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The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to record the previously hidden history of more than a century of forced residential schooling for Indigenous children. Marie Wilson helped lead that work as one of just three commissioners. With the skills of a journalist, the heart of a mother and grandmother,...
2) Centuries of Change: History of Colchester Arts Centre the Former Church of St. Mary's at the Walls
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Book blurbColchester's Arts Centre is one of this towns popular entertainment venues, which occupies the former church of St. Marty's at the Walls. Follow my journey of discovery into the rise and decline of this former church, as I uncover the unique story of its survival through 700 years of history.Discover the church's social history through wars and plague. Read how the parishioners twice financed the rebuilding of the church and the determination...
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Reefer Madness, a classic in the annals of hemp literature, is the popular social history of marijuana use in America. Beginning with the hemp farming of George Washington, author Larry "Ratso" Sloman traces the fascinating story of our nation's love-hate relationship with the resilient weed we know as marijuana.
Herein we find antiheroes such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Mitchum (the first Hollywood actor busted for pot), Louis Armstrong (who smoked...
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Over 250 old photographs, many published for the first time, appear in this new collection covering the districts of Roath, Splott and Adamsdown. This area, along with Penylan, Tremorfa and part of Cathays, once had a collective unity as the ecclesiastical parish of Roath created in the late sixteenth century. Roath as an historical entity is much older, however. Reputed to be pre-Norman in origin, in its time it has served as a manor, parish and...
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The domed US Capitol Building is recognized around the world as America's most iconic symbol, the forum for representative democracy, and the physical stage for the transfer of executive power. As the United States grew in size and complexity, the Capitol was built, rebuilt, enlarged, and extended many times under the direction of the few who have served as Architect of the Capitol. This official heads the agency dedicated to preserving and upgrading...
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Why did Rome Fall?
In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by an environmental disaster.
A catastrophic megadrought on the Asian steppes in the fourth century AD forced the migration of entire peoples-Huns, Goths, Vandals, and others-west into the Roman Empire. They met...
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This New York Times bestseller is an insider's account of the fall of Richard Nixon and has remained an indispensable source into Nixon's presidency. Blind Ambition is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at thirty years of age, only to discover that when reaching the top he had touched the bottom. Most striking in this chronicle is its honesty....
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Following the end of the First World War, Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland was obliged to plot and negotiate to try and prevent them from realizing their ambitions to eviscerate the country.
As well as bitter ethnic battles between Germany and Poland for the political control of Upper Silesia, there were also the burning ambitions of Weimar Germany, and later Nazi Germany, to...
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Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman, using criminal cunning, some confidence, and a bit of charm, to bring down a federal agent, a bank, and a city's worth of men.
Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of the trade. She swept from town to town, assuming new identities and running new swindles at each railroad stop. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, years after...
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When Anna Broinowski learned that fracking had invaded downtown Sydney, she had a brilliant idea: she would seek guidance for a kryptonite-powerful anti-fracking movie from the world's greatest propaganda factory, apart from Hollywood. After two years of trying, she was allowed to make her case in Pyongyang and was granted full permission to film. She worked closely with the leading lights of North Korean cinema, even playing an American in a...
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Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire.
Western society has other forefathers as well: we would be unwise to give the Byzantine Empire short shrift. The ways in which it has influenced our world...
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Unsere Vergangenheit, unsere Zukunft: Wie Natur und Klima die Geschichte der Menschheit schreiben
Was wir erst heute wahrhaft begreifen: Weit mehr als Kriege und Technologien, Religionen und Ideologien beeinflussten und lenkten seit Anbeginn der Zeit die Natur und das Klima die Geschicke der Menschen. Der Globalhistoriker Peter Frankopan spannt einen weiten Bogen, von den frühesten Quellen bis in unsere Gegenwart, und erzählt die Menschheitsgeschichte...
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How Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements globally.
In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended...
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A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.
In “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic”, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the "corrupt bargain" of 1877...
16) Lone Wilder
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In the dusty town of Cheyenne, 1867, Lone Wilder, a handsome and hardened Confederate soldier, arrives seeking adventure and wealth, a mysterious stranger who rides into town and quickly finds himself caught up in a land war with a wealthy rancher Wilder is a skilled fighter and horseman, and he uses his skills to protect the people he loves and bring justice to the town. The story is full of action, adventure, and romance, and it is sure to keep...
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El cerebro humano es el lugar donde se generan todas las sensaciones que percibimos a lo largo de nuestra vida, sensaciones de frío, calor, dolor, placer..., es el lugar donde nacen y se almacenan nuestros sueños, recuerdos, sentimientos y también nuestros miedos que en muchas ocasiones dan lugar a enfermedades, pues una gran parte de nuestras enfermedades y dolencias proceden de manías, miedos y fobias a determinados hábitos, alimentos, formas...
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With the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship, Germany not only experienced a deep political turning point but the private life of Germans also changed fundamentally. The Nazi regime had far-reaching ideas about how the individual should think and act.
In "A Third Reich, as I See It" Janosch Steuwer examines the private diaries of ordinary Germans written between 1933 and 1939 and shows how average citizens reacted to the challenges of...
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New version combining Maccabees I & Maccabess II in 26 chapters with insightful footnotes identifying placenames and explaing historical context.Prefaced with an Overview describing geopolitical historical and cultural background.Followed by extensive PostScript narrating resultant aftermath, strife and civil war leading to the Temple destruction and Exile.
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