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  • Text and Image in Modern European Culture

    Edited by Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, Natasha Grigorian, Thomas Baldwin ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Not?

    Thinking About Singapore's Tomorrow

    by Margaret Thomas, Kanwaljit Soin ...
    What is the society you want to see take shape in Singapore in the years ahead? How can we ensure it will be a society where there is gender equality, where every person can live the life they want? A diverse group of writers — women and men, teenagers and octogenarians, artists. academics, caregivers, journalists, doctors, lawyers, and many others — offer their thoughts about these questions and ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Making A Diffrence

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    Being authentic is the gateway to creativity. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.Making A Difference is focused on getting people to discover their innate abilities, developing capacity and learning the required skills and strategic positioning to impact their world by releasing what they have in a manner that has never been seen toward the service ... Read more

    $11.26 CAD

  • Getting (More of) What You Want

    How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything, in Business and in Life

    by Margaret A. Neale, Thomas Z. Lys ...
    Two top business professors offer up "the best research and advice on negotiation" (Chip Heath)Do you know what you want? How can you make sure you get it? Or rather, how can you convince others to give it to you? Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us to make the most of these exchanges. In Getting (More of) What You Want, Margaret Neale and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • 50 Timeless Masterpieces (Volume 1) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Essential Classics for a Rich Literary Journey

    by Homer, Sun Tzu, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Nikolai Gogol0, Emily Brontë1, Mary Shelley2, Alexandre Dumas3, Fyodor Dostoevsky4, Charles Dickens5, Victor Hugo6, Nathaniel Hawthorne7, Gustave Flaubert8, Leo Tolstoy9, Henrik Ibsen0, Herman Melville1, Mark Twain2, Robert Louis Stevenson3, Arthur Conan Doyle4, Raymond Chandler5, H. G. Wells6, Joseph Conrad7, Rudyard Kipling8, Louisa May Alcott9, L. Frank Baum0, L. M. Montgomery1, T. S. Eliot2, Franz Kafka3, James Joyce4, Virginia Woolf5, C. S. Lewis6, Ernest Hemingway7, Walt Whitman8, Jack Kerouac9, John Steinbeck0, William Faulkner1, Kate Chopin2, Zora Neale Hurston3, Margaret Mitchell4, Sylvia Plath5, Thomas Mann6, Albert Camus7, George Orwell8, Elliot Ellinghurst1 ...
    50 Timeless Masterpieces (Volume 1) gathers an extraordinary sweep of world literature, from epic poetry, philosophical dialogue, and military strategy to the novel, drama, detective fiction, modernist experiment, and political allegory. Its range evokes the long evolution of narrative and thought: heroic voyages, moral trials, social satire, psychological inquiry, dystopian warning, and spiritual ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prophet's Camel Bell

    by Margaret Laurence, Clara Thomas ...
    When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land.The Prophet’s Camel Bell is part travelogue, part autobiography, part ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care

    What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know

    by Margaret Thomas, Richard Thomas, Lisa Dobberteen, MD, Susanna Natti ...
    Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care is a roadmap for parenting happy, healthy children. Coauthored by day care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband, Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a pediatrician who entrusted her own children to Peggy's care, this is an enjoyable and educational guide to everything from TV watching to toilet training.Drawing on the authors' expertise in their ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    'The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists' Virginia WoolfWith its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. When its heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, meeting her 'cousin' Alec ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • In The Footsteps of Florence Nightingale

    Memoirs of a QA (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps)

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    ‘Remember when you are far away up country, possibly the only Englishwoman there, that these men will note and remember your every action not only as a nurse but as a woman.’ Florence Nightingale. When a young northern girl quietly dropped home economics in favour of the three sciences, against her parents’ wishes, little did she expect to rise through the ranks of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories

    Edited by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well as giants of Spanish ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Picture Man

    The Legacy of Southeast Alaska Photographer Shoki Kayamori

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    In 1912, Shoki Kayamori and his box camera arrived in a small Tlingit village in southeast Alaska. At a time when Asian immigrants were forbidden to own property and faced intense racial pressure, the Japanese-born Kayamori put down roots and became part of the Yakutat community. For three decades he photographed daily life in the village, turning his lens on locals and migrants alike, and gaining ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics

    The Engineer and the Collector

    by Margaret Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Linguistics
    This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The book grounds its comparisons between the two in both historical and contemporary contexts where, broadly speaking, formalists’ focus on structural relationships and idealized linguistic data contrasts with functionalists’ commitment to analyzing real ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD