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  • Nobody Said Not to Go

    The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn

    "A rip-roaring bio" of the trailblazing New Yorker journalist that "explore[s] both the passion and dissatisfaction that fueled Hahn's wanderlust" ( Entertainment Weekly ).Emily Hahn first challenged traditional gender roles in 1922 when she enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's all-male College of Engineering, wearing trousers, smoking cigars, and adopting the nickname "Mickey." Her love of ... Leer más

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  • The Halifax Explosion

    Canada's Worst Disaster

    On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That accident sparked a fire and an apocalyptic explosion that was the largest man-made blast prior to the 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Together with the killer tsunami that followed, the explosion devastated the entire city in the ... Leer más

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  • Seven Bucks a Head

    The Scandalous Child Resettlement Scheme That Built a Nation

    A searing account of Britain's child resettlement scheme and the forgotten children sent to build Canada.In the seven decades between 1869 and 1939, more than 100,000 so-called "gutter children" from institutional care homes in the United Kingdom were shipped to Canada for better lives. But if ever there was a classic case of government-sanctioned philanthropy that went sideways, this was it. ... Leer más

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  • 1945

    The Year That Made Modern Canada

    It was awatershed year for Canada and the world. 1945 set Canada on a bold course intothe future. A huge sense of relief marked the end of hostilities. Yet therewas also fear and uncertainty about the perilous new world that was unfolding inthe wake of the American decision to use the atomic bomb to bring the war inthe Pacific to a dramatic halt.On the eveof WWII, the Dominion of Canada was a ... Leer más

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  • Blood on the Coal

    The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster

    The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived itForeword by Anne MurrayThey said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. That claim was probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation’s No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those ... Leer más

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  • A Complex Fate

    William L. Shirer and the American Century

    William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and ’30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war.In 1937, Shirer left ... Leer más

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  • Congo Solo

    Misadventures Two Degrees North

    de Emily Hahn ...
    Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers at The New Yorker - her first byline appeared there in 1929, her last in 1996. She was also the author of fifty-three books, and, had her 1933 travel memoir, Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days of the Great Depression, it might well have been hailed as a classic of the genre, alongside Dinesen's ... Leer más

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    Blood on the Coal

    The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster

    Narrado por Miles Meili ...

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    10 hora 1 minutos

    The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived itForeword by Anne MurrayThey said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. That claim was probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation’s No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those ... Leer más

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    1945

    The Year That Made Modern Canada

    Narrado por David Pevsner ...

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    13 hora 58 minutos

    It was awatershed year for Canada and the world. 1945 set Canada on a bold course intothe future. A huge sense of relief marked the end of hostilities. Yet therewas also fear and uncertainty about the perilous new world that was unfolding inthe wake of the American decision to use the atomic bomb to bring the war inthe Pacific to a dramatic halt.On the eveof WWII, the Dominion of Canada was a ... Leer más

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    Testimony

    Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

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    Ghost Flames

    Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

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    A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets.The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning seventy years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history -- as the first great clash of arms of the Cold War, the last conflict between superpowers, the ... Leer más

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    Rogues' Gallery

    The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York

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    From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York.Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the streets of New York City during an era known as the Gilded Age. For centuries, New York had been a ... Leer más

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