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  • Audiobook

    The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    Narrated by Bruce Mann ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 25 min

    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than thirty years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those thirty years. Progress has been slow against ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams

    A Journey Through the Sharpest, Strangest, and Most Stirring Lines Ever Constructed

    by Man Martin ...
    Unleash your inner grammar geek with this helpful guidebook that uses the simplicity of the classic sentence diagram to unpack iconic quotes from books, films, speeches, and beyond, revealing the surprising relationships between words. A perfect gift for word nerds and language lovers!Sentence diagramming might sound like something from a fussy grammar assignment, but you'll find no red pens here. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Leaving Care and the Transition to Adulthood

    International Contributions to Theory, Research, and Practice

    Series series Emerging Adulthood Series
    The transition to adulthood is a longer and more complex process than it was just a few decades ago, and a growing number of youth and young adults experience significant challenges in the establishment of an autonomous and independent lifestyle when compared to previous generations. Successful high school graduation followed by employment is no longer the inevitable trajectory for young people, ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

  • The Kuan Yin Chronicles

    The Myths and Prophecies of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion

    Kuan Yin is the most important, best-loved deity in the Chinese world. She is the living expression of compassion and the center of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. Yet she is barely known in the West. The authors of The Kuan Yin Chronicles introduce Kuan Yin to Western readers, and reveal that Kuan Yin is the mystery and power of the divine feminine, who transcends all doctrines, ... Read more

    $15.69 CAD

  • The American Civil War on Film and TV

    Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color

    Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Exchange

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    "The Last Exchange is somehow equal parts page-turner, heart-breaker, and hope-dealer. Another brilliantly written novel by Charles Martin." --Annie F. DownsGripping suspense meets heartfelt emotion in this standalone novel from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin. Everyone in her life has only taken from her. So she's not quite sure how to handle it when her new body guard will go to ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • From Quills to Tweets

    How America Communicates about War and Revolution

    While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Learning Economy

    Thriving Beyond Higher Education

    With a focus on action, this book offers inspiration and pragmatic guidelines to higher education leaders and organisations that want to meet the demands of the changing landscape of knowledge, experience, and learning.Offering a practical toolkit and methodology, this book describes the fast-changing higher education sector as a new learning economy. It explains how this new economy evolved and ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • The Quotable Hitchens

    From Alcohol to Zionism—The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

    by Windsor Mann ...
    "The most scathing, inflammatory, hilarious and (fill in the blank) commentaries on life in all its manifestations." — Hudson Valley NewsForeword by Martin AmisFor decades, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Hitch-twenty-two crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God—appearances that attracted thousands of peo ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix

    Illustrated by Man One ...
    Series Book 3 - Food Heroes
    AWARD WINNING PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHY OF THE CHEF WHO KICKSTARTED THE FOOD TRUCK MOVEMENT.Chef Roy Choi calls himself a “street cook.”He wants outsiders, low-riders,kids, teens, shufflers and skateboarders,to have food cooked with care, with love,with sohn maash."Sohn maash" is the flavors in our fingertips. It is the love and cooking talent that Korean mothers and grandmothers mix into their ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mammals of Trans-Pecos Texas

    Including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    One hundred and five species of mammals are native to the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. The greatly varied terrain, climate, and vegetation make its mammalian life exceptionally varied, ranging from tiny shrews to great elks, from bats to aquatic beavers and muskrats, from desert-dwelling kangaroo rats to forest-loving chipmunks, and from an assortment of mice and rats to predatory cougars and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Football and American Identity

    Learn the value of football to American societyNo sport reflects the American value system like football. Visitors to the United States need only watch a game or two to learn all they need to know about the American way of life and the beliefs, attitudes, and concerns of American society. Football and American Identity examines the social conditions and cultural implications found in the football ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD