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  • Greed

    A Life

    by Kevin McDermott ...
    Charles Tallack: born 1924, died 2010. A long life. And at its heart an unanswered question. Greed is a story made of stories. It is about the ways stories—love stories, comic stories, heartbreakers—can make a mess of life and leave us still hungry for more. Tallack’s stories are of the women who gave him existence in every sense. His mother, pregnant at nineteen, widowed twice before Tallack ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Conversations About Prepared Leadership in the Age of Perpetual Uncertainty -- From the C-Suite to the Battlefield

    by L. Kevin Kelly, Lt. General John F. Mulholland , US Army (ret.), Kevin McDermott ...
    When the COVID pandemic burned across the world in 2020 the United States found itself in an unaccustomed place. A country that had always assumed its superior capacity to deal with large problems instead flailed in its response not only to the health threat posed by the virus but to the economic calamity and social unrest accompanying it.When crisis came where was leadership?Paragraph 3: Prepared ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    New York Profiles

    by Kirsten Dahl ...
    Narrated by Valerie Landsburg, Kevin McDermott, Al Ruscio, Brenda Varda, Elizabeth Ruscio, Joshua Rifkind, William Palmieri ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    After 18 years of marriage, Della Doucet decides she’s had enough of life on a South Carolina military base and reinvents herself in the New York art world while reveling in a series of shallow romantic affairs. Her new life seems to be going well until she finds herself in the arms of a charming younger man.Recorded at the Guest Quarters Streets, Santa Monica, in May 1992.Director: Robert ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation, 1969–1989

    Edited by Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection represents the first comprehensive volume in English on the crucial, but under-explored, late period in the history of East European communism. Focusing on developments in Czechoslovakia from the crushing of the Prague Spring in August 1968 to the ‘Velvet Revolution’ of November 1989, the book examines a broad range of political, social and cultural issues, while also ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe

    From Communism to Pluralism

    Edited by Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe ...
    This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors reconsider such crucial themes as the broader historical significance of the 1989 events, the complex interaction between external and internal factors in the origins and outcomes of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Eastern Europe in 1968

    Responses to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion

    Edited by Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • De-Stalinising Eastern Europe

    The Rehabilitation of Stalin's Victims after 1953

    Edited by Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This unique volume examines how and to what extent former victims of Stalinist terror from across the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were received, reintegrated and rehabilitated following the mass releases from prisons and labour camps which came in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953 and Khrushchev's reforms in the subsequent decade. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia

    Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power

    by Andrew Sloin ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    A Dorothy Rosenberg Prize–winner: "A remarkable social history that investigates the process of Sovietization among Jews in Belorussia" (Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of In the Shadow of the Shtetl).This insightful history demonstrates how Jewish life in Belorussia fundamentally changed when Jews started joining the Bolshevik movement and populating the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reconstructing the Cold War

    The Early Years, 1945-1958

    by Ted Hopf ...
    General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia, just when the Cold War was getting under way? How could Khrushchev's de-Stalinized domestic ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 1, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941

    Edited by Silvio Pons, Stephen A. Smith ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Communism
    The first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts analyse the ideological roots of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky and the development of the ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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