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  • Immunopatient

    The New Frontier of Curing Cancer

    by Peter Rooney ...
    When an X-ray of a sore arm quickly leads to a diagnosis of Stage IV kidney cancer—one which would soon affect his bones, his lungs, lymph nodes, and brain—Peter Rooney’s life will never be the same. Faced with the prognosis of an incurable disease and armed only with the will to fight back, Immunopatient chronicles Peter’s desperate quest for hope and healing, and the experimental treatment that ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Hemingway’s Primitivism

    A Quest for Primal Authenticity

    by Peter Rooney ...
    Series Book 76 - Modern American Literature
    In this timely book, the author explores new ways of reading Hemingway’s work, considering nature, gender and American identity. Through forensic analysis of Hemingway’s fiction, the author traces his early experiences of post-frontier America and the decline of the American primitive. He shows how, based on actual experience, Hemingway’s unique brand of primitivism later influences his travels in ... Read more

    $50.59 CAD

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    Hollywood Playhouse Box Set

    14 Movies specially adapted for radio & performed by the original film stars

    by Mr Punch ...
    Narrated by Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Alan Ladd, Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Dinah Shore, Donna Reed, Elizabeth Taylor, Gary Cooper, Gloria Swanson, Greer Garson, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Van Heflin, Victor Moore, Vivien Leigh, Walter Huston, William Holden ...
    Series Audiobook 15 - Hollywood Playhouse

    Unabridged

    9 hours 23 min

    The Hollywood Playhouse Box Set is a unique compilation of 14 Oscar winning films specially adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcastCASABLANCA with Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid BergmanTHE MALTESE FALCON with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre & Sydney ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wisdom and Management in the Knowledge Economy

    by David Rooney, Bernard McKenna, Peter Liesch ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Strategic Management
    Today there are more technology, technologists, knowledge and experts than at any time in human history; but from a global perspective, it is difficult to argue that this accumulation of knowledge and technology has put the world in an unambiguously better position than it was in the past. Business is not getting any easier to do and major corporate collapses based on poor decisions, poor conduct, ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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  • When My World Was Very Small

    A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch

    by Ruth Rakoff ...
    In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast.And so begins the journey of biopsy, surgery, chemotherapy, all accompanied by tidal waves of anxiety and grief: how to tell the children? Should ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Lucky Dog

    How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life

    by Sarah Boston ...
    Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Affluent Society

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    The classic by the renowned economist: "One of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values" ( The New York Times).One of the New York Public Library's "Books of the Century"Hailed as a "masterpiece" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch), this examination of the "economics of abundance" cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) and lays bare the hazards of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Your Sister

    by Samuel Johnson, Connie Johnson ...
    Shortlisted for the ABIA Award (Biography of the Year) 2015A searingly honest memoir of family, cancer, love ... and unicycles by the founders of the Love your Sister charity, Connie and Samuel Johnson, that will inspire and they hope get people talking about boobs!Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have always been close. Faced with the devastating news that they would soon be separated ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Everything Happens for a Reason

    And Other Lies I've Loved

    by Kate Bowler ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy KalanithiNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE**Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy

    by Manjusha Pawagi ...
    Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. She describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse with roommates; details how much determination it ... Read more

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  • More Than Good Intentions

    Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

    by Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel ...
    A leading economist and researcher report from the front lines of a revolution in solving the world's most persistent problem.When it comes to global poverty, people are passionate and polarized. At one extreme: We just need to invest more resources. At the other: We've thrown billions down a sinkhole over the last fifty years and accomplished almost nothing.Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel present an ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD