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  • Last of the Great Scouts (Illustrated)

    The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody

    Series series Western Cowboy Classics 56
    William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Canada before the family again moved to the Kansas Territory.Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Family's Story of Survival as POWs in the Philippines

    A World War II Memoir

    by Pamela Brink ...
    "Our Family's Story of Survival as POWs in the Philippines," is a dramatic and engaging story told by three siblings who were prisoners of war in the Philippines as children. The structure gives the book a layer many don't have, and while some would be concerned three points of view might be redundant, the different styles and perceptions actually make the three views more interesting than one ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Time To Act

    Black History Matters

    by William Jusme ...
    "A Time To Act" is William Jusme's deeply personal reflection of life as a Haitian-American. Combining personal experience with reflections on both history and policy, this is an enlightening and thought-provoking book that will help readers understand Haitian history, problematic policies in the United States, mistakes from the past, and hope for the future. Part memoir and part educational ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة

    الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة كتاب ألفه ابن حجر العسقلاني سعى فيه لاستقصاء جميع الصحابة وتراجمهم، ويعد من أهمّ وأوسع ما ألف من الكتب في تاريخ الإسلام على الإطلاق، وموضوعه التمييز بين الصحابة: من صحت صحبته ومن لم تصح، ومن صح وجوده أو لم يصح. ومجموع تراجمه ترجمة. وقد استغرق تأليفه أربعين عامًا ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • بروتوكولات حكماء صهيون

    الخطر اليهودي

    بروتوكولات حكماء صهيون عبارة عن مجموعة من النصوص تتمحور حول "خطة" لسيطرة اليهود على العالم. تم نشر هذه النصوص لأول مرة في الإمبراطورية الروسية في جريدة زناميا في مدينة سانت بطرسبرغ عام 1903 م. يرى العديد من المؤرخين أن هذه الكتابات هي مجرد خدعة وخاصة بعد إجراء تحقيق صحفي عام 1921 م حول مصداقية هذه الكتابات قامت به صحيفة التايمز اللندنية واستخلص إلى أن المقالات هي تزوير أدبي لكتاب فرنسي وتم نشر ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geronimo: His own Story

    Nothing tells a story like when it is written from the own words of someone. The biography that Geronimo wrote called Geronimo: His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior. ... Read more

    $6.45 USD

  • The Life Of Apollonius Of Tyana

    The Complete Works - Books 1-8 ... Read more

    $6.45 USD

  • Memories of Evil

    Recalling a World War II Childhood

    by Peter Kubicek ...
    I was born in1930 in a town called Trencin, in what was then Czechoslovakia -- a country that no longer exists. It is now called the Slovak Republic. I was the only child of well-to-do Jewish couple. My father was the owner of a retail store, a kind of department store, situated in a prime location of the town's principal square. We lived in a large, comfortable apartment above the store. I grew ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Madame Récamier et ses amis

    Homme politique et écrivain, Édouard Herriot, qui a eu le privilège de rencontrer des acteurs de sa vie, nous propose ici quantité de documents inédits, lettres, et témoignages, qui jettent une lumière nouvelle sur la personne de Juliette Récamier, brillante et ravissante femme de lettres française célèbre pour avoir tenu un salon à Paris qui réunit, à partir du Directoire et jusqu'à la Monarchie ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • D'Arsonval, une vie, une époque (1851-1940)

    Avec 10 gravures dans le texte et 10 hors-texte

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Structure du génie de Napoléon

    by Henri Cotard ...
    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Elisabeth II et la famille royale anglaise

    by Alfred Leroy ...
    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • La vie exaltante de Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, maréchal de France

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jefferson

    An abridged version of the classic biography of the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.This is a stirring portrait of an extraordinary American—Thomas Jefferson—third President of the United States, architect of freedom and democracy. He began his remarkable career as a lawyer, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and subsequently became Governor of Virginia, Ambassador to France, Secretary of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Le Peintre poète

    Nicolas Manuel et l'évolution sociale de son temps

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Les statues et les portes de Lille

    Pierre Valdelièvre nous propose ici une visite très inhabituelle des statues qui ornent Lille, et des portes qui la ceignent, comme un prétexte à revisiter l'histoire de grands artistes ou de personnages connus, tels que Pierre Legrand, créateur de l’école des Arts et Métiers de Lille, le général Faidherbe qui s'est particulièrement illustré au Sénégal, ou encore Desrousseaux auteur du "P’tit ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Le maréchal Jourdan (1762-1833)

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Margaret the First

    A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673

    by Douglas Grant ...
    Series series Heritage
    Margaret Cavendish was one of the most original, loveable and eccentric of women writers. Pepys called her "mad, ridiculous, and conceited" but when she paid her famous visit to London in 1667 he ran all over town to see her. And many of her other contemporaries were no less fascinated. Posterity has continued to feel the attraction; to her many admirers she has always been "the incomparable ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Harold Adams Innis

    Portrait of a Scholar

    Series series Heritage
    Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Our Living Tradition

    First Series

    Edited by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this book, seven distinguished scholars and writers discuss seven leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs. Frank H. Underhill, historian, describes the tragic career of Edward Blake, one of the ablest men who ever entered Canadian politics. D.G. Creighton, author of the definitive biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, writes of this politician whose solid ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Chief Whip

    Series series Heritage
    The author's grandfather, Aretas Akers-Douglas (1857-1926) was in his day called "The Prince of Whips". Starting in 1880 as a confederate of the brilliant but unorthodox Lord Randolph Churchill, he graduated in record time to the position of chief dispenser of the official Conservative party line and held it for ten exceptionally arduous years at the height of the Home Rule controversy with its ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Champlain

    Founder of Quebec, Father of New France

    Series series Heritage
    This standard general biography of Champlain, the founder of Canada, was issued previously in the famous Makers of Canada Series, which is now out of print, although still in frequent use in libraries. This is the first time any of the volumes has been published separately from the complete set. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Politics of John W. Dafoe and the Free Press

    by Ramsay Cook ...
    Series series Heritage
    John W. Dafoe was a dominant figure in western Canadian political history during the first half of the twentieth century. As editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1901 to 1944, he gained an international reputation for his perceptive analysis of the issues facing Canada and the world. He was at the centre of almost every major political development of his time: he advised prime ministers, was ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Career of Arthur Hamilton Gordon

    First Lord Stanmore 1829-1912

    by J.K. Chapman ...
    Series series Heritage
    This close examination of Sir Arthur Gordon's six governorships (New Brunswick, Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, New Zealand, and Ceylon) and his administration of the Western Pacific High Commission should help fill the need for a more accurate assessment of the role of the colonial governor in the governing process than the paucity of biographies of these governors has previously made possible. It ... Read more

    $41.99 USD