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“daniel walden”

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  • Chaim Potok

    Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

    Edited by Daniel Walden ...
    Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Contribution to Change eBook

    An approach to evaluating the role of intervention in disaster recovery

    by Roger Few, Daniel McAvoy, Marcela Tarazona, Vivien Margaret Walden ...
    As the number of people affected by disasters has risen, so have the expectations placed on humanitarian agencies by donors, the public and the affected populations themselves. Agencies must now provide evidence of impact of their interventions. But applying conventional evaluation methods can pose problems. How can we assess the difference that intervention makes? Is it ethical to consign some ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Gates of November

    by Chaim Potok ...
    "REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, unfolds the gripping true story of a father, a son, and a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Old Men at Midnight

    Stories

    by Chaim Potok ...
    From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives.As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In “The Ark ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • In the Beginning

    A Novel

    by Chaim Potok ...
    “Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.”—The New York TimesAll beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Elephant, The Tiger, and the Cellphone

    India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tharoor, one of the subcontinent’s most respected writers and diplomats, offers precious insights into this complex, multifaceted land, which despite its dazzling diversity of languages, customs, and cultures remains-more than sixty years after its founding-the world’s largest democracy. He describes the vast changes that have transformed this ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Holidays

    by William McInnes ...
    From bestselling author William McInnes, a book about the languid, unending holidays of summer; it's about going away and staying at home, about sunburn, seagulls, family and friends.Remember those long, languid holidays when the only decisions to be made were what to pack in the Esky and who should get the front seat on the drive to the beach?Let William McInnes reignite your nostalgia for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blood and Earth

    Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World

    by Kevin Bales ...
    For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking—and an inspiring, bold plan for how we can solve them.A leading expert on modern-day slavery, Kevin Bales has traveled to some of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Love in the Time of AIDS

    Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

    by Mark Hunter ...
    In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories, and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summary and Analysis of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    Based on the Book by J.D. Vance

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Hillbilly Elegy tells you what you need to know—before or after you read J.D. Vance's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Hillbilly Elegy includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsCharacter ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unfolding Cluster Evolution

    Edited by Fiorenza Belussi, Jose Luis Hervás-Oliver ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Various theories have been put forward as to why business and industry develops in clusters and despite good work being carried out on path dependence and dynamics, this is still very much an emerging topic in the social sciences. To date, no overarching theoretical framework has been developed to show how clusters evolve.Unfolding Cluster Evolution aims to address this gap by presenting ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD