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  • Audiobook

    The 55 Soft Skills That Guide Employee and Organizational Success

    by Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham ...
    Narrated by Dr. Tobin Porterfield ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 40 min

    Most people have heard of soft skills and perhaps can list one or two. The authors, Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham, both university professors with extensive business backgrounds, have uncovered a list of 55 soft skills that employees and organizations are increasingly unleashing to spur innovation and growth.This book lists each of the 55 soft skills, drawn from a review of hundreds of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Sediment Removal

    The Science, Policy, and Management of Street Sweeping

    by Robert Brinkmann, Graham A. Tobin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    There is not an extensive literature on street sweeping. Much of the research that has been completed exists in the "gray" area of technical reports and government documents. Furthermore, a great deal of this research is locally based, and has not been widely published. Indeed, our review of the scientific literature, revealed that, while storm water quality has received a lot of attention, few ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Natural Hazards

    Explanation and Integration

    by Burrell E. Montz, PhD, Graham A. Tobin, PhD, Ronald R. Hagelman III, PhD ...
    What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? As populations grow and the climate warms, how can natural hazards be mitigated? Thoroughly revised and updated, and now with a more global perspective, the second edition of this accessible text provides an integrated framework for understanding and ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Unhealthy Health Policy

    A Critical Anthropological Examination

    by Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Francisco Armada, Hans A. Baer, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Philippe Bourgois, David Buchanan, Claudia Chaufan, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Alice Desclaux, Paul Farmer, Didier Fassin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, Salmaan Keshavjee, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Cathy Hodge McCoid, Carles Muntaner, Joan E. Paluzzi, James Pfeiffer, Imrana Qadeer, Susan Shaw, Tom Stopka, Wei Teng, Graham A. Tobin, Fouzieyha Towghi, Nalini Visvanathan, William Wagner, Howard Waitzkin, Wayne Warry, Linda M. Whiteford, Cathleen Willging ...
    This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Worst of Days

    Inside the black Saturday firestorm

    by Karen Kissane (Aus) ...
    Saturday, 7 February 2009. Truly the worst of days…From dawn, the bush was tinder dry, and hot winds grew and fed off the baked landscape, sucking out every last drop of moisture, whipping sparks from power lines, and stirring up menace and danger.WORST OF DAYS is the behind-the-scenes story of the people who were inside Black Saturday's most deadly firestorm, the Kilmore blaze. It is a powerful ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Deadly Choices

    How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

    by Paul A Offit, MD ...
    In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Water: All That Matters

    by Professor Paul L Younger ...
    Series series All That Matters
    The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown and declined due to discovery and exhaustion of their water sources, and now the West is at last catching on to the fact that abundance of water can no longer be taken for granted. For the last fifty years, wars have been fought over oil; for the next fifty, they may be fought over water (in fact, some local ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Global Crisis

    War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century.Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?

    The Scientific Argument Against Water Fluoridation

    by Barry Groves ...
    Fluoride is more toxic than lead, yet it is routinely added to the drinking water of Ireland and Britain. In Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?, Barry Groves presents an array of convincing and persuasive arguments that dismantle the commonly held belief that the fluoridation of water is beneficial to our health. The fluoridation of water has been used for the prevention of tooth decay for ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Haiti After the Earthquake

    by Paul Farmer ...
    "Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times"The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp." -- Economist"A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature

    Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore than an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother Nature. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Nature as Teacher, the second volume of the Eco-Technology ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eruption

    The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

    by Steve Olson ...
    A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester).For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD