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  • A Place to Dance

    How Richard Lamberty Brought Change to the Ballroom

    by Eric Rosswood, Richard Lamberty ...
    Illustrated by Vincent Chen ...
    **Who says only girls can twirl and boys must take the lead on the dance floor?Celebrate same-gender ballroom dancing with renowned dancer Richard Lamberty as he breaks traditional gender roles, while promoting diversity and inclusivity in dance.**When dancer Richard Lamberty was a child, he loved dancing—especially ballroom dancing. But he was always jealous of the moves female dancers got to do. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Hot Pot Night!

    by Vincent Chen ...
    Illustrated by Vincent Chen ...
    Hot pot, hot pot!Hits the right spot!What's for dinner? A Taiwanese American child brings his diverse neighbors together to make a tasty communal meal. Together, they cook up a steaming family dinner that celebrates community, cooperation, and culture. Includes a family recipe for hot pot! ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Sino-Russian Relations in the Seventeenth Century

    by Vincent Chen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The seventeenth century was a momentous epoch. While western European countries were busy expanding westward and eastward, Russia, quietly crossed the Ural Mountains, absorbed Siberia and reached as far as Alaska. Russia did not expand toward the East with out opposition from the western European countries. In the last half of the sixteenth century, inspired by the "gorgeous East," the Dutch and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Mongol Conquests

    The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sübe'etei

    by Carl Fredrik Sverdrup ...
    "A scholarly, detailed history of how the Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire in history" ( Midwest Book Review).The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history. It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest. Initially an insignificant tribal leader, Genghis Khan gradually increased his power, overcoming one rival after another. After he had subjugated ... Read more

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  • The Great Wall

    China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000

    by Julia Lovell ...
    A "gripping, colorful" history of China's Great Wall that explores the conquests and cataclysms of the empire from 1000 BC to the present day ( Publishers Weekly).Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese and the "barbarians" at their borders. Historian Julia Lovell looks behind the intimidating fortification and its ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China

    by Demetrius Charles Boulger ...
    As China has now fairly taken her place in the family of nations, it is unnecessary to elaborate an argument in support of even the humblest attempt to elucidate her history. It is a subject to which we can no longer remain indifferent, because circumstances are bringing every day more clearly into view the important part China must play in the changes that have become imminent in Asia, and that ... Read more

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  • The Cossacks

    Their History and Country

    by William Penn Cresson ...
    “Had I just 10,000 Cossacks, I would have conquered the whole world.”– Napoleon BonaparteCossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Ukraine and in Russia. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins and ... Read more

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  • Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army

    by Edgar Snow ...
    Originally published in 1939, this is both a far-reaching history and an eyewitness account of the communist revolution in China. Contains a number of excellent historical photographs. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genghis Khan

    The Man Who Conquered the World

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon? Credited by some with paving the way for the Renaissance, condemned by others for being the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Defending Heaven

    China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370

    by James Waterson, John Man ...
    "A very readable account of the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Song, Xia, and Jin dynasties to defend China from the Mongols."— StrategyPageDefending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, the complete histories of the wars the Jin, Song, Xia, and Ming dynasties fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two centuries, these wars, fought to defend Chinese ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Volga

    A History

    by Janet M. Hartley ...
    A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga—the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history“A work of masterful condensation [and] commanding storytelling.”—Matthew Janney, Spectator“'Without the Volga, there would be no Russia.' The final words of Janet Hartley's book sound sweeping. But its 400 pages make the case powerfully.”—The EconomistThe longest river in Europe, the Volga ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Russia (1907)

    by Mary Platt Parmele ...
    First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "If this book seems to have departed from the proper ideal of historic narrative--if it is the history of a Power, and not of a People--it is because the Russian people have had no history yet. There has been no evolution of a Russian nation, but only of a vast governing system; and the words "Russian Empire" stand for a majestic world-power in ... Read more

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