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  • Labour Rights and the Catholic Church

    The International Labour Organisation, the Holy See and Catholic Social Teaching

    by Paul Beckett ...
    Series series Law and Religion
    This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world’s oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO).Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between seeming opposites who in fact share a common goal. This book is about just such an attraction between a secular organisation born of the political ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Beneficial Ownership and Legal Responsibility

    Concealment, Avoidance and Impunity

    by Paul Beckett ...
    Series series The Law of Financial Crime
    This book explores the connection between ownership, on one hand, and immunity from legal responsibility, on the other. It presents a definition of the concept of beneficial ownership, the reasons for its concealment, and failures in international legal structures and arrangements.Globally, states confront complex crimes, such as corruption, tax evasion, doctrinal fanaticism, slave trafficking, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Ownership, Financial Accountability and the Law

    Transparency Strategies and Counter-Initiatives

    by Paul Beckett ...
    Series series The Law of Financial Crime
    There is something visceral about ownership. This is mine; you can’t have it. This is mine; you can share it. This is ours. Try to find it.Contemporary literature and investigative journalism are showing that the scale of the problem of tax evasion, money laundering, organised crime, terrorism, bribery, corruption and gross human rights abuses is vast.Ownership – specifically, the quest to ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Tax Havens and International Human Rights

    by Paul Beckett ...
    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Project-Based Second and Foreign Language Education

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by Gulbahar H. Beckett, Paul Chamness Miller ...
    Series series Research in Second Language Learning
    Dewey's idea of Project-based Learning (PBL) was introduced into the field of second language education nearly two decades ago as a way to reflect the principles of student-centered teaching (Hedge, 1993). Since then, PBL has also become a popular language and literacy activity at various levels and in various contexts (see Beckett, 1999; Fried-Booth, 2002; Levis & Levis, 2003; Kobayashi, 2003; ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Multispectral Image Sensors Using Metasurfaces

    by Xin He, Paul Beckett, Ranjith R Unnithan ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book presents how metasurfaces are exploited to develop new low-cost single sensor based multispectral cameras. Multispectral cameras extend the concept of conventional colour cameras to capture images with multiple color bands and with narrow spectral passbands. Images from a multispectral camera can extract significant amount of additional information that the human eye or a normal camera ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of Complexity

    Rethinking Education as a Social Science

    by Paul Hager, David Beckett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book centres on a broadened view of complexity that will enrich engagement with complexity in the social sciences. The key idea is to employ complexity theory to develop a holistic account of practice, agency and expertise. In doing so, the book acknowledges and builds upon the relational character of reductive accounts. It draws upon recent theoretical work on complexity, emergence and ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Life, Work and Learning

    by David Beckett, Paul Hager ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    In both paid and unpaid work contexts adults learn powerfully from their experiences. In this book, the authors argue that this should be the basis for a new perception of what is truly educational in life. Drawing on the works of Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Russell, along with contemporary conceptual work, they use both philosophical argument and empirical example to establish their view. This ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver

    David Harrison Beckett, My Autobiography

    by David Harrison Beckett, Paul Zanon ...
    Dive into the depths of a life less ordinary with David Beckett, a deep-sea diver who spent his adult life in the unforgiving embrace of the ocean.From the chilling depths of saturation chambers to the heart-stopping moments assisting with the MS Estonia recovery, Beckett's autobiography plunges you into a world of danger and resilience. Experience the thrill of treasure hunts in the Philippines ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Lost

    A gripping crime thriller series from the Sunday Times bestselling master of twists and suspense

    by Simon Beckett ...
    Narrated by Paul Thornley ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    One day, your son disappears from the playground.Ten years later, will you finally get the truth?The disappearance of firearms police officer Jonah Colley's young son almost destroyed him. A phone call from an old friend leads Jonah to the warehouse Slaughter Quay, and the discovery of four bodies, with a link to his son's case. Attacked and left for dead in the dark, Jonah is the only survivor ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Scent of Death

    The sixth Dr David Hunter thriller from the bestselling author of The Bone Garden

    by Simon Beckett ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    * Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - debuts on Paramount+ on 19 Jan 23 *Based on The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David HunterRandom House presents the audiobook edition of The Scent of Death written by Simon Beckett, read by Jonathan Keeble.It's been a good summer for forensics expert Dr David Hunter. His relationship is going well a... ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Restless Dead

    Harry Treadaway is Dr David Hunter: the darkly compelling new TV series ‘The Chemistry of Death’ – streaming now on Paramount+

    by Simon Beckett ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 56 min

    * Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - debuts on Paramount+ on 19 Jan 23 *Based on The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David HunterRandom House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Restless Dead by Simon Beckett, read by Jonathan Keeble.'Composed of over sixty per cent water itself, a human body isn't naturally buoyant. It ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook