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  • Journals and Letters

    by Frances Burney ...
    Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Small Lungs and Obstructed Airways

    Reassessing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Edited by Peter Burney ...
    Lung size, function and health: Reappraising the epidemiology of chronic lung disease in adults proposes an alternative perspective to the current dominant explanations for the distribution of chronic lung disease. This book considers the link between chronic respiratory disease and associated mortality with smaller lungs rather than obstructed airways, and explores other factors contributing to ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • Cecilia

    or Memoirs of an Heiress

    by Fanny Burney ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in its time, this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • The Complete Edition of Fanny Burney's Camilla

    or, A Picture of Youth

    by Fanny Burney ...
    Camilla is a satirical novel by Fanny Burney, following a young high-society woman as she navigates the complexities of family relationships and journeys towards self-discovery and love in the late-eighteenth century.Camilla Tyrold is a virtuous and intelligent young woman who struggles to make sense of her feelings and her place in society. She’s forced to confront a series of personal and ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emily Fox-Seton, Being the Making of a Marioness and the Methods of Lady Walderhurst

    by Burnett, Frances Hodgson ...
    Novel for children. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Hodgson Burnett, ( 1849 - 1924) was an EnglishAmerican playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. Born Frances Eliza Hodgson in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, her father died in 1854, and the family had to endure poverty and squalor in the ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Delphi Classics)

    by Louisa May Alcott, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 17 - Delphi Series One
    Louisa May Alcott’s charming tales of ‘Little Women’ have delighted readers across the world since their 1868 publication, but she was also an author of sensational thrillers, humorous plays and perceptive poetry. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Louis May Alcott, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson

    by James Boswell ...
    In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson’s Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

    by American College of Sports Medicine ...
    ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription was created as a complement to ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription and elaborates on all major aspects of preventative rehabilitation and fitness programs and the major position stands of the ACSM. The 7th edition provides information necessary to address the knowledge, skills, and abilities set forth ... Read more

    $106.69 CAD

  • The Life of Charlotte Brontë

    by Elizabeth Gaskell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Boswell's Life of Johnson

    by James Boswell ...
    Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evidence-Based Nursing Care Guidelines - E-Book

    Evidence-Based Nursing Care Guidelines - E-Book

    by Betty J. Ackley, Gail B. Ladwig, Beth Ann Swan, Sharon J. Tucker ...
    This groundbreaking reference — created by an internationally respected team of clinical and research experts — provides quick access to concise summaries of the body of nursing research for 192 common medical-surgical interventions. Each nursing care guideline classifies specific nursing activities as Effective, Possibly Effective, or Possibly Harmful, providing a bridge between research and ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition

    Enriched edition. Including Journal & Diary

    by James Boswell, Grosvenor Osgood, Hunter Reeves ...
    THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition encapsulates a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of one of literature's most formidable figures, Samuel Johnson. This anthology not only traces Johnson's intellectual journeys and personal idiosyncrasies but does so through a mosaic of narratives that capture the spirit of 18th-century English literature. The range of literary styles, from ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus