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  • Am I A Dolphin Or A Whale?

    Am I A Dolphin Or A Whale?Father and Son's Day Adventure at a Cetacean AquariumWhat begins as a simple day out between a father and son becomes an opportunity to discover, learn, and share the wonder of the ocean.At a cetacean aquarium, father and son explore the fascinating world of dolphins and whales, asking questions and discovering what makes these remarkable creatures so special. Through ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Chaos Reconsidered

    The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

    The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Chaos Reconsidered

    The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

    The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Series series Profiles In Power
    Most famous in Europe for his efforts to establish the League of Nations under US leadership at the end of the First World War, Woodrow Wilson stands as one of America’s most influential and visionary presidents. A Democrat who pursued progressive domestic policies during his first term in office, he despised European colonialism and believed that the recipe for world peace was the self ... Read more

    $120.92 CAD

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  • Gotham

    A History of New York City to 1898

    Series series The History of NYC Series
    To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Blue Sky Dream

    A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace

    by David Beers ...
    In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class Americans who believed in something called the American Dream, then woke up one day to discover it was ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Alaska

    When the Russians first came to the island of Unalaska, they were told that a vast country lay to the eastward and that its name was Al-ay-ek-sa. Their own island the Aleuts called Nagun-Alayeksa, meaning "the land lying near Alayeksa."The Russians in time came to call the country itself Alashka; the peninsula, Aliaska; and the island, Unalashka. Alaska is an English corruption of the original ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Waterman's Song

    Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

    The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman’s Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Banned in Boston

    The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil

    by Neil Miller ...
    “I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase “Banned in Boston.”Bankrolled by society’s upper crust, the New ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Touring the Shenandoah Valley Backroads

    Shenandoah—most often translated as "Daughter of the Stars"—is one of the loveliest names in the language. Backroads travelers will find that it fits the Valley perfectly. Most people know the Shenandoah Valley for its Civil War–era history, from Robert E. Lee's capture of John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859 to Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862 to the Battle of New Market in 1864. Fewer ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milwaukee Mafia

    by Gavin Schmitt ...
    Series series Images of America
    Milwaukee is best known for its beer - and rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz, and Pabst. The Mafia had control, and it made its money by running alcohol as far away as Canada and Indiana, as well as with counterfeiting, the numbers racket, and two of the biggest heists in American history. From then on, the sky was the limit, ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War in Kanawha County

    School Textbook Protest in West Virginia in 1974

    by Don Means ...
    In 1974, the Board of Education in Kanawha County West Virginia introduced a set of new textbooks into the standard curriculum. These textbooks contained offensive language, compared Bible stories to well-known myths and fables, and also, in the opinion of some citizens, lacked the basic ideals of right and wrong. War in Kanawha County: School Textbook Protest in West Virginia in 1974, written by ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD