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  • Families in Today's World

    A Comparative Approach

    by David Cheal ...
    An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Gift Economy

    by David Cheal ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book, first published in 1988, David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life, relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology, particularly those of Durkheim ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Life of a Song

    The stories behind 100 of the world's best-loved songs

    by Jan Dalley, David Cheal ...
    Discover the stories behind the songsTHE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intriguing factoids, these bite-sized essays will delight music fans and send you scurrying back to listen to the songs in all their beauty and mystery.Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Life of a Song Volume 1

    The fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved songs

    by Jan Dalley, David Cheal ...
    Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant?These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Life of a Song Volume 2

    The Stories Behind 50 More of the World's Best-loved Songs

    by Jan Dalley, David Cheal ...
    When great songs have been written and released, they often take on a life of their own, reshaped and given new life, transcending genres.THE LIFE OF A SONG is a compilation of weekly columns written for FT Weekend, containing the biographies of 50 songs that have been born, reborn, sometimes hideously mangled, but often reinvigorated by new generations of artists.Here you will find songs that ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful

    by J. David Simons ...
    Narrated by Nick Cheales ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethics of the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but soon he’s trying to outrun his own past.Hakone, Japan, 2003. An eminent British writer in his 70s, Sir Edward Strathairn, returns to a resort in the Japanese mountains where, in his youth, he ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Girl in the Painting

    by Tea Cooper ...
    Narrated by Casey Withoos ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 15 min

    An orphaned young math prodigy in need of family. A painting that shatters a woman’s peace. And a decades-old mystery demanding to be solved.Australia, 1906*:* Orphan Jane Piper is nine years old when philanthropist siblings Michael and Elizabeth Quinn take her into their home to further her schooling. The Quinns are no strangers to hardship. Having arrived in Australia as penniless immigrants, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Ashford Affair

    A Novel

    by Lauren Willig ...
    Narrated by Nicola Barber ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The Ashford Affair, a riveting novel about two women in different eras, and on different continents, who are connected by one deeply buried secret.A New York Times best seller!As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything she's been working towards—but now she's ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    A Memory of Violets

    A Novel of London's Flower Sellers

    by Hazel Gaynor ...
    Narrated by Nicola Barber ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    The author of the USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home has once again created an unforgettable historical novel. Step into the world of Victorian London, where the wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the story of two long-lost sisters, whose lives take different paths, and the young woman who will be transformed by their experiences.In 1912, twenty-year ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Judge's Wife, The

    by Ann O'Loughlin ...
    Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    *Shortlisted for a 2017 RoNA Award*The poignant, emotional story of three women, an adulterous affair, and one great love that changes their lives forever.With her whole life ahead of her, beautiful young Grace’s world changes forever when she’s married off to a much older judge. Soon, feeling lonely and neglected, Grace meets and falls in love with an Indian doctor, Vikram—he’s charming, ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

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    The Sea Gate

    by Jane Johnson ...
    Narrated by Jayne Entwistle, Barrie Kreinik ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    “I need your help getting Chynalls in order so I can stay in my own house. Come down right away!”After the death of her mother, Rebecca is sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope postmarked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother’s elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Last Letter from Juliet

    by Melanie Hudson ...
    Narrated by Stephanie Beattie ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    The USA TODAY bestseller!Inspired by the brave women of WWII, this is a moving and powerful novel of friendship, love and resilience for fans of My Name is Eva, The Alice Network and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.A story of love not a story of a war…A daring WWII pilot who grew up among the clouds, Juliet Caron’s life was one of courage, adventure – and a love torn apart by war. Every nook o... ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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