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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 Good Shabti

    by Robert Sharp ...
    A thrilling debut that spans thousands of years. In the twilight days of Pharaoh Mentuhotep IV, a slave stumbles into the path of a vizier's imperial ambitions. And, in the near future, a brilliant scientist and her ruthless companions edge closer to completing an impossible experiment: the revivification of an ancient mummy.  The two stories weave together in a tale that combines science and myth ... Read more

    $3.67 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

    $32.99 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

    $20.99 CAD

  • Tiki Drinks

    Tropical Cocktails for the Modern Bar

    by Robert Sharp, Nicole Weston ...
    Try a tiki—a sweet, fruity blast from the past, updated for modern tastesTiki cocktails are a tasty mid-twentieth-century American classic, but their popularity suffered when syrupy drink mixes hit the scene. Now it's time to welcome them back: Food blogger Nicole Weston and mixologist Robert Sharp have brought back the fresh taste of tiki drinks, banishing the artificial syrupy sweetness of mixes ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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

    $36.99 CAD

  • An Enemy of the People

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp ...
    Environmentalist, activist, and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contributes a foreword to this Skyhorse edition of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s renowned 1882 play.Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Henrik Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crises And Conflicts

    by Ian Whates, Gavin Smith, Adam Roberts, Janet Edwards, Christopher Nuttall, Mercurio D. Rivera, Una McCormack, Tim C. Taylor, Tade Thompson, Nik Abnett, Jo Zebedee, Allen Stroud, Robert Sharp, Amy DuBoff, Michael Brookes ...
    From distant planets to space-borne combat, from desperate attempts to win a race to the last hope of a beleaguered world, fifteen stories of Military SF and space opera, written to celebrate the 10th birthday of independent publisher NewCon Press.IntroductionThe Last Tank Commander – Allen StroudBetween Nine and Eleven – Adam RobertsTaking Flight – Una McCormackThe 10 Second War – Michael ... Read more

    $5.30 CAD