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  • Mermaids and Ikons

    A Greek Summer

    Award-winning poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen explores her strongly personal responses to the landscape, culture, and people of Greece in this exquisitely written travel diary, which was originally published in 1978.Originally published in 1978, beloved poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen’s first work of nonfiction explores her strongly personal responses to a complex civilization. Partly ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trojan Women

    Series series Exile Classics series
    With a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabulary that gives the sense that the play was written with an appreciation of and application to the 20th and 21st centuries, this adaptation goes beyond the timeless plot of the consequences of war and the fate of both ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burning Origin

    Translated by Octavian MacEwen ...
    A searing story of identity, ambition, and the cost of leaving home, from one of Italy’s most vital contemporary voicesGabriele left Rome to reinvent himself. He traded the working-class streets of his childhood for the sleek design studios of Milan, where he’s built a successful career and a new life—one carefully distanced from the neighborhood he came from.But when he returns home for a family ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Hank Williams

    The Biography

    A "deftly written and ably researched" biography of the country music pioneer and the book that inspired the Tom Hiddleston film I Saw the Light ( Newsweek )."Our best look yet into Williams's pained, piercing eyes. . . . Escott has peeled away the layers of legend." — Philadelphia InquirerIn his brief life, Hank Williams create... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Acetabular Dysplasia

    Skeletal Dysplasias in Childhood

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Readers of the first volume of Progress in Orthopaedic Surgery may remember the introductory remarks of Drs. Wagner and Hungerford. It is the intention of the editors of this publication to familiarize English - speaking orthopaedists with articles published in the European literature which, because of language barriers, would otherwise be inaccessible to them. Most articles in this second volume ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Merchant Marine Officers' Handbook

    The classic manual covering all aspects of seafaring operations for professional mariners and aspiring sailors.Merchant Marine Officers' Handbook, first issued in 1942, is designed to be used as a textbook or a study guide for the "hawsepiper" —an unlicensed merchant seaman. The twenty-five chapters contain information on electronics, celestial navigation, rules of the road, engineering, etc., ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Saw the Light

    The Story of Hank Williams

    The biography of the iconic American country music singer-songwriter that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light ."Fast and interesting reading. . . . An impressive book. . . . Probably the definitive word on Hank William's life." — Boston GlobeIn his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' He... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Share the Wealth!

    How we can tax Canada’s super-rich and create a better country for everyone

    Canada is a rich country getting richer. But over the past 20 years, a huge portion of the country’s wealth increase has gone to a small handful of the super-rich. Canada’s one per cent have seen their share of Canada’s wealth grow by almost six times since 1999 to $2,203,000,000,000 USD today. Meanwhile, half of all Canadian families experience income insecurity and can’t get the support they ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • National Parks: Conservation or Cosmetics?

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The national parks of England and Wales are a vital part of the environmental resources of Britain. Originally published in 1982 and drawing on considerable practical and research experience, the authors present a cogent, authoritative and radical challenge to the established thinking about these cherished parts of the landscape. The first part of the book provides an historical account of the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Greenprints for the Countryside?

    The Story of Britain's National Parks

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1987, this book rejects the ‘pay through the nose’ approach to conservation enshrined in the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and demonstrates the need to strengthen and extend the national parks system to enable more people to enjoy open country. The authors believe that countryside conservation depends on reversing the trends that are intensifying the exploitation of land ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Fear Inside

    The Fear Inside, #1

    Series Book 1 - The Fear Inside
    Monday: Acrophobia.Tuesday: Arachnophobia.Wednesday: Agoraphobia.For Clara Clark, fear runs on a schedule.After losing a year of her life to a "treatment" she can't remember, Clara begins waking up with a different, debilitating phobia every single day. As she fights to function in a city that turns into a minefield of triggers, she discovers that her panic attacks are actually bread... ... Read more

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  • Divisions and Solidarities

    Gender, Class and Employment in Latin America

    Traditionally, class analysis has exaggerated the role of economic differentiation, particularly that of the informal economy, and has underestimated the degree of common consciousness amongst the `labouring class'. In Divisions and Solidarities, Alison MacEwen Scott examines class analysis and the inter-relationship between gender and class which creates a shared interest between men and women in ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD