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  • Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers

    Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature

    by Tom Mackenzie ...
    Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first book-length, literary-critical study of their work. It locates the surviving fragments in their performative and wider cultural contexts, applying intertextual and intratextual analyses in order to reconstruct the ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Last Foundling

    A little boy left behind, The mother who wanted him back

    by Tom H. Mackenzie ...
    When she fell pregnant in London in 1938, Jean knew that she couldn't keep her baby. The unmarried daughter of an elder in the Church of Scotland, she would shame her family if she returned to the north in such a condition. Scared and alone in a city on the brink of war, she begged the Foundling Hospital to give her baby the start in life that she could not.The institution, which had been ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Mindful Teaching and Learning

    Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being

    by Sabre Cherkowski, Kelly Hanson, Jennifer Kelly, Margaret Macintyre Latta, Elizabeth Mackenzie, Geoffrey Soloway, Tom Bassarear, Kathryn Byrnes, Karen Ragoonaden ...
    Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being features a community of scholar-practitioners from across disciplines, methodologies, and ideological perspectives exploring and examining contexts that support mindful teaching, mindful learning, and a pedagogy of well-being. Collectively, these chapters document and analyze the opportunities and challenges within pedagogical ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Rescuing Eve

    by Ellie Masters ...
    Narrated by Mackenzie Cartwright, Tor Thom ...
    Series series Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists: Alpha Team

    Unabridged

    10 hours 45 min

    When a moment of defiance turns into a living nightmare, Eve will do whatever it takes to survive, even if that means making a deal with a devil of a man.Eve:Daughter of a shipping mogul, Eve Deverough leads a charmed life. She wants for nothing, except for the love of her cold and distant father. In a moment of defiance, she runs off to Cancun, shedding her private security for some fun in the ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

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  • The Wild Truth

    by Carine McCandless ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The true story behind Jon Krakauer’s bestselling novel and Sean Penn’s acclaimed film Into the Wild, from the sister of Chris McCandless, filling in questions about Chris’ journey of self-discovery and the dysfunctional childhood that pushed him to brave the Alaskan wilderness alone"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a ... Read more

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  • Secret Child

    by Gordon Lewis, Andrew Crofts ...
    The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin.Born an 'unfortunate' onto the rough streets of 1950s Dublin, this is the incredible true story of a young boy, a secret child born into a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin and a mother determined to keep her child, even if it meant hiding him from her ... Read more

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  • The Road from Gap Creek

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    by Robert Morgan ...
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  • The Seventh Mother

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