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  • The Warrior's Book of Virtues

    A Field Manual for Living Your Best Life

    by Nick Benas, Matthew Bloom, Richard Bryan, Stewart Smith USN (SEAL) ...
    CHOOSE VIRTUE ALWAYSTime-tested principles for succeeding in life through the understanding and development of character, virtues represent the moral excellence of a person. From discipline to prudence, fortitude to faith, the warrior virtues presented in these pages are guaranteed to transform your life to one of meaning and purpose.The Warrior’s Book of Virtues uses the battle-tested principles ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Augustine's Confessions

    by Paul Bloom, Gareth B. Matthews, Scott MacDonald, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Paul Helm, Ishtiyaque Haji, Garry Wills, Sir Richard Sorabji ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology. The Confessions discloses Augustine's views about the nature of infancy and the acquisition of language, his own sinful adolescence, his early struggle with ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Imperial Gridiron

    Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

    by Matthew Bentley, John D. Bloom ...
    Finalist for the 2023 NASSH Anthologies Book AwardThe Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school’s original ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Affordable Housing in New York

    The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner ...
    A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to todayA colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

    Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

    by Sarah Carter ...
    Series series The West Unbound
    Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered politics of late 19th century reform, shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during that ... Read more

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  • Female Husbands

    A Trans History

    by Jen Manion ...
    Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as ... Read more

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  • The Manly Art

    Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

    by Elliott J. Gorn ...
    "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Liberty and Sexuality

    The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade

    by David J. Garrow ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow's stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America's battle for the right to chooseIn 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue continues to spark controversy and divisiveness. But behind this historic legal case lie the battles women fought ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mississauga Portraits

    Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory.Donald ... Read more

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  • Seen but Not Seen

    Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society.Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. ... Read more

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  • Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada

    A Researcher's Guide

    by Janice Nickerson ...
    Series Book 5 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada provides genealogists and social historians with context and tools to understand the criminal justice system and locate sources on criminal activity and its consequences for the Upper Canada period (17911841) of Ontarios history.Illustrative examples further aid researchers in this era of the provinces past, which is notoriously difficult to investigate due to ... Read more

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