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  • The State of the Earth

    Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100

    by Paul K. Conkin ...
    An assessment of where we are, where we're headed, and what we need to do before it's too late: "Instructive, well-researched, and easy-to-read." —John T. Ackerman, Strategic Studies QuarterlyThis era of staggering scientific and technological innovations, with major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, and communications, seems to document unparalleled human achievement. Yet when we ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Revolution Down on the Farm

    The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929

    by Paul K. Conkin ...
    At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • American Originals

    Homemade Varieties of Christianity

    by Paul K. Conkin ...
    In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity — a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy. Identifying six distinctive types, Conkin examines the major denominations representative of each original variety of American ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Uneasy Center

    Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America

    by Paul K. Conkin ...
    Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War. He clarifies theological traditions and doctrinal arguments and includes substantive ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Human Tradition in the New South

    by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook, S. Spencer Davis, Kathryn W. Kemp, William J. Marshall, John Ed Pearce, Rebecca Sharpless, Gerald L. Smith, Margaret Ripley Wolfe, John David Smith, Christopher Waldrep ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South.With ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • How Christianity Changed the World

    by Alvin J. Schmidt ...
    Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people todayhave little sense of how their lives have benefited fromChristianity’s influence, often viewing the church withhostility or resentment.How Christianity Changed the World is a topicallyarranged Christian history for Christians and non-Christians. Grounded in solid research and written ... Read more

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  • The Race Beat

    The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a ... Read more

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  • Climate Wars

    How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives)

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Christianity Through the Centuries

    A History of the Christian Church

    by Earle E. Cairns ...
    The third edition of Christianity Through the Centuries brings the reader up-to-date by discussing events and developments in the church into the 1990s. This edition has been redesigned with new typography and greatly improved graphics to increase clarity, accessibility, and usefulness. - New chapters examine recent trends and developments (expanding the last section from 2 chapters to 5) - New ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • At the Dark End of the Street

    Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

    by Danielle L. McGuire ...
    Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men."An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington PostRosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Daughters of the Church

    Women and ministry from New Testament times to the present

    by Ruth A. Tucker, Walter L. Liefeld ...
    Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history. It tells of events and aspirations, determination and disappointment, patience and achievement that mark the history of daughters of the church from the time of Jesus to the present. The authors have endeavored to present an objective story. The very ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Arc of Justice

    A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

    by Kevin Boyle ...
    Winner of the National Book Award for NonfictionFinalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFrom the leading historian and Guggenheim fellow, an electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle.Arc of Justice is a necessary contribution to what seems like an insoluble moral dilemma: race in America.” —Paul Hendrickso... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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