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  • Meditation

    by Jim Downing ...
    In John 15, Jesus commanded His disciples to abide in Him and share His very life. He promised that if they did, they would be fruitful. Scripture suggests three ways in which modern-day disciples can share in the life of Jesus: through the mind in meditation, through the affections in communion, and through the will in choosing and obeying.In this classic Navigator message refreshed for a new ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stand by Me

    The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation

    by Jim Downs ...
    From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970sDespite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph -- ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Maladies of Empire

    How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

    by Jim Downs ...
    A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine.Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Sick from Freedom

    African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Jim Downs ...
    Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • U.S. History at the 250th

    From the Revolution to the History Wars

    by Sandra Enríquez, Annette Gordon-Reed, Sandy Grande, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Erika Lee, Robert Parkinson, Marc Stein, William Sturkey ...
    Series series History in the Headlines
    The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. But does the nation begin in 1776, or do we trace its origins to some point earlier—for example, the arrival of the first enslaved people in 1619 or the initial settlement of Indigenous people? What’s at stake with establishing a date that marks the nation’s origins? Where does the history of the nation begin? In ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Medicine by the People

    How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare

    by Jim Downs ...
    Series series A Norton Short
    A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care.Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.Throughout early American history, everyday people—from enslaved ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

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    The Other Side of Infamy

    My Journey through Pearl Harbor and the World of War

    by Jim Downing ...
    Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 5 min

    War is uncomfortable for Christians, and worldwide war is unfamiliar for today's generations. Jim Downing reflects on his illustrious military career, including his experience during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to show how we can be people of faith during troubled times.The natural human impulse is to run from attack. Jim Downing—along with countless other soldiers and sailors at Pearl Harbor on ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections

    by Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, Heather Ann Thompson ...
    Series series
    Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness of the deep structural barriers to the ballot, particularly for poor, black, and Latino voters, has called attention to the historical roots of issues related to voting access.Perhaps most notably, ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Promoting Inclusive Systems for Migrants in Education

    Edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui, Lore Van Praag ...
    Series series Migration and Education
    This novel contribution examines the lived experiences of migrants in education in various international contexts, exploring common school system features that promote students’ inclusion and challenge their exclusion.With a range of international contributions and case studies from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, Japan and Europe, the book offers critical, theoretically innovative understandings ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Reckoning with History

    Unfinished Stories of American Freedom

    Edited by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T. K. Hunter, Timothy Patrick McCarthy ...
    Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Reckoning with History

    Unfinished Stories of American Freedom

    Edited by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T. K. Hunter, Timothy Patrick McCarthy ...
    Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Taking Back the Academy!

    History of Activism, History as Activism

    Edited by Jim Downs, Jennifer Manion ...
    Taking Back the Academy! is not only an historical look at activism on campus since the 1960s, but also an exploration of the ways in which the historian's craft leads to social change. Written against the current political wave that views liberal academics as treasonous and unpatriotic, these authors defend political dissent and powerfully document the importance of activism and public debate on ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD