"A Pope Francis lexicon is a collection of over fifty essays by an impressive set of contributors from around the globe, each writing on a specific word that has become important in the ministry of Pope Francis. An A-list of insightful voices from the Catholic world (and some imp...
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The year 1917 was a year of turbulence, both artistically and politically. It was the penultimate year of World War One, the year of the Russian Revolution, and a year that saw artistic and cultural changes take place. This compilationexplores the music inspired by the turbulent ...
"Newfoundlander Arthur Manuel's retelling of his harrowing First World War experiences are raw and real. Painstakingly researched after the long-hidden manuscript's discovery by Bryan Davies and Andrew Traficante, this is an account without parallel in the Canadian experience of ...
"In 1812, as the fledgling United States is drawn into war, the fate of the far west hinges on Manuel Lisa and his trading expedition up the Missouri River. An intimate of the Burr conspiracy, the condemned John Tylor, signs on as boatman. But lurking in Tylor's shadow is half-ma...
"Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the Unit...
Once again, New York Times and internationally best-selling author W. Michael Gear turns his master's hand to the frontier West. In the vein of his best-selling Coyote Summer, Gear now takes us to the 1812 Missouri Fur Trade. An intimate of the Burr conspiracy, the condemned and ...
A proud Newfoundland soldier's memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War. I'm going to tell my story. With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War memoir in motion. Hidden in the Manuel ...
More than 50 stories from the best science fiction writers in the world.
Communicating Memory and History takes as its mission the job of giving communication history its full due in the study of memory. Taking three keywords - communication, history, and memory - representing related, albeit at times hostile, fields of inquiry as its point of departu...
Meet 30 positive male role models from throughout history. From activists like Mahatma Gandhi and Frederick Douglass to creative innovators like Prince and David Hockney, these men have fought conventional stereotypes to prove that modern-day masculinity can be defined freely. T...
Gideon Crew-brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer-is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months...