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Canada 2012
Stryker Post 2012; US$ 16.99This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present. It is broken down into sections dealing with Canada?s culture, geography, people, history (from New France to the constitutional debates in the late 20 th century), political system (including the constitution, monarchy, executive, parliament, legal and court system, federalism... more...
Voices of the Pacific
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 14.99These are the stories from fifteen WWII Marines, compiled by Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton but left unfiltered and in the words of the Marines who were there. Unflinching, brutal, and relentless, Voices of the Pacific will leave a reader gasping for air and dumbstruck in awe of the old heroes who won the Pacific war with bare hands, bayonets,... more...
Jarhead
Scribner 2005; US$ 16.00Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands.... more...
Our Vietnam
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 42.99"Laos was never really ours after 1954. South Vietnam is and wants to be." -- McGeorge Bundy, Washington, D.C., 1961 "The Americans thought that Vietnam was a war. We knew that Vietnam was our country." -- Luu Doan Huynh, Hanoi, 1999 Twenty-five years after its end, with many records and archives newly opened and many participants now willing... more...
Co-ed Combat
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 26.95A scholar makes a definitive, controversial argument against women in combat More than 155,000 female troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. And more than seventy of those women have died. While that?s a small fraction of all American casualties, those deaths exceed the number of military women who died in Korea, Vietnam,... more...
Recondo
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 7.99Author Larry Chambers vividly describes the guts and courage it took to pass the though volunteer-only training program in Nha Tarng to be part of the 5th Special Forces Recondo School, the hair-raising graduation mission to scout out, locate, and out-guerilla the NVA. Here is an unforgettable account that follows Chambers and the Rangers every step... more...
Little America
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00From the award-winning author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a riveting, intimate account of America?s troubled war in Afghanistan. When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani malfeasance... more...
Edexcel AS History: Russia in Revolution, 1881-1924
Hodder Education 2012; Not AvailableRevision guide which combines course content with activities to develop exam skills to help students effectively revise for this AS unit. more...
The Salem Witch Trials Reader
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 20.00For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook. more...
Lady at the O.K. Corral
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp. For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of the Old West. Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly... more...









