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  • Among the Walking Wounded

    Soldiers, Survival, and PTSD

    by John Conrad ...
    A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many, wars go on long after the last shot is fired.In the shadows of army life is a world where friends become monsters, where kindness twists into assault, and where self-loathing and despair become constant companions. Whether you know it by old names like “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” post-traumatic stress ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Our Dry Cellar

    Lessons in Military Logistics from the Afghanistan War

    by John Conrad ...
    Timeless insights into military logistics sprang out of the hardships and sacrifices of Canadians who fought in Afghanistan.Good battlefield logistics have always been more about people than things. Yet military logisticians in the Canadian Armed Forces have suffered in the cellar — the underappreciated bottom of the institution — for decades. These soldiers were called upon mightily in the summer ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Innocents of the Earth

    by John Conrad ...
    The beliefs and faith of a young priest and professor at American University, Father William Evers, are threatened upon learning the truth of his own sister's abortion and the news of her devastating suicide.In an effort to help the young cleric cope with his grief and meet the test of his faith, his mentor recommends him for an assignment as the Vatican's representative to investigate the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Heart of Darkness

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Narrated by John Murphy ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Priest And His Disciples Shaw Translation (Unabridged)

    by HYAKUZŌ KURATA ...
    Narrated by John Conrad ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    At the age of twenty-six , the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" . This stage play is based on the life and teachings of the 13th century Buddhist priest Shinran and quickly became immensely popular. Shinran, the historical founder of the True Pure Land School of Buddhism , encounters the poor family of Hino ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • What the Thunder Said

    Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns

    An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • In Bloom

    by Michael W. Conrad ...
    Series series In Bloom
    43% of the cells within a healthy human body belong to something other than the human host. Microbiomes, invasive bacteria, fungal and viral agents, and something else, something... more.When the BLOOM happened, humanity was changed forever, transformed by symbiotic fungal megasystems that infected their bodies.Some affected people grew new body parts, some found their personalities changed in ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out

    by Jeff Conrad, John L. Viescas ...
    Series series Inside Out
    You’re beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put your database skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Access 2007—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery!Create tables that support your database design strategyImport and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Victory

    An Island Tale

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Secret Agent

    A Simple Tale

    by Joseph Conrad, John Lyon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'A Simple ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Secret Agent: Ultimate Spy Collection (77 Books in One Volume)

    by E. Philips Oppenheim, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, Erskine Childers, Joseph Conrad, William Le Queux, Fred M. White, Robert W. Chambers, Talbot Mundy, James Fenimore Cooper, John R. Coryell, George Barton, Robert Baden-Powell ...
    The 'Secret Agent: Ultimate Spy Collection' brings together 77 seminal works from the annals of espionage literature. Curated to showcase a wide variety of approaches to spy fiction, the anthology spans robust adventure narratives, psychological thrillers, and strategic wartime espionage from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Its pages house a plethora of storytelling forms, ranging from the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus