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Poignant while being laugh-out-loud funny, -"Call Me Hank"- is a gem that got missed when it was first released. It is the work of a master storyteller who uses humour to drive his points home, as well as a serious work of history and one of the best descriptions of life as a logger.'-John Lutz, Department of History, University of Victoria

Apostle to the Inuit presents the journals and ethnographical notes of Reverned Edmund James Peck, an Anglican missionary who opened the first mission among the Inuit of Baffin Island in 1894 and became known to the Inuit as 'Uqammaq, ' the one who talks well. His colleagues knew him as 'Apostle among the Eskimo.' Peck's diaries of the period focus on his missionary work and the adoption of Christianity by the Inuit. He conducted extensive res...

This latest volume in the series of Merton Annals covers a turbulent time in the college's history, including the siege of Oxford.

Riding to the Rescue is a provocative and incisive look behind one of Canada's most enduring icons at the cusp of the modern era.

This book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion, which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion of radical religion with magical ideas about recovering the divine powers of Adam lost in the fall from Paradise (ideas known as the hermetic philosophy) that occurred during the Reformation and the English Revolution. T...

This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu.

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This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves - from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure, and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale exports in th...