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  • Whatever You Do, Don't Run

    True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

    by Peter Allison ...
    A new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Allison gives us a safari guide’s first-hand account of working in the African bush. Allison regales us with stories about confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals and most, terrifying ... Read more

    Was $24.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Whatever You Do, Don't Run

    True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

    by Peter Allison ...
    A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!” With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Don't Look Behind You!

    A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos

    by Peter Allison ...
    Incredible true tales from a world-renowned safari guide and celebrated authorRomantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn’t always particularly enjoyable or glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of the widely praised Whatever You Do, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • How to Walk a Puma

    And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America

    by Peter Allison ...
    On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run and Don’t Look Behind You. Sixteen years later, he makes his way to Santiago, Chile, ready to seek out the continent’s ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    Whatever You Do, Don't Run

    True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

    by Peter Allison ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top -safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where thewrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry -elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals—herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guideswhose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBooks

  • Teaching Literacy in Troubled Times

    Identity, Inquiry, and Social Action at the Heart of Instruction

    by Allison Skerrett, Peter Smagorinsky ...
    Series series Corwin Literacy
    "Upending deficit narrative of learning loss, combating broken approaches to racial equity, and wading deep into the contested waters of democratic principles of learning within today’s schools, Dr. Skerrett and Dr. Smagorinsky offer an accessible guidebook for making our classrooms sites of justice and joy. Perhaps most importantly, theirs is a book that reveals classroom practices as they really ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • South Seas Encounters

    Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America

    Edited by Richard Fulton, Peter Hoffenberg, Stephen Hancock, Allison Paynter ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Taphonomy

    Process and Bias Through Time

    Edited by Peter A. Allison, David J. Bottjer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record. A pressing concern, however, is the extent to which taphonomic processes have varied through the ages. It is one thing to work with a biased data set and quite another to work with a bias that has changed with time. This book includes work from both new and established researchers who are using laboratory, field and data-base techniques ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Romantic Beasts

    Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition

    by Christopher R. Clason, Alastair Hunt, Pamela Buck, John Gardner, Jane Spencer, Allison Dushane, Kathryn Desplanque, Peter Erickson, Frederick Burwick0 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Two Gods in Heaven

    Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity

    by Peter Schäfer ...
    Translated by Allison Brown ...
    A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism's relationship with ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment

    Critical Essays

    by Paul Guyer, Nick Zangwill, Christopher Janaway, Anthony Savile, Eva Schaper, Malcolm Budd, Donald W. Crawford, Brigitte Sassen, Lambert Zuidevaart, Jane Kneller0, Peter McLaughlin1, Henry E. Allison2 ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, first published in 1790, was the last of the great philosopher's three critiques, following on the heels of Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788). In the first two, Kant dealt with metaphysics and morality; in the third, Kant turns to the aesthetic dimension of human experience, showing how our experiences of natural and ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • The AIA Construction Management Contracts

    A Concise Analysis of the 2019 Revisions

    by Kristin Elizabeth Protas, Allison Taller Reich ...
    Every ten years or so, the American Institute of Architects updates its major families of construction contracts. In 2017, the AIA overhauled its design-bid-build documents anchored by the A201. In late 2019 and early 2020, the AIA released its revisions to its suite of construction management documents, last updated in 2009. This book summarizes and analyzes the major revisions to the AIA's major ... Read more

    $93.59 CAD