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  • The Roosevelt I Knew

    by Frances Perkins ...
    A vivid and intimate portrait of the New Deal president by the first woman ever appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.When Frances Perkins first met Franklin D. Roosevelt at a dance in 1910, she was a young social worker and he was an attractive young man making a modest debut in state politics. Over the next thirty-five years, she watched his career unfold, becoming both a close family friend and a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Magical Time

    The Early Days of the Arts at Simon Fraser University

    by Frances Atkinson, Tessa Perkins Deneault, Carole Gerson, Christine Hearn, Bill Jeffries, Francis Mansbridge, Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp, Sandy Wilson, Max Wyman, Ann Cowan ...
    Simon Fraser University went from an idea in 1963 to opening its doors in 1965, a feat that led it to be dubbed “the instant university.” This multi-authored history chronicles the excitement of that first radical decade of the arts at SFU.The 1960s were famously a decade of cultural revolution, and Simon Fraser University was a creature of its time. The counter-culture spirit infected all levels ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Have the Power

    Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear

    by Frances Moore Lappe, Jeffrey Perkins ...
    Frances Moore Lappé-author of the million-selling Diet for a Small Planet-and Jeffrey Perkins offer the radical notion that our fears can be a source of energy to create the lives and the world we want.Now more than ever, it seems, our lives and the lives of our loved ones are at risk. Our normal response is to retreat. But what if fear were not a negative force but a positive one-a source of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Strategic Environmental Performance

    Obtaining and Sustaining Compliance

    by Frances Alston, Brian K. Perkins ...
    Series series Sustainable Improvements in Environment Safety and Health
    Protecting our environment has never been more important than it is today in the wake of climate change and the ever-increasing demand on natural resources due to the expanding world population. Environmental protection has been increasingly discussed by concerned citizen groups and politicians in the wake of unexpected environmental disasters that have occurred in recent years. The need to ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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    Sir Lenny Henry: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    Four Full-Cast Plays & Lenny Henry’s Rogues Gallery

    by Lenny Henry ...
    Narrated by Lenny Henry, Frances Barber, Nadine Marshall, Clare Perkins, George Fouracres, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 59 min

    A quartet of original radio plays and nine darkly comic tales by Sir Lenny HenrySir Lenny Henry has had a long and successful career as a comedian, impressionist, actor and presenter. Having starred in several plays in the West End and on radio, he was inspired to complete an MA in screenwriting and in 2011 penned his first radio drama, Corrinne Come Back and Gone, which opens this collection. He ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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    Essence of Evil – Tales of Curses, Necromancy, Dark Magic & More

    Over 27 hours delving into literatures darkest depths

    by A J Alan, A M Burrage, Aleister Crowley, Anatole France, Anthony Hope, Arthur Machen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D K Broster, Edith Nesbit, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Ernst Raupach, F Marion Crawford, H D Everett, H P Lovecraft, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Helen Simpson, Helena Blavatsky, John Davys Beresford, Joseph Conrad, Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard, M R James, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Nikolai Gogol, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, Victor Hugo, Violet Hunt, Violet Mary Firth writng as Dion Fortune, W F Harvey, W W Jacobs, Wilkie Collins, William Hope Hodgson, William Hunt ...
    Narrated by Garrick Hogan, Lisa Bowerman, Richard Mitchley ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 56 min

    Pure Evil is one of our greatest fears. No appeals to reason, no pleas of mercy or forgiveness will have the slightest impact on the mind of the oppressor. But in this volume our authors are rather more spiteful that we could at first imagine. Here they blight the lives of characters with Curses, Necromancy, Dark Magic and other assorted ghouls that care little about the fate of you or I.1 - ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Series series History of Canada
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  • Peter Gzowski

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