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  • Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

    First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...
    Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Fine Feathered Friend

    by William Grimes ...
    Boy Meets Bird.Boy Gets Bird.Boy Loses BirdAn Urban Folktale.One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Appetite City

    A Culinary History of New York

    by William Grimes ...
    "Fascinating . . . Grimes show us how New York became, arguably, the best food city in the world. This is a wonderful book!" —Jacques Pépin, multiple James Beard Award-winning chefIn Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Charlie the Red-Tailed Hawk

    by William Grimes ...
    This is a story about the relationship between an old man and a red-tailed hawk that fell from its nest and how he saved the hawk from being eaten by a six-foot-long rattlesnake and how the hawk was able to return the favor by saving the old man's life.The old man, born in the 1900s and raised on a farm in Wakulla County, Florida, was not a big fan of the red-tailed hawks. The common name of a red ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Hereafter

    We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs

    by Kurt Tucholsky ...
    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 5 - Tucholsky in Translation
    What happens after you die? Where will you go? Will you have a harp, and wings? Will you still have your sharp wit? Does it do you any good? Were you happy with your life? Did your family love you? Or, at least, your mistress? And do you want a second chance to return to earth? In Hereafter. We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs Kurt Tucholsky, the iconic German Jewish author and poet of ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Sexuality & Holiness.

    Remaining Loving and Biblically-Grounded in a Rapidly Shifting Culture

    by Mike Williams ...
    Uncompromising but compassionate, Mike tackles the tricky issues of same-sex relationships, gender and the Church’s interaction with individuals of the LGBTQ+ community today. Writing for the Church, to challenge the Church, he does not shy away from the tough questions including:What does the Bible actually say?Are believers living with a Kingdom-first mindset or going with the cultural flow?How ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Japan's Managed Globalization

    Adapting to the Twenty-first Century

    by Ulrike Schaede, William W. Grimes ...
    As Japan moves from a "catch-up" strategy to a post-developmental stage, it is changing its actions and reactions both in terms of international political economy and domestic policy issues. The current changes in Japan can best be understood as following a path toward "permeable insulation." Japan's government and economic system continue to insulate domestic businesses from full competition and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Ohio Indian Trails

    Third Edition

    by Wilcox ...
    A facsimile edition of Wilcox’s classic 1933 pictorial survey of the Indian trails of OhioShawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingo—tribes great and small, loosely confederated or warring with each other, pushed ever westward by the advancing white settlements—these were the native peoples of Ohio. They left behind little but their names, yet the trained eye can still discover ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The International Relations of Northeast Asia

    by Thomas Berger, Kent E. Calder, William W. Grimes, Alastair Iain Johnston, C S. Eliot Kang, Taehwan Kim, Thomas G. Moore, Lynn T. White III, Lowell Dittmer, Chung-in Moon, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and eco-development, and democratization and humane governance are concentrated. More than any other part of the world, the divided Korean ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Medieval Cistercian History

    Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 9

    by Thomas Merton OCSO, William R. Grimes ...
    Series Book 43 - Monastic Wisdom Series
    Thomas Merton’s deep roots in his own Cistercian tradition are on display in the two sets of conferences on the early days of the Order included in the present volume. The first surveys the relevant monastic background that led up to the foundation of the Abbey of Cîteaux in 1098 and goes on to consider the contributions of each of the first three abbots of the “New Monastery” that would become ... Read more

    $47.29 CAD

  • New York Times: The Times of the Eighties

    The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

    by The New York Times ...
    From America's best source of in-depth daily reporting comes this sweeping retrospective of the news, culture, and personalities of the 1980s.There is no better record of history than the archives of The New York Times. Now, more than 200 articles from the great decade of the 1980s are culled from these archives and carefully curated, by editor and Times writer William Grimes, to create one ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Born a Slave: Anthology

    Firsthand Narratives of Bondage, Escape, Resistance, and the Black Freedom Struggle

    by Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Prince, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Zamba Zembola, Solomon Bayley, William Grimes, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Moses Roper, Henry Watson, John Brown, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Emma Ray, Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Nicholas Said, George Henry, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, Venture Smith ...
    Born a Slave: Anthology gathers a wide-ranging archive of testimony on enslavement, resistance, flight, family separation, literacy, religion, labor, and emancipation. Its selections move among autobiography, dictated narrative, spiritual reflection, political address, recollection, and abolitionist-inflected life writing, revealing both the formal variety and evidentiary force of Black testimony. ... Read more

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