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  • My Life in the Law

    Lawyer, Scholar, Judge

    by Robert Sharpe ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    My Life in the Law is a rich, personal reflection on Robert J. Sharpe’s long, varied, and influential career as a lawyer, scholar, and judge.After giving an account of his early life and education, Sharpe examines his time as a law student in the late 1960s, an era when great emphasis was put upon formalistic legal doctrine, heavily influenced by English law. As a legal academic in the 1970s up ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Good Judgment

    Making Judicial Decisions

    by Robert Sharpe ...
    Good Judgment, based upon the author's experience as a lawyer, law professor, and judge, explores the role of the judge and the art of judging. Engaging with the American, English, and Commonwealth literature on the role of the judge in the common law tradition, Good Judgment addresses the following questions: What exactly do judges do? What is properly within their role and what falls outside? ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Lazier Murder

    Prince Edward County, 1884

    by Robert J. Sharpe ...
    In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May. Nevertheless, appalled community members believed at least one of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Persons Case

    The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood

    by Robert J. Sharpe, Patricia I. McMahon ...
    Series series The Canada 150 Collection
    On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's upper house and the idea that the meaning of the constitution could not change with time. The Persons ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Fiction River: No Humans Allowed

    Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine, #22

    by Lee Allred, Robert T. Jeschonek, Anthea Sharp, Michèle Laframboise, Lisa Silverthorne, Angela Penrose, Dayle A. Dermatis, Leslie Claire Walker, Louisa Swann, Stefon Mears, Brenda Carre, Felicia Fredlund, Dale Hartley Emery, Eric Kent Edstrom, Alexandra Brandt, Thea Hutcheson, Annie Reed, Fiction River ...
    Series Book 22 - Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine
    Humans prove great fodder for fiction. But what about the universe of possibilities offered by the nonhuman protagonist? The eighteen daring humans of Fiction River’s latest volume explore just that. From a goblin who must choose whether to risk everything for love to a heroic rat adventuring at sea to sentient underpants (yes, underpants), these nonhuman tales demonstrate why Adventures Fantastic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best British Short Stories 2019

    by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, Elizabeth Baines, Naomi Booth, Ruby Cowling, Kieran Devaney, Vicky Grut, Nigel Humphreys, Sally Jubb, John Lanchester, Sophie Mackintosh, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Paul McQuade, Vesna Main, Robert Mason, Ann Quin, Stephen Sharp, Sam Thompson, Melissa Wan, Ren Watson, Adam Welch ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Issue Fourteen

    Pulphouse, #14

    by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, B.A. Paul, Brenda Carre, Dory Crowe, Anthea Sharp, Robert J. McCarter, O’Neil De Noux, Kent Patterson, Michael D. Britton, Rick Wilber, Robert Jeschonek, Rob Vagle, R.W. Wallace, J. Steven York, Robin Brande, Alexandria Blaelock, C.A. Rowland, Kathy and Jerry Oltion, David H. Hendrickson ...
    Series Book 14 - Pulphouse
    The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up twenty fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Persons Case

    The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood

    by Robert J. Sharpe, Patricia I. McMahon ...
    On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's upper house and the idea that the meaning of the constitution could not change with time. The Persons ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Last Day, The Last Hour

    The Currie Libel Trial

    by Robert J. Sharpe ...
    On 11 November 1918, the last day of the Great War, the Canadian Corps, led by Sir Arthur Currie, liberated Mons after four years of German occupation. The push to Mons in the last days and weeks of the war had cost many lives. Long after the war, Currie was blamed by many for needlessly wasting those lives. When the Port Hope Evening Guide published an editorial in 1927 repeating this charge, ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Destination Tomorrow or Yesterday: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine

    Pulphouse Books

    by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Angela Penrose, Annie Reed, Robert Jeschonek, Anthea Sharp, C.A. Rowland, Michael D. Britton, Robert J. McCarter, Robin Brande, Valerie Brook ...
    Series series Pulphouse Books
    Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine never seem to fit exactly in one genre or another. Part of the fun of the magazine.Totally Pulphouse, then, that the ten stories in this volume don't fit in the standard "time travel" category. Some read like pure science fiction, some explore time travel and the repercussions of time travel, and some explore "end of the world" themes.Closed out by a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stereoselective Desymmetrization Methods in the Assembly of Complex Natural Molecules

    by Robert.J Sharpe ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This thesis describes the inception, design, and implementation of stereoselective desymmetrization reactions in the total synthesis of the natural products pactamycin and paspaline. In the case of pactamycin, the author develops a novel asymmetric Mannich reaction and symmetry-breaking reduction strategy to enable facile construction of the complex core architecture in fifteen steps using ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle

    Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts

    by Gene Sharp ...
    From the 494 B.C. plebeians' march out of Rome to gain improved status, to Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India, to the liberation of Poland and the Baltic nations, and the revolutions in North Africa, nonviolent struggles have played pivotal roles in world events for centuries. Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle is a groundbreaking reference work on this topic by the "godfather of ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD