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  • Inventing the Feeble Mind

    A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

    by James Trent ...
    Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • My Trip to God

    In Your Darkest Hour There is Hope

    by James D. Trent ...
    The unforgettable story of a man who had a life-changing transformation at the age of 40.In this no-holds-barred account, Jamie Trent is totally transparent in describing his self-centered, prideful life of alcohol, drugs, and infidelity.Says the author, “I was at a point where suicide seemed the only way out. Then an amazing miracle took place.” Trent reveals how he escaped from the depths of ... Read more

    $9.36 CAD

  • The Manliest Man

    Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform

    by James W. Trent ...
    A native of Boston and a physician by training, Samuel G. Howe (1801–1876) led a remarkable life. He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. Married to Julia Ward Howe, author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” he counted among his friends ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Make Your Own Damn Movie!

    Secrets of a Renegade Director

    by Lloyd Kaufman, Adam Jahnke, Trent Haaga ...
    Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary- ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism

    Edited by Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, James J. Buckley, Jennifer Newsome Martin, Trent Pomplun ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    Provides a broad and deep survey of Roman Catholic life and thought, updated and expanded throughoutThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism provides an authoritative overview of the history, doctrine, practices, and expansion of Catholicism. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive reference work offers an illuminating account of the global, historical, and cultural ... Read more

    $235.99 CAD

  • Condition or Process? Researching Race in Education

    Edited by Adrienne D. Dixon, Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, Cecilia E. Suarez, William T. Trent, James D. Anderson ...
    The question of why we need to think about how we research race demands a conceptualization of race that captures both its social construction and its temporal evolution. We need both an understanding of race and clarity about how we talk about it in our design and conduct of research, and in how we interpret and apply it in our findings. As a field, we can use research on race and racism in ... Read more

    $33.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phallacies

    Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity

    Edited by Kathleen M. Brian, James W. Trent, Jr. ...
    Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity is a collection of essays that focuses on disabled men who negotiate their masculinity as well as their disability. The chapters cover a broad range of topics: institutional structures that define what it means to be a man with a disability; the place of women in situations where masculinity and disability are constructed; men with ... Read more

    $80.79 CAD

  • Judges, Volume 8

    by Glenn W. Barker, Lynn Allan Losie, Bruce M. Metzger, Ralph P. Martin, Trent C. Butler, James W. Watts, John D. W. Watts, David Allen Hubbard ...
    Series series Word Biblical Commentary
    Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.This commentary series delivers the best in biblical scholarship from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation.It emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence, resulting in judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Jimmy Holland ...
    Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and institutions began. Let down and frequently abused, it wasn't long before Jimmy strayed onto the wrong side of the tracks. Before long, the mould for a ... Read more

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  • Benjamin Franklin

    An American Life

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • So That Happened

    A Memoir

    by Jon Cryer ...
    If it can happen in show business, it’s happened to Jon Cryer. Now he’s opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood.In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwald’s loyal and lovable best friend, Duckie, in the cult classic Pretty in Pink in a role that set the tone for his three ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education

    Edited by Sharan B. Merriam, André P. Grace ...
    THE JOSSEY-BASS READER ON Contemporary Issues in Adult EducationWith contributions from leading experts in the field, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education collects in one volume the best previously published literature on the issues and trends affecting adult education today. The volume includes influential pieces from foundational authors in the profession such as ... Read more

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