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  • Obscene Gestures

    Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

    by Patrick S. Lawrence ...
    Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Swallowing the Muskellunge

    Mischief Makers, #1

    by Lawrence Patrick O'Brien ...
    Series Book 1 - Mischief Makers
    AWARDS/ACCOLADES: Reader Views (5-Star), The Coffee Pot Book Club (5-Star), Literary Titan Silver Book Award (Silver)A TALE THAT BLENDS BLACK AND INDIGENOUS HISTORIES WITH SUPERNATURAL HORROR.A free Black family. A wilderness migration. A creature that has been waiting for them for generations. London Oxford is a freed man, but freedom in 1800 is a fragile thing. When the Wright family decides to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Gutters

    Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics

    Edited by Patrick S. Lawrence, Jorge J. Santos Jr. ...
    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today’s book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic novels. What makes today’s controversies different is the content of the alleged obscenity. Instead of targeting sex as such, censors now focus on ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Journalists and Their Shadows

    by Patrick Lawrence ...
    Part memoir, part social history, Journalists and Their Shadows captures the deplorable state of the American media in our time—recording its deterioration, its moments of crisis and ultimately, its transformation as seen through the eyes of a journalist engaged at its very heart through all its phases. The press had a bad Cold War, Patrick Lawrence contends, and never recovered from it, having ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Colossal Failure of Common Sense

    The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

    by Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson ...
    One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast.In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Quality Investing

    Owning the best companies for the long term

    by Torkell T. Eide, Lawrence A. Cunningham, Patrick Hargreaves ...
    Quality. We all make judgments about it every day. Yet articulating a clear definition of quality in an investing context is challenging. This book addresses the challenge, and distills years of practical investing experience into a definitive account of this under-explored investment philosophy.Finance theory has it that abnormal outcomes do not persist, that exceptional performance will soon ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Hard Worked Days

    by Lawrence Patrick O'Brien ...
    They Were Marked by Something Not of This World. Then the Wall Closed In.Hard Worked Days mixes visceral violence, dark humour, and genuine tenderness without flinching from any of them.It is the kind of speculative fiction that uses alien worlds and catastrophe to say something true about labour, belonging, and the peoplewe carry with us.Station Eleven meets The RoadHomegoing meets ArrivalThe ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clochan

    Mischief Makers, #2

    by Lawrence Patrick O'Brien ...
    Series Book 2 - Mischief Makers
    KEVIN NEAL, at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountains, fails to bait a Púca to fight. In this compelling, heartrending, Irish coming-of-age story, he learns too well what it costs when monsters are unleashed.Decades before the great famine, the youngest Neal boy survives the war, but believes he has lost everyone. When he locates a childhood friend—Anastasia Kelly, he learns that she has become ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Listen When Markets Speak

    Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy

    by Lawrence G. McDonald ...
    A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, outlining new rules of investing for the forward-thinking.“I can’t tell you how much I learned from How to Listen When Markets Speak. The historical perspectives and insights are something every investor needs to know. Buy ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Growing Without Schooling

    The Complete Collection, Volume 2

    Edited by John Caldwell Holt, Patrick Lawrence Farenga, Carlo Ricci ...
    The second volume of GWS issues covers the years 1981 and 1982, when homeschooling gained attention in the media after John Holt’s Teach Your Own was published and he made a second appearance on national TV’s Phil Donahue Show, which resulted in thousands of letters to Holt regarding homeschooling. Each issue of GWS in this volume is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Growing Without Schooling

    The Complete Collection, Volume 2

    Edited by John Caldwell Holt, Patrick Lawrence Farenga, Carlo Ricci ...
    The second volume of GWS issues covers the years 1981 and 1982, when homeschooling gained attention in the media after John Holt’s Teach Your Own was published and he made a second appearance on national TV’s Phil Donahue Show, which resulted in thousands of letters to Holt regarding homeschooling. Each issue of GWS in this volume is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of John Holt

    A Man Who Genuinely Understood, Trusted, and Respected Children

    Edited by Farenga Lawrence Patrick, Ricci Carlo ...
    The Legacy of John Holt contains sixteen portraits of a radical teacher and writer whose ten books and work influenced schoolteachers and homeschoolers to help children learn in their own ways.Written by friends, colleagues, and homeschoolers who knew Holt personally, this book sheds new light on a unique person in American education, one whose work continues to inspire today's homeschooling, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD