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Extro-Dynamics

by Dunn Douglas ...

Guide for developing the personal and social interactions to achieve a complete, balanced lifestyle. While many find their moral and ethical values to be at odds with their desire for personal success in achieving financial security, personal relationships and a healthy lifestyle, this book is designed to show how these seemingly different aspects of our lives can be made to work with each other ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

Guide for developing the personal and social interactions to achieve a complete, balanced lifestyle. While many find their moral and ethical values to be at odds with their desire for personal success in achieving financial security, personal relationships and a healthy lifestyle, this book is designed to show how these seemingly different aspects of our lives can be made to work with each other
... Read more
The Noise of a Fly

by Douglas Dunn ...

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating humour, as well as with a charming, 'Larkinesque' crankiness: a quarrel with ageing, an impatience with youth, the grievousness of losing friends and colleagues. But for all ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating humour, as well as with a charming, 'Larkinesque' crankiness: a quarrel with ageing, an impatience with youth, the grievousness of losing friends and colleagues. But for all
... Read more
Dazhan

Secrets of the Cave People

by Douglas Dunn ...

A model for personal and community advancement demonstrated through the allegory of a fantasy parable. When a successful business person from our world stumbles into an exotic, subterranean civilization, long hidden from the Outside world, he is exposed to new ways of thinking and feeling, but also exposes others to a world of harsh and cruel violence. The Outside world is rich in technological ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

A model for personal and community advancement demonstrated through the allegory of a fantasy parable. When a successful business person from our world stumbles into an exotic, subterranean civilization, long hidden from the Outside world, he is exposed to new ways of thinking and feeling, but also exposes others to a world of harsh and cruel violence. The Outside world is rich in technological
... Read more
The Cujo Cat Chronicles

Musings of a Mad Housecat

by Douglas Dunn/Cujo ...

The Cujo Cat Chronicles began its life as a blog based on a day in the life of a tyrannical housecat. It soon gained an international following as well as a fan club on Facebook. It wasnt long before Cujos fans (or minions) were asking for a book. This is a journey into the mind of a small cat with a huge ego. He ponders on everything from goats to football. He welcomes his readers into his ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

The Cujo Cat Chronicles began its life as a blog based on a day in the life of a tyrannical housecat. It soon gained an international following as well as a fan club on Facebook. It wasnt long before Cujos fans (or minions) were asking for a book. This is a journey into the mind of a small cat with a huge ego. He ponders on everything from goats to football. He welcomes his readers into his
... Read more
Archipelago: A Reader

by Fiona Stafford, Mark Cocker, John Brannigan, Rose Ferraby, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Norman Ackroyd, Tim Dee, John Elder, Moya Cannon, Roger Deakin, John Eifion Jones, Peter Davidson, Terry Eagleton ...

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine the relationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought together established and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

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Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine the relationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought together established and emerging artists in creative
... Read more
Theology and Black Mirror

by Amber Bowen, Peter Anderson, Jeremiah Bailey, Elizabeth Culhane, Taylor W. Cyr, Celina Durgin, Megan Fritts, Rachelle Gilmour, Elizabeth Howard, Brandon Hurlbert0, Rebekah Lamb1, King-Ho Leung2, Patrick McGlinchey3, Kris Song4, John Anthony Dunne6, Nathaniel A. Warne7, Douglas Estes8, Dru Johnson9, Joanna Leidenhag0, James F. McGrath1, Andrew J. Byers Byers2 ...

Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Black Mirror, Netflix’s dystopian anthology, probes what it means to be human in a technological world. While the show raises interesting, if not disturbing, questions, it refrains from giving answers, putting the onus on viewers to continue the conversation. Accordingly, Theology and Black Mirror engages questions and prominent themes in the show with resources from the Christian tradition, ... Read more

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Black Mirror, Netflix’s dystopian anthology, probes what it means to be human in a technological world. While the show raises interesting, if not disturbing, questions, it refrains from giving answers, putting the onus on viewers to continue the conversation. Accordingly, Theology and Black Mirror engages questions and prominent themes in the show with resources from the Christian tradition,
... Read more
Archipelago

A Reader

by Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd, John Brannigan, Moya Cannon, Mark Cocker, Peter Davidson, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Terry Eagleton, John Eifion Jones, John Elder, Rose Ferraby, Barbara Greg, Ivor Gurney, Alexandra Harris, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Sally Huband, Roger Hutchinson, Mick Imlah, Kathleen Jamie, John Kerrigan, Philip Lancaster, David Lea, Angela Leighton, Gwyneth Lewis, Michael Longley, James Macdonald Lockhart, Robert Macfarlane, Angus Macmillan, Derek Mahon, Gail McNeillie, Sinéad Morrisey, Richard Murphy, Les Murray, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Alice Oswald, Bernard O'Donoghue, Jem Poster, Angharad Price, John Purser, Alan Riach, Tim Robinson, Katherine Rundell, Richard Sharland, Jos Smith, Mary Wellesley ...

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

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Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative
... Read more
Footnotes

Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page

by Elena Alexander, Jill Johnston, Douglas Dunn, Marjorie Gamso, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kenneth King, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Skaggs ...

Series series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, others use it as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects. All yield insight into the process of coaxing ... Read more

$81.06 CAD

The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, others use it as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects. All yield insight into the process of coaxing
... Read more
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Magnificent Obsession

by Lloyd C. Douglas ...

Narrated by Irene Dunn ...

Unabridged

42 min

A local hero, Dr Wayne Phillips, dies because the equipment that could save him is being used to help Bob Merrick, a spoiled rich man who has wrecked his speed boat. Dr Phillips gave selflessly and in secret to many people and causes, which Merrick now takes up too. However his efforts end in failure and also alienate Dr Phillips' widow, Helen, with whom he is besotted. ... Read more

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A local hero, Dr Wayne Phillips, dies because the equipment that could save him is being used to help Bob Merrick, a spoiled rich man who has wrecked his speed boat. Dr Phillips gave selflessly and in secret to many people and causes, which Merrick now takes up too. However his efforts end in failure and also alienate Dr Phillips' widow, Helen, with whom he is besotted.
... Read more

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The Robe

by Lloyd C. Douglas ...

Narrated by Stuart Langton ...

Unabridged

22 hours 3 min

At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ’s garments after the crucifixion. Douglas immediately began working on The Robe, sending each chapter to Hazel as he finished it. It is to her that ... Read more

$44.99 CAD

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At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ’s garments after the crucifixion. Douglas immediately began working on The Robe, sending each chapter to Hazel as he finished it. It is to her that
... Read more

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Curious English Words and Phrases

The Truth Behind the Expressions We Use

by Max Cryer ...

Have you ever wondered where terms like ‘end of your tether’, ‘gets my goat’ or ‘letting ones hair down’ come from? Or why we call some people ‘geezers’, ‘sugar daddies’ or ‘lounge lizards’? Or where the words ‘eavesdropping’, ‘nickname’ and ‘D-Day’ come from? They are just a few of the many words and phrases that language expert Max Cryer examines in this fact-filled and fun new book. Max ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

Have you ever wondered where terms like ‘end of your tether’, ‘gets my goat’ or ‘letting ones hair down’ come from? Or why we call some people ‘geezers’, ‘sugar daddies’ or ‘lounge lizards’? Or where the words ‘eavesdropping’, ‘nickname’ and ‘D-Day’ come from? They are just a few of the many words and phrases that language expert Max Cryer examines in this fact-filled and fun new book. Max
... Read more
Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

$19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is
... Read more

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