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  • The Trout

    A Novel

    At the heart of every life there lies a secret.Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old ... Read more

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  • Acts of Allegiance

    A Novel

    For readers of The Goldfinch and classic le Carré, a propulsive tale of espionage, betrayal, loyalty, and love, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing, Anglican wife, Sugar, and a job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Positively Fourth and Mercer

    The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, The Bottom Line

    In 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one could have foreseen either its long-term success or its impact on the musical and cultural landscape of New York City. Over the next thirty years, while trends and tastes came and went, the Bottom Line ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Acts of Allegiance

    Narrated by Azalea AI ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    This audiobook is narrated by Azalea Labs using an AI-generated voice. Acts of Allegiance is a 2017 espionage thriller by Peter Cunningham that follows Marty Ransom, an Irish diplomat navigating divided loyalties during the height of the Troubles. Set against the backdrop of political violence and complex Anglo-Irish relations, the narrative unfolds as Ransom is coerced into becoming an informant ... Read more

    $42.15 CAD

  • The Last Survivor

    Enriched edition. A Tale of Resilience and Hope Amidst the Great Depression

    In "The Last Survivor," Peter B. Kyne crafts an evocative tale set against the backdrop of the unforgiving wilderness, exploring themes of survival, resilience, and the indomitable human spirit. Drawing from the early 20th-century American adventure tradition, Kyne employs a vivid, lyrical prose style that immerses readers in the natural world. The narrative follows a lone protagonist fighting ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Trout

    A Novel

    Narrated by Jeff Harding ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    After the publication of his most recent book, Alex Smyth receives a trout fly in the mail at his home address in rural Canada - with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear in him that he is being stalked, and it awakens deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, a time before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Dewey in Our Time

    Learning from John Dewey for transcultural practice

    Edited by Peter Cunningham ...
    Dewey in Our Time brings together leading writers from around the world who are actively engaged in applying Dewey's thought to the challenges facing educational systems and teachers in school. Issues concerning equity, social justice, curriculum and pedagogy, teachers' roles and their professional identity are considered, with examples from the Americas, Asia and Europe. John Dewey's outstanding ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • Medicine and the Reformation

    The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent.Medicine and the Reformation charts how both popular and official religion affected orthodox medicine as ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe

    The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, examines the effects of the Counter-Reformation on health care and poor relief in Southern Catholic Europe in the period between 1540 and 1700.As well as a ... Read more

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  • It All Depends on the Dose

    Poisons and Medicines in European History

    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at ... Read more

    $76.95 CAD

  • Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community

    The Vision and Legacy of Sir Alec Clegg

    Series series Progressive Education
    Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community examines Sir Alec Clegg’s distinctive contribution to education reform. Revisiting the significance of Clegg’s principles for education in the 21st century, the book investigates the impact of his innovative approach to education and his advocacy of an arts-based curriculum to promote physical and mental health.The book explores a variety of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Becoming Teachers

    Texts and Testimonies, 1907-1950

    Series series Woburn Education Series
    There is an extraordinary gap in the published history of schooling in the twentieth century. Nowhere is the voice of the teacher, telling his or her own story, extensively to be heard. This book, drawing not only upon the official documentary record, but also upon the previously untapped recollections of more than 100 former classroom teachers, aims to fill this gap. In Becoming Teachers, the ... Read more

    $384.77 CAD