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  • Only The Light Moves

    Flying Covert Reconnaissance Missions in the Vietnam War

    by Francis A. Doherty ...
    "Doherty writes from the heart. The descriptions of his missions are nothing less than hair-raising. He describes his struggles with coming to grips with the war and the senseless death of so many young men." — The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation Only the Light Moves tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old US Army pilot who volunteered to fly covert S.O.G., or Studies and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Samuel Beckett

    by Francis Doherty ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Beckett’s work in the light of his concern with literary form. This is seen as an increasingly compressed and dense medium for the purer and purer statement of his view of man’s existence, and Beckett’s Man is seen as the medium for the articulation of a view of the world which is both comically cruel and anti-theological, but not atheist. The ... Read more

    $136.03 CAD

  • The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management

    Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice

    Edited by Francis X. Diebold, Neil A. Doherty, Richard J. Herring ...
    A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk managers, executives, and regulators. This book introduces a more realistic and holistic framework calledKuU- ... Read more

    $126.49 CAD

  • The Market Calls

    A Primer on the Strategy of Writing Covered Calls

    by Edward Francis Doherty ...
    Every investor wants , above all, to make money. The reinvestment of profits is an extremely low risk and yet powerful wealth builder when employed with the power of compounding. With patience and joy one can apply the process of Covered Call Writing which is simply renting out the stock that you own. By reinvesting--- the power of compounding is phenomenal. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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    Top 10 Poets – The Irish, The

    Five poems each from some of the best poets ever born in Ireland

    by W B Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, George William Russell, Thomas Moore, Eva Gore-Booth, Oliver Goldsmith, Katharine Tynan, Francis Ledwidge ...
    Narrated by Sean Barrett, Kelly O'Doherty, Stephen Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

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    Poetry of Francis Ledwidge, The

    by Francis Ledwidge ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hogan, Kelly O'Doherty, Eve Karpf ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education.At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already desperately poor, were forced into work and by 13 the young Ledwidge took whatever job was to hand—from farm hand to road labourer. Throughout this time he applied ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • On Writing (and Writers)

    A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    “While writing about writing is often deadly, Lewis is as delightful as he is wise.” —The New York TimesA definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Mere Christianity, The ... Read more

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  • How to Read Literature

    by Terry Eagleton, Terry ...
    A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasureWhat makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing ... Read more

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  • Molloy

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Molloy is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s which included the companion novels Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human, begets a parallel tale of the spinsterish Moran, a private detective sent in search of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

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  • An Experiment in Criticism

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that "good reading," like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the ... Read more

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    by Samuel Beckett ...
    The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation.I can't go on, I'll go on.Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him.Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in ... Read more

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