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  • Paradise Lost

    by John Milton ...
    'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Fair Game?

    Tackling Politics in Sport

    by John Leonard ...
    Sports have their own controversies: fights over tactics, disputes over refereeing calls, the specter of drugs and cheats. Then there are those with dark political overtones. Foul! Tackling Politics and Sport takes a look at controversial moments when sport and politics have collided during the past century, some tragic, others plain sinister, a few bizarre; all the subject of hot dispute. Ranging ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tony Waddington

    Director of a Working Man's Ballet

    by John Leonard ...
    Waddington, Director of a Working Man's Ballet is a biography of the former Stoke City manager, Tony Waddington, one of the most underrated figures in 1960s and 1970s football. It charts how a man with the appearance of an urbane bank manager belied the stereotype of the hard-nosed football manager as he turned around the fortunes of an ailing club on the brink of going out of business. Instead, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Always Eat When You Are Hungry

    by Leonard John ...
    He thought he was free. But a ruthless conspiracy is about to drag him back into a deadly game of survival... Tommy Baker returns home to find his father beaten within an inch of his life. The streets of South London are alive with danger - IRA fundraisers, ruthless killers, and MI5 agents with hidden agendas. Caught between dangerous forces, Tommy must escape before it's too late.This is more ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Puncher and Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry

    Edited by John Leonard ...
    will benefit it is attentive and brilliant readers, of whom John Leonard is without doubt one of its finest. - Martin Harrison Australian poetry from a 21st century perspective, with a selection from a wide range of living poets as well as familiar voices from the past. There is an emphasis on social observation and personal experience of Australia's changing history that gives new context to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Poems

    by John Milton ...
    John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His early poems include the devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', 'Comus', a masque, and the pastoral elegy 'Lycidas'. After Cromwell's death and the dashing of Milton's political hopes, he began composing Paradise Lost, which reflects his profound understanding ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Reading for My Life

    Writings, 1958-2008

    by John Leonard ...
    Right up until his death in 2008, John Leonard was a lion in American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. He reviewed the most celebrated writers of his age—from Kurt Vonnegut and Joan Didion to Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon. He championed Morrison’s work so ardently that she invited him to travel with her to Stockholm ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare in Virginia

    by John Leonard ...
    In February 1616, William Shakespeare finds himself on the brink of financial ruin and trapped in an unhappy marriage. Desperate for a way out, he agrees to resume his clandestine work for the English secret service. His mission: to report on the Virginia Company and their activities in the Virginia Colony. To maintain his cover, Shakespeare must fake his own death and assume a new identity. As he ... Read more

    $6.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hook's Tale

    Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself

    by John Leonard Pielmeier ...
    A rollicking debut novel from award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier reimagines the childhood of the much-maligned Captain Hook: his quest for buried treasure, his friendship with Peter Pan, and the story behind the swashbuckling world of Neverland.Long defamed as a vicious pirate, Captain James Cook (a.k.a. Hook) was in fact a dazzling wordsmith who left behind a vibrant, wildly ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Dub Sub Confidential

    A Goalkeeper's Life with – and without – the Dubs

    by John Leonard ...
    Dub Sub Confidential by John Leonard: a GAA memoir like no other.WINNER OF THE SETANTA SPORTS IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.John Leonard was a gifted Gaelic football goalkeeper who had the misfortune to reach his prime at the same time, and in the same county, as one of the all-time greats: Stephen Cluxton. Unless something happened to Clucko, Leonard was always going to be number 2. Of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Oil, Institutions and Sustainability in MENA

    A Radical Approach through the Empowerment of Citizens

    by Mohammed Akacem, Dennis Dixon Miller, John Leonard Faulkner ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the factors that have led to the lackluster economic performance of the oil MENA region, despite the wealth of its vast natural resource. It offers a radical policy recommendation as a way out. Using data from a wide variety of sources, it analyzes the major problems that confront the governments of the MENA region, and make the case why the status quo is unsustainable.Recently ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry

    by John Leonard, Barry Lygo, Garry Procter ...
    Any research that uses new organic chemicals, or ones that are not commercially available, will at some time require the synthesis of such compounds. Therefore, organic synthesis is important in many areas of both applied and academic research, from chemistry to biology, biochemistry, and materials science. The third edition of a bestseller, Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry is a guide that ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD