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Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend?s newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the ...

King William's War: The First Contest for North America, 1689?1697 Fought in New York, New England, and Canada, the conflict that began the long French and English struggle for the New World? While much has been written on the French and Indian War of 1754?1763, the colonial conflicts that preceded it have received comparatively little attention. Yet in King William?s War, the first clash between England and France for control of North America, the patterns of conflict for the next seventy years were laid, as were the goals and objectives of both sides, as well as the realization that the colonies of the two nations could not coexist. ?? King William?s War actually encompassed several proxy wars being fought by the English and the French through their native allies. The Beaver Wars was a long running feud between the Iroquois Confederacy, New France, and New France?s native allies over control of the lucrative fur trade. Fueled by English guns and money, the Iroquois attempted to d...

The Curve of Time This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in Haida culture and in nature itself. In this book, she left us with a sensitive and compelling account of their journeys. Product details:  The Curve of Time Author : M. Wylie Blanchet Pages : 271 pages Publisher : Whitecap Books Language : ISBN-10 : 1770500375 ISBN-13 : 9781770500372 READ BOOK NOW Tags The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet read online The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet pdf The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet epub The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet vk The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet pdf free ali...

The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? The?riveting, tick-tock account?of the largest manmade explosion in history?prior to?the atomic bomb,?and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author John U. BaconAfter steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, laden with a staggering three thousand tons of TNT and other explosives, the munitions ship Mont-Blanc fought its way up the Atlantic coast, through waters prowled by enemy U-boats. As it approached the lively port city of Halifax, Mont-Blanc's deadly cargo erupted with the force of 2.9 kilotons of TNT?the most powerful explosion ever visited on a human population, save for HIroshima and Nagasaki. Mont-Blanc was vaporized in one fifteenth of a second; a shockwave leveled the surrounding city. Next came a thirty-five-foot tsunami. Most astounding of all, however,...

Weird U.S. Laws Curious about whats legal to do or not do across the continental U.S.? Weird U.S. Laws tells all about the strange and wacky laws towns and states have had the courage to enact: In Memphis, you arent allowed to share your pie, nor can you take home any leftover pie Motorists in Alabama are prohibited from driving their vehicles while blindfolded In Coeur dAlene, Idaho, a police officer who suspects a couple is having sex in a vehicle must honk the patrol car horn three times and wait two minutes before approaching the vehicle Ohio prohibits whaling on Sundays It is against the law in Oregon to coast down a hill with your vehicle in neutral Bad news for the hairy in Omaha, Nebraska, where a man is not allowed to sport a shaved chest Its illegal to have wire cutters in your back pocket in Austin, Texas Keep that car on the road in Quitman, Georgia, because youre not supposed to drive on sidewalks. Oddly, its also illegal for chickens to cross the road! In Hortonville, New...

Murder by Decree: The Crime of Genocide in Canada: A Counter Report to the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" Murder by Decree is an uncensored record of the planned extermination of indigenous children in Canada's murderous "Indian residential schools". It is issued as a corrective Counter Report to the miscarriage of justice by Church and State known as the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (TRC). Based on eyewitness testimonies and archival documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the genocide of indigenous people began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: - Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened - This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare...

Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt. In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities at the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet--in winter yet--woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder.Upon this stage, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving...

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.* Chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century by a jury of writers including Harold Kushner, Thomas Moore, Huston Smith, and Natalie Goldberg* This fourth edition includes a ne...

Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident When asked to name the world's first major nuclear accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster. Revealed in this book is one of American history's best-kept secrets: the world's first nuclear reactor accident to claim fatalities happened on United States soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho's Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961, killing the three-man maintenance crew on duty. Through details uncovered in official documents, firsthand accounts from rescue workers and nuclear industry insiders, and exclusive interviews with the victims' families and friends, this book probes intriguing questions about the devastating blast that have remained unanswered for more than 40 years. From reports of a faulty reactor design and mismanagement of the reactor's facili...

The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politicsIn The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From the city's earliest days, where vigilantes hung perps from buildings and newspaper publishers shot it out on Market Street, to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer, crime has made the people of San Francisco who they are. Murder and mayhem are intertwined with the city's art, music, and politics. The Great 1906 Earthquake that burned down the old Barbary Coast shook a city that was already teetering on the brink of a massive prostitution scandal. The Summer of Love ended with a pair of ghastly acid dealer slayings that made the Haight too violent for even Charles Manson. ...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/10818853-fifty-shades-of-grey   Book Synopsis : When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana?s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too?but on his own terms.?Shocked yet thrilled by Grey?s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success?his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family?Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey?s secrets and explores her own dark desires.Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that wil...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/41150487-red-white-royal-blue   Book Synopsis : Original cover edition of ASIN B07J4LPZRN here.First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep?s genius granddaughter, they?re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides?namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will ...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/55994372-the-paper-palace   Book Synopsis : It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace" -- the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next twenty-four hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband, Peter, and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn't forever changed the course of their lives. As Heller colors in the experiences that have led Elle to this day, we arrive at her ultimate decision with all its complexity. Tender yet devastating, The Paper Palace considers the te...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/53298798-trusting-cassidy   Book Synopsis : In this final installment of New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker?s Silverstone series, a battle-scarred assassin must rescue an old flame from ruthless drug lords.What was supposed to be a short trip to Jamaica becomes a years-long nightmare as Cassidy Hewitt and her son fall into the grip of an infamous drug kingpin. Desperate for rescue, Cassidy risks everything to send secret letters to the FBI, hoping someone, anyone, will answer her call.When secret operative Leo ?Gramps? Zanardi sees Cassidy?s letters, he knows this isn?t just another covert mission. The two had electric chemistry back in high school, and Leo finds himself eager for a reunion?even if the circumstances aren?t exactly ideal.After arriving back in Indiana, Leo and Cassidy think they?re free to start a new life together. But the kingpin?s goons won?t let go of Cassidy so easily: they follow her from ...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56269133-the-becoming   Book Synopsis : The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two--including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm--a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In Talamh, Breen is not the ordinary young schoolteacher he knew her as. Here she is learning to embrace the powers of her true identity. Marco is welcomed kindly by her people--and by Keegan, leader of the Fey. Keegan has trained Breen as a warrior, and his yearning for her has grown along with his admiration of her strength and skills.But one member of Breen's bloodline is not there to embrace her. Her grandfather, the outcast god Odran, plots to destroy Talamh--and now all must unite to defeat his dark forces. There will be losses and sorrows,...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/57429914-the-keeper-of-happy-endings   Book Synopsis : An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls.Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It?s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline?s world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget.Decades later, while coping with her own tragic loss, aspiring gallery owner Rory Grant leases Soline?s old property and discovers a box containing letters and a vintage wedding dress, never worn. When Rory returns the mementos, an unlikely friendship develops...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/42201431-the-unhoneymooners   Book Synopsis : Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501128035.Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in?well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fianc? is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she?s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). Worst of all, she?s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man.Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren?t affected are Olive and Ethan. And now there?s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs.Putting their mutual hatred aside for the sake of a free vac...