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Chasing Utopia

The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

by David Leach ...

Narrated by Richard Clarkin ...

Unabridged

11 hours 9 min

Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine?Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in ... Read more

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Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine?Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in
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The New Axis of Evil

Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty

by David Leach ...

A war against liberty in America is being waged by Republicans and Democrats in government, the media, and our churches.In The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty, seasoned political analyst David Leach draws on his years of experience in the political arena to expose the players in this war.This groundbreaking book examines the current state of liberty in America, exposing ... Read more

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A war against liberty in America is being waged by Republicans and Democrats in government, the media, and our churches.In The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty, seasoned political analyst David Leach draws on his years of experience in the political arena to expose the players in this war.This groundbreaking book examines the current state of liberty in America, exposing
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Chasing Utopia

The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

by David Leach ...

A mix of memoir and history offering "a nuanced, unflinching look at the Israeli dream of the kibbutz and its demise . . . darkly comic . . . utterly engrossing" (Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving).The word "Israel" today sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer making the desert bloom: ... Read more

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A mix of memoir and history offering "a nuanced, unflinching look at the Israeli dream of the kibbutz and its demise . . . darkly comic . . . utterly engrossing" (Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving).The word "Israel" today sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer making the desert bloom:
... Read more

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Ebenezer

National Security from a Biblical Perspective

by David J. Leach ...

Here you will find thought-provoking discussions regarding religion, national security, the Constitution; these are heard in the seven theses representing how history repeats itself through divisions within nations when the God who created mankind is left out. Significantly, during the past fifty years, the God who simultaneously gave us life and gave us liberty according to Jefferson is being ... Read more

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Here you will find thought-provoking discussions regarding religion, national security, the Constitution; these are heard in the seven theses representing how history repeats itself through divisions within nations when the God who created mankind is left out. Significantly, during the past fifty years, the God who simultaneously gave us life and gave us liberty according to Jefferson is being
... Read more
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Chasing Utopia (Booktrack Edition)

The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

by David Leach ...

Narrated by Richard Clarkin ...

Unabridged

11 hours 9 min

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of ... Read more

$40.99 CAD

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of
... Read more
On Discomfort

Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture

Edited by David Ellison, Andrew Leach ...

Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Examining discomfort’s physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series of disparate instances in which architecture and discomfort intersect, On Discomfort offers a fresh reading of the negotiations that define architecture ... Read more

$94.81 CAD

Examining discomfort’s physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series of disparate instances in which architecture and discomfort intersect, On Discomfort offers a fresh reading of the negotiations that define architecture
... Read more
Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders

Critical Issues, Useful Solutions

by Sharon Conley, Naftaly S. Glasman, William H. Marinell, George J. Petersen, Roberta Trachtman, Scott C. Bauer, David F. Leach, Diana G. Pounder, Bruce S. Cooper, S. David Brazer, Margaret Terry Orr ...

With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school and district levels. Beginning with a chapter outlining six steps of critical organizational ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school and district levels. Beginning with a chapter outlining six steps of critical organizational
... Read more
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The Complete Barchester Chronicles

The Complete

by Anthony Trollope ...

Narrated by Anna Massey, Brenda Blethyn, Eleanor Bron, Full Cast, Kenneth Cranham, Leo McKern, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Jennings, Amanda Root, David Haig, Emma Fielding, Rosemary Leach ...

Unabridged

18 hours 50 min

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial lifeOne of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most popular tales.The first in the series, The Warden, ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial lifeOne of the most respected, successful chroniclers of nineteenth-century life, Anthony Trollope is still widely read and much-loved today. The Barchester Chronicles - witty moral comedies with a wonderful range of characters - are among his most popular tales.The first in the series, The Warden,
... Read more
Lacan For Beginners

by Philip Hill ...

Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20000 psychoanalysts in the world about half are 'Lacanians') yet most people know nothing about him. The 10000 analysts who use Lacan's ideas work mostly in France Spain Italy and South America. To the rest of the world including England and America Lacan is a genius-in-waiting due to be 'discovered' any day ... Read more

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Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20000 psychoanalysts in the world about half are 'Lacanians') yet most people know nothing about him. The 10000 analysts who use Lacan's ideas work mostly in France Spain Italy and South America. To the rest of the world including England and America Lacan is a genius-in-waiting due to be 'discovered' any day
... Read more

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What's Yours is Mine

Against the Sharing Economy, 2nd Edition

by Tom Slee ...

Narrated by Nathalie Toriel ...

Unabridged

7 hours 32 min

The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the “old order”—and they’ve succeeded in effecting the “biggest change in the American workforce in over a century,” according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. But this new wave of technology companies is ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the “old order”—and they’ve succeeded in effecting the “biggest change in the American workforce in over a century,” according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. But this new wave of technology companies is
... Read more
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Nowhere With You

The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit

by Josh O’Kane ...

Narrated by Jonathan Watton ...

Unabridged

5 hours 38 min

Joel Plaskett has earned an awful lot of honourifics in his career so far, counting folk hero, indie darling, and national treasure among them. And that’s just since the Halifax musician started making records of his own in 1999. For a decade before that, he was one-quarter of Thrush Hermit, a band of scrappy Superchunk disciples who became hard-rock revivalists and one of the last survivors of ... Read more

$36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Joel Plaskett has earned an awful lot of honourifics in his career so far, counting folk hero, indie darling, and national treasure among them. And that’s just since the Halifax musician started making records of his own in 1999. For a decade before that, he was one-quarter of Thrush Hermit, a band of scrappy Superchunk disciples who became hard-rock revivalists and one of the last survivors of
... Read more
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Cuba beyond the Beach

Stories of Life in Havana

by Karen Dubinksy ...

Narrated by Gina Clayton ...

Unabridged

5 hours 34 min

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents—old Communist ladies, their
... Read more

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