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  • A River with a City Problem

    A History of Brisbane Floods

    by Margaret Cook ...
    When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followed. A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Burning of the White House

    James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812

    by Jane Hampton Cook ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 15 min

    Told from multiple points of view—including James and Dolley Madison and a British admiral—this is the true story of the burning of the White House in 1814.It’s unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It’s unimaginable because in 1814, enemies didn’t fly overhead; they marched through the streets, and for twenty-six hours in August, the ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A River with a City Problem

    A History of Brisbane Floods

    by Margaret Cook ...
    When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followed. A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment ... Read more

    $14.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities in a Sunburnt Country

    Water and the Making of Urban Australia

    by Margaret Cook, Lionel Frost, Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory, Ruth A. Morgan, Martin Shanahan, Peter Spearritt ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Border Brothers

    by Margaret Cook ...
    Fergus MacBeath has inherited from his Highland family rare skills as a healer and perhaps other esoteric knowledge. He is rescued from near-fatal injury at Soltre Abbey Hospital, and in time becomes the chief physician there, the medicus. With seeming supernatural abilities, he is regarded among thecountry people as a saint.He is a maverick however and defies Church orthodoxy relating sickness to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Castleton Massacre

    Survivors’ Stories of the Killins Femicide

    by Sharon Anne Cook, Margaret Carson ...
    **A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 • WINNER — ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ALISON PRENTICE AWARD • BRASS KNUCKLES AWARD FOR BEST NONFICTION CRIME BOOK 2023 FINALISTA former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten?**On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ways You Can Help

    Creative, Practical Suggestions for Family and Friends of Patient Care

    by Margaret Cooke ...
    Drawing on her own personal experience, Margaret Cooke offers sensitive, sensible advice to anyone who feels awkward or uncomfortable near people in emotional or physical pain. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents

    An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Attachment-Building

    by Elizabeth Warner, Heather Finn, Alexandra Cook, Anne Westcott ...
    **An innovative somatic and attachment-based treatment for working with children and adolescents who suffer from complex trauma and neglect"[This] is a ground-breaking new approach to treating traumatized children, based on the combination of keen clinical observation, sensory integration, and a deep understanding of the latest advances in the neuroscience of trauma."—Bessel van der Kolk, MD, best ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire

    The Colonial Politics of Population

    Edited by Margaret Cook Andersen, Melissa K. Byrnes ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine. The book covers a broad period from the ‘first colonial empires’ that existed prior to 1830, the ‘new imperialism’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the process of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • The Workers' State Meets the Market

    Labour in China's Transition

    Edited by Sarah Cook, Margaret Maurer-Fazio ...
    Among the most dramatic changes to affect China in the 1990s is the upsurge in labour mobility and the emergence of a market-driven system of labour allocation, changes which profoundly affect the working environment and livelihoods of the Chinese people. Papers in this collection draw on a wide variety of data sources to analyse key elements of this transformation. ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Disasters in Australia and New Zealand

    Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe

    Edited by Scott McKinnon, Margaret Cook ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Fertile expectations

    The politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France

    by Margaret Cook Andersen ...
    Series series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book explores fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size. When statistics revealed a sustained drop in France’s birthrate, pronatalist activists pushed for financial benefits, propaganda, and punitive measures to counter declining fertility. Situating ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD