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  • Organizational Management

    Approaches and Solutions

    Organizational Management is ideal for readers who need to understand modern organizations. This book enables students to understand the key issues of organizational behaviour and how to take a critical approach when planning, leading and engaging a workforce and its resources. The book provides fresh perspectives on known models and critical theories on leadership, teams, performance management, ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Red Skies

    10 Essential Conversations Exploring our Future as the Church

    When it is evening, you say, "It will be fair weather, for the sky is red." And in the morning, "It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening." You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.MATTHEW 16:2-3Our world is changing faster than ever. Digital culture is rapidly accelerating, climate change threatens the future of our ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Devil's Done Come Back

    New Ghost Tales from North Carolina

    Fifteen of North Carolina’s finest writers reimagine and reclaim the stories of the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.North Carolina ain’t what it once was: forests and fields have given way to suburbs and vacation homes, textile mills to high tech, tobacco farms to tourism. That doesn’t mean, though, that the ghosts of the Old North State have gone away.In this anthology, readers ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakfast with Socrates

    An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

    What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Sci-Fi Stories - More Future Earth

    More stories for our future - with less tech, probably, but still life on our planet. Post-apocalypse, dystopia, last men and women usually struggling to survive. Bookstores as treasure troves or abandoned places, factories and cities in various states of disrepair, locations from North America to Europe to Japan, all over our beautiful planet.The Book Store by Jason A. AdamsThe Last Books of Nara ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Julian's Gods

    Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and Action of Julian the Apostate

    Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian.Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of `the last pagan Emperor' by examining a wide variety of his own writings. The surviving speeches and treatises, satires and letters offer a rare insight into the ... Read more

    Was $111.30 CAD Now $98.93 CAD

  • Confidence

    God may be dead, but getting through finals will take a miracleStarter for Ten meets Essays in Love in a funny, thought-provoking philosophical novel about the power – and the dangers – of confidenceThe nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that whatever does not kill us makes us stronger. Nietzsche was obviously never forced to down an entire jar of stilton by a six-foot, ... Read more

    $21.79 CAD

  • The Reality Test

    Still relying on strategy?

    How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.More helpful are these practical questions ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • Fantasy Portals

    Whether you're sucked in, you fall into it or you see it and decide to explore what's beyond, a portal is always an opening to a great adventure. From our world to others, alone or in good company, our heroes and heroines reach "somewhere" down the rabbit hole and meet strange creatures. Sometimes those creatures are the protagonists and help humans. Sometimes the other world is not as shiny as it ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Driving with Plato

    The Meaning of Life's Milestones

    Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let history’s greatest minds illuminate life’s turning points.In Breakfast with Socrates, Robert Rowland Smith brought the power of philosophy down to earth by proving, in a very engaging and entertaining way, that human moments meet big ideas on a regular ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • On Modern Poetry

    From Theory to Total Criticism

    All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line, 'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.Drawing on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to get beyond the opposition between them, proposing instead a 'total criticism' that draws ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Creativity Matters: Find Your Passion For Writing

    Writing Matters

    Series series Writing Matters
    Have you always thought about writing a book but don't know where to start? Are you an experienced author and want to spread your wings? Are you looking for inspiration for every step in your writing journey? This is a book for everyone who wants to write, whether history or contemporary, science fiction or humour, local fiction or set in a made-up world, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, there's ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus