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  • Sky Dance

    Fighting for the wild in the Scottish Highlands

    by John D. Burns ...
    Lord Purdey was shaking with anger. 'Bring back the lynx? Over my dead body!" The environmental protestors murmured, and Rory stepped forward. 'Your hunting has destroyed our hills and left them treeless wastes, devoid of wildlife. It's time that changed.' 'Listen, you lentil-eating cat lover,' Purdey barked through the megaphone, 'men like me own Scotland. If we want to kill anything that moves ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Winter

    In search of nature in Scotland's mountain landscape

    by John D. Burns ...
    In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland's mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months. He traverses the country from the mouth of the River Ness to the Isle of Mull, from remote Sutherland to the Cairngorms, in search of rutting red deer, pupping seals, minke whales, beavers, pine ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gallery (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A World War II Classic

    by John Horne Burns, Daphne Ulwick ...
    John Horne Burns's The Gallery is a formally daring novel of wartime Naples, set largely around the Galleria Umberto I during the Allied occupation. Composed as a sequence of portraits, monologues, and interlinked episodes, it abandons conventional plot for a modernist mosaic of soldiers, civilians, prostitutes, refugees, and displaced souls. Its style is lyrical, satirical, and unsparing, placing ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Infamy

    Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath

    by John Toland ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 50 min

    A revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl HarborPulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland presents evidence that FDR and his top advisors knew about the planned Japanese attack but remained silent.Infamy reveals the conspiracy to cover up the facts and find scapegoats for the greatest disaster in United States military history. ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • NATO's Return to Europe

    Engaging Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond

    by Damon Coletta, Rebecca R. Moore, John R. Deni, Schuyler Foerster, Andrew T. Wolff, Magnus Petersson, Sten Rynning, Ivan D. Ivanov0, Stanley Sloan1, Huiyun Feng2 ...
    NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance’s mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. However, Russia’s re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kinfolk Interiors

    Ideas for Thoughtful Living

    by John Burns ...
    Series series Kinfolk
    A look inside beautiful, one-of-a-kind homes around the world, from the tastemakers behind Kinfolk magazineA disappearing kitchen for a reluctant cook. A glass block and steel bathroom inspired by a Berlin nightclub. A book-lined hallway that winds through the heart of the house. In Kinfolk Interiors, ideas of what makes a home our own are as individual as the lives they accommodate. At a time ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Gallery

    by John Horne Burns ...
    "The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos PassosJohn Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the ... Read more

    $17.19 CAD

  • The Chinese Communist Party's Nomenklatura System

    by John P. Burns ...
    The term “nomenklatura’’ means “nomenclature,’’ “a list of positions, arranged in order of seniority, including a description of the duties of each office. Perhaps the major instrument of Communist Party control of contemporary China’s political, economic, social, and cultural institutions is the nomenklatura system. The system consists of lists of leading positions, over which party units ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Big Shifts Ahead

    Demographic Clarity For Business

    by John Burns, Chris Porter ...
    Huge Demographic Shifts Explained and Quantified for Decision MakersDemographics determine the direction of your business. Demographic trends can be overwhelming, misleading, confusing, conflicting, and difficult to predict. Not anymore.John Burns and Chris Porter wrote this book to help make demographic trends easier to understand, quantify, and anticipate. Readers of this book will have a huge ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Baby Pictures

    My Year on the Road with Baby Lester and the Buggybumpers

    by B. John Burns ...
    B. John Burns was a middle-class Catholic school graduate destined, in the eyes of everyone who knew him, for law school. But after an unexpectedly rousing reception for one of his original songs at his senior class talent show, the only destiny in his mind was to become a rock star. "Baby Pictures" is a compelling autobiographical novel that tells his story of a life touring on the road – filled ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thunder at Sunrise

    A History of the Vanderbilt Cup, the Grand Prize and the Indianapolis 500, 1904-1916

    by John M. Burns ...
    Concentrating on the years between 1904 and 1916 and featuring a wealth of photographs, this book examines America's first three races of international stature: the Vanderbilt Cup, the International Grand Prize and the Indianapolis 500. Researched in great part from contemporary sources such as newspapers and automotive journals, the book covers not only these races, but also the ways in which ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets

    Lyrical Solidarity

    by John Burns, Toshiaki Komura ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics. Their poems explore topics surrounding immigration, internment, and racialization, as part of understanding intertwining strategies of exclusion both communities have faced. Their poetry forms new ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD