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  • Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses

    by 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton; J. B. Smith; Edward Stanley ...
    "Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses" presents a vivid and compelling narrative of the Peterloo Massacre, an event that marked a significant moment in British history. The book compiles firsthand accounts from three notable eyewitnesses: 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton, J. B. Smith, and Edward Stanley. Their testimonies provide unique perspectives on the tragic events ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Word Before Dying

    Mysteries to Die For

    by TG Wolff, Jack Wolff, Judi Lynn, Frank Zafiro, Mark Edward Langley, Kyra Jacobs, KM Rockwood, Michael Penncavage ...
    Series series Mysteries to Die For
    The last word has been a common element of mysteries going back to the emergence of the genre. In Hercule Poirot's first case, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Mrs. Emily Cavendish Inglethorpe's last word was "Alfred." But was her husband's name said for comfort or as an accusation? In Nayland Smith's first engagement on British soil with The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, Sir Creighton Davey's last ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Productivity Convergence

    Theory and Evidence

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Series series Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature
    A vast new literature on the sources of economic growth has now accumulated. This book critically reviews the most significant works in this field and summarizes what is known today about the sources of economic growth. The first part discusses the most important theoretical models that have been used in modern growth theory as well as methodological issues in productivity measurement. The second ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • A Century of Wealth in America

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Understanding wealth in the United States—who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world’s great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Does Education Really Help?

    Skill, Work, and Inequality

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence that the growth of skills or educational attainment has any statistically significant relation to ... Read more

    $89.59 CAD

  • Inheriting Wealth in America

    Future Boom or Bust?

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Inheritances are often regarded as a societal "evil," enabling great fortunes to be passed from one generation to another, thus exacerbating wealth inequality and reducing wealth mobility. Discussions of inheritances in America bring to mind the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and "trust fund babies"---people who receive enough money through inheritances or gifts that they do not have any need to work ... Read more

    $98.39 CAD

  • Transformation of the American Pension System

    by Edward N Wolff ...
    The share of Americans with defined contribution pension plans now exceeds the share of those with defined benefit plans. Wolff refers to this as the &quote;great transformation&quote; and it leads him to examine recent evidence to see whether there are winners and losers resulting from this switch away from traditional pension plans. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Taking Parenting Public

    The Case for a New Social Movement

    by Enola G. Aird, Allan C. Carlson, David Elkind, S Jody Heymann, Wade F. Horn, Bernice Kanner, Raymond Seidelman, Theda Skocpol, Peter Winn0, Edward Wolff1, Ruth A. Wooden2, William A. Galston3, Juliet B. Schor4, Ruy Teixeira5, Cornel West6 ...
    Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment-both personal and public-into the work of raising children and argues that we are all "stockholders" in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    A Century of Wealth in America

    by Edward N. Wolff ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 38 min

    Understanding wealth in the United States—who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Finding Hester

    The Incredible Story Of The Hidden Woman Whose Love Letters Changed World War II

    by Claudia Caplan Wolff, Erin Edwards, Greg Callus, Jack Lawrence, Rose Crossgrove ...
    Narrated by Sarah Cullum ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 19 min

    Finding Hester explores the untold story of Hester Leggatt, a woman who helped trick the Nazis, and is a fascinating read for fans of West End musical Operation Mincemeat and anyone with an interest in women’s war storiesOperation Mincemeat is one of the stranger tales to come out of the Second World War. A corpse dressed as a British pilot was dropped in the ocean near Spain, with the forged ... Read more

    $21.51 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We've Been Trumped!

    by Ring Bunsen, Pat Anne Sirs, Rachel Cassidy, Khomans Ens, TL Snow, Kaye George, Andrew Garvey, Michael Guillebeau, JoAnne Lucas, Paul Alan Fahey, KB Inglee, Diane A. Hadac, Craig Faustus Buck, Ross Baxter, Brian Asman, Zev Lawson Edwards, Caroline Taylor, RJ Meldrum, Katherine Tomlinson, Robert S. Levinson, Warren Bull, Manuel Alex Moya, Tamar Auber, Ronald P. Wolff, Don Noel, Timonthy O'Leary, Anne-Marie Sutton, Joshua James Jordan ...
    Twenty-one short stories - sometimes satirical, sometimes, frightening, and mostly humorous, imagining of life under President Donald Trump! ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Educating through Popular Culture

    You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics

    by Maha Al-Saati, Pearl Chaozon Bauer, Emily L. Brandon, Melissa Chapman, Paul A. Crutcher, Autumn M. Dodge, Tonia A. Dousay, Haley M. G. Ford, Jacob Hardesty, Richard Hartsell, Sarah Hunt-Barron, Cadey Korson, Weronika Kusek, Katie Lopez, Kimberley McMahon-Coleman, Tammy L. Mielke, Josh Thompson, Chad William Timm, Meredith J. Tolson, Jillian L. Wenburg, Kenya Wolff, Marc Wolterbeek, Andrew L. Grunzke, Richard Hughes, Meghan Hawkins ...
    This edited volume serves as a place for teachers and scholars to begin seeking ways in which popular culture has been effectively tapped for research and teaching purposes around the country. The contents of the book came together in a way that allowed for a detailed examination of teaching with popular culture on many levels. The first part allows teachers in PreK-12 schools the opportunity to ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD