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  • Driven

    How the Bathurst Tragedy Ignited a Crusade for Change

    by Richard Foot ...
    Shortlisted, East Coast Literary Award and Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-FictionIt was over in seconds. In the early hours of January 12, 2008, seven members of a high school basketball team and their coach’s wife died instantly when their school van collided with a tractor trailer. Travelling in dirty weather, minutes from their Bathurst, New Brunswick, homes, the impact forever shattered the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Laws of Early Iceland

    Gragas I

    Series Book 3 - U of M Icelandic Series
    The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Crimes of Stalin

    The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.'-Joseph StalinWorshipped by the Russians as a great leader, Stalin was one of modern history's greatest tyrants, rivalling Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. But he probably had more blood on his hands than any of them.Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, Stalin studied to be a priest while secretly reading the works of Karl ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russian Revolution

    by E. M. Halliday ...
    The turbulent events that overtook Russia in 1917 are often called one of history's great turning points. In March of that year, a corrupt, outdated, careworn autocracy - the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty - was overthrown by a spontaneous uprising of Russia's long-oppressed masses. During the next few months, Alexander Kerensky and other liberals in the provisional government attempted to adopt ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Louis D. Brandeis

    A Life

    by Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation of one man’s effect on American society and jurisprudence, and the electrifying ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The A to Z of Norway

    by Jan Sjåvik ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious Vikings, it lost perhaps half of its population to the Black Death in 1349, ended up in a union with Denmark that lasted until 1814, and then became ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Finnish Aces of World War 2

    by Kari Stenman, Kalevi Keskinnen ...
    Series Book 23 - Aircraft of the Aces
    Always outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts, the small band of Finnish fighter pilots who defended their Scandinavian homeland from the 'communist hordes' in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945 amassed scores only bettered by the Luftwaffe's Jagdflieger.Initially equipped with a motley collection of biplane and monoplane fighters garnered from sources across the globe, the Finnish Air ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Man Who Stole Himself

    The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

    by Gísli Pálsson ...
    The life story of Hans Jonathan, Iceland's first Black citizen.The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free Black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels.In ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Justice and Grace

    Private Petitioning and the English Parliament in the Late Middle Ages

    by Gwilym Dodd ...
    Focussing on the key role of the English medieval parliament in hearing and determining the requests of the king's subjects, this ground-breaking new study examines the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament (c.1270-1450). Until now, historians have focussed on the political and financial significance of the English medieval parliament; this book offers an important ... Read more

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  • The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr

    Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation

    by R. Kent Newmyer ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
    The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who declared Burr guilty without the benefit of a trial and who masterminded the prosecution), Chief Justice John Marshall (who sat as a trial judge ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Arbitrary Rule

    Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

    by Mary Nyquist ...
    Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Race And Homicide In Nineteenth-Century California

    by Clare V. McKanna ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common, and legal responses varied broadly. Available now for the first time in paperback, Race and Homicide ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD