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The Patron Saint of Second Chances

A Novel

by Christine Simon ...

The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this “charming farce that highlights the triumph of hope and community” (People).Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town’s pipes, the water commission will shut off ... Read more

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The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this “charming farce that highlights the triumph of hope and community” (People).Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town’s pipes, the water commission will shut off
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Sipsworth

by Simon Van Booy ...

Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

Sometimes a second chance comes in the most unexpected way . . .Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss. She retreats into her home on Westminster Crescent, becoming a creature of routine and habit: "Each day was an impersonation of the one before with ... Read more

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Sometimes a second chance comes in the most unexpected way . . .Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss. She retreats into her home on Westminster Crescent, becoming a creature of routine and habit: "Each day was an impersonation of the one before with
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High Spatio-Temporal-Spectral Thermal Remote Sensing

Research and Applications

Edited by Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Jeffrey C. Luvall, Simon Hook, Christine Lee ...

There have been numerous advances in thermal infrared (TIRS) sensors, analytical techniques and applications in recent years. A number of new satellite platforms have launched with TIR capabilities, and others will be ready for launch in the near future. This book builds upon the book Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processing and provides new and updated information on thermal remote ... Read more

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There have been numerous advances in thermal infrared (TIRS) sensors, analytical techniques and applications in recent years. A number of new satellite platforms have launched with TIR capabilities, and others will be ready for launch in the near future. This book builds upon the book Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processing and provides new and updated information on thermal remote
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The Patron Saint of Second Chances

A Novel

by Christine Simon ...

Narrated by Tim Frances ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

SELECTED FOR THE RUSA 2023 LISTEN LIST FOR OUTSTANDING AUDIOBOOK NARRATION!The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this “charming farce that highlights the triumph of hope and community” (People).Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with ... Read more

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SELECTED FOR THE RUSA 2023 LISTEN LIST FOR OUTSTANDING AUDIOBOOK NARRATION!The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this “charming farce that highlights the triumph of hope and community” (People).Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with
... Read more

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Amsterdam Noir

by Herman Koch, Hanna Bervoets, Abdelkader Benali, Michael Berg, Simon de Waal, Christine Otten ...

Series series Akashic Noir
This anthology of new noir fiction set in the Dutch capital "features superior writing from authors largely unknown to an American audience" ( Publishers Weekly).From its numerous coffee shops where drugs are openly available, to its world-famous Red Light District where prostitutes display themselves in shop windows, Amsterdam is a city where almost anything goes in broad daylight. And yet, this ... Read more

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This anthology of new noir fiction set in the Dutch capital "features superior writing from authors largely unknown to an American audience" ( Publishers Weekly).From its numerous coffee shops where drugs are openly available, to its world-famous Red Light District where prostitutes display themselves in shop windows, Amsterdam is a city where almost anything goes in broad daylight. And yet, this
... Read more
Simulation Training through the Lens of Experience and Activity Analysis

Healthcare, Victim Rescue and Population Protection

Edited by Simon Flandin, Christine Vidal-Gomel, Raquel Becerril Ortega ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book offers various ways in which analyzing professional experience and activity in simulation training makes it possible to describe practice-based learning affordances and processes. Research has been conducted in various simulation programs in the domains of healthcare, victim rescue and population protection, involving healthcare workers, firemen, policemen, servicemen, and civil security ... Read more

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This book offers various ways in which analyzing professional experience and activity in simulation training makes it possible to describe practice-based learning affordances and processes. Research has been conducted in various simulation programs in the domains of healthcare, victim rescue and population protection, involving healthcare workers, firemen, policemen, servicemen, and civil security
... Read more
Journalism in Crisis

Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada

Edited by Colette Brin, Christine Crowther, Gretchen KIng, Errol Salamon, Simon Thibault, Mike Gasher ...

Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology.Public policies have been central to the creation and shaping of Canada’s media system and, rather than wait for new ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology.Public policies have been central to the creation and shaping of Canada’s media system and, rather than wait for new
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The Art of Touch

A Collection of Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond

by Faye Rapoport DesPres, Magdalena Ball, Bonnie Boucher, Anne Casey, Joy Castro, Quintin Collins, Paula Coomer, Laura Crucianelli, María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado0, Linda DeFruscio-Robinson1, Erika Dreifus2, Raphael Frumkin3, Nicole Hardy4, Will Jennings5, Meg Kearney6, Becky Kennedy7, Sarah Kotchian8, Rocco Lo Bosco9, Sarah McElwain0, Damian McNicholl1, Lynda Miller2, Lynn C. Miller3, Sarah Moon4, Kate Niles5, Anne-Marie Oomen6, Alicia Ostriker7, Christine Page8, Judith Simon Prager9, Robert Root0, Paul Singer1, Phyllis M Skoy2, Donna Baier Stein3, Grace Anne Stevens4, Alison Stone5, Daniel B. Summerhill6, Deborah Swift7, Beatriz Terrazas8, Meg Tuite9, Susan J. Tweit0 ...

In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able ... Read more

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In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able
... Read more
Elements of Untethered Realms

by Cherie Reich, Catherine Stine, Angela Brown, Jeff Chapman, Cathrina Constantine, Julie Flanders, River Fairchild, Gwen Gardner, Misha Gerrick, M. Gerrick, Meradeth Houston, Graeme Ing, Simon Kewin, M. Pax, Christine Rains ...

Enter our mysterious realms where the stories are as varied and rich as the types of soil on this and other planets. Enchanted forests are knotted with roots and vines. Dreaded paths take us through strange, unexplored places.Investigate new worlds and houses frequented by ghosts. Come across witches and wizards and an assassin tasked to kill Death.Meet hot robots, hungry winds, and the goddess of ... Read more

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Enter our mysterious realms where the stories are as varied and rich as the types of soil on this and other planets. Enchanted forests are knotted with roots and vines. Dreaded paths take us through strange, unexplored places.Investigate new worlds and houses frequented by ghosts. Come across witches and wizards and an assassin tasked to kill Death.Meet hot robots, hungry winds, and the goddess of
... Read more
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The Girl on the Velvet Swing

Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

by Simon Baatz ...

Narrated by Christine Lakin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 24 min

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent ... Read more

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From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent
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Political Economy of the Environment

An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Simon Dietz, Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy
This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking – and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines – could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics ... Read more

$92.06 CAD

This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking – and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines – could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics
... Read more
Berman's Pediatric Decision Making E-Book

Expert Consult - Online and Print

by Lalit Bajaj, Simon Hambidge, Ann-Christine Nyquist, Gwendolyn Kerby ...

Berman's Pediatric Decision Making uses an algorithmic, structured approach to lead you to the right diagnosis and treatment every time. Drs. Lalit Baja, Simon Hambidge, Ann-Christine Nyquist, and Gwendolyn Kerby use evidence-based research and flow charts for each presenting complaint or specific disorder to provide quick access to the information you need for effective decision making. With ... Read more

$88.99 CAD

Berman's Pediatric Decision Making uses an algorithmic, structured approach to lead you to the right diagnosis and treatment every time. Drs. Lalit Baja, Simon Hambidge, Ann-Christine Nyquist, and Gwendolyn Kerby use evidence-based research and flow charts for each presenting complaint or specific disorder to provide quick access to the information you need for effective decision making. With
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