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  • Audiobook

    The Canterbury Tales

    A Retelling

    by Peter Ackroyd, Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Narrated by Ron Keith, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, John Curless, John Keating, Graeme Malcolm, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Bianca Amato ...
    Series series

    Unabridged

    16 hours 45 min

    Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer's immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558-1914

    'Flower of Cities All'

    Edited by Geoffrey G. Hiller, Peter L. Groves, Alan F. Dilnot ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse inhabitants, taken from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. The 143 extracts, divided into four periods (1558-1659, 1660-1780, 1781-1870 and 1871-1914), range from about 250 words to 2,500. Each of the four periods has an introduction ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Lily in the Valley

    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    A new translation of one of Balzac’s finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess—a relationship that is upended when he becomes involved with a new lover.A story of impossible and unsatisfied desire, Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley opens with a scene of desire unleashed. Félix de Vandenesse, the shy ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Given Time II

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf ...
    The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida’s seminar on the gift and time.In 1991, Jacques Derrida published the first half of a seminar delivered from 1978 to 1979 on gifts and time, but the second installment (though expected) was not completed in his lifetime. Given Time II completes the seminar with eight sessions that showcase Derrida’s most advanced work on the problematic of the gift in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Perforator Flaps

    Anatomy, Technique, & Clinical Applications

    Edited by Phillip N. Blondeel, Steven F. Morris, Geoffrey G. Hallock, Peter C. Neligan ...
    Expert guidance on the use of perforator flaps for reconstruction from leading pioneers in the fieldNearly two decades ago, the first edition of Perforator Flaps: Anatomy, Technique, & Clinical Applications was published, thereby filling a gap in the literature, and providing invaluable clinical pearls on the use of soft tissue flaps for reconstructive surgery. Since the publication of the second ... Read more

    $659.69 CAD

  • Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment

    Edited by Peter S. Brandon, Patrizia Lombardi, Geoffrey Q. Shen ...
    Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of technology, the creation of new models and the role of human factors for examining and developing the subject over the next twenty ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • The General Theory

    Volume 1

    Edited by Professor Geoffrey Harcourt, Peter Riach ...
    Keynes always intended to write 'footnotes' to his masterwork The General Theory, which would take account of the criticisms made of it and allow him to develop and refine his ideas further. However, a number of factors combined to prevent him from doing so before his death in 1946. A wide range of Keynes scholars - including James Tobin, Paul Davidson and Lord Skidelsky - have written here the ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • From Environmental to Ecological Law

    Edited by Kirsten Anker, Peter D. Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney, Carla Sbert ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law. Ecological law is emerging as a field of law founded on systems thinking and the need to integrate ecological limits, such as planetary boundaries, into law.Presenting new thinking in the field, this book focuses on problem areas of contemporary law including environmental law, property law, trusts, legal theory and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Asian Beekeeping in the 21st Century

    Edited by Panuwan Chantawannakul, Geoffrey Williams, Peter Neumann ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    From the perspective of local scientists, this book provides insight into bees and beemanagement of Asia, with a special focus on honey bees.Asia is home to at least nine honey bee species, including the introduced European honeybee, Apis mellifera. Although A. mellifera and the native Asian honey bee, Apis cerana,are the most commonly employed species for commercial beekeeping, the remainingnon ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • The Canterbury Tales

    A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Peter Ackroyd ...
    by Peter Ackroyd, Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    "A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair)—now with a graphic cover and deluxe packagingRenowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a motley ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Vowel Inherent Spectral Change

    Edited by Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Peter F. Assmann ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    It has been traditional in phonetic research to characterize monophthongs using a set of static formant frequencies, i.e., formant frequencies taken from a single time-point in the vowel or averaged over the time-course of the vowel. However, over the last twenty years a growing body of research has demonstrated that, at least for a number of dialects of North American English, vowels which are ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Campaign Confessions

    Tales from the War Rooms of Politics

    by John Laschinger ...
    **A National Bestseller!Canada’s Only Full-Time Political Campaign Manager — 50 Campaigns in 45 Years with 30 Victories**John Laschinger opens the doors to the backrooms and war rooms of the political campaigns he has run, providing lessons for aspiring campaign managers, and exposing what really happens behind the scenes. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD