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  • Up from Orchard Street

    A Novel

    by Eleanor Widmer ...
    In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this exhilarating novel centered around a memorable immigrant family brings to vibrant life the soul and spirit of New York’s legendary Lower East Side.Up from Orchard Street......where three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat at number 12. Long-widowed Manya is the family’s head and its heart: ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Margaret

    Friend of Orphans

    by Mary Lou Widmer ...
    A biography of Margaret Haughery, the beloved woman who went from a life of poverty to one of philanthropy and became known as the "Angel" of New Orleans.Margaret Haughery gave everything she ever had to the orphans and the poor. Despite being unable either to read or write, she possessed an incredible business acumen, which allowed her to donate—including what she bequeathed in her will—more than ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martin Van Buren

    The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841

    by Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy.The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champion Andrew Jackson. Van Buren, a native Dutch speaker, was America's first ethnic president as well as ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lincoln on the Verge

    Thirteen Days to Washington

    by Ted Widmer ...
    WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE“A Lincoln classic...superb.” —The Washington Post“A book for our time.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic.As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry

    Edited by Angus C. Cameron, Richard P. Widmer ...
    Suitable for students and practitioners alike, the Handbook of Paediatric Dentistry is a concise, practical and highly illustrated guide to the day-to-day management of child dental patients. - Established as the foremost available comprehensive handbook on paediatric dentistry - Prepared in an 'easy-to-digest' fashion – which allows for quick reference and easy reading - Contains over 550 full ... Read more

    $87.19 CAD

  • Essentials of Deductive Physics

    Foundation for the great theories of physics

    by Hans Widmer ...
    It is not nature imposing itself with concepts and laws, instead these have to be invented as hypotheses and validated in experiment. The touchstone for perception in deductive physics are the laws of inductive physics. Thus it is standing on the shoulders of giants from Kepler to the inventors of the Standard Model. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Listening In

    The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy

    Edited by Ted Widmer ...
    A historical trove that sheds light on all of the Kennedy administration's policy decisions and offers precious insight into a working presidency.In July 1962, in an effort to preserve an accurate record of Presidential decision-making in a highly charged atmosphere of conflicting viewpoints, strategies and tactics, John F. Kennedy installed hidden recording systems in the Oval Office and in the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Kant’s Early Followers in Political Philosophy

    Edited by Reidar Maliks, Elisabeth Theresia Widmer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
    Immanuel Kant influenced a large and productive group of political philosophers in the 1790s. This volume argues that they brought out more fully the egalitarian principles of Kantian republicanism.“The Kantian school” featured young philosophers including Saul Ascher, Johann Adam Bergk, Johann Benjamin Erhard, Johann Ludwig Ewald, the early Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel, and Johann ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life

    Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

    Edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on the idea that vulnerability is ... Read more

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  • New Orleans 1900 to 1920

    by Mary Lou Widmer ...
    Series series New Orleans History
    A autobiographical history of New Orleans at the dawn of the twentieth century from a Louisiana native.Ironically, taming nature and the elements to build an effective and safe urban infrastructure are issues as relevant in this century as they were one hundred years ago. With the invention of the Wood screw pump in 1906, and the subsequent drainage of swampland, the New Orleans footprint expanded ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Orleans in the Forties

    by Mary Lou Widmer ...
    Series series New Orleans History
    An autobiographical history of New Orleans by a Louisiana native who came of age during the Second World War.New Orleans in the Forties delightfully documents a time when, though the war raged in Europe, high school girls could still flirt on the streetcar with high school boys, and one made a trip to the movies to see Mary Martin, Lana Turner, or William Holden. Author Mary Lou Widmer recalls ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eurythmy and Rudolf Steiner

    Origins and Development 1912-39

    by Tatiana Kisseleff ...
    Translated by Lory Widmer ...
    In the autumn of 1912, Rudolf Steiner presented the first eurythmy performance. It marked the revival, in modern form, of the sacred art of dance, which had been used in the ancient Mysteries to express the movements of the stars and the planets. In the years that followed, Steiner and his wife, Marie von Sivers, developed eurythmy further, broadening it beyond the artistic to encompass healing ... Read more

    $16.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus