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  • Beating the Dow Completely Revised and Updated

    A High-Return, Low-Risk Method for Investing in the Dow Jones Industrial Stocks with as Little as $5,000

    by John Downes, Michael B. O'Higgins ...

    $11.99 CAD

  • Rebel with a Cause

    The Biography of Glen Cloninger

    by John R. Downes ...
    A Spokane architect's ever-constant struggles with the Establishment, lawyers, bureaucrats, politicians, educators, activists, and myriad others, exhibits his bulldog nature, talent, and vision of the future he needed to weather the storms and overcome. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Isle of Wight

    Landscape and Geology

    by John Downes ...
    The Isle of Wight is a geological gem with its 110km (68 mile) long coastline displaying a range of rocks dating from Lower Cretaceous to Oligocene age. Many of the sands and clays yield fossil bivalves and gastropods, and its famous dinosaur footprints attract much attention from geologists and tourists alike. Yet the scenic beauty of the island is the product of its differing strata, former ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Blackjack List

    by John R. Downes ...
    Thirteen million dollars remain buried from a Spokane bank heist ten years earlier. Only one of the five robbers was captured. The day hes released from prison, he hurries to a rendezvous with another at Becky Allisons blackjack table, where the two exchange the coded whereabouts of other gang members and two of five clues necessary to locate the cache. Sensing theyve been followed, both head for ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Enchanted Pipe

    by John R. Downes ...
    Following the English colonists arrival to Americas shores, Indian tribes strived to achieve peace and coexistence with themand simultaneously retain their homelands, hunting grounds, native culture, and religion. Those early colonists were followed by thousands more, then millions, who advanced the frontier from New England steadily westward across the central plains and Rockies to the Pacific. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Sourdough Loaf

    A Comprehensive Guide to Great Sourdough by Australia's Original Artisan Baker

    by John Downes ...
    Sourdough is the original, the most delicious and the most nutritious bread, and John Downes is Australia's original traditional sourdough baker. In the Sourdough Loaf, John shares the techniques, recipes and insights, gained from over 40 years of artisan sourdough baking. He provides readers of all proficiency levels with a low fuss, step by step approach to baking great sourdough, with tips on ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Dissonant Spies

    A Novel

    by John R. Downes ...
    One of WWIIs most successful weapons was the Norden bombsight. Nazis coveted them the most from downed US bombers. American flyboys were taught to destroy the bombsights with thermal grenades, which caused them to melt into a molten mass rather than let them fall into enemy hands. When Hitler learns that an improved version would undergo testing on a B-17 by Honeywell Corporation in Minnesota, he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Scene Menagerie

    by John Downes ...
    The Scene Menagerie contains an assortment of fiction scenes and episodes from the novels and short stories of one author, John R. Downes, plus a few excerpts from his nonfictions thrown into the mix. What a range of subjects! War, the Great Depression, Custers Last Stand, FBI, orphans, espionage, US history, gunfighters, bank robbers, Adbiz, growing up, mass merchandising, bad guys, dreams, Royal ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Two Came Running

    The War Hero’S Children

    by John R. Downes ...
    Two Came Running is a depiction of heroism, talent, and geniusall embodied in one family. A war heros prodigious son and daughter cope with multiple tragedies in their youth but rise to prominence on the world scene. Separately they perform vital roles in the struggle against the twentieth century's greatest menace.Commencing in Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twenties and the Great ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Tales from Downes Town

    by John R. Downes ...
    The Accidental Candidate -- A janitor doesn't need to campaign with friends like this. Overheard At a Coffee Shop -- Farfetched, yet oddly believable-or not. Conversation On an Airplane -- A marble champion solves the National Debt. Ocean Mist -- Do clients follow a trusted adviser who opts for a career change? Custer's Witness -- Crow Indian Ashishishe was his scout at the Little Big Horn. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Futures of Old Age

    Edited by Chris Phillipson, Murna Downs, John A Vincent ...
    What is the future of old age? How will families, services, and economies adapt to an older population? Such questions often provoke extreme and opposing answers: some see ageing populations as having the potential to undermine economic growth and prosperity; others see new and exciting ways of living in old age. The Futures of Old Age places these questions in the context of social and political ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

  • Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades

    A Guide for Classroom Teachers and School Leaders

    by Penny A. Bishop, John M. Downes, Katy Farber ...
    Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades shows how teachers in grades 5–8 can leverage the use of personalized learning plans (PLPs) to increase student agency and engagement, helping youth to establish learning goals aligned with their interests and assess their own learning—particularly around essential skills that cut across disciplines.Drawing on their research and work with fifty schools in ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD