels, Shubhita Chaturvedi, Tigger Blaize ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    A man carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of his shirt. During World War II, a young soldier searches the houses and barns of the families with whom he grew up. An astronaut wonders whether she can adapt to life back on earth.In her second collection of short fiction, 100neHundred, Laura Besley explores a kaleidoscope of emotions through 100 stories of exactly 100 words.So much ... Read more

    $28.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Beginning of the Age of Mammals

    by Kenneth D. Rose ...
    In the tradition of G. G. Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious K-T boundary which so quickly thrust mammals from obscurity to planetary dominance.Rose surveys the evolution of mammals, beginning with their origin from cynodont therapsids in the Mesozoic, contemporary with dinosaurs, ... Read more

    $198.99 CAD

  • Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose

    Volume Two 1979-2014

    by Kenneth Rose ...
    Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft.His impeccable social placement located him within the beating heart of the national elite for decades. He was capable of writing substantial history, such as his priceless material on the abdication crisis ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    Wisdom from the World’s Religions

    by Kenneth Rose ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Rose ...
    Series series Learn25: Religion

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    Since the dawn of civilization, religion has shaped the human mind and experience. But until recently, the world’s religious traditions existed in different spheres, separated by barriers of culture and geography.Now, Wisdom from the World’s Religions folds the teachings of the great faith traditions into one easy and illuminating educational experience. Grounded in a comparative religionist ... Read more

    $34.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose

    Volume One 1944-1979

    by Kenneth Rose ...
    'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over seventy years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • American Isolationism Between the World Wars

    The Search for a Nation's Identity

    by Kenneth D. Rose ...
    American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars, arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding.During the interwar period, isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats, Catholics and Protestants, pacifists and militarists, rich and poor. While the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Unspeakable Awfulness

    America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900

    by Kenneth D. Rose ...
    The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar ‘Grand Tour’ of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • T'ai Chi & Qigong for Your Health

    Historical and Scientific Foundations

    by Michael DeMarco, Arieh Lev Breslow, C.J. Rhoads, Dina Hayduk, Duane Crider, Shane Kachur, Nicholas Carleton, Gordon Asmundson, Kenneth S. Cohen ...
    T’ai Chi and qigong are popular because of their great reputations as exercises with numerous health-related benefits. Can these benefits simply be results of placebo effects? Chapters in this e-book not only provide an interesting historical backdrop in which taiji and qigong developed, but also provide scientific support for the efficacy and effects of both modalities. Breslow’s chapter focuses ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art Of Virtual Networking - Build Long Lasting Connections And Grow Your Business Or Career

    by Kenneth Rose ...
    Build Long-Lasting Connections And Grow Your Business Or CareerBecause of technological advancements and new ways for employees to interact and meet with one another, virtual networking now allows you to reach out to others and make connections that were previously unavailable. You can get ahead and meet people from all over the world by using social media, Zoom, and other tools.Our book, "The Art ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus