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    Inventions - A Short Story Collection

    Stories about technology and progress, whatever the cost

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Ethel Dell, Herbert C Ridout, Winifred Holt, Edward Page Mitchell, Frank R Stockton, Robert Duncan Milne, Bernard Capes ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Happy Half-Hours

    Selected Writings

    by A. A. Milne ...
    A delightful selection of articles by the ever-popular A. A. Milne, many of which haven't been in print for decades. Introduced by the prize-winning children's author Frank Cottrell Boyce, this volume brings Milne's brilliant non-fiction back to the spotlight.A. A. Milne was a successful writer long before the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories made him famous. Milne had a talent for regularly ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • 3 Stories About New Inventions

    by Robert Duncan Milne, Bernard Capes, Frank R Stockton ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

    $6.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    3 Stories About New Inventions

    A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

    by Robert Duncan Milne, Bernard Capes, Frank R Stockton ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Preparing for Pandemics

    Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19

    by David Longworth, Frank Milne ...
    In far too many cases, recommendations of forensic reports on previous pandemics were ignored. Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public health authorities and governments increased the health and economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if pre-existing recommendations had been followed and a wider set of plans had been put into place. We discuss ... Read more

    $68.19 CAD

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  • A journey to the centre of the Earth

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  • Neglected No More

    The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic

    by Andre Picard ...
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    $12.99 CAD

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    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Better Bible Bureau ...
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  • A Study in Scarlet

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
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    Introduction by Anne PerryIncludes newly commissioned endnotesIn 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, creating an international icon in the quick-witted sleuth Sherlock Holmes. In this very first Holmes mystery, the detective introduces himself to Dr. John H. Watson with the puzzling line “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive,” and so begins Watson’s, and the world’s, ... Read more

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  • Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance

    by Jean Jacques du Plessis, Anil Hargovan, Jason Harris ...
    Now in its fourth edition, Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance offers comprehensive coverage of the key topics and emerging themes in private sector corporate governance. It explains both the principles of corporate governance systems and their real-world application in an authoritative and engaging manner. This fully revised and updated text has four parts: basic concepts, board ... Read more

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