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  • Lost Kids

    Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States

    Edited by Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris, Veronica Strong-Boag ...
    Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorrow, young people have motivated many adult-driven plans to improve their communities’ future. But have all children benefited from these programs and initiatives?Lost Kids explores the under ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Small Matters

    Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940

    by Mona Gleason ...
    Series Book 39 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how children responded.During the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in the interwar decades, a number of changes took shape ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Revisiting Anne Marie

    How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth-Century Nova Scotia and a DNA Match Redefine American Heritage.

    by Marie Rundquist ...
    Spanning two centuries, from the early 1600s to the mid-1700s, Revisiting Anne Marie engages the reader in the history of a Family cut from European and Amerindian (Mi'kmaq) cloth, from the family's brave beginnings in Nova Scotia to its exile in Snow Hill, Maryland, following the Grand Deportation of 1755. The story of Anne Marie's family comes to life with art, source citations and references, ... Read more

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  • The Journey of Coronado

    by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado ...
    Francisco Vazquez de Coronado was born to an affluent family in Salamanca Spain in 1510. Coronado is most famous for his expedition to find the Seven Cities of Gold, starting in 1540. He explored much of the present-day Southwest United States and Northern Mexico. The Journey of Coronado is a fascinating record of the expedition as told by himself and his companions. This edition includes a Table ... Read more

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  • The Origins of AIDS

    by Jacques Pepin ...
    It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of ... Read more

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  • Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Campaigns of the Civil War - VI

    by Abner Doubleday ...
    Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. In the 1870s, he was listed in the New York business directory as lawyer. Doubleday spent much of his time writing. He published two important works on the Civil War: Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie (1876), and Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (1882), ... Read more

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  • Thanksgiving

    The Pilgrims' First Year in America

    by Glenn Alan Cheney ...
    Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.They bowed their heads to give thanks.The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival.With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower ... Read more

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  • Complaints & Disorders

    The Sexual Politics of Sickness

    by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ...
    Series series Contemporary Classics
    The classic work on women's health and how the medical establishment helped to justify sexism, by the authors of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses.From Barbara Ehrenrich, New York Times-bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Bright-Sided, and other titles, and Deirdre English, former editor of Mother Jones, this book delves into the history of how women have been diagnosed, defined, and often ... Read more

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  • Strategy Six Pack 5 (Illustrated)

    A Treatise on Tactics, The English Civil War, Genghis Khan, The Boer War, Morgan's Raid and More

    by Elbert Hubbard ...
    “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”― Sun Tzu, The Art of WarStrategy Six Pack 5 presents a smart sextet of tactical texts:A Treatise on Tactics by Francis J. LippittA Tale of the English Civil War by G. A. HentyGenghis Khan by Jacob AbbottThe Boer War by Arthur Conan DoyleMorgan's Raid by Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox & Thomas H. HinesGaribaldi by Elbert HubbardFrancis J. ... Read more

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  • Contagion

    by Mark Harrison ...
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  • Book Of Border Battles (Illustrated)

    by Edwin Sabin ...
    Series series Bluehen
    In the United States of North America there have been several great battle-fields, each much larger than the battle-field of France. The first was that of the Ohio River country—the Valley of the Beautiful River which drains Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. Another, yet larger, was that of the plains and mountains West, extending from Mexico to California, and from ... Read more

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