Stephen Craig Kimber

Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash

Net Profits: The Story of National Sea

Flight 111: The Tragedy Of The Swissair Crash

"Swissair 1-1-1 is declaring Pan Pan Pan. We have smoke in the cockpit." Seventeen minutes after the co-pilot's distress call, the Geneva-bound jet crashed into the Atlantic off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia just over an hour after leaving New York on September 2, 1998, killing all 229 people on board.N...

Halifax, Warden of the North

First published in1948, Halifax Warden of the North has remained the best-known and most influential chronicle of Halifax since it first hit the shelves. In this updated version of the Governor General's Award-winning history of Halifax, celebrated journalist Stephen Kimber picks up where Thomas Rad...

Flight 111: A Year in the Life of a Tragedy

"Swissair 1-1-1 is declaring Pan Pan Pan. We have smoke in the cockpit." Seventeen minutes after the co-pilot's distress call, the Geneva-bound jet crashed into the Atlantic off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia just over an hour after leaving New York on September 2, 1998, killing all 229 people on board.A...

The beguiling sins of Industrial Capitalism: A chiefly historical survey of what is wrong with the dominant ideology

This book examines the world’s dominant ideology, industrial capitalism, through a selection of lenses. The most important of these lenses is an historical one, for industrial capitalism was born out of misery during the industrial and agricultural revolutions of circa 1750+CE. Historically, indeed,...

Reparations

They were boyhood best friends. One black, one white. But they’dgrown up and apart. Ray, the son of Africville’s last schoolmaster, had hisbrief, shining moment in the ’70s as a black activist leader and is now ajaded lawyer specializing in real estate deals and plea bargains. Ward, the sonof a blac...

hiSTORY: Stories from an historical timeline; prehistory to now.

The short stories in HiSTORY cover pre-history through to the present; they have been crafted to fit with the new Australian curriculum in History for Years 7 through 10 but this has a strong world history focus so the stories cover many parts of the world. The stories in this collection are intende...

Shootdown

At 3:19 p.m. on the afternoon of February 24, 1996, over the Straits of Florida, a Cuban MiG fighter pilot urgently radioed his ground controller: “Target lock-on, authorize us.” “Zero-eight… Authorized to destroy.”A pause, then: “First shot… We got him, damn it! We got him!”Within seconds, Cuban je...

Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792

Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country. The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet’s Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of the futur...