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  • The Barbarians Speak

    How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

    Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Long Loop Home

    A Memoir

    by Peter Wells ...
    A prize-winning memoir, a tender evocation of a world, a place and a time. Born in 1950 to sporting parents and sharing his brother's homosexuality, Peter Wells decided at the age of eleven that his family could not 'afford' two homosexual sons. The problems this led to complicated his youth but possibly gave him the creative fuel that would go on to illuminate his books and films. Through the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Canadian Labour Policy and Politics

    Edited by John Peters, Don Wells ...
    Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for undergraduates studying Canada’s labour market. This comprehensive textbook traces the causes and rise of labour inequities and outlines solutions for a more sustainable future.Written in clear and accessible language by leading experts and practitioners, this book demonstrates how and why laws and public policy – intended to protect ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome.The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only ways of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Battle That Stopped Rome

    Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history.In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Little Joker Sings

    by Peter Wells ...
    A moving short story about a strong bond - both comradely and erotic - formed between soldiers during World War II. This is a story rarely told, of a certain kind of relationship often forged during wartime. Of love between men, of unexpected passion. Beautifully written by an award-winning writer, sensitively explored, it is a story that does not have to end in tragedy and yet is poignant and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Hungry Heart

    Journeys With William Colenso

    by Peter Wells ...
    Shortlisted for the NZ Post Award this fascinating, innovative biography is of a true original and significant figure in NZ's early colonisation. "I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Boy Overboard

    by Peter Wells ...
    An achingly insightful coming-of-age novel about discovering sexuality and selfhood. Hungry Creek runs out over mudflats and curves around to a tidal beach. Hungry Creek is where everything is put that nobody wants: a dump, a zoo, a loony bin. It is also a magical place. 'I'm two bits of mismatched bikini. M doesn't seem to belong to E . . .' Jamie is eleven, on the threshold of discovery. But he ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • One of THEM!

    by Peter Wells ...
    Poignant, lyrical and bitter-sweet, this novella is about coming to terms with your own sexuality and finding love. 'I am still not sure what homo means, apart from being in Truth and having to commit suicide in the bath . . .' Lemmy and Jamie. Jamie and Lenny. Two friends. Together. At a time of need. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Dear Oliver

    Uncovering a Pakeha history

    by Peter Wells ...
    A captivating exploration of a Pakeha family's history in colonial New Zealand through intimate letters and personal reflections.In Dear Oliver, Peter Wells unearths a treasure trove of family letters, offering a poignant glimpse into the lives of ordinary people navigating extraordinary times. From the war against Te Kooti to the devastating Napier earthquake, Wells traces his ancestors' journey ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How the Global Automotive Industry Stole our Green Mobility Future

    Grand Theft Auto

    by Peter E Wells ...
    This book provides a compelling exploration of the dysfunctionality of car electrification and green mobility. Detailing how car companies aim to control the future of automobility through circular business models, Peter E. Wells highlights the pivotal role of governments in this unsustainable transition.How the Global Automotive Industry Stole our Green Mobility Future emphasizes how major car ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD