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  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    Political Trauma and American Memory

    by Alice George ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    On November 22nd, 1963 the assassination of President John F. Kennedy set into motion a series of events that irrevocably changed American politics and culture. The media frenzy spawned by the controversy surrounding the death of JFK has since given way to a powerful public memory that continues to shape the way we understand politics, the 1960s, and the nation.In The Assassination of John F. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Threshold of Nuclear War

    by Alice George ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban Missile Crisis acted as a catalyst for change during the Cold War. Resolved through back-channel ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • The Jfk Assassination

    A Researcher’S Guide

    by Don Becker ...
    Revised February, 2011I called the book a researchers guide for a reason. This book is a compilation of the material I read about the assassination, but in a totally different format. Easy to read; direct and to the point. I tried to give as much information as possible. Obviously I could not possibly put all the information in one book, so I was a bit selective in the data I recorded. It contains ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Circus: A Story from Circus

    by Claire Battershill ...
    The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Fifty Shades Of Grey

    Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

    by E L James ...
    Series Book 1 - Fifty Shades of Grey Series
    "And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 from Agent Zig Zag to the D-Day Deception 1939-45

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German espionage. During the Second World War, the Security Service, through brilliant officers such as Guy Liddell, Dick White and the fearsome spy-breaker, Tin-eye ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Arsenals of Folly

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Yellow Dirt

    An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed

    by Judy Pasternak ...
    WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARDAtop a craggy mesa in the northern reaches of the Navajo reservation lies what was once a world-class uranium mine called Monument No. 2. Discovered in the 1940s—during the government’s desperate press to build nuclear weapons—the mesa’s tremendous lode would forever change the lives of the hundreds of Native Americans who labored there and of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Star Peace

    Assured Survival

    by Ben Bova ...
    Star Peace (originally published in 1986) is a look at space warfare defense technology by novelist Ben Bova, the author of more than a hundred works of science fiction and fact.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

    by David Albright, Andrea Stricker ...
    How did South Africa obtain nuclear weapons? How did the apartheid government dismantle this intensely secret program?In 1989, South Africa made the momentous decision to abandon its nuclear weapons, making it the first and still the only country that has produced nuclear weapons and given them up. Over thirty years, the apartheid regime had created a remarkably sophisticated capability to build ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Guard Infantry (2)

    by Philip Haythornthwaite ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The seniority of Guard infantry was only established definitely in 1812 by the Guard's chief of personnel, Courtois.The title 'Young Guard' was assigned to the newly-raised regiments in 1809, but the term 'Middle Guard' came into use about 1811. From the beginning the newer guard regiments were committed to action first, the Old Guard, as Napoleon wrote, 'being so precious, one fears to expose ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sleepwalking to Armageddon (Australian Edition)

    The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation

    Edited by Helen Caldicott ...
    A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world's leading antinuclear activistWith the world's attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, ... Read more

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