Learning Resource Centre: E-books

Details how men and women dressed during the periods between World War I and World War II, giving ample examples of the style of costumes and fashions popular at the time.

Bringing the Jazz Age to life through the clothes of the flappers and “Thoroughly Modern Millies,” the book revisits an important part of social and cultural history. Fashions of a Decade series.

Provides essays on current topics including civil disobedience, social justice, nationalism & populism, violent demonstrations, and race relations.

Learn how this chemical messaging system is vital to the body’s growth, metabolism, and sexual development.

Traces the growing role of women in politics and describes the part some women played in advancing learning, science, sports, and the arts during The Great Depression. Cultural History of Women In America series.

Discusses the human body's fundamental defense system, from its component parts to what happens when the body's defenses are breached. Common and uncommon immune disorders are also discussed, as are potential new therapies to enhance or repair the immune system.

Covers the philosophical ideas of the medieval age as well as the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Continental Rationalists.

Discusses the development and organization of the nervous system, its functions, and potential injuries and complications.

Provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information with complete facts and analysis on each country’s governmental and political makeup.

Examined in this full-color title are the reproductive systems of males and females, and how the body develops from conception through puberty and into maturity.

Explores the characteristics and importance of rhythm and blues, rap and hip-hop, as well as its history and evolution.

A comprehensive and straightforward guide to the ornate and sometimes bewildering language that may be unfamiliar to today's readers of Shakespeare's plays and poetry.

Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry.

A two-volume survey of how tobacco became one of the most important commodities in the history of world trade and the source of one of the biggest public health concerns in modern history.

Provides essays on some of the treaties that played significant roles in world history.