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  • Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader

    An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches

    by M. Degani ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes

    Edited by Dr Marcus Callies, Dr Marta Degani ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes
    This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geographic, socio-historical and cultural settings around the world.In line with the interdisciplinary breadth of this endeavour, the contributions are ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education

    Perspectives of English Studies

    Edited by Marta Degani, Werner Delanoy ...
    Series Book 28 - AAA - Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik
    In one of the contributions to this edited volume an interviewee argues that "English is power". For researchers in the field of English Studies this raises the questions of where the power of English resides and which types and practices of power are implied in the uses of English. Linguists, scholars of literature and culture, and language educators address aspects of these questions in a wide ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manager by Chance

    A Guide to Survival in Business

    by Angela Deganis ...
    Manager by Chance is the survival manual for every manager whose antidote to the complexities of corporate life is a smile. In the midst of revolutionary great resignation, quiet quitting, talent recession, smart working and short weeks, phenomena that reshape the conception of work and mark our time, with humor and sagacity the author tackles corporate dynamics as Sherlock Holmes solves a case, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections Underwater

    A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Coral Reef Wonders

    by Oded Degany ...
    Why are we as humans so attracted to water and to colorful reefs? Indeed, why are reefs so dazzling? How did cleaning station symbiosis evolve? How come there are so many extraordinary defense mechanisms among reef animals? Do the denizens of reefs have consciousness? How did warning coloration evolve? In what ways do fundamental mathematical rules manifest in coral reefs? For answers to these ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • What Came Before

    by Gay Degani ...
    "What Came Before is a remarkable achievement – a smart, fast-paced mystery that asks important questions about identity, family, and race. And, like the best of its genre, it’s loaded with puzzles: What really happened on the day Abbie Palmer’s mother killed herself? Who is the mysterious woman who shows up on Abbie’s doorstep, and why would anyone want her dead? Gay Degani’s prose is at all ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Rattle of Want

    by Gay Degani ...
    Rattle of Want ranges from brilliant brief experiments (such as Abbreviated Glossary and Appendages) to a novella-in-flash (The Old Road) for the canon in that new genre. Altogether these stories mine the wants and desires in the breakups of families, rebellions of youth, and occasional ascents of the spirit. Often they beautifully, and simply, nail a place, as in Small Town (a perfect evocation ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    by Julia Heaberlin ...
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    $15.99 CAD

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  • Imperfect Strangers

    by Mary Frame ...
    Series Book 5 - Imperfect
    She’s looking for a forever kind of guy, he might not live to see tomorrow.Bethany Connell had one goal: keep her cookies in her basket. And by cookies, she means sex. She will not be distracted by a pretty face and rock hard body. Been there, done that (literally), and now it’s time to get serious. This time, she’s wants a grown up relationship. Something steady. Something forever.Aaaand then she ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Leisure Seeker

    A Novel

    by Michael Zadoorian ...
    Now a major film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, a novel "like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed" ( Booklist, starred review).The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Red Book

    by James Patterson, David Ellis ...
    Series Book 2 - A Black Book Thriller
    Detective Billy Harney’s reputation as a dirty cop may be the only thing keeping Chicago clean in this thrilling novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author.For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state’s attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is a normal week on the job. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gwendy's Button Box

    A Novella

    by Stephen King, Richard Chizmar ...
    Series series Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy
    Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock.There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD