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Iced
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

Iced

"You're lucky he didn't have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs." -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized...

JFK: The French Connection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

JFK: The French Connection

Ten months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission reported that Lee Harvey Oswald, alone, killed the president on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Oswald had no confederates, nor did any foreign power aid him in his deadly deed. Case closed. However, what most Americans do not know is that one day after the assassination, the FBI deported a known French assassin-a member of the militant, anti-Charles de Gaulle organization called the OAS. Jean Souetre was sent to either Mexico or Canada. He was involved in anti-de Gaulle terrorist activities in Europe and even tried to recruit the CIA in his efforts to oust the French President. During his career, he used at lea...

Crisis and Commitment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Crisis and Commitment

This revised edition documents one of the longest and most successful popular protests in modern French history - the Larzac movement. Drawing on ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau, it examines the activities of the movement since 1995.

Satellite Boy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Satellite Boy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-09-03
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  • Publisher: Catapult

"Mr. Amelinckx is an adroit storyteller and thorough researcher, and in Satellite Boy he has written a good, engrossing yarn." —The Wall Street Journal Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection between an audacious bank heist and the “other Space Race” that gave birth to the modern communication age On April 6, 1965, Georges Lemay was relaxing on his yacht in a south Florida marina following one of the largest and most daring bank heists in Canadian history. For four years, the roguishly handsome criminal mastermind hid in plain sight, eluding capture and the combined efforts of the FB...

Quick Bibliography Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Quick Bibliography Series

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Journals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1863
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Medical Botany and Herbal Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 38

Medical Botany and Herbal Medicine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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French News
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 652

French News

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1963
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower-Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640

Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower-Canada

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1812
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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By Words Alone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

By Words Alone

The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone, is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.