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  • Living Ubuntu!

    The African Gift that’s restoring hope and changing young lives.

    by Peter Burdin ...
    “Living Ubuntu!” is all about the ancient African philosophy that states that “a person is a person because of other people” or “Umntu Ngumntu Ngabanya Abantu”. It means we are all connected and we all need each other to prosper. It tells the story of how Ubuntu is spreading around the world to transform young peoples’ lives, giving them new hope and new purpose. We see how Ubuntu has inspired ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Vegan Veteran

    by Peter Burdin ...
    A hundred years ago, vegans were regarded with disdain and seen as weird and weakly. In Vegan Veteran, author Peter Burdin shares the story of his father, Roy, as he battled to promote a vegan and vegetarian diet, a diet that’s finally become mainstream as a healthy lifestyle choice and a major contributor to combatting climate change. Burdin also tells how Roy lived through World War II as he ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Victims of the Environment

    Loss from Natural Hazards in the United States, 1970–1980

    by Joseph A. Pereira, Peter H. Rossi, Eleanor Weber-Burdin, James D. Wright ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences among households in the receipt of help. This volume represents the latest installment in a series of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Women in the Second World War

    by Collette Drifte ...
    Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving. They were all ordinary British women, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Quiet on the Home Front

    An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War

    by Richard van Emden, Steve Humphries ...
    A "fascinating" look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War ( World War One Illustrated).The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades.Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have ... Read more

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  • Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II

    by Jacky Hyams ...
    They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mums and teenage girls, all 'doing their bit' for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in cast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets and war machines that would ensure victory for Britain.It was dangerous, dirty and exhaustive work. They worked round the clock, often exposed to toxic, lethal chemicals. A factory ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Pamela's War

    A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands during the Second World War

    by Cherryl Vines ...
    It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to ... Read more

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  • The Blitz

    The British Under Attack

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "The Blitz" brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.The blitz proved to be a highly effective laboratory constructed out of ... Read more

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  • Diaries: In Power

    by Alan Clark ...
    The second volume of Alan Clark's bestselling DIARIES, covering the downfall of Margaret ThatcherThe first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever ... Read more

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  • How We Lived Then

    History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

    by Norman Longmate ...
    Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned - food rationing, clothes rationing, ... Read more

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  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    by Mike Brown, Carol Harris ...
    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Read more

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