Daniel Francis: 26 books
The Imaginary Indian
The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photographs...
The Wrong Race
In Apartheid-Racist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The persistent trauma of extreme, institutionalized racism can be expected to take its toll on anyone. But resilience, instead, is the main theme of Azra Daniel Francis’s latest book, a raw and deeply personal memoir that details his experience growing up in South Africa. Through vignettes of people,...
National Dreams
Myth, Memory, and Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense...
LD
Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
LD is the colourful biography of Louis Taylor, the longest-serving mayor in Vancouver's history; he was first elected mayor in 1910, and served off and on until 1934, for a total of eleven years. Taylor's story is also the story of Vancouver in the early decades of the 20th century, a young city experiencing...
Seeing Reds
The Red Scare of 1918-1919: Canadas First War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the Russian Revolution, hoped and others dreaded. Seeing Reds documents a turbulent period in Canadian history, when in 1918-19 a fearful government tried to suppress radical political activity by branding legitimate labor leaders as Bolsheviks.”
Le péril rouge
La première guerre canadienne contre le terrorisme (1918-1919)
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2013
À la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, le Canada menace de basculer dans une révolution sociale. Rassemblements et mobilisations des milieux ouvriers se succèdent durant l’hiver 1918-1919 et culminent avec la grève générale de Winnipeg en mai-juin 1919. Le mouvement est finalement écrasé par l’armée sur l’ordre de Robert Borden, premier ministre de l’époque.
by Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
"Many dark and sleepless nights have I been a companion for owls, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched by the summer's sun and pinched by the winter's cold — an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness."
Motivated by a powerful sense of purpose, Daniel Boone blazed...
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by Agatha Christie, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: An Old-fashioned Girl [Louisa May Alcott] The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] The Norsemen in the West [Robert Michael Ballantyne] Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman...
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by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances...
TRICK OR TREAT Boxed Set: 200+ Eerie Tales from the Greatest Storytellers
Horror Classics, Mysterious Cases, Gothic Novels, Monster Tales & Supernatural Stories: Sweeney Todd, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, Sleepy Hollow, From Beyond…
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Trick or Treat! Get a worm cup of tea, curl by the fire, and enjoy the cold chills of this meticulously edited horror collection, jam-packed with the darkest mysteries, supernatural thrillers and gothic romances: James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet...
Harvard Classics Volume 40
English Poetry 1: Chaucer To Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics
Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Haunted Island, Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...
HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 200+ Mysteries, Horror Classics & Supernatural Tales
Sweeney Todd, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Haunted Hotel, The Mummy's Foot, The Dunwich Horror, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, The Turn of the Screw, The Horla…
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection with horror thrillers, supernatural mysteries, monster tales and gothic novels carefully picked out to strike the fear and chills into your bones as …the winter is coming: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House From Beyond...
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