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  • Children of Crisis

    by Robert Coles ...
    In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts -- revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977 -- constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United States.Here, heard often in their own voices, are America's "children of crisis": African ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • An Eye for A Dog

    Illustrated Guide To Judging Purebred Dogs

    by Robert Cole ...
    Winner of the DWAA Maxwell Award for 2004 Best Reference Book!Have you ever wondered how dog show judges learn to identify the subtle differences that separate a dog that is merely good from a dog that is outstanding? Now you can develop your own eye for sound movement and structure and learn how markings, size, and even leash position affect the judge’s perception! In An Eye for a Dog - ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives of Moral Leadership

    Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference

    by Robert Coles ...
    In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others.Coles tells ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Spiritual Life of Children

    by Robert Coles ...
    A look at faith through the voices of children from varied religious backgrounds, by the Pulitzer-winning author of The Moral Intelligence of Children.A New York Times Notable BookWhat do children think about when they consider God, Heaven and Hell, the value of life in the here and now, and the inevitability of death? Child psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Harvard professor Robert ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handing One Another Along

    Literature and Social Reflection

    by Robert Coles ...
    In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this provocative book addresses such questions as, “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?” It ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Life in Medicine

    A Literary Anthology

    by Robert Coles, Randy Testa, Wendell Berry, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Anne Fadiman, Kay Redfield Jamison, Audre Lorde, Lorrie Moore, Rachel Naomi Remen, Lewis Thomas, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams ...
    "Excellent" poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more ( Library Journal).A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession, who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Organized around the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Simone Weil

    A Modern Pilgrimage

    by Robert Coles ...
    An intriguing introduction to Weil’s quest to integrate faith, philosophy and justice for the oppressed. Details her short, eventful life and shows her profound spiritual influence on thinkers from T. S. Eliot and Flannery O’Connor to Albert Camus. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • YOU BE THE JUDGE - THE ITALIAN GREYHOUND

    by Robert Cole ...
    International judge Robert Cole's expert perspective on some of the important elements of judging the Italian Greyhound. You will "enter" a show ring and decide for yourself which is the best dog. After you have made your selection you will be walked through the process of judging step-by-step. It is an opportunity to test your knowledge and get a feel for some of the key points involved in ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives We Carry with Us

    Profiles of Moral Courage

    by Robert Coles ...
    Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles's profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before collected in book form. Depicting the famous, the lesser known, and the unknown, the profiles here include portraits of James Agee, Dorothy Day, Erik Erikson, Dorothea Lange, Walker Percy, Bruce ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bruce Springsteen's America

    The People Listening, a Poet Singing

    by Robert Coles ...
    In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, turns his attention to popular music legend Bruce Springsteen, and to the powerful impact Springsteen’s work has had both on the lives of his audience and on this country’s literary tradition. Coles places Springsteen in the pantheon of American artists—Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Call of Stories

    Teaching and the Moral Imagination

    by Robert Coles ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, a profound examination of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery.As a professor emeritus at Harvard University, a renowned child psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books, including The Moral Intelligence of Children, Robert Coles knows better than anyone the transformative power of learning and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of France

    by Robert Cole ...
    Hundreds of thousands of travellers visit France each year. The glories of the French countryside, the essential harmony of much of French architecture, the wealth of historical remains, the enormous variety of experience that France offers, act as a perennial and irresistible attraction. For these visitors this lively and useful guide provides the essential clues to an understanding of France& ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD