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  • Ferdinand Magellan

    by Jim Whiting ...
    Ferdinand Magellan made one of the most famous ocean voyages of all time. He left Spain in 1519 with five ships. He was trying to find a quicker route to the Spice Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he encountered many problems. Many of his men turned against him. He ran into heavy storms. Food and fresh water were often in short supply. But he kept going-until he was killed in battle. A ... Read more

    $24.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Calm Parents Confident Kids

    How to Use Brain Training to Raise Happy Resilient Children

    Unabridged

    3 hours 18 min

    In the vastness of the human experience, we sometimes overlook the relationships most precious to our hearts. That of our sacred privilege and responsibility to nurture all children. Conscious Brain Training from your heart is a key to cultivating happiness.This book asks parents and teachers to reimagine how to teach and learn with their children. Instead of for them (and sometimes against ... Read more

    $34.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life and Legacy of Ferdinand Magellan

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 8 - Legendary Explorers
    Ferdinand Magellan, known in his native Portugal as Fernão de Magalhães and in Spain, where he moved later in life, as Fernando de Magallanes, was unquestionably one of the more remarkable figures of the so-called Age of Discovery, a period in which Europeans spread their political and commercial influence around the globe. Accordingly, his name is often invoked alongside that of Columbus, but the ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Exploration

    From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan

    Series series The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Adventurers
    The Age of Exploration, which spanned roughly from 1400 to 1550, was the first time in history that European powers—eyeing new trade routes to the East or seeking to establish empires—began actively looking far past their own borders to gain a better understanding of the world and its many resources. The individuals who set out on behalf of the countries they represented came from a variety of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calm Parents Confident Kids

    The authors of this book are parents who have been using Train Your Brain philosophies to raise centered, happy children and also to be happier and more centered themselves.As you turn the pages of this book, you will discover that this book is not only about instilling a better mindset in your children but also "training your own brain" too.The best part of this book is that it far surpasses the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patisserie

    A Step-by-step Guide to Baking French Pastries at Home

    This book is a tribute to French Pâtisserie. It is also a manual to learn how to successfully and easily make traditional French desserts at home. It's written for all people who love to bake and want to do it like the professionals do. From beginners to more advanced, everyone can do it. The author is a professional French pastry chef who wants to share her passion and talent for baking.In this ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Making of a Physician

    How the 1970s Shaped a Generation of Doctors

    In the 1970s, young physicians learned medicine in a world of autonomy, responsibility, and uncertainty. Resident-driven hospital teams often made life-and-death decisions with limited supervision and few of the technological resources available today.In Making of a Physician, John E. Heffner, MD, recounts his journey through that formative era, when bedside observation and clinical judgment often ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Catori's Worlds

    by Murielle Cyr ...
    Series series Catori's Worlds
    Catori has all the odds stacked against her: a loner with mismatched eyes who hates school and just about everybody who goes there. Her ability to see things nobody else does makes her an oddball at school. She accidentally boards the wrong bus to school one morning and is transported to a strange parallel world. There’s no way back for her; the bus she boarded doesn't do return trips and she has ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Magellan

    Over the Edge of the World

    A "richly researched and highly readable" young-adult adaptation of Laurence Bergreen's bestseller about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe ( School Library Journal).On September 6, 1522, a horribly battered ship manned by eighteen malnourished, scurvy-ridden sailors appeared on the horizon near a Spanish port. They were survivors of the first European expedition to circle the globe. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Spain’s Explorers in the Age of Discovery

    The Lives and Legacies of Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro and Ferdinand Magellan

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial. As schoolchildren have been taught for over 500 years, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In October of that year, the Italian Christopher Columbus immortalized himself by landing in the New World and beginning the process of European settlement in the Americas for Spain, bringing the Age of Exploration to a ... Read more

    $9.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Only Believe in Myself

    Conversation with Murielle Joudet

    Translated by Christine Pichini ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
    A long-form dialogue—on cinema and survival—with the visionary French filmmaker.The virtuous always engage in a pseudoreligious morality. But there’s one thing they never say: the desire for pleasure is thought in motion. It’s what makes you transfigure a dull and repetitive sexual act into something that can bring you to ecstasy and an idea of eternity ...—Catherine Breillat to Murielle ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD