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  • Selma's Bloody Sunday

    Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality

    by Robert A. Pratt ...
    Series series Witness to History
    "A fresh look at this historical crossroads which marked the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement . . . timely and engaging." —Patricia Sullivan, author of Justice RisingOn Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Leading the march ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Shall Not Be Moved

    The Desegregation of the University of Georgia

    by Robert A. Pratt ...
    In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia. Despite his impressive academic record, Ward received a reply—in reality, a bribe—from one of the university's top officials offering him financial assistance if he would attend an out-of-state law school. Ward, outraged at the unfairness of the proposition and ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • James Tenney

    Writings and Interviews on Experimental Music

    Edited by Dr. Robert Wannamaker, Ms. Lauren Pratt, Tashi Wada ...
    This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career.The eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934–2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning systems, contemporary ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves

    Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii"

    by Karl Young, Robert A. Pratt ...
    In volume 1 of Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Jankyn’s Book, volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those texts by way of presenting all the known contemporary commentaries on it.The text is Walter Map’s ... Read more

    $142.89 CAD

  • Race, Nation, and Empire in American History

    Edited by James T. Campbell, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Robert G. Lee ...
    While public debates over America’s current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire have long framed debates over western expansion, Indian removal, African slavery, Asian immigration ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Game Changers

    Energy on the Move

    Edited by George Pratt Shultz, Robert C. Armstrong ...
    It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel our economy and protect our national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from American universities that offer a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure national energy system. Drawing from the efforts of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and other ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, Vol. 1. Illustrated

    Gormenghast, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Conan the Conqueror, The Haunting of Hill House, The Once and Future King, and Others

    by Mervyn Peake, Fletcher Pratt, Robert E. Howard, C. S. Lewis, T.H. White, Shirley Jackson, Flann O’Brien ...
    Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, Vol. 1 is an essential introduction to the most imaginative, influential, and enduring works that shaped the landscape of 20th-century fantasy literature. This volume gathers a diverse selection of masterpieces—spanning high fantasy, gothic fiction, dark fantasy, mythic adventure, and supernatural tales—offering readers a rich exploration of how the genre ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Reimagining Faith and Management

    The Impact of Faith in the Workplace

    Edited by Edwina Pio, Robert Kilpatrick, Timothy Pratt ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Much contemporary research ignores or is dismissive of the growth of global religiosity, even though 90 percent of the global population sees the world through a commitment to some kind of faith. Reimagining Faith and Management addresses this issue and extends the research on the impact of faith in various aspects of management, such as negotiation, leadership, entrepreneurship, governance, ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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    Through the Fires

    An American Business Story of Turbulence, Triumph and Giving Back

    by Robert Owen Carr ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Through the Fires is a triumphant comeback story in life and business. Robert Carr reflects decades of struggle that took him to the brink of financial ruin at age fifty. Carr would later make a fortune in the card payments industry only to lose almost everything in 2009 after one of the most devastating data breaches ever. Carr's story is a vulnerable and honest depiction of holding on and ... Read more

    Was $30.99 CAD Now $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Vanishing Family

    Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia

    by Robert Kolker ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    **From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia.“A gripping real-life horror story of dementia, love and grief. . . . Kolker displays his genius for the immersive detail.” —The New York Times Book Review“Robert Kolker's ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Terrace V: Penitent's Gold

    by Robert Bose, Sarah L. Pratt, Chris Marrs, Taija Morgan, Shane Kroetsch, Lindsay Thomas, Chris Patrick Carolan ...
    Series Book 3 - Purgatorio
    Welcome to the Fifth Terrace in the famed Purgatorio, where you will atone for your incorrigible greed with your fellow Penitents, languishing in sight of gold forever out of reach.In this collection of dark needful tales, an unusual door grants riches for an unexpected price, bikini clad thieves make the score of a lifetime at ravenous cost, an expensive mistress gets what’s coming to her, it’s ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Hidden Valley Road

    Inside the Mind of an American Family

    by Robert Kolker ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 8 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease."Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us ... Read more

    $29.50 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook