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  • Architectures of Slavery

    Ruins and Reconstructions

    Series series Race, Place, and Justice
    The material legacies of slavery across the Atlantic worldAtlantic slavery has bequeathed architectural legacies from the plantation ruins that fill the valleys of Cuba to the servant’s quarters of middle-class apartment housing in Brazil; from picturesque New England waterfronts to the modernist ranch-house suburbs of Savannah; and from the castle-studded coastline of Ghana to steel-framed ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Suffragette City

    Women, Politics, and the Built Environment

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLVIN PRIZE 2021! Awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, the Colvin Prize is one of the world's most prestigious honors in the field of architectural history. The medal is awarded annually to the author or authors of an outstanding work of reference of broad importance to the discipline; all modes of publication are eligible, including catalogues, ... Read more

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  • Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

    Abandoning Babylon

    The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find "the best of the city and the country" in the flowery suburbs? While looking back at the architecture and urban design of ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

    Women, Memory, and Public Space

    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Your Service Is Required

    by Jeff Walker ...
    Narrated by Nathaniel Priestley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    Jeff Walker, author of the space opera novella The Long Lost War*,*and the sci-fi fantasy series Outer Red, brings you his vision of a futuristic dystopian society. A science-fiction drama of one man trying to survive in a machine-dominated world.Earth is now under the control of two artificially intelligent rulers, Angela and Malcolm; they govern the planet and use humanity to service their needs ... Read more

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    Immortality Complex, The

    A Science Fiction Short Story

    by Jeff Walker ...
    Narrated by Nathaniel Priestley ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 50 min

    A science fiction short story from Jeff Walker, author of such titles as: The Long Lost War, The Massive Planet: The Adventures Of Deep Contact, Your Service Is Required, The Jungle Planet and The Mysterious World of Professor Darkk and Miss Shadow.Simon Janson died at the end of his life, only to be reborn into a new body and his mind uploaded to it. No... ... Read more

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    Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret (UNABRIDGED)

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    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is loosely based on the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He always considered the book as unfinished and it wasn't published until after his death by his son Julian. ... Read more

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    Series Book 4 - ReVisioning History
    An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of ... Read more

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  • Finding Florida

    The True History of the Sunshine State

    by T. D. Allman ...
    A National Book Award Nominee and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, “God’s waiting room,” and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it’s home to nineteen million. The site of ... Read more

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The African Americans

    Many Rivers to Cross

    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Smashing Statues

    The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

    A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD