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  • Noises After Dark

    Memoirs of a Doctor in East Africa

    by John Tomlinson ...
    “When I went to medical school, I never dreamt, that as a doctor, one day the biggest contribution I would make to people’s health, would be to hand out plastic sheets and blankets under armed guard.”Moved by the devastating media coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia in 1985, John Tomlinson packed his bags to volunteer for the Save the Children Fund with the intent to help rebuild, and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Changing Government of Education

    Edited by Stewart Ranson, John Tomlinson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education Management
    Originally published in 1986. As the keystone of public policy-making and social reform in the post-war period, education has been expected to fuel economic growth, facilitate equality of opportunity, and afford social justice to the deprived. But its vision and objectives are now being questioned in ways which have enormous implications for the management of the service - the traditional balances ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • The Culture of Speed

    The Coming of Immediacy

    by John Tomlinson ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "John Tomlinson′s book is an invitation to an adventure. It contains a precious key to unlock the doors into the unmapped and unexplored cultural and ethical condition of ′immediacy′. Without this key concept from now on it will not be possible to make sense of the social existence of our times and its ambivalences."- Ulrich Beck, University of Munich"A most welcome, stimulating and challenging ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Culture

    by John Tomlinson ...
    Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization.The book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to ... Read more

    Was $31.00 CAD Now $26.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Wagner's Ring Motifs

    by Sven Friedrich, Dr. Gerhart K. Englert ...
    Narrated by Sir John Tomlinson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 32 min

    This release lists the leitmotifs in Wagner's "Ring" and explains what they mean with the help of an expert commentary. The motifs are presented in the order in which they appear in the cycle. Wagner's music will be communicated in a simple and intelligible way, helping listeners to decode and understand the musico-dramatic language of the composers's mythical world. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    "Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?"Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years ... Read more

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  • The Boy At the Back of the Class

    by Onjali Q. Raúf ...
    Illustrated by Pippa Curnick ...
    OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK ALONE!TRANSLATED INTO 20+ LANGUAGESWINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD (UK) 2019WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE (UK) 2019WINNER OF THE SAKURA MEDAL (JAPAN) 2020WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S COWBELL AWARD (SWITZERLAND) 2021WINNER OF THE PRIX JANUSZ KORCZAK PRIZE (FRANCE) 2022THE BOY AT THE BACK OF THE ... ... Read more

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

    $24.75 CAD

  • Refugee Boy

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    by Mr Benjamin Zephaniah ...
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  • The Mistress of Nothing

    by Kate Pullinger ...
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  • The Art of Public Strategy

    Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is ... Read more

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  • Horrible Histories: The Awesome Egyptians

    by Terry Deary ...
    Series series Horrible Histories
    They're not called the Awesome Egyptians for nothing! The foul pharaohs and their suffering slaves got up to all sorts of terrible tricks. Read this book to... * Meet some fabulous pharaohs... and their mummies * Make revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets * Discover which king had the most blackheads * Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards * Learn to become an Ancient Egyptian in 10 ... Read more

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