Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 138 results for “robert s ross”
Skip side bar filters

  • Seriously Silly

    The Life of Terry Jones (the authorised biography)

    by Robert Ross ...
    'This book is timely. I hope it will send people back to his work, whether it be films he's directed, roles he's played ... and everything else that made him everybody's favourite polymath.'MICHAEL PALINSeriously Silly is an intimate portrait of Terry Jones - Python, actor, director, historian, reluctant national treasure and purveyor of sincere silliness - written by the man he chose to tell the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lords of Mars Vol 1: The Eye of the Goddess

    by Arvid Nelson ...
    Series series Lords of Mars
    Two legends of science fiction and fantasy literature collide in an epic crossover event! Tarzan, the legendary Lord of the Jungle, has claimed his title as a British nobleman, but his very life is threatened when a hunting excursion among high society goes disastrously wrong. Meanwhile, John Carter, the Warlord of Mars, responds to a veiled threat from his defeated enemies. Though separated by ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend

    by Robert Ross ...
    Mike Myers thinks he was “a genius”, while John Cleese regards him as “a true cultural icon”. He was an architect of British comedy, paving the way for Monty Python, and then became a major Hollywood star, forever remembered as Igor in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. A writer, director, performer and true pioneer of his art, he died aged only 48.His name was Marty Feldman, and here, at last, is ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Throwing Mountains into the Sea

    The American Church and the Anti-Apartheid Movement

    by Robert B. Ross ...
    Reveals the overlooked role of the American Church in the South African anti-apartheid movement.Throwing Mountains into the Sea details the use of economic tools—such as shareholder engagement, boycotts, divestment, and advocacy for sanctions—that the American Church employed to help topple South Africa’s apartheid regime. Ross traces this American solidarity movement from its humble origins among ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

    PRE-ORDER

  • If We Want to Win

    A Latine Vision for a New American Democracy

    Edited by Diana Campoamor ...
    " An urgent, provocative collection of essays from Latinx thought leaders heralding a more inclusive vision of America's futureLatinx people make up the second-largest ethnic and racial group in America, with a population of over sixty million. They have been integral to shaping the country's economy, culture, and politics, and their influence and power continue to grow at all levels of civic life ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise History of South Africa

    by Robert Ross ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development stemming from the industrial revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the fundamental political changes South Africa has undergone, and a background for understanding those many things which have not changed. ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • East Asia in Transition:

    Toward a New Regional Order

    by Robert S. Ross ...
    "Has uniformly good essays on economic and political change, the policies of the great and local powers, and the prospects for building a new regional order". -- Foreign Affairs ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Ambush

    Book One, #1

    by Robert Ross ...
    During a war for Independence mercenaries were hired to fill ranks of fallen national soldiers. A harrowing, deadly account of two catastrophic ambushes in Africa. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China, the United States and the Soviet Union

    Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War

    by Robert S. Ross ...
    This text considers the importance of various factors which influenced the policies of each country during the Cold War including strategic considerations, domestic politics and ideology. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Cape of Torments

    Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

    by Robert Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Slavery
    Cape of Torments, first published in 1983, is a detailed examination of slavery in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. It describes the reactions of the slaves to their conditions of slavery, concentrating on those aspects of their lives which their masters considered criminal, and above all on the large numbers of occasions when slaves ran away in an attempt to start a new life elsewhere. The ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Negotiating Cooperation

    The United States and China, 1969-1989

    by Robert S. Ross ...
    In the 1970s and 1980s the United States and China developed cooperative relations to enhance security against the USSR. Conventional wisdom claims Washington and Beijing agreed to 'shelve' conflictual issues; where conflict occurred, diplomatic error or domestic politics are blamed. This book shows, however, that US-China cooperation was fragile precisely because of ongoing conflicts, notably ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Great Baseball Revolt

    The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League

    by Robert B. Ross ...
    The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule,” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League, who ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD