Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 121 results for “robert j ray”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery

    From Empty Page to Finished Mystery in Just 52 Weekends--A Dynamic Step-by-Step Program

    by Robert J. Ray ...
    Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction.It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing process, from creating a killer to polishing off the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Weekend Novelist

    by Robert J. Ray, Bret Norris ...
    Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all levels how to divide their writing time into weekend work sessions, and how to handle character, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • All the President’s Men

    by Robert B. Ray, Christian Keathley ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations.Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Merry Christmas, Murdock

    by Robert J. Ray ...
    Christmastime is here, and weary-but-wise private-eye Matt Murdock is short on funds and holiday spirit. There are no white Christmases in Newport Beach, California, but there are soggy ones. One rainy evening at the Xanadu Mall, a down-on-his-luck mystery writer named Marvin Holly meets a runaway teenager and autographs her book. As they exit the mall, they encounter the headlights of a speeding ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murdock Rocks Sedona

    by Robert J. Ray ...
    Series Book 7 - A Matt Murdock Murder Mystery
    A surprising number of rich guys in Sedona, AZ, are falling to their deaths. With so many similar “accidents,” the victims had to have been pushed. Fearing that he too will take a fatal plunge, billionaire Ackerman hires Matt and Helene to investigate. To keep their client safe, the PIs will have to be on their best game. Too bad their last case in Taos took such a heavy toll. ... Read more

    $8.18 CAD

  • The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children

    Edited by Robert J. McMahon, Ray DeV. Peters ...
    Recent experience with interventions designed to promote the well-being of children and to prevent mental health problems has identified particular challenges in families with disordered parents. These families are often very difficult to engage in mental health promotion and prevention programs, and they may be especially resistant to intervention. The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • For the Night is Dark

    by Jasper Bark, William Meikle, Gary McMahon, Ray Cluley, G. N. Braun, Carole Johnstone, Armand Rosamilia, Daniel I. Russell, Scott Nicholson, Stephen Bacon, Kevin Lucia, Tracie McBride, Benedict J. Jones, Blaze McRob, John Claude Smith, Tonia Brown, Mark West, Robert W. Walker, Jeremy C. Shipp ...
    Darkness, our most primitive fear since shadows first stirred.Within the pages of this horror anthology you will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and aimless stoners. You will journey into the darkest house on the darkest street, ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Return to Zeropoint Ii

    Ho'oponopono for a Better Reality

    by Robert F. Ray ...
    Hooponopono seems like magic, but it is not magic at all. It is real and within your grasp. Return to Zeropoint is our system of teaching how to use Hooponopono in an easy and straightforward manner. We take away the pain of learning and get to the nuts and bolts without struggle and strife. Leave your problems and pain behind, and move forward with the life of joy that you deserve. It is within ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The ABCs of Classic Hollywood

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate." What are those hidden things? Can we invent a method that will ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Banking on Digital Growth

    The Strategic Marketing Manifesto to Transform Financial Brands

    by James Robert Lay ...
    If you're part of a financial brand marketing, sales, or leadership team, you know the entire industry is in the midst of exponential change fueled by new technologies. Consumers now make purchase decisions long before they walk into a physical branch location, if they walk into a branch at all, while mobile banks, digital lenders, and fintechs have transformed traditional growth models rooted in ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Structure of Complex Images

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Like the heroes of these movies, ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD