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  • Walking Home Ground

    In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth

    by Robert Root ...
    When longtime author Robert Root moves to a small town in southeast Wisconsin, he gets to know his new home by walking the same terrain traveled by three Wisconsin luminaries who were deeply rooted in place—John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and August Derleth. Root walks with Muir at John Muir State Natural Area, with Leopold at the Shack, and with Derleth in Sac Prairie; closer to home, he traverses the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Sparks of Genius

    The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People

    by Robert Root-Bernstein, Michèle Root-Bernstein ...
    Discover the cognitive tools that lead to creative thinking and problem-solving with this "well-written and easy-to-follow" guide ( Library Journal).Explore the "thinking tools" of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and learn how you can practice the same imaginative skills to become your creative best. With engaging narratives and examples, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nonfictionist's Guide

    On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction

    by Robert Root ...
    Nonfiction_the 'fourth genre' (along with poetry, fiction, and drama)_is a literary field affecting bestseller lists, writing programs, writers' workshops, and conferences on the study of creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. It is often labeled and/or limited as 'creative' or 'literary' nonfiction and subdivided into essay, memoir, literary journalism, personal cultural ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Following Isabella

    Travels in Colorado Then and Now

    by Robert Root ...
    A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird’s three-month journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her—and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Happenstance

    by Robert Root ...
    Series series Sightline Books
    Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • By My Brother's Side

    by Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber ...
    Illustrated by Barry Root ...
    Based on the childhood of National Football League superstars Ronde and Tiki Barber, this inspiring picture book about the values of family, hard work, and determination shows what it takes to be a champion.Tiki and Ronde were each other’s best friends. Together from the start, these twins might not have been the strongest or the tallest, but they were fast and worked hard at what they loved. And ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Pastoral Epistles with Philemon & Jude

    by Risto Saarinen, Robert Jenson, Robert Wilken, Ephraim Radner, Michael Root, George Sumner, R. Reno ...
    Series series Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
    Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels

    The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales

    by Robert Root-Bernstein, Michéle Root-Bernstein ...
    Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    Eating clay, drinking urine, applying honey to deep wounds and mere plaster to crushed these are all folk remedies for ailments, passed on through the generations and thoroughly discounted by modern science. It is too bad, write scientist-historian couple Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, who deplore the loss of proven methods developed without the blessing of the academy, noting that "formal ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 2 Samuel

    by Robert Barron, Robert Jenson, Robert Wilken, Ephraim Radner, Michael Root, George Sumner, R. Reno ...
    Series series Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
    Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Numbers

    by Robert Jenson, Robert Wilken, Ephraim Radner, Michael Root, George Sumner, David Stubbs, R. Reno ...
    Series series Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
    Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Genesis

    by Robert Jenson, Robert Wilken, Ephraim Radner, Michael Root, George Sumner, R. Reno ...
    Series series Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
    Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Exodus

    by Robert Jenson, Robert Wilken, Ephriam Radner, Michael Root, George Sumner, Thomas Joseph White, OP, R. Reno ...
    Series series Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
    Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD