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Mark
05-19-2006
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I am a history teacher on the Navajo Reservation. I would like to request any educator or fan of world history to send me any books on WWII, Civil War, Korea, and other conflicts. I am also interested in tapes, videos or books related to Ottoman Empire and History of the Soviet Union. I appreciate your contribution.
Thank You
Mark Marquez, Educator
Navajo Schools
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Mark
05-19-2006
11:27 AM ET (US)
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I am a history teacher on the Navajo Reservation. I would like to request any e
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Bookninja  06-23-2005
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Roosevelt Franklin, heyheyheyRemember that great Sesame Street riff? Well, this has nothing to do with it. Sorry. Eleanor Roosevelt's grandson is carrying a torch, though. HomeEdited 06-23-2005 09:46 AM
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Bookninja 05-18-2005
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"The Hades of commercialization"
A brief history of the popular history book.
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Bookninja 05-10-2005
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Rewriting the revisionist World War II historyHow perspective alters everything except the fact that millions of people ended up dead and their families traumatised for generations. HomeEdited 05-10-2005 10:06 AM
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Twinkle Twinkle 05-09-2005
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You ninjas are all the same. Next time you're driving through let me know. I'd really like to give you a nice big Saskatoon pie...
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Bookninja 05-09-2005
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The Encylopedia Saskatchewanica
Who says the ninjas don't love Saskatchewan? It's one of my favourite provinces to drive through.
One hundred years of history will cover more than 1,000 pages and 2,300 entries when the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan is released this fall in time for the province's centennial. The Canadian Plains Research Centre has been putting together the contributions of more than 800 writers for the last nine years with a goal of releasing the final product on Saskatchewan's centennial birthday Sept. 4.
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P.K. Hill
03-18-2005
07:10 PM ET (US)
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The book Bob Rieger read, "To The Outskirts of Habitable Creation: Americans and Canadians Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s" would also intrique anyone interested in the convict transportation system. It is a true account, written in a lively narrative style, about 92 U.S. and Canadian citizens who were sent to Tasmania as politicaal prisoners for their actions in trying to change the 19th-century government of Upper Canada. To me, one of the most inthralling parts of the book was the story of Maria Wait and her attempts to save one of the transportees' (Benjamin Wait) life. I was impressed by Bob kostoff's review in the Niagara Falls Reporter. He wrote "Scott has produced a powerful and meaningful work that is well worth reading." (Feb 1-8, 2005 issue). I agree with both Bobs.
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Bob Rieger
03-16-2005
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For those with an interest in early US history, a new book has been published with both national and regional interest. "To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation" by Stuart Scott recounts the Rebellion of 1837, which was the actual armed invasion of Canada by US citizens. Having lived in Western New York for a while, I found the story to be fascinating, since many of the buildings and battlefields still exist. If you are into geneaology (which I'm not), there are many names, dates and family descriptions in the Great Lakes region. I would be interested in hearing if anyone else has read this book.
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Bookninja 09-22-2004
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All the famous folk in British history
And a few others to boot.
The new Dictionary of National Biography rolled down the slipway into bookshops and libraries with the mightiest of thuds - 61,440 pages long, stretching to 60 volumes, a snip at £7,500 (reduced to £6,500 on Amazon).
It can virtually claim - as the News of the World once did - that all human life is here, all British life at least. It offers contributions by 10,000 mostly learned contributors of 50,000 distinguished or celebrated dead people across 2,400 years of history.
And it's good for the writers too.
To be invited to contribute to the Dictionary of National Biography is one of the more delightful literary honours of our time. The material rewards are not immense: £70 in my case. But the invitation carries a guarantee that one's name will live for ever, or at least as long as one of the world's greatest reference works lasts. For a journalist it is an unusual guarantee to have.
For me, initially, there was a downside to the invitation. It meant becoming immortal solely as author of an entry on Dame Barbara Cartland, the romantic novelist and self-publicist who dyed her pekinese rose-pink. Why was one not being asked to write about Keats, Shakespeare, Churchill, Wittgenstein, Picasso, FR Leavis, Stanley Matthews, Isaac Newton or Princess Diana? Because the DNB has found weightier, more illustrious contributors on those, that's why.
Think of it, 2400 years of bad teeth and bloody colonization. Who wouldn't want to own this?
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Bookninja 01-07-2004
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The Uncertainty Principle
Scientists debate the merits of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen.
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Bookninja 11-11-2003
09:31 PM ET (US)
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Intelligence Doesn't Win Wars
My favourite historian speaks out on the subject of wartime intelligence operations (login: bookninja, password: waaaa). Here's an excerpt from his new book.
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