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  • Phoenix Island

    by John Dixon ...
    WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVELJohn Dixon’s critically acclaimed Phoenix Island reads like “Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke” (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack). For fans of The Bourne Identity, Alex Rider, and Melissa Marr.The judge told Carl that one day he’d have to decide exactly what kind of person he would become. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Devil's Pocket

    by John Dixon ...
    The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Phoenix Island, which reads like “Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke” (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the CBS TV show Intelligence.With a chip in his head and hundreds more throughout his body, sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman was turned from an orphan with impulse control issues into a super-soldier. Forced into the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Magnificent but Not War

    The Second Battle of Ypres, 1915

    by John Dixon ...
    The book is a detailed account of the fighting around Ypres during April and May 1915. It is essentially a day-by-day record of the Second Battle of Ypres which draws heavily upon personal accounts, regimental histories and war diaries to present a comprehensive study of the battle in which Germany became the first nation to use poisonous gas as a weapon. Each phrase of the battle (the Battle of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Point

    by John Dixon ...
    **“[A] rousing mash-up of military SF thriller and paranormal adventure . . . Scarlett is a resourceful and endearing heroine.”—Publishers WeeklyWhat if you had a power you had to hide from everyone—until now? In this bold sci-fi action thriller, a secret training program at West Point is turning misfits into a new generation of heroes.**Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Most Influential Memoirs Of Former Slaves

    by Thomas Clarkson, Daniel Drayton, Louis Hughes, Lydia Maria Child, Austin Steward, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Moses Grandy, William Wells Brown, William Still, Nat Turner, Henry Bibb, Olaudah Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Kate Drumgoold, Frederick Douglass, Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Keckley, Charles Ball, Solomon Northup, Josiah Henson, Stephen Smith, Ellen Craft, William Craft, John Gabriel Stedman, Sarah H. Bradford, Lucy A. Delaney, L. S. Thompson, F. G. De Fontaine, Henry Box Brown, John Dixon Long, Harriet Jacobs, Jacob D. Green, Thomas S. Gaines, Willie Lynch, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Joseph Mountain ...
    The Most Influential Memoirs Of Former Slaves offers a profound exploration into the lives and experiences of those who bore the cruelty of slavery and emerged with voices that have transcended time. This anthology brings together a vast array of literary styles, including personal narratives, reflective essays, and poignant speeches, highlighting the resilience and resistance of former slaves. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Place

    Modern and Contemporary Gardens

    by John Dixon Hunt ...
    Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honour the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explores the wide varieties of approaches, aesthetics and achievements in garden design throughout the world today. 
From imposing sculptures discovered in woodlands or on hilly trails to community gardens, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail

    by Jeffrey John Dixon ...
    Series series
    In the twelfth century, a French poet wrote a verse romance about a young knight who witnesses a mysterious procession centered on a radiant vessel, a "grail." Left unfinished, the poem inspired other writers of prose and verse, until the story was completely rewritten into the Arthurian romances, in which the vessel becomes a relic of the Last Supper, the Holy Grail.For hundreds of years, the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Genius Loci

    An Essay on the Meanings of Place

    by John Dixon Hunt ...
    For Romans, genius loci was literally ‘the genius of the place’, the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning; while we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, the work of the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden

    Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York

    by John M. Dixon ...
    Was there a conservative Enlightenment? Could a self-proclaimed man of learning and progressive science also have been an agent of monarchy and reaction? Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), an educated Scottish emigrant and powerful colonial politician, was at the forefront of American intellectual culture in the mid-eighteenth century. While living in rural New York, he recruited family, friends, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • A Map of the Dark

    A Halloween Novel

    by John Dixon ...
    Halloween turns into a nightmare in a small Midwestern town. "In this debut novel, adults are mean, but little boys are meaner” (Kirkus Reviews).It's Halloween night, 1963, in De Pere, Wisconsin, and all is not well. Evelyn Schmidt’s life is almost at an end. she has cancer and has been given only days to live, But she’ll be damned if she’ll go quietly, in the hospital or at home. She’s heading ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies

    by John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensiveagricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation.Following their successful and innovative work The Economics of Dryland Management the editors have assembled twenty case ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Economics of Dryland Management

    by John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20 per cent of the world's population lives in dryland areas, and unless action is taken drylands will increase dramatically.This book focuses ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD