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  • Pirate Queens

    The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read

    The first full biography of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, 18th-century partners in crime who terrorized the Caribbean: "Excellent . . . informative and interesting." — Model ShipwrightsBetween August and October 1720, two female pirates named Anne Bonny and Mary Read terrorized the Caribbean in and around Jamaica. Despite their short career, they became two of the most notorious pirates during the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pirates’ Code

    Laws and Life Aboard Ship

    by Rebecca Simon ...
    Pirates have long captured the imagination with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometimes deadly occupation, and strict orders were essential for everyone’s survival. These ‘Laws’ were sets of rules that determined everything from how much each pirate earned from their plunder to ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Why We Love Pirates

    The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever

    Narrated by Kate Mulligan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 40 min

    During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was known around England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. This book by Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd and the events that ensued afterward. Captain Kidd was hanged in 1701, and from that sprung a massive hunt for all ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Let Go, Trust God, Become Who You Were Meant To Be

    by Rebecca Simon ...
    Narrated by Salem Arbuckle ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    Let Go, Trust God, Become Who You Were Meant To Be is not a step-by-step guide to fixing your life—it’s a gentle companion for the seasons when nothing makes sense. In these pages, Rebecca Simon offers soulful reflections for anyone sitting in the in-between: between heartbreak and healing, between longing and fulfillment, between who you were and who you're becoming.Written with softness and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afterblight: America

    Series series The Afterblight Chronicles
    The Cull rose from nowhere...It swept across the world like the end of times, a killer virus that spared only those with one rare blood type. Now, in the ruined cities, cannibalism and casual murder are the rule, and religious fervour vies with cynical self-interest. The few who hope to make a difference, to rise above the monsters, must sometimes become monsters themselves.The Culled: Even before ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Being a Child in a Global World

    Childhood in an Environment of Violence, Terror, Migration and Rapid Change

    We live in a globalized world in which children live in extreme poverty, experience stunted growth, are denied access to education, live as refugees, are subjected to violence, are employed as unskilled workers and even face threats from terror organizations. Drawing attention to these critical challenges, this edited collection develops holistic solutions towards achieving improved conditions and ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature

    This is the essential new guide to Russian literature, combining authority and innovation in coverage ranging from medieval manuscripts to the internet and social media. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral narrative but as multiple parallel histories. Each of its four strands tells a story of Russian ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Reconstructing the Work of Teacher Educators

    Finding Spaces in Policy Through Agentic Approaches —Insights from a Research Collective

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines agentic approaches by which teacher educators navigate a highly regulated environment. It investigates how teacher educators are responding to such regulation by employing approaches such as exploratory and case study research designs. This book analyzes qualitative and quantitative data to understand the diverse, innovative and critical perspectives of teacher educators who are ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Joke Is on Us

    Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times

    Series series Politics and Comedy: Critical Encounters
    This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet categories such as comedy, horror, drama and news and entertainment have become blurred so as to be ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Insurance and Risk Management for Disruptions in Social, Economic and Environmental Systems

    Decision and Control Allocations within New Domains of Risk

    Series Book 3 - Emerald Studies in Finance, Insurance, and Risk Management
    Challenges destabilize the norm and create distresses and disruptions in, for example, the culture, the technology, regulations, the environmental, etc. that influence the pace of finance and economic activities. This book is a collection of 13 chapters and studies about Insurance and Risk management in response to disruptions caused by social, economic, and environmental challenges to try and ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Public Sector Leadership in Assessing and Addressing Risk

    Series Book 4 - Emerald Studies in Finance, Insurance, and Risk Management
    Public Sector Leadership in Assessing and Addressing Risk explores risk management in practice, taking a specific focus on the identification of risks in the European public sector while contextualising its Eurocentric analysis within a global setting.The volume lays important groundwork for understanding the main philosophical premises of risk management. Navigating the text's philosophical ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • A Political Economy of Justice

    Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people interact in this next era of the world? A Political Economy of Justice considers the strained state of our political economy in terms of where it ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD