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  • Mobilizing for Welfare in Europe

    The Unpolitical Politics of Social Action, 1870s-1990s. A Document Reader

    Edited by Prof. Laura Lee Downs, Professor Clarisse Berthezène, Dominika Gruziel, Efi Avdela, Dimitra Lampropoulou ...
    This is an engaging collection of 20 primary sources that provide insights into different approaches to social welfare from around Europe in the long 20th century, focusing particularly on marginalized groups.Each chapter sheds light on a case of collective welfare action, and includes translated archival documents, alongside commentary that contextualises each case, and examines its socio ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    Twelve Skills

    The guide to becoming a stronger leader and accelerating your career

    by Ed Barrows, Laura M. Downing ...
    Narrated by Catherine O'Connor ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    Few managers possess the leadership skills needed to break into the top tier of their organizations. You can be one of them. Accelerate your career by acquiring the twelve key skills successful leaders have mastered. Clearly structured, evidence-based, and packed with self-assessment tools and proven techniques, this book is the definitive guide to understanding and developing the fundamentals ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women on the Right

    Politics and Social Action in Comparative and Transnational Perspective, 1870s-1990s

    Edited by Professor Clarisse Berthezène, Prof. Laura Lee Downs, Julie V. Gottlieb ...
    Women on the Right explores the complex relationships between conservative and right-wing politics, social action, and women actors from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Edited by Clarisse Berthezène, Laura Lee Downs, and Julie V. Gottlieb, each essay examines the spectrum of women's engagement with right-wing politics, from centrist and 'progressive conservatism' groups, to ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Stance, Inter/Subjectivity and Identity in Discourse

    Edited by Juana I. Marin-Arrese, Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla ...
    The volume addresses a variety of issues on Stance and Inter/Subjectivity, and the expression of Identity in discourse. It focuses on the multifaceted nature of stance, and the use of resources of epistemicity, effectivity, and evaluation and metaphor, as well as other dimensions within the domain of stance, such as mirativity, emotion and attribution. In this way it provides a more in-depth and a ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Persuading People

    An Introduction to Rhetoric

    by Robert Cockcroft, Susan Cockcroft, Craig Hamilton, Laura Hidalgo Downing ...
    This fascinating and practical book explores persuasive techniques in the English language, and is the ideal introduction for students and others with a professional interest in persuasion. Using a wide range of lively and accessible illustrative material, Robert Cockcroft and Susan Cockcroft unpick the complexities of persuasive language - both written and spoken - and enable readers to develop ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • In the Red Canoe Read-Along

    by Leslie A. Davidson ...
    Illustrated by Laura Bifano ...
    Fish and herons, turtles and dragonflies, beaver lodges and lily pads—a multitude of wonders enchant both the child narrator and any other nature lovers along for the ride in this tender, beautifully illustrated picture book.Baby ducklings ride their mama’s back; an osprey rises with a silver fish clutched in her talons; a loon cries in a star-flecked night. Rhythmic, rhyming quatrains carry the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why France?

    American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination

    by Roger Chartier ...
    France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has exerted ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Revenge

    Collection of Short Stories

    by Susan Morrison, Patricia Farrell, Dave Downs, Paul Vivari, Laura Austin, Tiffinie Alvarez, Dominique Margolis, Susan Abidakun, Noel McNally, Anthony Farina, wendy gronbeck, Garrett Bliss, Deluna Darmawan, Constance Mello, Rachel Racette, Mike Holland, L Dacre Tynan, Amber Ford, Neil Ludlam, Amy Cotler, Kathleen Chamberlin, Sarah Petner Metzgar, Lindsey Grant, Brice Bogle ...
    The old law of ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. – Martin Luther King Jr.Revenge. If you are a power-seeker, revenge can be a tool to remind others not to mess with you. Revenge can also be a way to keep order in a society where rules are weak. But revenge can come at a price. It can be a rusty knife in your back that leaves you dwelling on a spot, unable to move on, an unhappy ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • End of Life Care for People with Dementia

    A Person-Centred Approach

    by Murna Downs, Laura Middleton-Green, Jane Chatterjee, Sarah Russell ...
    Series series University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
    People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life, and so too do their families and the professionals working with them. This book describes not only what can be done to ensure maximum quality of life for those in the final stages of the illness, but also how best to support those involved in caring for them.Emphasising the importance of being attuned to ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Childhood in the Promised Land

    Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880–1960

    by Laura Lee Downs ...
    Childhood in the Promised Land is the first history of France's colonies de vacances, a vast network of summer camps created for working-class children. The colonies originated as a late-nineteenth-century charitable institution, providing rural retreats intended to restore the fragile health of poor urban children. Participation grew steadily throughout the first half of the twentieth century, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    In the Red Canoe

    by Leslie A. Davidson ...
    Narrated by Christian Down ...

    Unabridged

    3 min

    Fish and herons, turtles and dragonflies, beaver lodges and lily pads—a multitude of wonders enchant both the child narrator and any other nature lovers along for the ride in this tender, beautifully illustrated picture book.Baby ducklings ride their mama’s back; an osprey rises with a silver fish clutched in her talons; a loon cries in a star-flecked night. Rhythmic, rhyming quatrains carry the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Nationalism

    A World History

    by Eric Storm ...
    A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the presentThe current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism, beginning ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD