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  The Guerrilla and the Journalist...

  Fred Bridgland

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  For many years, UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi was known for his charisma, charm and brio: he convinced millions of his fellow countrymen and also international statesmen that he was Angola's and the West's best hope for democratic rule.
  More than 30 years after writing a sympathetic biography of Savimbi, Fred Bridgland sets the record straight. Based on new evidence that has come to light, he reveals the rebel leader's murderous legacy. In the 1970s and 1980s, when Angola was a hotbed of the Cold War, few people would have believed that Savimbi was a manipulative and paranoid tyrant prepared to kill anyone he viewed as a threat to his power.
  Tito Chingunji, the brilliant young foreign secretary of Savimbi's UNITA movement, who approached Bridgland to write the original biography in the early 1980s, risked his life to help Bridgland tell the true story of what was going on behind the scenes. This is an account of the intense friendship that developed between the two men, the adventures they shared and the terrifying challenges they faced as they revealed Savimbi's true face.

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  The Gold Rush - Wealth and...

  Nova Ashford

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  In the early months of 1848, the world changed when James W. Marshall, a carpenter working at John Sutter’s mill in Coloma, California, made an accidental discovery that would set the stage for one of the most significant migrations in history. While overseeing the construction of a sawmill along the American River, Marshall noticed something unusual shining in the water. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was gold. This seemingly small find would ignite a chain reaction that would draw thousands of people from all over the world to California in search of wealth. 
  Marshall initially tried to keep the discovery a secret, as he knew the potential chaos it could cause. However, the lure of gold proved irresistible, and by the end of the year, word had spread. The news reached San Francisco, then a small but bustling port city, where rumors swirled about the newfound riches in the Sierra Nevada foothills. As the news continued to spread across the United States and beyond, the idea of striking it rich in California captured the imagination of many. 
  The first wave of miners, known as the "forty-niners," began their journey west in 1849, despite the challenges and hardships that lay ahead. They traveled overland on difficult wagon trains, braving rough terrain, sickness, and the constant threat of hunger and exhaustion. For those who could afford it, ships offered a quicker, though no less perilous, route around South America to the West Coast. The gold rush had begun, and California would never be the same.

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  The Ward - The Life and Loss of...

  John Lorinc, Michael McClelland,...

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  The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto's first 'priority neighbourhood.'
     
  From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Italian, African American and Chinese, among others – landed in 'The Ward.' Crammed with rundown housing and immigrant-owned businesses, this area, bordered by College and Queen, University and Yonge streets, was home to bootleggers, Chinese bachelors, workers from the nearby Eaton';s garment factories and hard-working peddlers. But the City considered it a slum, and bulldozed the area in the late 1950s to make way for a new civic square.
     
  The Ward finally tells the diverse stories of this extraordinary and resilient neighbourhood through archival photos and contributions from a wide array of voices, including historians, politicians, architects, story-tellers, journalists and descendants of Ward residents. Their perspectives on playgrounds, tuberculosis, sex workers, newsies and even bathing bring The Ward to life and, in the process, raise important questions about how contemporary cities handle immigration, poverty and the geography of difference.
     
  ‘The Ward shines a light on one of Toronto's most historically significant and most forgotten neighbourhoods. Instead of a straight history, the book's editors opted to present the Ward through multiple short essays, each with its own unique point of view. The result is a fascinating and varied look at an area that once concurrently defined the city and acted as its biggest shame. As a result of the Ward's eventual razing, there are few artifacts left to teach newer generations about this important part of Toronto's history. This book helps correct that.’
     
  – 2016 Toronto Book Awards Jury Citation
     
  '[The Ward] should be of interest to Canadians anywhere, reminding us that we all came from some place else.'
     
  – Michael Enright, CBC Sunday Edition
     
  Contents & Contributors
     
  Introduction – John Lorinc
     
  Searching for the Old Ward – Shawn Micallef
     
  No Place Like Home – Howard Akler
     
  Beforethe Ward: Macauleytown – Stephen A. Otto
     
  My Grandmother the Bootlegger – Howard Moscoe
     
  Against All Odds: The Chinese Laundry – Arlene Chan
     
  VJ Day – Arlene Chan
     
  Merle Foster's Studio: 'A Spot Of Enchantment' – Terry Murray
     
  Missionary Work: The Fight for Jewish Souls – Ellen Scheinberg
     
  King of the Ward – Myer Siemiatycki
     
  Where the Rich Went for Vice – Michael Redhill
     
  A Fresh Start: Black Toronto in the 19th Century – Karolyn Smardz Frost
     
  Policing the Lord’s Day – Mariana Valverde
     
  'The Maniac Chinaman' – Edward Keenan
     
  Elsie's Story – Patte Roseban
     
  Lawren Harris's Ward Period – Jim Burant
     
  'Fool's Paradise': Hastings' Anti-Slum Crusade – John Lorinc
     
  Strange Brew: The Underground Economy of Blind Pigs – Ellen Scheinberg
     
  The Consulate, the Padroni and the Labourers – Andrea Addario
     
  Excerpt: The Italians in Toronto – Emily P. Weaver
     
  Arthur Goss: Documenting Hardship– Stephen Bulger
     
  Fresh Air: The Fight Against TB – Cathy Crowe
     
  The Stone Yard – Gaetan Heroux
     
  William James: Toronto's First Photojournalist – Vincenzo Pietropaolo
     
  The Avenue Not Taken – Michael McClelland
     
  Timothy Eaton’s Stern Fortifications – Michael Valpy
     
  Settling In: Central Neighbourhood House – Ratna Omidvar & Ranjit Bhaskar
     
  Toronto’s Girl with the Curls – Ellen Scheinberg
     
  Chinese Caf̩s: Survival and Danger РEllen Scheinberg & Paul Yee
     
  Defiance and Divisions: The Great Eaton's Strike – Ruth A. Frager
     
  Elizabeth Street: What the City Directories Reveal – Denise Balkissoon
     
  Growing Up on Walton Street – Cynthia MacDougall
     
  Revitalizing George Street: The Ward's Lessons – Alina Chatterjee & Derek Ballantyne
     
  Taking Care of Business in the Ward &ndash Ellen Scheinberg
     
  'A Magnificent Dome': The Great University Avenue Synagogue – Jack Lipinsky
     
  Reading the Ward: The Inevitability of Loss – Kim Storey & James Brown
     
  Toronto’s First Little Italy – John Lorinc
     
  The Elizabeth Street Playground, Revisited – Bruce Kidd
     
  Divided Loyalties – Sandra Shaul
     
  Crowded by Any Measure – John Lorinc
     
  A Peddler and His Cart: TheWard’s Rag Trade – Deena Nathanson
     
  Toronto's Original Tenement: Wineberg Apartments – Richard Dennis
     
  Excerpt: Tom Thomson's Diary – Tom Thomson
     
  An Untimely Death – Brian Banks
     
  Paper Pushers – Ellen Scheinberg 
     
  The BMR's Wake-Up Call – Laurie Monsebraaten
     
  Excerpt: Report of the Medical Health Officer … – Charles J. Hastings
     
  Dr. Clarke's Clinic – Thelma Wheatley
     
  Slum-Free: The Suburban Ideal – Richard Harris
     
  The Glionna Clan and Toronto's First Little Italy – John E. Zucchi
     
  'The Hipp' – Michael Posner
     
  Before Yorkville– John Lorinc
     
  Sex Work and the Ward’s Bachelor Society – Elise Chenier
     
  Public Baths: Schvitzing on Centre Avenue – Ellen Scheinberg
     
  The Health Advocates: McKeown on Hastings – John Lorinc
     
  Remembering Toronto's First Chinatown – Kristyn Wong-Tam
     
  Tabula Rasa – Mark Kingwell
     
  Unrealized Renewal  – J. David Hulchanski
     
  A Short History of the 'Civic Square' Expropriation – John Lorinc
     
  Storytelling is Part of the Story – Tatum Taylor
     
  How We Think About What (Little) Survives – Patrick Cummins
     
  Institutional Memory – Scott James & Victor Russell
     
  Alternative Histories – MichaelMcClelland

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  Who Has Buried the Dead? - From...

  KGE Konkel

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  The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have never been revealed. One such secret was buried in the deep, dark forest of Katyn, Poland. The other in the pages of a notebook hidden in an otherwise unremarkable café in an ancient Polish city.
  		 
  That notebook, known as the Scottish Book, was an obscure work of intellectual gamesmanship between a specialized group of mathematicians who met at a local pub near the town’s medieval university, where they shared and solved complex mathematical problems in the pages of the book. In 1939, as the Nazis overran the country, the book mysteriously vanished from its hiding place in the café. Some of its contributors avoided certain death by fleeing Poland  for America, where the government recruited them. Ultimately, some of these intellectuals became participants in a deadly undertaking: the Manhattan Project.
  		 
  Who Has Buried the Dead? may be fiction, but it draws on years of research to plausibly answer the real questions surrounding one of the last great secrets of the Second World War. What did the Scottish Book contain that led the NKVD, the Gestapo, and the Allies on a desperate search, using any means to find it? Why has its existence not factored into the telling of Second World War history? What is ultimately revealed within the Scottish Book that brought mortal enemies and their top spy operatives into a deadly contest for its discovery and seizure?

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  Cry Freedom - The Regulatory...

  James Tooley

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  A clarion call for academics and policymakers alike, Cry Freedom prompts reflection on the evolving relationship between government and higher education.

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  The Watkins Book of African...

  Helen Nde

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  From creation myths and foundation legends to fascinating stories of human relationships and animal tales, these stories provide a diverse look at the countries and cultures across the African continent. Noted folklorist Helen Nde provides context for history and colonial influences for the stories. 
   
   
   
  Discover the geographical and cultural variety of the continent with stories such as: 
   
   
   
  ● FROM ALGERIA: "The Story of the First Man and Woman", who meet when they struggle over access to a well, but go on to have 100 children and start the human race. 
   
   
   
  ● FROM SUDAN: "Okwa and the River Maiden", a tale about the great-grandson of the first man who seeks the river spirit's approval to marry two river maidens, half women and half crocodiles. 
   
    
   
  ● FROM ZIMBABWE: "The Moon and His Wives", a story about the first man who pleads with the creator to become mortal and go to earth, where the first star becomes his companion. 
   
   
   
  ● FROM GHANA: "How Goat Caused a War" by tricking the Supreme Being and giving his holy message to the wrong prince. 
   
   
   
  ● FROM TANZANIA: "The Singing Kaguru Birds", who offer help and riches to poor folk in exchange for a strict rule or even a trick.

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