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  • Great British Family Names and Their History

    What's in a Name?

    by John Moss ...
    A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries.To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ... Read more

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  • The Celtic Tribes

    Origins, Ancestry & The Warrior Class

    by John Moss ...
    Explores the rise, migrations, and eventual decline of the Celtic tribes, detailing their wars, culture, and resistance against Roman expansion.The people we know as the Celts were an Iron Age culture that originated in central Europe, probably around modern-day Hungary, Southern Germany and the Czech Republic, some three thousand years ago. They were groups of distinct tribal peoples who shared a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of English Place Names and Where They Came From

    by John Moss ...
    An enlightening journey into the languages, meanings, and history behind the names on England's map.The origins of the names of many English towns, hamlets, and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many ... Read more

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  • In the name of JIHAD

    by John j. Moss ...
    In the Name of JIHAD by John J. Moss is a gripping and provocative exploration of the collision between faith, power, and ideology in a world on the brink of chaos. When a covert operation uncovers a radical plot with global consequences, a diverse cast of characters—from intelligence agents and political leaders to religious scholars and ordinary civilians—find themselves drawn into a high-stakes ... Read more

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  • Box of Bones #3

    When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into ... Read more

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  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Finding the Right Words

    Essays, Poetics, Critical Fictions Concerning Canadian Culture, Literature, Language, and Personal Identity

    by John Moss ...
    "Finding the right words is a challenge. Over five decades I've tried to illuminate our struggle as Canadians to find ourselves in words we could feel were our own, from colonial doggerel to postmodern discourse. Many of the essays here were originally published from lectures abroad and are difficult to access. Taken together they trace the evolution of English Canadian language, literature, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Lindstrom's Progress

    by John Moss ...
    Intrigued by the unlikely invitation from a detective in Vienna to prove she murdered her lover, Harry Lindstrom finds himself in a strained alliance with a woman who seems to have stepped out of a painting by Klimt. His chaotic pursuit to unravel her story leads him home to Toronto, then back to Vienna, Salzburg, and salt mines near the ancient village of Hallstadtt, where stories from the past ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Development as Process

    Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity

    Series series Routledge Research/ODI Development Policy Studies
    Process" approaches to economic and social development appear to be more flexible and offer greater prospects of success than traditional "project" methods.Development as Process addresses the questions raised by the different natures of the two approaches. The authors examine development projects through experience in water resources development in India and in organizational learning by a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Quin and Morgan Mysteries 4-Book Bundle

    Still Waters / Grave Doubts / Reluctant Dead / Blood Wine

    by John Moss ...
    Series series
    David Morgan and Miranda Quin are two maverick, culturally sophisticated Toronto detectives. When a man is found dead in a koi pond, or two colonial corpses are arranged in a grisly diorama, the pair leap into action — and harm’s way.This four-ebook bundle gathers together the complete Quin and Morgan mystery series by acclaimed author John Moss.Includes*Still WatersGrave DoubtsReluctant DeadBlood ... Read more

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  • Still Waters

    A Quin and Morgan Mystery

    by John Moss ...
    Series Book 1 - A Quin and Morgan Mystery
    This psychological mystery introduces David Morgan and Miranda Quin, two maverick and culturally sophisticated Toronto police detectives. When a man is found dead in a garden pond in the wealthy heart of Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood Morgan is lead into speculations about Japanese ornamental koi fish, and Quin into a chilling sequence of revelations that could destroy her. But the real mystery ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Future Indicative

    Literary Theory and Canadian Literature

    Edited by John Moss ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986.As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra pit into the prompter's box, and Lancan swings from the flies, as Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD