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  • Systems Leadership

    Creating Positive Organisations

    The new edition of this influential and bestselling book is concerned with how people come together to achieve a productive purpose. Survival and success in business and social terms have always depended upon our ability to form and sustain social organisations. People have a deep need to be creative and to belong. By creating positive organisations we can fulfil these needs and build a worthwhile ... Read more

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    Plato's Symposium

    Unabridged

    2 hours 16 min

    The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in the "Symposium." The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house to celebrate the success of his first tragedy. With wit and insight, they each present their ideas about love — from Erixymachus's scientific naturalism to Aristophanes' comic fantasy. The unexpected arrival of ... Read more

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  • The Work of Management

    A Leader’s Guide to Applying Systems Leadership

    The Work of Management demonstrates how the concepts, models and tools of Systems Leadership can be applied, enabling you to become a more effective manager by improving your own work to create a more positive and effective organisation.Positive organisations, where people come together to achieve a productive and personally satisfying purpose, and which provide the basis for a good society, do ... Read more

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  • Superheroes Beyond

    Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, Naja Later, Cormac McGarry, Angela Ndalianis, Julian Novitz, Alexandra Ostrowski Schilling, Maria Lorena M. Santos, Jack Teiwes, and Enrique Uribe-JongbloedIn recent years, superheroes on the page ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Black Ledger, The: Dark Tales of Mystery & Suspense Volume 3

    Series Audiobook 3 - Dark Tales of Mystery & Suspense

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    A third collection of those intriguing thrillers that keep us on the edge of our seats.Contents:The 19 Club by A. J. Alan"He asked who we were and the people down below couldn't tell him."The Dead Woman by David H. Keller"Eerie and flesh-crawling revelations."The Human Chair by Edogawa Ranpo"A man and his rather unusual hiding place."The Man Who Lost His Head by Thomas Burke"Something had happened ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Superhero Symbol

    Media, Culture, and Politics

    “As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting”. In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise, Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne articulates how the figure of the superhero can serve as a transcendent icon.It is hard to imagine a time when superheroes have been more pervasive in our culture. Today, ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The School I'd Like: Revisited

    Children and Young People's Reflections on an Education for the Future

    ‘Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this ground-breaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils’. -French bookstore Lavoisier www.lavoisier.frIn 2001, The Guardian launched a ground-breaking competition called ‘The School I'd Like’, in which young people were asked to imagine their ideal school. This vibrant and ... Read more

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  • Potato

    Botany, Production and Uses

    Series series Botany, Production and Uses
    Potatoes are a staple crop around the world. Covering all aspects of botany, production and uses, this book presents a comprehensive discussion of the most important topics for potato researchers and professionals. It assesses the latest research on plant growth such as tuber development, water use and seed production, covers all aspects of pest management and reviews postharvest issues such as ... Read more

    $178.79 CAD

  • Self-Assessment In Accident and Emergency Medicine

    A pocket-sized self-test book designed for junior doctors. It features not only multiple choice questions, but also case histories, questions on ECGs, data interpretation, x-ray and picture questions. The range of subjects covered is comprehensive andthe answers informative and unambiguous.Designed for junior doctors, Self Assessment in Accident and Emergency Medicine features not only MCQs but ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Young Children at School in the Inner City

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children’s progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations not only in schools but also interviews with children and parents, the children’s skills on ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • End of Life: A Guide for Humanists and Non-Religious People in BC

    Humanism is a philosophy of life that asserts you can be an ethical person without belief in a god. Humanist thinkers have been around for centuries, promoting human rights, scientific thinking, and reason. If you haven't heard the term before and you are thinking, "I support all those things!" then you might be a humanist.Most British Columbians are non-religious and many are probably "secular ... Read more

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    A Beautiful Pint

    One Man's Search for the Perfect Pint of Guinness

    by Ian Ryan ...
    Narrated by Seán Burke ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 22 min

    Bloomsbury presents A Beautiful Pint by Ian Ryan, read by Seán Burke.The ultimate guide to Guinness and the history, culture, and facts to help you find the perfect pint—from the pub to the pour—wherever you are.We’ve all got a friend who claims to know where you can get the best pint of Guinness. From the pub to the pour, it’s just as much an experience as it is a drink. But the man who truly ... Read more

    $15.00 CAD