Ancient israel from abraham to the roman destruction of the temple

Immensely readable and digestible in just a few sittings, this book examines the complete history of ancient Israel—from Abraham to...

Citizens a chronicle of the french revolution

Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology --...

Israel lobby and us foreign policy

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt argue that U.S. foreign policy has been overly influenced by strong pro- Israel groups, producing...

Baron byng to bagels tales of jewish montreal

Midnight in chernobyl the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster

A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best...

Assad or we burn the country how one family's lust for power destroyed syria

From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the...

Smokestack lightning harry greb

“Springs Toledo is the best boxing writer working today, and perhaps the best sportswriter, period. His work combines the rarest...

A dual autobiography

The Durants discuss their scholarly and personal life together, their enduring love for each other, and the acquaintanceship of almost...

Coal black heart the story of coal and lives it ruled

A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters. The history of coal...

Jacob isaac segal

Jacob-Isaac Segal, un des premiers écrivains en langue yiddish au Canada, est l'auteur d'une oeuvre littéraire à la fois riche...

War at sea a naval history of world war ii

History records few more gripping dramas than the naval history of World War II. It was the last great sea...

Underworld the mysterious origins of civilization

From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating...

Racialization studies in theory and practice

Racializaton has become one of the central concepts in the study of race and racism. This volume brings together leading...

The private capital ambition and love in the age of macdonald and laurier

Jesuits

In The Jesuits, Malachi Martin reveals for the first time the harrowing behind-the-scenes story of the "new" worldwide Society of...

International conflict management

This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the five major...

Structures of indifference an indigenous life and death in a canadian city

Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city and what it reveals about the ongoing...

A new world of labor the development of plantation slavery in the british atlantic

The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it...

Reason in the age of science

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take...

The opinion of mankind sociability and the theory of the state from hobbes to smith

How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern state What is the modern...

The disciplinary revolution calvinism and the rise of the state in early modern europe

What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact...

Life at the dakota

Chronicles the goings-on, the changes, and the constants at the fashionable and exotic New York apartment house, over nearly a...

Great lengths a celebration of the surveyors of ontario

THIS MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK, aptly called GREAT LENGTHS, tells one of Ontario’s most dramatic stories – that of the vital...

On juno beach canada's d day heroes

June 6th, 2004 will mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, when Canadians landed on Juno Beach. This outstanding book contains...