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  • Duel in the Sun

    Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

    by John Brant ...
    The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, exacting such an enormous toll that neither man ever ran as well again. Beardsley, the most innocent of men, descended into ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The Boy Who Runs

    The Odyssey of Julius Achon

    by John Brant ...
    In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.“Julius can’t remember who first saw the men. He heard no warning sounds—no dog barking or twig snapping. Until ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 14 Minutes

    A Running Legend's Life and Death and Life

    by Alberto Salazar, John Brant ...
    In 2007, after collapsing on a practice field at the Nike campus, champion marathoner Alberto Salazar's heart stopped beating for 14 minutes. Over the crucial moments that followed, rescuers administered CPR to feed oxygen to his brain and EMTs shocked his heart eight times with defibrillator paddles. He was clinically dead. But miraculously, Salazar was back at the Nike campus coaching his ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • My Marathon

    Reflections on a Gold Medal Life

    by Frank Shorter, John Brant ...
    My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life is a revealing memoir by Frank Shorter, the father of American distance running. After winning the 1969 NCAA title in the 10,000 meters during his senior year at Yale, Shorter went on to win a staggering 24 national titles on track, road, and cross-country courses, but it was in the marathon that Shorter achieved his greatest fame and recognition.At ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

    Improving the Design of Existing Code

    by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts ...
    Series series Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
    As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software system ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • A Catholic Introduction to the Bible

    The Old Testament

    by John Bergsma, Brant Pitre ...
    Although many Catholics are familiar with the four Gospels and other writings of the New Testament, for most, reading the Old Testament is like walking into a foreign land. Who wrote these forty-six books? When were they written? Why were they written? What are we to make of their laws, stories, histories, and prophecies? Should the Old Testament be read by itself or in light of the New Testament ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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    The Boy Who Runs

    The Odyssey of Julius Achon

    by John Brant ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.“Julius can’t remember who first saw the men. He heard no warning sounds—no dog barking or twig snapping. Until ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Faith, Life, and Learning Online

    Promoting Mission Across Learning Modalities

    Edited by Brant M. Himes, John W. Washatka ...
    Faith, Life, and Learning Online is an invitation for faith-based institutions to take bold steps toward integrating a holistic mission of spiritual formation into the online learning environment. For Christian higher education, faith integration is a matter of mission, not modality. Regardless of whether learning happens in the traditional classroom, through hybrid models, or exclusively online, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills

    Edited by John O. Greene, Brant R. Burleson ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Providing a thorough review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill enhancement, this Handbook serves as a comprehensive and contemporary survey of theory and research on social interaction skills. Editors John O. Greene and Brant R. Burleson have brought together preeminent researchers and writers to contribute to this volume, establishing a foundation on which future study and ... Read more

    $261.99 CAD

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  • Why We Run

    A Natural History

    by Bernd Heinrich ...
    “Each new page [is] more spellbinding than the one before—this is surely one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read.”—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of DogsWhen Bernd Heinrich decided to write a memoir of his ultramarathon running experience he realized that the preparation for the race was as important, if not more so, than the race itself. Considering the physiology ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pre

    The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine

    by Tom Jordan ...
    The story of America's greatest running legend.For five years, no American runner could beat him at any distance over a mile. But at the age of 24, with his best years still ahead, long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine finally lost. Driving alone at night after a party, Prefontaine crashed his sports car, putting a tragic, shocking end to the life and career of one of the most influential, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Marathon Man

    My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World

    by Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin ...
    The legendary long-distance runner details his historic victory in the 1975 Boston Marathon that launched the modern running boomWithin a span of two hours and nine minutes, Bill Rodgers went from obscurity to legend, from Bill Rodgers to "Boston Billy." In doing so, he instantly became the people's champ and the poster boy for the soulful 1970s distance runner. Having won the Boston Marathon and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD