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Das Erscheinungsbild unserer Gesellschaft ist geprägt von der Erzählung des Linksliberalismus mit seiner Identitätspolitik. Die akademische Mittelschicht mit ihren Multiplikatoren zeichnet in den Medien ein Bild von Deutschland und den Deutschen, das es in dieser Form überhaupt nicht gibt. Der Autor beobachtet daher unsere Gesellschaft von der konservativen Position aus, und untersetzt seine Ansichten und polit-wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzungen...
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Charles Dupont, a young French nobleman with a striking appearance and boundless ambition, had left behind the comforts of his aristocratic life in search of fortune and success in the New World. Since his arrival in New Orleans, he had quickly learned to navigate its treacherous waters with resourcefulness and cunning. Seeking to make a name for himself in the land of opportunity, he discovers a talent for gambling and a deadly proficiency with a...
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William L. Hamilton loves a good gimlet. Rose's and lime. Straight up. Perfectly iced. Make the glass pretty too. "It ruined my reputation for thinking before I speak," he writes of that love. "I accept the trade-off." Like Lewis Carroll's Alice, when Hamilton sees it, he drinks it -- and tells the incredible tale.
In "Shaken and Stirred," his biweekly Sunday Styles column, now an original book of his drinking adventures, the intrepid New York Times...
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A vivid and comprehensive history of the City of Prince Rupert, from
its ancient roots as a rich, multicultural trading hub between different
Indigenous Nations to its current state as an ethnically diverse
community set against the stunning natural backdrop of the Great Bear
Rainforest.
Since time immemorial, rain has defined life
on Kaien Island, now known as the townsite of Prince Rupert. As the
rainiest and cloudiest city in Canada, Prince...
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"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology, Association of American Publishers" Christopher Ehret is Distinguished Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 and History and the Testimony of...
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First published in 1930, "The Fur Trade in Canada" is a book by Harold Innis that draws sweeping conclusions about the complex and frequently devastating effects of the fur trade on aboriginal peoples; about how furs as staple products induced an enduring economic dependence among the European immigrants who settled in the new colony and about how the fur trade ultimately shaped Canada's political destiny.
Covers the fur trade era in Canada from the...
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An award-winning historian and mariner takes readers on an engrossing
international journey of self-discovery that explores timely themes of
human conflict, ethics, and reconciliation.
A member of
the so-called Silent Generation, Michael Hadley has a great deal to say
in his twilight years. Opening with his Depression-era childhood on a
lonely lighthouse on the west coast of Vancouver Island, this remarkably
nuanced memoir spans decades,...
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Anxiety. Addiction. Depression. We associate these words with the challenges of modern life. Rarely do we consider how these conditions shaped past generations. Using archival sources, testimonies, and her grandfather Walter Parker's experiences, the author not only paints a vivid picture of life in an English Victorian village, but she also draws upon psychological theory to explore the lives of her working-class ancestors. What did your forebears...
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Power Trip is an adventurous, wonk-free, big-picture, solutions-oriented narrative by leading young journalist Amanda Little that maps out the history and future of America's energy addiction. Infused with next-generation candor and optimism, Power Trip examines the ways in which oil and coal have shaped America as an international superpower-even as they posed political and environmental dangers to the nation and the world. Hard-hitting yet optimistic,...
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This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante's 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work's present and future impact.
The contributors to this work-writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others-analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante's masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations...
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Tout au long de l'histoire, les Américaines ont contribué à leur manière, à la grande destinée du pays. Leur force pionnière a façonné la naissance de cette nation. Femmes fortes, marginales, courageuses, conquérantes, elles franchissent les barrières imposées par la société et donnent l'image d'une autre vie, presque possible. Happées par les luttes, les guerres ou la dictature, spectatrices et actrices d'un formidable bouleversement,...
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Le lecteur de ce livre devient le témoin de ces événements si importants du vingtième siècle, jalonnant le chemin de la chute de l'empire communiste. Un récit très vivant, une claire perception des protagonistes et des situations. On va à l'essentiel, en parcourant une vaste galerie o l'on rencontre observateurs et témoins, en parcourant les villes et les pays, qui nous semblaient lointains et qui sont devenus si dramatiquement proches. On...
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