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The definitive edition of writings by and about the great French explorer.

Analyses the changes that occurred in naval organization and administration in the years between the end of the War of Austrian Succession and the conclusion of the Seven Years War.

Featuring dialogues on federal systems, this work provides a comparative snapshot of each topic and include comparative analyses, glossaries of country-specific terminology, and a timeline of major constitutional events. It looks at countries such as: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, and Russia.

George Whalley's English translation of the Poetics breathes new life into the study of Aristotle's aesthetics by allowing the English-speaking student to experience the dynamic quality characteristic of Aristotle's arguments in the original Greek.

Explores the relationship between economic changes in the Highlands and the clansmen's emigration to Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This title challenges the accepted position endorsed in works by Eric Richards and J M Bumsted that the clearances and sheep farms did not have a central role in provoking mass emigration.

An intriguing portrait of Count Stauffenberg, a central figure in the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler. It details Stauffenberg's formative years, showing how his relationship with his brothers Berthold and Alexander, and their professional and political development that led them to resist the tyranny of Hitler and the German government.

Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Quebec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. This title explores the effects of Roy's knowledge of English language and culture, challenging the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Quebecois.

An exploration of Secwepemc history told through Indigenous knowledge and oral traditions.

Placing the phenomenon of Gaelic Cape Breton step-dancing into an historical perspective.

Imagine yourself transported two thousand years back in time to Galilee at the moment of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. After hearing it, would you abandon your religious beliefs and ideology to follow him, or would you hold on to your own beliefs and walk away? In A Rabbi Talks with Jesus Jacob Neusner considers just such a spiritual journey.

In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult.