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The Colored Waiting Room

Kevin Shird

The Colored Waiting Room

Timed to the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, to leverage media interest.Fascinating author pairing leads to extraordinary insight into the roots of recent protests across the country. Pulls together a formerly-incarcerated activist with a confidant of King’s.Highly active author: regular speaker at events around the country, active traditional media interviewee, and strong social media engagement.Author's prior works ( Lessons of Redemption :...

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Kevin Shird

Secrets of the Tudor Court

D.L. Bogdan

Secrets of the Tudor Court

When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. Everything Anne touches seems to turn to gold, and Mary is certain Anne will one day become Queen. But Mary has also seen the King's fickle nature and how easily he discards those who were once close to him. . . Discovering that she is a pawn in a carefully orchestrated plot devised by her father, the duke of Norfolk, Mary...

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D.L. Bogdan

Cuba: A History

Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy

Cuba: A History

Competitively priced, this book is the perfect companion to the more than thirty travel guides on Cuba available today. Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally ending with Fidel Castro's decision to step down in 2008, this slim volume provides the reader with an overview of the history of the tiny Caribbean island that so often has been at the center of world...

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Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy

The Wife of Martin Guerre

Janet Lewis

The Wife of Martin Guerre

In this new edition of Janet Lewis’s classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre , Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis’s story is “a short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and women, and about an individual’s capacity to act within an inflexible system.” Originally published in 1941, The Wife of Martin Guerre has earned the respect and admiration of...

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Janet Lewis

Tidings

Ernst Wiechert

Tidings

One of Germany’s literary giants, Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was thrown into Buchenwald concentration camp for publicly backing anti-Nazi pastor Martin Niemöller. His final novel, published posthumously, deals with the aftermath of the Holocaust – how the survivors, both victims and perpetrators, seek healing and redemption as they pick up the shattered pieces of their world. Evoking comparisons to the Russian greats Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Wiechert displays an uncommon depth of insight...

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Ernst Wiechert

Timekeepers

Simon Garfield

Timekeepers

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to...

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Simon Garfield

Vegter en balling

Chris Schoeman

Vegter en balling

Hoe moet dit voel om vir maande, selfs jare, van jou familie geskei te wees en geen idee te hê of jy jou plaas en jou land ooit weer sal sien nie? Nadat hy in die Brandwaterkom gevange geneem is, is veldkornet Charles von Maltitz in die Groenpunt- en Simonstad-krygsgevangenekamp en later in Trichinopoly in Indië aangehou. Sy lot was soortgelyk aan dié van duisende ander burgers wat gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog na kampe op St. Helena, Ceylon, Bermuda en elders gestuur is. Sy dagboek, nou vir...

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Chris Schoeman

Buller se plan

Ingrid Winterbach

Buller se plan

Ester Zorgenfliess verlaat haar tuisstad om vir ’n tyd lank te gaan oorbly in ’n plattelandse dorp waar sy haar ervaring van die dorp en sy inwoners orden rondom die plekke wat sy feitlik daagliks besoek. Net soos in Landskap met vroue en slang word die emosionele lewens van die karakters in Buller se plan met groot sorgvuldigheid ontleed terwyl daar steeds kennis geneem word van die natuurlike landskap én die landskap van die liggaam. En soos in Belemmering is die Anglo-Boereoorlog ook hier ’n...

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Ingrid Winterbach

The Devil's Cup

Stewart Lee Allen

The Devil's Cup

Can you handle mornings without a brew? No? Multiply that. Imagine an entire population under a cloud of lethargy, unable to kick start their days. Now introduce coffee. Bingo. The brain moves into over-drive and it's time for empire building. So goes Stewart Lee Allen's crazy theory. Only thing is, after retracing coffee's journey to world domination – by train, rickshaw, cargo freighter and donkey – he has plenty of evidence to back it up. Stewart Lee Allen has filtered...

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Ben Barka Lane

Mahmoud Saeed

Ben Barka Lane

In Ben Barka Lane we see the Morocco of the late 1960s through the eyes of a young political exile from Iraqits beauty and misery, its unforgettable people. In this contemporary classic, Mahmoud Saeed offers us a unique portrait of a time and place, and a tale of the passion, politics, vengeance, and betrayal that take place there. A landmark of the modern Arab novel,” in the words of one critic, Ben Barka Lane is now, at last, in English translation, as compelling...

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Mahmoud Saeed

Encounters with Chinese Writers

Annie Dillard

Encounters with Chinese Writers

Winner of the New England Book Show AwardIt's been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Creek to the Galapagos Islands, the high Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, the Amazon Jungle—and now, China. This informative narrative is full of fascinating people: Chinese people, mostly writers, who encounter American writers in various bizarre circumstances in both China and the U.S. There is a toasting scene...

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Annie Dillard

Opera Viva

Ezra Schabas

Opera Viva

It started with a festival – three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto. But when it became apparent that there was a need for a national opera company, an organization was founded that would go on to become one of the largest performing arts organizations in the country. The Canadian Opera Company was born in 1950, and is now one of the major opera companies in North America. The Company has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States, and has delighted audiences as...

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Ezra Schabas

The Insubordinate and the Noncompli...

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The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant

The Unwilling and the Reluctant: Theoretical Perspectives on Disobedience in the Military and The Apathetic and the Defiant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919 are the first two volumes in a series devoted to disobedience issues in the Canadian military. Now with The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant , the trilogy is complete. Military leadership has both formal and informal dimensions. The formal leadership of any organization must ensure that it minimizes the...

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The Apathetic and the Defiant

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The Apathetic and the Defiant

Canadian soldiers have served their country for centuries, and for the most part they have done so honourably and loyally. Yet, on certain occasions, their conduct has been anything but honourable. Whether by disobeying their legal orders, terrorizing the local population, or committing crimes in general, some soldiers have embodied the very antithesis of appropriate military conduct. Covering examples of unsavoury behaviour in the representatives of our military forces from the War of 1812 to...

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Perspectives on the Canadian Way of...

Bernd Horn

Perspectives on the Canadian Way of War

Contrary to popular opinion, this nation has always consciously and consistently utilized military force to further its security, as well as its economic and political well-being. Despite the best of intentions to aid others, the reality is that military force has most often been used to serve the national interest in ways that were not always altruistic but rather to serve practical political purpose. In the final analysis, the Canadian military experience has been integral to creating the...

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Bernd Horn

There's Music In These Walls

Ezra Schabas

There's Music In These Walls

The Royal Conservatory of Music, founded in 1886, is rich in history and genius. Its long tradition of excellence in musical training and examining places it among the leading music schools of the world. Glenn Gould, Lois Marshall, Teresa Stratas, Jon Vickers, Mario Bernardi, and many other international artists have studied there. Amply illustrated, with over forty photographs dating back to the school's first years, this book is an unvarnished account of its controversial leaders, its...

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Ezra Schabas

Muddling Through

Lynne Bowen

Muddling Through

When two thousand British bank clerks, butchers, housewives, saleswomen, remittance men and ex-Boer War soldiers followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister, Isaac Barr, to the Canadian prairies in 1903 their rallying cry was Canada for the British.”Despite the Canadian government’s expectations and Barr’s assurances, however, very few of the colonists knew anything about farming. As the granddaughter of Barr colonists, Lynne Bowen grew up on...

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Lynne Bowen

Masters of the Air

Roger Gunn

Masters of the Air

A fascinating look at three of the greatest Canadian pilots in the First World War. Alan McLeod, from Stonewall, Manitoba; Andrew McKeever, from Listowel, Ontario; and Donald MacLaren, originally from Calgary, Alberta, were daring and talented pilots. Although decidedly different from each other – in personality, in the planes they flew, and in their contributions to the war effort – they shared a strong sense of duty and a passion for flying, performing remarkable deeds in primitive planes,...

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Roger Gunn

Japanese Architecture: A Short Hist...

A. L. Sadler

Japanese Architecture: A Short History

This expert guide to Japanese architecture is of enormous historical importance to the understanding of Japanese design and culture. Pioneering Japanologist A. L. Sadler's invaluable study of Japanese architecture first appeared in 1941. Considered a classic in its field, unequaled in clarity and insight, Japanese Architecture A Short History is a lucid and uncomplicated introduction to this important aspect of Japanese culture. Beginning with the earliest evidence from prehistory and...

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A. L. Sadler

Anarchists Against the Wall

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Anarchists Against the Wall

The struggle between Israel and Palestine continues unabated, and many believe that the only way to break the cycle of oppression is for Israelis to speak out against the brutal acts of their government, and demand an end to the war of territory against the Palestinians. Anarchists Against the Wall has been one of the most vocal groups in Israel to speak out against the atrocities committed by the Israeli government, and have garnered international acclaim for their work.This is the first book...

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Dark Days of Authoritarianism

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Dark Days of Authoritarianism

The history of the Philippines is a long and complex one but the stories and reflections in Dark Days of Authoritarianism, from remarkable individuals who were willing to stake their lives for freedom, shed light on life under the martial law instituted by President Ferdinand Marcos from 1972 to 1981, and up to the peaceful popular uprising of 1986. This book not only covers the social, economic and political conditions across the country during martial law but also how those conditions affected...

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Autobiography

Mohandas Gandhi

Autobiography

"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, «is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am.» Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters...

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Mohandas Gandhi

Han in the Upper Left

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Han in the Upper Left

This in-depth look at one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the Pacific Northwest provides a much-needed overview of the Korean American experience as well as moving personal anecdotes. Graphs offer information about Korean immigration patterns over time, while black-and-white portraits reveal the people behind the statistics.The Korean American Historical Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 to enrich the collective memory of Korean Americans by collecting,...

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Jewish Cultural Aspirations

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Jewish Cultural Aspirations

In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class—particularly the more affluent families—began to enter the cultural spheres of public life, especially in major cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York, and London. While many aspects of society were closed to them, theater, the visual arts, music, and art publication were far more inviting, especially if they involved challenging aspects of modernity that might be less...

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