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  • Reconciling

    A Lifelong Struggle to Belong

    by Larry Grant, Scott Steedman ...
    “Larry Grant’s life is a model of what it means to rise above hardship, transcend preconceived notions, and live life in a good way. I’ve had the honour of meeting him, but this book makes me feel as if I know him. And that is a profound gift.” — Shelagh Rogers, Honorary Witness, Truth and Reconciliation Commission; broadcast journalist, CBC RadioA personal and historical story of identity, place, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Reconciling

    A Lifelong Struggle to Belong

    by Larry Grant, Scott Steedman ...
    Narrated by Kaipo Schwab ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    It's taken most of Larry Grant's long life for his extraordinary heritage to be appreciated. He was born in a hop field outside Vancouver in 1936, the son of a Musqueam cultural leader and an immigrant from a village in Guangdong, China. In 1940, when the Indian agent discovered that their mother had married a non-status man, Larry and his two siblings were stripped of their status. With one ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The YMCA at War

    Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars

    by Jeffrey C. Copeland, Yan Xu, Joel R. Bius, Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre, Larry A. Grant, John J. Maker, John Moremon, Kristin Mulready-Stone, Erika Cornelius Smith0, Kenneth A. Steuer1, Edward C. Woodfin2 ...
    The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Click On Democracy

    The Internet's Power To Change Political Apathy Into Civic Action

    by Grant Reeher, Steve Davis, Larry Elin ...
    Click on Democracy examines the first national election in which the Internet played a major role. The contributors argue that the Internet's most profound political impact on Election 2000 has largely been missed or underestimated. The reason: the difference it made was more social than electoral, more about building political communities than about generating votes and money. The contributors to ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Caissons Go Rolling Along

    A Memoir of America in Post-World War I Germany

    by Johnson Hagood ...
    An engrossing portrait of war-torn Europe written by one of South Carolina's most distinguished military officers of the last century.Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century. An artillerist and a scholar of military science, Hagood became a noted expert in logistics and served as the chief of staff of the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers

    Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics

    by James C. Edwards, Larry R. Churchill, James Lindemann Nelson, Grant Gillett ...
    Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay particular attention to Wittgenstein’s concern with the thick context of moral ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The British Barbarians (Unabridged)

    by Grant ALLEN ...
    Narrated by Larry Osborne ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has some unconventional concepts about society, and as the story unfolds, his beliefs and actions cause much disruption in the family and the neighbourhood ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Listen, Liberal

    Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

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    A SCATHING LOOK AT THE STANDARD-BEARERS OF LIBERAL POLITICS—A BOOK THAT ASKS: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH DEMOCRATS?“Thoroughly entertaining . . . Frank delights in skewering the sacred cows of coastal liberalism. . . . A serious political critique.”—The New York Times Book Review (front page)Now with a new afterword, The New York Times bestselling author Thomas Frank’s powerful analysis offers the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Guns of August

    The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—NewsweekSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: ... Read more

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  • Lakeland

    Journeys into the Soul of Canada

    by Allan Casey ...
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    The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

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    $15.99 CAD

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