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  • The Hill We Climbed

    Prairie View A&M University

    Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M University is the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas, one of two Texas land-grant universities, and an “institution of the first class” within the Texas A&M University System. It is also the first public historically Black college or university (HBCU) in Texas. Prairie View A&M has played a pivotal role in the educational and economic ... En savoir plus

    $16.49 CAD

  • The Good War of Consul Reeves

    par Peter Rose ...
    Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves – his career and marriage failing – is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao in southern China. The Japanese soon declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tropes of Intolerance

    Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear

    par Peter Rose ...
    Tropes of Intolerance is a Baedeker of bigotry, a short course on xenophobic racism and populist nationalism – both enduring threats to the social fabric of democratic societies.Each chapter is a self-contained commentary and a building block. In the first, the author considers the concepts of pride and prejudice and discusses patterns of discrimination and strategies of resistance. This is ... En savoir plus

    $79.69 CAD

  • Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor

    par Peter Rose ...
    Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor describes the lucky journey of Peter Rose, an octogenarian sociologist, ethnographer, writer, teacher and world traveler. In the pages of this colorful memoir, the author comments on six decades of academic life in the U.S. and abroad, his work as researcher, editor and consultant, his excursions as a travel journalist, and some intimate portraits of those ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • As My Accountant Instructed and other writings

    par Peter Rose ...
      A collection of short stories and poetry   Adventure, history, thrills and intrigue all mixed with insight and meaning.   ... En savoir plus

    $1.83 CAD

  • Coincidence?

    A Romantic Thriller

    Kidnapped by mistake from her hometown of San Diego, Hope Ryan is transported into the heart of a community under the control of a Mexican drug cartel.Cut o? from her beloved husband and family, she escapes death on more than one occasion, yet is unable to get back home. Frustrated by the lack of clues as to her whereabouts, John, her husband, remains con?dentwithout apparent reasonthat they will ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Empire of the Sun

    par J. G. Ballard ...
    ‘Extraordinary’ Angela Carter ‘One of the great war novels of the 20th century’ William Boyd ‘A remarkable journey’ Sunday TimesThe heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of changeBased on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life ... En savoir plus

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  • A Paradise Built in Hell

    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    par Rebecca Solnit ...
    The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disasterWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal ... En savoir plus

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  • In the Time of the Butterflies

    par Julia Alvarez ...
    Set in the Dominican Republic during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship of the 1960s, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters—four women who opposed Trujillo, and became immortalized as Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies".It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of ... En savoir plus

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  • Behind Japanese Lines

    With the OSS in Burma

    par Richard Dunlop ...
    In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the Father of Central Intelligence,” with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines. Thus was born OSS ... En savoir plus

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  • Ghosts of the Tower of London

    par G. Abbott ...
    Collections series The Paranormal
    Tales of haunting from one of the world's most terrifying landmarks.The Tower of London's most horrific tragedies are well known; the gruesome deaths of the two boy princes in the Bloody Tower, Anne Boleyn's execution, the Jesuit priests and heretics who suffered the agonies of the rack and thumbscrew. Is it any wonder, then, that there are frequent reports of bloodcurdling screams and moans, of ... En savoir plus

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  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

    par Julia Alvarez ...
    This beloved debut novel from New York Times bestselling author Julia Alvarez gives voice to four sisters growing up between two cultures when their family is forced to flee the Dominican Republic to New York City due to their father’s involvement in an attempt to overthrow a brutal dictator.The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and ... En savoir plus

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