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  • Like a Mother Bear

    How Jeanne Manford's Words Changed the World for Queer Kids

    by Mary E Cronin ...
    Illustrated by J Yang ...
    This vibrant and empowering nonfiction picture book tells the true story of Jeanne Manford, whose historic march beside her son sparked a nationwide movement of support for LGBTQ+ families, reminding allies everywhere how much they can accomplish with courage, acceptance, and love.In 1973, words of support for queer people were hard to find. But Jeanne Manford, a regular mom who loved her son like ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Smart Products, Smarter Services

    Strategies for Embedded Control

    by Mary J. Cronin ...
    We are surrounded by products that have minds of their own. Computing power, in the form of microcontrollers, microprocessors, sensors, and data storage chips, has become so cheap that manufacturers are building connectivity and embedded intelligence into all types of consumer goods. These 'smart products' are fundamentally changing both the competitive landscape for business and the daily lives ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age

    Essays on Reporting from the Arctic to the Orient

    Edited by Mary M. Cronin, Lee Jolliffe, Katrina J. Quinn ...
    These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news--indeed to achieve star billing--and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown. They examine the adventure journalism genre through the work of iconic writers such as Mark Twain and Nellie Bly, as ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Top Down Innovation

    Edited by Mary J. Cronin ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This Brief focuses on strategies for innovation. Top-Down Innovation discusses the barriers to successful organizational and product innovation, distills the leading theories about how to foster innovation, and presents six case studies of well-known brands that have succeeded (and in one case failed) in meeting innovation challenges. Synthesizing the lessons learned from companies that have ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Managing for Social Impact

    Innovations in Responsible Enterprise

    Edited by Tiziana C. Dearing, Mary J. Cronin ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents innovative strategies for sustainable, socially responsible enterprise management from leading thinkers in the fields of corporate citizenship, nonprofit management, social entrepreneurship, impact investing, community-based economic development and urban design. The book’s integration of research and practitioner perspectives with focused best practice examples offers an in ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • The Midwestern Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War

    Edited by Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Mary M. Cronin ...
    Series Book 21 - Mediating American History
    The Midwestern press is probably the best example of the "typical" American press of the Civil War era. Its denizens were not the huge metropolitan dailies of New York and Philadelphia, nor were they the struggling weeklies of the western territories. They did not feel the hard hand of war as the Southern press did in its struggles to obtain enough paper and ink to continue printing. Instead, ... Read more

    $104.39 CAD

  • Speaking like a Spanish Cow: Cultural Errors in Translation

    by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Stephanie Schwerter, Charles I. Armstrong, Paula Cifuentes-Férez, Ana Isabel Foulquié, Paul Grundy, Katja Grupp, Terence Holden, Costas Mantzalos0, Vicky Pericleous1, Jean-Charles Meunier2, Bentolhoda Nakhaei3, Chantal Schütz4, Marina Tsvetkova5, Angela Vaupel6, Marie Schröer8, Gundula Gwenn Hiller9 ...
    What is a cultural error? What causes it? What are the consequences of such an error? This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Sometimes they come about because of the gap between the source culture and the target culture, on other occasions they are the result of the cultural inadequacies of the translator, or perhaps the ambiguity arises ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Dance of Thieves

    by Mary E. Pearson ...
    Narrated by Karissa Vacker, James Patrick Cronin, Ann Marie Lee ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Dance of Thieves

    Unabridged

    16 hours 27 min

    A stunning new adventure set in the kingdoms of the Remnant.A formidable outlaw family that claims to be the first among nations.A son destined to lead, thrust suddenly into power.Three fierce young women of the Rahtan, the queen's premier guard.A legendary street thief leading a mission, determined to prove herself.A dark secret that is a threat to the entire continent.When outlaw leader meets ... Read more

    $36.50 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War

    Edited by Mary Cronin, Debra van Tuyll ...
    Series Book 19 - Mediating American History
    Although the American Civil War has received extensive scholarly attention in the 150+ years since its conclusion, far less scholarly work has been devoted to western newspapers and their experiences of that bloody conflict. This first volume of a two-volume set reveals that the West was not immune from the war’s battles, military recruitment, national anxieties, or partisan infighting. The ... Read more

    $112.79 CAD

  • An Indispensable Liberty

    The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America

    by David W. Bulla, Jon Bekken, Sandra Davidson, Nancy McKenzie Dupont, Joseph Hayden, Lee Jolliffe, Paulette D. Kilmer, Erika Jean Pribanic-Smith, Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Janice R. Wood ...
    Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America, contributors examine attempts to restrict freedom of speech and the press during and ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Vow of Thieves

    by Mary E. Pearson ...
    Narrated by Karissa Vacker, James Patrick Cronin, Ann Marie Lee ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Dance of Thieves

    Unabridged

    14 hours 51 min

    The thrilling sequel to Dance of Thieves, featuring danger, deception, and romance.Kazi and Jase have survived, stronger and more in love than ever. Their new life now lies before them--the Ballengers will be outlaws no longer, Tor's Watch will be a kingdom, and the two of them will meet all challenges side by side, together at last.But an ominous warning mars their journey back, and in their rush ... Read more

    $36.50 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mobile Application Development with SMS and the SIM Toolkit

    by Scott C. Guthery, Mary J. Cronin ...
    Get mobile messaging going on virtually any platform, in any languageMobile Application Development Using SMS and the SIM Toolkit is just the guide you’ve been looking for if you’re building applications for GSM or 3G networks, wish you had sample code for reality-based applications, or want to add mobile extensions to your software products and corporate network. In this straight-talking tutorial ... Read more

    $91.09 CAD