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    Elderly Parent Caregiver Guide

    101 Tips For Adult Children To Love, Support, and Care For Aging Parents

    Narrated by Megan Hudgins ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 25 min

    Elderly Parent Caregiver 101 is the ultimate guide for adult children who are or will become their parents’ caregivers. Filled with valuable information and ideas, this book offers hope, support, and plenty of practical advice for anyone caring for their elderly parents. Each chapter describes a different area of caregiving, including:• Becoming a Caregiver• Medical Providers• Facility Care• ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Girl Sleuth

    Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

    by Melanie Rehak ...
    The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is "a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing" ( The Seattle Times).An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearThe plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elderly Parent Caregiver Guide

    101 Tips For Adult Children To Love, Support, and Care For Aging Parents

    Elderly Parent Caregiver 101 is the ultimate guide for adult children who are or will become their parents’ caregivers. Filled with valuable information and ideas, this book offers hope, support, and plenty of practical advice for anyone caring for their elderly parents. Each chapter describes a different area of caregiving, including:• Becoming a Caregiver• Medical Providers• Facility Care• ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eating for Beginners

    An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid

    by Melanie Rehak ...
    A memoir of a year spent working at a Brooklyn restaurant—and on a series of farms—to get the lowdown on organic, local, ethical cooking. Includes recipes!Food was always important to Melanie Rehak. She studied the experts on healthy nutrition, from Michael Pollan to Eric Schlosser to Wendell Berry, cooking, preparing, and sourcing what she thought were the best ingredients. So when her son turned ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's English Girlfriend

    The Story of Unity Mitford

    by David Rehak ...
    A free-spirited rebel from the start, Unity will do and say just about anything to get herself in trouble. She's different, an outsider. In Adolf Hitler, she finds her idol of nonconformity. But soon her mind is also brainwashed by his racist ideology. She becomes obsessed with seeking to win his love, and she wants to make her native England and his Germany become as one to prevent another world ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Special Effects

    New Histories, Theories, Contexts

    As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers.Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacleto examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Safety and Security Issues in Technical Infrastructures

    In the modern age of urbanization, the mass population is becoming progressively reliant on technical infrastructures. These industrial buildings provide integral services to the general public including the delivery of energy, information and communication technologies, and maintenance of transport networks. The safety and security of these structures is crucial as new threats are continually ... Read more

    $227.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of Joking

    Anthropological Engagements

    This book engages anthropologically with humor as political expression. It reveals how humor is in many instances central to human efforts to cope with political struggle and significant to understanding power dynamics in socio-political life. The chapters examine humor and joking activities across a diverse range of geographic areas and cultural contexts. The contributors consider humor as it is ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • A Servant's Tale

    A Novel

    by Paula Fox ...
    "A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."— VogueLuisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks of silver-feathered guinea hens underneath, the magic of a victrola, and the caramel flan ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Than Meets the Eye

    Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise

    by Bob Rehak ...
    Series Book 19 - Postmillennial Pop
    A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchisesFrom comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic empires set in far-off galaxies, today’s fantasy blockbusters depend on visual effects. Bringing science fiction from the studio to your screen, through film, television, or video games, these special ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Theology and Protest Music

    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Songs of protest have been inspiring activists for millennia, and continue to be created, shared, and reworked across musical genres. From the prophet Habakkuk as proto-protest singer, through a broad spectrum of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and diverse faith traditions, Theology and Protest Music gathers compelling contributions that examine Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro

    Infatuation

    Series series Studies in Jazz
    The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro: Infatuation is the first comprehensive study of the jazz trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro. It provides biographical and discographical information on this talented musician, whose premature death from tuberculosis at 26 robbed the jazz world of his brilliance. Through an analysis of his recorded legacy, this book offers new perspectives on Navarro's ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD