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  • Locust Hill: A Romantic Family Saga

    by Carl Parsons ...
    City girl falls in love with country boy in the family saga Locust Hill. Carl Parsons' third noveldetails the struggles of an independent, small acreage farm family in the Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia. With wife Cassandra as the narrator, the novel recounts her discovery of a different world just outside her West Virginia hometown, a quaint rural village where people survive and maintain their ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eros and Order: Love That Creates and Destroys

    by Carl Parsons ...
    From author Carl Parsons, winner of Penmaster Global's best short collection of 2025 for Town and Country, comes a new collection of literary stories—Eros and Order: Love That Creates and Destroys. In this collection you'll encounter:· A wife who deserts her husband and young children for a life of perfect freedom, she thinks.· A teen fashion model who plots revenge against her father for the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children, Poverty and Education

    The Misuse of Power and Wealth

    by Carl Parsons ...
    Educational inequality is not an unfortunate inescapable by-product of poverty, but the predictable outcome of long-standing policy failure.Moving beyond familiar reporting of deprivation, this book traces a causal chain from elite wealth preservation, political decision-making and weak fiscal enforcement through to under-resourced families and unequal educational outcomes. It draws on extensive ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Shantyboat: American Dystopia

    by Carl Parsons ...
    Drawn straight from today's headlines into a soon-to-be America, a broken country gradually beaten down by one-party rule and loss of personal freedoms, Shantyboat follows the story of two homeless men struggling to recover at least a sliver of freedom by building a shantyboat. But their efforts inside a society of surveillance and totalitarian controls soon lead them to commit both theft and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Town and Country: Voices from the Mid-Ohio Valley

    by Carl Parsons ...
    In this collection of short stories the reader encounters ordinary people struggling with a variety of extraordinary problems that threaten to change their lives: an elderly widower confronting a life of regrets, precocious children threatened with separation, a middle-aged couple facing the loss of their generations-old general store, and many others. Read Town and Country and meet the people of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trios: Death, Deceit, and Politics

    by Carl Parsons ...
    Rita Collins, a reporter and writer for a local Washington, DC television station, faces apparently unexplained rejection by her husband, who has suffered amputation of both legs during the Iraq War. He refuses both her affection and any attempts at rehabilitation. At the same time, Rita is investigating a radical political cell on an elite college campus. With the help of her husband's ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Education, Exclusion and Citizenship

    by Carl Parsons ...
    Education, Exclusion and Citizenship provides a hard-hitting account of the realities of exclusion, examining the behaviour which typically results in exclusion, and asks questions about a society which communally neglects those most in need.Permanent exclusions from schools continue to rise. As schools compete with neighbouring schools for 'good' pupils, managers and heads are choosing to exclude ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Quality Improvement in Education

    Case Studies in Schools, Colleges and Universities

    Edited by Carl Parsons ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Using case studies from the full range of educational institutions, this book, originally published in 1994, provides an analytical overview of the quality debate in British education, illuminating the evolution of one of the most prevalent and forceful cultural phenomena in contemporary education at the time. Lessons are learned from quality improvement in industry and public service, and the ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Health Promoting School

    Policy, Research and Practice

    by Susan Denman, Alysoun Moon, Carl Parsons, David Stears ...
    Under the UK Labour Government (1997-2001) there have been clear signs of a willingness to revive the 'pastoral' curriculum in schools and to develop stronger links between the health and eductaion sectors. This book, based on empirical work undertaken in England and throughout Europe, explores such government policy and in particular the development of the health promoting school.The authors ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps

    The Academy Experiment

    by Terry Edwards, Carl Parsons ...
    'A sharp and incisive account of how state education has been dismantled into a system of competing Multi-Academy Trusts. We were told ‘choice' would deliver higher standards. It didn't. It made the system more chaotic, wasteful and segregated. This book explains how it was done.' Alasdair Smith, National Secretary, Anti Academies AllianceTerry Edwards and Carl Parsons tell the story of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix It

    by Cahal Moran ...
    An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us.‘A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us all' Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism‘Easily one of the most compelling economics communicators of our generation.' Yuan Yang, FT columnist and MP for Earley and WoodleyDid you know that while we think of money as ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Paint Your Town Red

    How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

    by Rhian Jones, Matthew Brown ...
    Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience ... Read more

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