Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West, Paperback - D'Arcy Jenish

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Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): David Haward BainIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 470Publication date:...

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On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Revi...

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Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

A thrilling re-creation of a crucial campaign in the Mexican-American War and a pivotal moment in America's history. In June 1846, General Stephen ...

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Publisher: Alan Godfrey MapsAuthor(s): David ThompsonCollection: Old O.S. Maps of CheshirePublication date: 1991Dimensions: 122 x 211 x 4Cover type...

DescriptionMapping with Words re-conceptualizes settler writing as literary cartography. The topographical descriptions of early Canadian settler w...

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A haunting thriller drawing on myths, legends and fairy tales, set in a mysterious Italian valley - from Italy's bestselling answer to Stephen King...

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The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness - Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompson

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States that the Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth. The author presents a sustained analysis of ho...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Quelly WessingIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 298Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 3...

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The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied ...

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BOOK 1 OF THE MALLOREON, the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by one of the godfathers of the tradition. Discover the epic stories that inspire...

Canadian Spy Story takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination. David ...

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From the air we breathe, to our oceans and plant life, algae has helped create and sustain our world - and may just save it...

Reducere. A collection of writings from Kahlil Gibran. Gibran's poetic writings, based on the mystical philosophies of the Sufi and the Maronite Christians, ...

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