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  • The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions

    Discover the True Stories Behind the English Language's 64 Most Popular Idioms (Etymology Book, History of Words, Language Reference Book, English Grammar and Idioms, Gift for Readers)

    by James McGuire ...
    Series series Illustrated Histories
    The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language's most common sayings!Nobody thinks twice about sayings like bite the bullet and the cat's out of the bag. But the strange and wonderful origins of these expressions are far from arbitrary: They are rooted in forgotten history. Within this book, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Assassins' Canon

    by Edwin Rydberg, Ken Goldman, Tyson Young, Jonathan Shipley, Douglas A. Van Belle, J. A. Powell, Ron Savage, Peter James McGuire, Suzzanne Myers, S. C. Hayden, Mark Onspaugh, Zachary Thede, Camille Alexa, G. Elmer Munson, Yvonne Pronovost, Michael Amos, Charlotte Bond, Murphy Edwards, Monique Frangi, Christopher Roy Denton, Megan Arkenberg, Karla Cruz, Jason Franks ...
    Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin.Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack.Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Gnomeo & Juliet

    by Molly McGuire Woods ...
    Narrated by James Langton ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 41 min

    Find out how love blooms when red-hatted Juliet meets blue-hatted Gnomeo while their rival families wage war to have the best garden in Stratford-Upon-Avon. This junior novelization is a complete retelling of the new animated movie Gnomeo & Juliet. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forensic Psychology

    Routes through the system

    by James McGuire, Simon Duff ...
    This brand new textbook provides a complete course in forensic psychology, covering the criminal justice system, law and legislation, and treatments and outcomes for offenders. It offers rigorous coverage of the major topics: from theoretical concepts and research methods to explaining criminal acts and patterns of crime. The authors, both from leading institutions and well-known in the field, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Evidence-Based Policing and Community Crime Prevention

    by James McGuire, Emily Evans, Eddie Kane ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book addresses and reviews progress in a major innovative development within police work known as evidence-based policing. It involves a significant extension and strengthening of links between research and practice and is directed to the task of increasing police effectiveness in the field of community crime prevention. This volume provides an international perspective that synthesizes ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Theorizing Visual Studies

    Writing Through the Discipline

    Edited by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, Joel Kuennen ...
    This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Wind in the Grass

    by James C. McGuire ...
    Some of the words within these pages are for music, and not just the poetry. The Wind In The Grass tells of an Elsa, a Jeanne, and mostly, a Barbara. Theyre pages in a book, pushed along by an off -shore wind like the tall grass on the true cape of Hatteras. Theres a boxer in the 30s, a killing hurricane at sea, an imaginary French resistance fighter defending white wine. Theres the Viking, Teymor ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America

    by James W. McGuire ...
    Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Daddy Kathryn and the Transsexual Trilogy

    by James Royce McGuire ...
    Narrated by James Royce McGuire ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 39 min

    This is a father-son coming-of-age story about a transsexual and her son. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Skills in Prison and the Community

    Problem-Solving for Offenders

    by Philip Priestley, James McGuire, David Flegg, Valerie Hemsley, David Welham, Rosemary Barnitt ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners
    ‘Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. Its symptoms are euphoria and anxiety, mixed with irrational thinking; and the unfailing cure of the condition is the cold douche of reality which awaits the victim outside the prison gate. The primary aim of this book, originally published in 1984, is to describe and promote ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Violence Rewired

    Evidence and Strategies for Public Health Action

    by Richard Whittington, James McGuire ...
    This thought-provoking book draws together research from genetics, anthropology, psychology and the social sciences to show that widespread assumptions about the inevitability of human violence are almost entirely a collection of myths. While violence has been a recurring feature of human life, there is no reason to suppose that it is inherent in 'human nature'. On the contrary, patterns of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

    Exploring the Fandemonium

    by Kelly Berg, Jeff Boone, Kathy Brady, David Fingerhut, Walter Gantz, Frederick Grieve, Allison Harthcock, John Heppen, Craig Hyatt, Mark Julien, Jennifer Marmo, Jessi McCabe, Sarah Porri, Greg G. Armfield, Nicholas D. Bowman, Phillip J. Chidester, Matthew J. Gill, Tom E. Isaacson, Ricard W. Jensen, Jason R. Lanter, Pamela Gayle Nadorff, Julie A. Partridge, John S. W. Spinda, Brian S. Titsworth, Amanda J. Visek, Daniel L. Wann, Ryan K. Zapalac, John A. Fortunato, William M. Foster, John P. McGuire, James R. Walker, Katherine L. Lavelle, Roger C. Aden, David E. Beard, Andrew C. Billings, John Harris, Lawrence A. Wenner ...
    Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD