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  • Misplaced Memories in Moments of Being

    by Michael Buxton ...
    Misplaced Memories in Moments of Being is a haunting tapestry of linked short stories tracing the rise and unravelling of the suburban dream in the search for a modern paradise. Spanning post-war Melbourne to the dawn of the 21st century, it follows the lives of ordinary people seeking purpose while tossed by random forces as they chase their own ideals – only to find that paradise, once built, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Future of the Fringe

    The Crisis in Peri-Urban Planning

    by Michael Buxton, Andrew Butt ...
    Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world’s most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important natural resources and make valuable contributions to agriculture, water use, biodiversity conservation, landscape preservation and human well-being. Billions of people use them and enjoy their natural values. Their continuing ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • 1964

    by Michael Buxton ...
    1964 tells the story of a city lost in a world of relentless change. The year 1964 was one of transition from the certainty of the 1950s to the doubt and disruption of the modern world.A young journalist leaves the security of school and discovers an unfamiliar workplace and an escalating series of confronting experiences. As he begins university, he struggles to relate his studies to the everyday ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Planning Melbourne

    Lessons for a Sustainable City

    by Robin Goodman, Michael Buxton, Susie Moloney ...
    For more than a decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward while also growing upward through vast new high-rise developments in the inner suburbs. With an estimated 1.6 million additional homes needed by 2050, planners and policymakers need to address current and emerging issues of amenity, function, productive capacity and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Harold Innis's History of Communications

    Paper and Printing—Antiquity to Early Modernity

    Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis’s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications—but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript.Here, Innis (1894-1952) examines ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Harold Innis Reflects

    Memoir and WWI Writings/Correspondence

    Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Offering fresh insight into the early life of Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), this volume makes available a number of previously unpublished writings from the renowned Canadian economic historian and media scholar.Part I, Innis’s autobiographical memoir, chronicles his farm-based family background, early education, military service during World War I, and the beginnings of what would become a ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Thirty Days With King David

    On Leadership

    by Larry Buxton, Timothy Michael Kaine, Andrew Hill Card, Jr. ...
    Series Book 2 - Thirty Days With
    In turbulent times, King David united a nation—and his hard-earned wisdom can bring us together today. This new 30 Days With book offers a month of readings plus ideas for small-group discussion. David ranks among the world’s greatest heroes for defeating Goliath and best-selling authors for writing Psalms. He is honored by Jews, Christians and Muslims. In this book, pastor, educator and ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent ...
    Narrated by Carl Alexander, Harold Buxton, Michael Gonzales, Joseph Glancy ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 26 min

    Subtitled "The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and America," this book is a record of the author's travels with her husband through the British Empire and America in the late 1800's. In the words of the author, "It is but a simple Journal of what we saw and did." Their travels took them across the Atlantic to the U.S. and Canada, then across the Pacific to New Zealand, Australia, then ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Natural Hazards and Public Management

    Governing Climate Adaptation

    Edited by Wolfgang Seibel, Andrew Butt, Michael Buxton, Jana Blahak ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines how policymakers respond to natural hazards in the wake of global climate change. Through a series of five case studies it assesses how changing patterns of natural hazards collide with established patterns of spatial planning, and how alternative strategies could be operationalised in local policy practice. Due to global warming, wildfires and floods are occurring ... Read more

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