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  • The Discovery of the Asylum

    Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic

    by David J Rothman ...
    Series series New Lines in Criminology Series
    This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular ideology in the development of prisons and asylums, Rothman provides a compelling argument that ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Living the Life

    by David J. Rothman ...
    Featuring 38 true-life stories of adventure and self-discovery, adrenaline, and honesty, a former professional NCAA downhill competitor reveals the soul skier's raison d'être: finding exhilaration, faith, grief, love, and everything that truly matters amid the gloriously tangible, tactile, break-your-leg-if-you're-not-careful rocks, trees, and gullies of the alpine world. These essays, collected ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Willowbrook Wars

    Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community

    by David J. Rothman ...
    The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars began in 1972 with Geraldo Rivera's televised raid on the Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a federal courtroom, with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a conservative and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival

    by David H. Rothman ...
    Lemba Adula is the perfect 15-year-old - brilliant, hardworking and polite to his elders. He excels at flying drones and coaxing new tricks out of smartphones and computers.But murderous Congolese rebels kidnap Lemba and force him to kill. He also must train other child soldiers and even help hijack a giant container ship.Drone Child is a powerful thriller and adventure story recommended for ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning the Secrets of English Verse

    The Keys to the Treasure Chest

    by David J. Rothman, Susan Delaney Spear ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This textbook teaches the writing of poetry by examining all the major verse forms and repeating stanza forms in English. It provides students with the tools to compose successful lines of poetry and focuses on meter (including free verse), rhythm, rhyme, and the many other tools a poet needs to create both music and meaningfulness in an artful poem. Presenting copious examples from strong poets ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Replacement Parts

    The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans

    by Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Daniel P. Reid, Elysa R. Koppelman, Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, Scott D. Halpern, Frank C. Chaten0, Winston Chiong1, David Magnus2, Ben S. Wilfond3, Karol Wojtyła4, D. Alan Shewmon5, James L. Bernat6, Dominic Wilkinson7, Julian Savulescu8, Kristin Zeiler9, Elisabeth Furberg0, Gunnar Tufveson1, Staffen Welin2, Alexander M. Capron3, Richard M. Zaner4, Canadian Paediatric Society5, Ahad J. Ghods6, Shokoufeh Savaj7, Amelie Raz8, Rachel Kohn9, Michael Rey0, David A. Asch1, Peter Reese2, Sheila M. Rothman3, David J. Rothman4, Leigh Turner5, Gabriel M. Danovitch6, Alan B. Leichtman7, David Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber8, Robert Fitzgerald9, Kyle Powys Whyte0, Evan Selinger1, Jathan Sadowski2, Ian Kennedy3, Robert A. Sells4, Abdallah S. Daar5, Ronald D. Guttmann6, Raymond Hoffenberg7, Michael Lock8, Janet Radcliffe-Richards9, Nicholas L. Tilney0, Sahin Aksoy1, Jennifer A. Chandler2, Jacquelyn A. Burkell3, Sam D. Shemie4, Barbara L. Neades5, David Serur6, Michael R. Charlton7, Charles Bradley Wallis8, Kannan P. Samy9, Alvin Elliot Roth0, Michael A. Rees1, Kristina Fiore2, Francis L. Delmonico3, Rosamond Rhodes4, Thomas D. Schiano5, Mohammad Sanaei Ardekani6, Janis M. Orlowski7, Jennifer deSante8 ...
    In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Lelya Dorche and the Coney Island Cure

    by David Rothman ...
    In April 2020, at the height of the pandemic in New York City, Andrew, the assistant director of a funeral home one mile from Elmhurst Hospital, the “epicenter of the epicenter,” meets a legendary Coney Island witch doctor (Lelya Dorche), who makes him an offer that could better his chances of keeping his COVID-positive elderly parents and his severely asthmatic 13-year-old son, Miro, off the ever ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Solomon Scandals

    by David H. Rothman ...
    Jon Stone is a Spinoza-loving reporter with a rationalist's need to see the world as it is, not as Washington's elite would prefer to print it.He is already digging into the campaign donations of Seymour Solomon, a real estate magnate, when one of Solomon's high-rises collapses in Northern Virginia, killing hundreds.An ex-bricklayer who left fingertips behind on the job, Solomon learned how to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime And...

    by Blaze Ward, Leah R Cutter, Knotted Road Press, Adam Stemple, Mary Jo Rabe, Debbie Mumford, Rob Cornell, Mark Posey, David Bruns, Sonia Lyris, Barbara G.Tarn, MB Austin, Rebecca M. Senese, Johanna Rothman, Pamela Cowan, Bonnie Elizabeth, Kari Kilgore, Jason Adams, Michele Laframboise, M. L. Buchman ...
    Series Book 5 - Blaze Ward Presents
    Crime And...I challenged folks to give me a crime story with a one word title that could complete that phrase above.Many answered, and nearly twenty made the final cut, from coziest fun to darkest noir, always with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in the back of their minds.Historic tales sent in mid-Twentieth Century Los Angeles or Budapest. Modern mysteries from small towns to Appalachia to the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Where, The Why, and The How

    75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science

    by Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe ...
    In this New York Times bestseller, "you'll see star births described in pen and ink, antimatter realized in collage, and a hand-painted black hole" ( Discover Magazine).A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose seventy-five of today's hottest artists onto life's vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going. Inside these pages some of the biggest (and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Rose and the Days of Awe

    by Daryl Rothman ...
    Series Book 3 - David Rose
    Marcel has returned from a mysterious excursion with possible news of David Rose's mother, in addition to a revelation which threatens to upend the course of human history.Not even a year from discovering his immortality and the sinister world into which he has awakened, David has survived a swordfight, eluded a dark wizard, and pulled off a harrowing escape after being abducted to a hidden ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford History of the Prison

    The Practice of Punishment in Western Society

    Edited by Norval Morris, David J. Rothman ...
    The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons were a timeless institution stretching from medieval stone dungeons to the current era of steel boxes. But centuries of development ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD