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“dave ayre”

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  • Children of Sisyphus

    by Daved Ayres ...
    Poor life choices and reality finally collide in a small town in Michigan, forcing a family to have to scrabble to survive. With a degree in hand, William returns to his hometown to raise his family and work his dream job teaching art in his former high school. Until the recession hits. Then he's forced to scrabble for anything he can to keep afloat and grasp at the fleeting remnants of his dreams ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of Health

    by Nigel Ball, Steve Thomas, Jennifer Law, Isobel Anderson, Peter Hain, Richard Simmons, Tony Chasteauneuf, Chris O'Leary, Chris Fox, Alison Navarro, Melissa Hawkins, Max French, Toby Lowe, Glenda Roberts, Keith Clements, Gayle Munro, Richard Smith, Dave Ayre, Penny Cook, Keith Cunliffe, Catherine Parker, Gillian Gibson, Edward Kunonga, Ruth Dombey, Jacquie Russell, Paul Dennett, Graham Tope, David J. Hunter, Jolanta Shields, Anna Coleman, Jim McManus, Jeanelle De Gruchy, Harry Burns ...
    As many social inequalities widen, this is a crucial survey of local authorities’ evolving role in health, social care and wellbeing.Health and social and public policy experts review structural changes in provision and procurement, and explore social determinants of health including intergenerational needs and housing. With detailed assessments of regional disparities and case studies of ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

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  • Does Education Matter?

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    by Alison Wolf ...
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  • Managing Labour in Small Firms

    Edited by Susan Marlow, Dean Patton, Monder Ram ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
    The majority of employees currently working in the private sector are now employed in small firms, yet little is known about their working conditions. This collection of essays addresses this gap. Based on theoretical analysis supported by contemporary empirical evidence, the book explores key areas of the employment relationship adding a new perspective to our understanding of contemporary work. ... Read more

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  • The Great Rat Rally: A Graphic Novel (Geronimo Stilton #3)

    by Geronimo Stilton ...
    Illustrated by Tom Angleberger ...
    Series Book 3 - Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel
    Praise for The Sewer Rat Stink:"Fresh, funny, and fast-paced. The free-style artwork and anything-goes story will make kids want to write and draw their own books!" -Dav PilkeyThis is Geronimo Stilton like you've never seen him before!Geronimo and Trap enter the Rat Rally, a high-speed car race! ... Read more

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  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

    $22.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Year We Left Home

    A Novel

    by Jean Thompson ...
    Series series Bestselling Fiction
    A New York Times bestseller, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson’s mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” and an Indie Next and Midwest Connections selection, The Year We Left Home is the career ... Read more

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  • Binge

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    by Douglas Coupland ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one.Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my ... Read more

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  • A Contemporary History of Social Work

    Learning from the Past

    by Terry Bamford ...
    Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice ... Read more

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  • Solomon's Oak

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    by Jo-Ann Mapson ...
    Solomon's Oak is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever.Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her Central California farm. She makes ends meetby hosting weddings in the chapel her husband had built under their two-hundred-year-old white oak tree, known locally as Solomon's Oak.Fourteen-year-old ... Read more

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  • Education plc

    Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to ... Read more

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