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The author weaves together hundreds of letters from Canadians over the course of two centuries. Uncensored, spontaneous and written from the heart, these letters capture the uniqueness of their time. Complemented by maps, sketches, and photographs, as well as the authors illuminating notes and commentary, these priceless witnesses of Canada's past reveal history in the making. Sources of Letters, Index, 536 pages.

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. By the end of her journey she has ignited one soldier with and oxy-acetylene torch, stabbed another through the chest with the spike of her cello, clobbered a guard with the butt of a rifle and raked terrorists with machine-gun fire before frazzling the survivors in an oil-covered sea.

Includes an Appendix: Afterword by Vladimir Petrov; Letter of Pavel Antokolski; Session of Soviet Writers' Secretariat; letter to newspapers and writers, April 18, 1968; Letter to the Literaturnaya Gazeta, April 21, 1968.

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Fraud, adventurer, robber and thief, the Captain has as many tall stories to tell as Jim has had boarding-school dinners. Now aged 22, a hack journalist and unwitting Judas, Jim attempts to piece together the Captain's story.

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Heavy book. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. Among Ferguson's startling claims are: * Nothing has done more to transform the world economy than war, yet wars themselves do not have primarily economic causes. * The present age of economic globalization is coinciding-paradoxically-with political and military fragmentation. * Financial crises are frequently caused by unforeseen political events rather than economic fluctuations. * The relationship between prosperity and government popularity is largely illusory. * Since political and economic liberalization are not self-perpetuating, the so-called triumph of democracy worldwide may be… Read more

In Alexandre Chenevert, the Montreal bank teller traped by his narrow environment and acutely aware of his loneliness, the author has created a vivid and poignant portrait of an ordinary man and his attempts to transcend his circumstances and his fate. Set in 1947 amid the crumbled dreams of the post-war world, and drawing on modern themes of personal alienation and of the restorative force of nature, The Cashier is a tour de force of characterization and empathy by a literary virtuoso.

The older Cazalet cousines, now in their twenties, are trying to piece their lives together in the aftermath of the war whilst having to engage, painfully, with their parents as people for the very first time. Louise's father Edward is desperate for her to like his mistress and her mother is beside herself with pain at his betrayal. And Clary needs to understand exactly why her beloved father chose to stay in France long after it was safe for him to return home. Meanwhile the girls' own affairs are far from straightforward. Both Polly and Clary have fallen madly in love with much older men, both wildly unsuitable for different reasons. And Louise, struck in a loveless marriage, is candidly considering her own options, as well as tending to her own, very private grief.

A companion to 'Rough but honest miner,' a CD of reclaimed music of the 1860's.

Coming of age novel.

'Who is the better technologist, Mother Nature - source of seashells, spider webs, and birds' wings - or the human engineer - creator of skyscrapers, nylon, and airplanes? This engrossing question lies at the heart of a ...book by Steven Vogel, an expert in biomechanics with a flair for genial philosophizing.' - Samuel Florman, author of The Civilized Engineer and The Existential Pleasure of Engineering.

'I love this book: the boys running wild on the long sea voyage, the slow revelation of the adult world they don'y fully understand, the loss of the past and the beginning of the future, and even a sort of thriller in there! And the beauty of the sentences. Perfection.' -Salman Rushdie

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A fascinating look into the Ireland of history and Legend, Celtic Saints present the tales of twenty-one extraordinary men and women.

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