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  • A Perfect Offering

    Personal Stories of Trauma and Transformation

    Edited by Suzanne Heft, Peter O'Brien, Harold Heft ...
    A Perfect Offering illuminates the dark recesses of trauma—the sudden loss of a child, surviving sexual assault, the legacy of residential schools, enduring war and imprisonment, living with chronic illness—and shines with the imperfect grace and resilience of the human heart. Some of the 31 stories will shock and disorient. Others will inspire and comfort. All are illustrative and compelling. The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Sense of Mass Education

    by Nerida Spina, Peter O'Brien, Annetta Cayas, Jenna Gillett-Swan, Gordon Tait ...
    Making Sense of Mass Education gives a comprehensive overview of the cultural contexts of education, addressing and debunking important myths in the field. This book is an approachable text for undergraduate and postgraduate readers studying the Sociology and Philosophy of Education. The text covers the rise of mass schooling as a disciplinary institution, including the governance of subjectivity ... Read more

    $80.79 CAD

  • Bush School

    by Peter O'Brien ...
    A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond.There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang even a hat, no door, no rug for cold morning bare feet, no bookshelf for a voracious reader, no ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Swastika

    by Peter O'Brien ...
    O'Brien argues convincingly that fears of a resurgent German nationalism are exaggerated. He highlights the `technocratic liberalism' of the elite which, paradoxically, hinders full rights of political participation for minorities. ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Love & Let Go

    Reflections, Confessions, Encouragements, and a Few Cautionary Forewarnings from a Father to a Daughter

    by Peter O'Brien ...
    A father's heartfelt guidance for daughters embarking on new adventures.What are the right words to use when someone we love leaves home for school, a new job, or extended travel? How do you compress memories, feelings, and emotions into meaningful guidance? Love & Let Go offers reflections, encouragements, and support for these pivotal moments.Peter O'Brien shares his experiences as his daughter ... Read more

    $18.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seasoning

    by Peter J. O'Brien ...
    Sarah Noble, an awkward yet precocious girl, is wracked by fears of Indians having witnessed the aftermath of her grandmother's death in Deerfield, MA during an Indian raid. She has recurrent nightmares, visitations by an eerie pale horse with glowing eyes. Against all odds, her father John chooses her to accompany him to their new homesite deep within Indian territory in the Connecticut colony. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Premenstrual Syndromes

    PMS and PMDD

    Edited by P. M. Shaughn O'Brien, Andrea Rapkin, Peter J. Schmidt ...
    This text is definitive, scientific, readable, and offers a reference and text for specialist gynecologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists working at a high level in their respective professions. It is an academic text of the highest level being authoritative and comprehensive. It has the correct balance between the specialties of psychiatry and gynecology and an international team of ... Read more

    $350.41 CAD

  • Making Sense of Mass Education

    by Gordon Tait, Nerida Spina, Jenna Gillett-Swan, Peter O'Brien ...
    Making Sense of Mass Education provides a contemporary analysis of the ideas and issues that have traditionally dominated education research, challenging outdated preconceptions with fundamental theory and discussion. It takes a demythologising approach in assessing these issues and their relevance to schooling and education in Australia. This text examines the cultural context of education and ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

  • The Lily in the Valley

    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    A new translation of one of Balzac’s finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess—a relationship that is upended when he becomes involved with a new lover.A story of impossible and unsatisfied desire, Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley opens with a scene of desire unleashed. Félix de Vandenesse, the shy ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Palliative Care and Catholic Health Care

    Two Millennia of Caring for the Whole Person

    Edited by Peter J. Cataldo, Dan O’Brien ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the compatibility of palliative care with the vision of human dignity in the Catholic moral and theological traditions. The unique value of this book is that it presents expert analysis of the major domains of palliative care and how they are compatible with, and enhanced by, the holistic vision of the human person in Catholic health care. This volume ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • After Urban Regeneration

    Communities, Policy and Place

    Edited by Dave O'Brien, Peter Matthews ...
    Series series Connected Communities
    After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed, and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the book ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • The gift of tears. Finding God within, through personal loss and suffering

    The Mystic and the Madman

    by Dr Peter Juian O'Brien ...
    Tells the riveting story of the first 40 years of my life with many spiritual and psychological insights into being human. Searching for the Divine outside myself and eventually finding it within my heart and soul. From a troubled childhood, distinguished athlete and scholar under the Jesuits at Xavier College. Two trips to South Africa to visit my fathers youngest sister who was the Mother ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD