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  • The Black Baptist Experience in Canada

    Edited by Gordon L. Heath, Dudley A. Brown ...
    Series Book 19 - McMaster General Studies Series
    This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important personages such as ... Read more

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  • Beside the Ocean of Time

    by George Mackay Brown, George Mackay-Brown ...
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its echoes sound on unforgettably. A whole universe is created from a grain of Orkney sand' Independent< ... Read more

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  • Greenvoe

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander's way of life.George Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the repercussions of Operation Black Star in a masterful mix of prose and poetry from one of Scotland's greatest ... Read more

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  • Magnus

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    This profound and poetic novel has been described as George Mackay Brown's most innovative work. He recounts the tale of the murder of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century and links it to the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian imprisoned and executed by the Nazis during World War Two. A fascinating meditation on the eternal questions of guilt, goodness and sacrifice from one of ... Read more

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  • Assessing Student Learning in Higher Education

    by George A Brown, Joanna Bull, Malcolm Pendlebury ...
    There is no doubt about the importance of assessment: it defines what students regard as important, how they spend their time and how they come to see themselves - it is a necessary part of helping them to learn. This text provides background research on different aspects of assessment. Its purpose is to help lecturers to refresh their approach to the assessment of student learning. It explores ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

    The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

    by Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Charles W. Eliot, William A. Neilson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Gottfried Keller, Guy de Maupassant, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...
    The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & ... Read more

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  • Bede

    Part 1, Fascicles 1-4

    by George Brown, Fred Biggs ...
    Series Book 1 - Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture
    Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE. This volume presents four texts, or fascicles, dedicated to the Venerable Bede (d. 735), theologian and author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Articles provide a wealth of information on Bede through manuscript evidence, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

    Enriched edition. Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Travel Sketches, Letters, Autobiographical Writings, Biographies & Criticism

    by Charles Dickens, Colton Marsh6 ...
    In 'The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)', readers are treated to a comprehensive collection of the author's beloved novels, short stories, and sketches, all accompanied by stunning illustrations. Dickens' signature style of social commentary, vivid characters, and intricate plots are on full display, showcasing his mastery of storytelling during the Victorian era. From the timeless ... Read more

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  • Following A Lark

    by George Mackay Brown, George Mackay-Brow ...
    A country boy creeps unwillingly to school on a lark-filled summer morning. Norse crusaders, preparing to sail on Earl Rognvald's crusade in 1151 break into the burial chamber at Maeshowe seeking treasure, and cut runes in its massive stones. And the famous Iceland poet Thorbjorn leaves his farm to join the group of poets whose lyrics stud like gems that famous pilgrimage. The ancient northern ... Read more

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  • Prospector's Guide: Victoria

    by George Brown ...
    In 1931 Australia was in the grip of the Depression when Ion Idriess wrote to all the State and Territory Mining heads regarding his guide Prospecting for Gold, encouraging them to produce localised information to help create work and wealth. The public success of his book pushed several States to create their our guides with more details on their own State facilities and results.This book was ... Read more

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  • Six Lives of Fankle the Cat

    by George Mackay Brown ...
    Series series Classic Kelpies
    When the shopkeeper gives Jenny a skinny, black kitten she has no idea who she has adopted. Fankle is no ordinary cat. The fiercely clever feline has lived six lives so far: lives of adventure, danger, fortune and poverty. He's stared down angry pirates, started a blood feud, won a war, advised an empress and leapt onto the moon. Fankle tells Jenny tales of his former lives -- with the king of ... Read more

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  • 101 Science Fiction Short Stories

    by Bruce McAllister, Julian F. Grow, Algis Budrys, Donald Dale, Keith Laumer, Frank Banta, Clifford Simak, Andrew Fetler, Allen Kim Lang, David Mason, Albert Teichn, Kris Neville, Albert Teichner, William Harris, Fritz Leiber, Robert Lory, Frederick Pohl, Gary Wright, Jim Harmon, Vance Aandahl, Bryce Walton, Robert Scott, C.C. MacApp, Charles V. De Vet, Richard Sheridan, James Stame, R.A. Lafferty, Stephen Barr, Donald E. Westlake, Charles Minor Blackford, Jack Sharkey, H.B. Fyfe, Lester Del Rey, William W. Stuart, Robert F. Young, Sylvia Jacobs, Max Williams, James Stamers, Robert Wicks, Christopher Anv, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Scott F. Grenville, Hayden Howard, Art Lewis, Joseph Wesley, Bascom Jones, E. Mittlema, Philip Jose Farmer, James Bell, Arnold Castle, A.M. Lightner, Charles Fontenay, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Harrison, Ron Goulart, Bob Farnham, Mack Reynolds, Jerry Sohl, Miriam Allen DeFord, Rosel George Brown, F.L. Wallace, Theodore L. Thomas, H. Beam Piper, Andre Norton, Frank Herbert, Don Berry, Sol Boren, Poul Anderson, Randall Garrett, Ben Bova ...
    «101 Science Fiction Short Stories», by Bruce McAllister, Julian F. Grow, Algis Budrys, Donald Dale, Keith Laumer, Frank Banta. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: 1. The faces Outside - Bruce McAllister ; 2. Countdown - Julian F. Grow ; 3. Die, Shadow - Algis Budrys ; 4. Another Earth - David Evens & Al Landau ; 5. The ... Read more

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