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  • Oceans of Fate

    Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia

    de Dan Black ...
    The remarkable story of how one ship — doomed by war — intersected lives and crossed into history.Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly 30 years. Built for long-haul ocean travel during peace-time, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive-bombers destroyed her in 1942.Through the Roaring Twenties and ... Leer más

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  • Old Enough to Fight

    Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War

    Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story.Some boys ... Leer más

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  • Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

    Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War

    de Dan Black ...
    HARRY LIVINGSTONE was a small town doctor from Listowel, Ontario when he felt the pull of patriotism that led him to volunteer in the First World War. In 1917, Livingstone found himself embarking on a strange journey that took him to China, where he would inspect,and ultimately travel back to Canada with, men who became known as the Chinese Labour Corps.Once in Canada, the Chinese under ... Leer más

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  • Too Young to Die

    Canada's Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War

    John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths -- some as young as fourteen -- who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors' popular 2013 book Old Enough to Fight about boy soldiers in the First World War. Like their predecessors a generation before, these boys managed to enlist despite their youth. ... Leer más

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    In Search of the Mighty Beaver

    "Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore" ( National Post).Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent's most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from ... Leer más

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  • Great Canadian War Heroes

    Victoria Cross Recepients of World War II

    de Tom Douglas ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Great Canadian War Heroes tells the amazing stories of the 16 Canadians who received the Victoria Cross during WWII. They came from all walks of life and from various ranks within the Canadian Forces, but they all had one thing in common: each displayed exceptional bravery in the face of the enemy. ... Leer más

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    The Prairie Years

    de Carl Sandburg ...
    This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers "a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us" ( New York Herald Tribune Book Review).Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up ... Leer más

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  • The Brilliant Abyss

    Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It

    de Helen Scales ...
    A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist known for "nature writing at its most engaging" ( Sunday Express).A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our ... Leer más

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  • Extinct Languages

    A noted linguist examines extinct languages, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the mysteries of as-yet undeciphered writings, in this scholarly work.While certain ancient languages were passed down continuously through the ages, many others were ignored for centuries. When scholars began to decipher these extinct languages in the early nineteenth century, they uncovered previously inaccessible riches ... Leer más

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  • Dinosaurs of Darkness

    "A valuable volume detailing an underexplored region of the world of dinosaurs . . . essential reading for any dino-devotee." — ForeWordDinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region.How were the polar dinosaurs ... Leer más

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  • The Black Church

    This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

    **The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book ... Leer más

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  • Becoming Wild

    How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

    de Carl Safina ...
    Discover the rich cultures of non-human beings in Earth's remaining wild places, as revealed by bestselling author Carl Safina.In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Carl Safina, New York Times bestselling author, brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve ... Leer más

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