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Alaska
Saga of a Bold Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!";...
Social Democracy in the Making
Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists
The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism—a democracy...
BREAKING THE SILENCE
Voices of Moderation: Islam in a Constitutional Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
On 7 December 2014, a group of 25 prominent Malays (G25) issued an open call for moderate Malays and Muslims to speak out against the hate speeches targeted at non-Muslims by supremacist groups. They stressed that the extremist and intolerant voices do not speak for the general Muslim community, and...
by J.K Sheindlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
"Read with great interest and was very impressed by the level of research committed to the project." - Katie Hopkins Productions, Radio DJ for LBC UK
"J.K Sheindlin has done something incredible!" - WND Online News
In 'The People vs Muhammad', #1 international bestselling...
Everyday Law on the Street
City Governance in an Age of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the...
by Porter Fox
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
“Romantic, urgent, valuable and appealing as hell.” —Andrew McCarthy, New York Times Book Review
Writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and Washington, traveling by canoe, freighter, car, and foot. In Northland, he blends a deeply reported...
Local Glories
Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and far more interesting-history...
True Freedom
On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
True Freedom
On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York
Are American liberties on the endangered species list? In this eBook original, the Archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops...
by H.S. Contino
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
European settlement of Coos County began with a shipwreck. The Captain Lincoln wrecked on the north spit of the Coos Bay in January 1852. The crewmen built a temporary camp out of the ship's sails and named it "Camp Cast-Away." This was the first white settlement in the area. The men eventually traveled...
by Christopher McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
This accurate and exciting pictorial history will acquaint the reader with the seacoast defense of New Bedford. Fortified since the 1700s, seacoast defenses provided important protection for the New Bedford area. By the time of the Civil War, a strong granite fortress was under construction to guard...
by Capt. Gerald Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
During World War II, with Allied merchant and navy ships under the threat of German U-boats, the eastern seaboard was on high alert. The Cape Cod Canal, a vital waterway for commercial and military traffic, underwent a period of strict control, occupation, and defense. This pictorial history documents...
Gangland Boston
A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Welcome to Boston’s criminal underworld
Author covers crime for the Boston Globe
An entire chapter dedicated to Whitey Bulger: “Whitey’s World”
150 photos from author’s own Boston crime archives and more
Organized criminals have haunted Greater Boston’s history, lurking just around...
Brat Pack America
A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the fictional towns of Hill Valley, CA, and Shermer, IL, to the beautiful landscapes of Astoria and Brownsville, OR, from the iconic suburbs of the San Fernando Valley to the seemingly scary inner cities of Chicago, '80s teen movies had one thing in common: locations mattered. Perhaps moreso...
Doubt: A History
The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from...