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  • Poet to Poet

    Poems written to poets and the stories that inspired them

    Edited by Julie Roorda, Elana Wolff ...
    Series Book 2 - Essential Anthologies Series
    Poets on Poets is a unique anthology that features the poems of Canadian poets on a writer who has left a mark on them or their writing. Each poem has a back story to it, ranging from impressions to chronological details. Edited by Julie Roorda and Elana Wolff, the anthology sheds light not only on the creative process but also on the relationship between and among writers. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights Accountability of Non-Universally Recognised States and State-Like Entities

    Edited by Kushtrim Istrefi, Luca Pasquet, Lucas Roorda, Cedric Ryngaert ...
    This book explores the human rights accountability of non-universally recognised states, unlawful entities that exercise effective control over territories, and sui generis subjects and territories when they exercise state-like powers. As they exercise these powers, they can affect the enjoyment of rights just as any recognised state could. But because of the indeterminate nature of these actors’ ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • In Their Own Voices

    Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

    by Rhonda Roorda, Rita Simon ...
    Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A Thousand Consolations

    by Julie Roorda ...
    Moving, entertaining, and witty, A Thousand Consolations is a literary romantic comedy for fans of David Nicholls’s Us and Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers.Paula doesn’t put much faith in the candles she designs for her customers, which promise to cure everything from unrequited love to ingrown toenails; it’s just a business she started after her husband’s untimely death put an end to their joint dream ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Torn from the Root

    A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee

    by Rhonda M. Roorda ...
    As a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned “whether my skin was too dark” and if she “acted too white.” She recalls being haunted by feelings of shame and not being enough. Torn from the Root is her illuminating story of identity, belonging ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Low Countries History Yearbook 1979

    Acta Historiae Neerlandicae

    by C. Dekker, G. Asaert, W. Nijenhuis, P. Van Peteghem, D. J. Roorda, C. R. Emery, K. W. Swart, K. Van Der Pols ...
    Series series History (R0)

    $64.99 CAD

  • Accountability, International Business Operations and the Law

    Providing Justice for Corporate Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains

    Edited by Liesbeth Enneking, Ivo Giesen, Anne-Jetske Schaap, Cedric Ryngaert, Francois Kristen, Lucas Roorda ...
    Series series Globalization: Law and Policy
    A consensus has emerged that corporations have societal and environmental responsibilities when operating transnationally. However, how exactly corporations can be held legally accountable for their transgressions, if at all, is less clear.This volume inquires how regulatory tools stemming from international law, public law, and private law may or may not be used for transnational corporate ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Ocean Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Eric Paul Roorda ...
    Series series The World Readers
    From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader charts humans' relationship to the Ocean, which has often been seen as a changeless space without a history. It collects familiar, forgotten, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Dwellings of Enchantment

    Writing and Reenchanting the Earth

    by Bénédicte Meillon, Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Claire Cazajous-Aujé, Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez, Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Wendy Harding, Linda Hogan, Charles Holdefer, Alan G. Johnson, Tom Lynch0, Joshua Mabie1, Jessica Maufort2, Noémie Moutel3, Rachel Hoscin Nisbet4, Randal Roorda5, Anne Simon6, Frédérique Spill7, Françoise Besson8, Joni Adamson9, Carmen Flys-Junquera0 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Acta Historiae Neerlandicae IX

    Studies on the History of the Netherlands

    by R. Baetens, H. Balthazar, H. Van Dijk, Rosemary Duke, P. J. Van Kessel, D. J. Roorda, Nicolette Van Santen-Mout, E. Stols, K. W. Swart, B. A. Sijes, C. A. Tamse ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In the Survey of Recent Historical Works, which according to custom concludes this IXth volume of the Acta, is a notice of the recent 'Report of the Dutch research, with suggestions for future development'. Such a report could easily be classified as an attempt to bring pressure to bear on financial resources for support of a somewhat neglected branch of scientific effort, indeed as a symptom of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Grief Diaries

    Surviving Loss of Health

    by Lynda Cheldelin Fell, Layne Martin, Stacy Roorda ...
    Brenda was diagnosed with rheumatic disease at age 31. Deana was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 33. MaryEllen was diagnosed with fibromyalgia at age 30. Bonnie was diagnosed with hepatitis C at age 41.Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, Surviving Loss of Health shares the poignant stories of people who all live with chronic disease. Covering tender issues such as navigating health ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • In Their Parents' Voices

    Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

    by Rita Simon, Rhonda Roorda ...
    Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD