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  • From the Sidelines to the Finish Line

    by Emily Falcon ...
    In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed forty percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, and hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious conditions defined her ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Space, Taste and Affect

    Atmospheres That Shape the Way We Eat

    Edited by Emily Falconer ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
    This bookis an exploration of how time, space and social atmospheres contribute to the experience of taste. It demonstrates complex combinations of material, sensual and symbolic atmospheres and social encounters that shape this experience.Space, Taste and Affect brings together case studies from the fields of sociology, geography, history, psycho-social studies and anthropology to examine debates ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Re-Centering Women in Tourism

    Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies

    by Sarah Becklake, Augusta Lynn Bolles, Emily Falconer, Amy Kipp, Kris Maksymowicz, Siân Stephens, Karen Stocker, Frances Julia Riemer, Lindsey B. Pullum ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. This volume contributes to conversations on the engagement of women in tourism by centering women’s multivalent lived experiences—as hosts, liaisons, vendors, performers, producers, and consumers—in tourism projects. Examining eco-tourism, craft ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    From the Sidelines to the Finish Line

    A Chronic Illness Survivor’s Challenges and Everyday Triumphs

    by Emily Falcon ...
    Narrated by Audrey Tesserot ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed forty percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, and hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious conditions defined her ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Practice of Eating

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