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  • The Complete Caregiver's Organizer

    Your Guide to Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others

    by Robin Porter ...
    Becoming the primary caregiver for a spouse, family member, friend, or loved one can be a tremendously rewarding and equally challenging experience.How do you know if you’re the right person to be a caregiver? What important conversations should you have beforehand to make sure that you’re starting off on the right foot? What aspects of care should you manage personally and how do you assemble the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Better With Age

    Your Blueprint for Staying Smart, Strong, and Happy for Life

    by Robin Porter ...
    For centuries, humans have been seeking it-that elusive fountain of youth, a cure for old age. From wrinkle creams and cosmetic surgery, to dietary supplements and hormone therapy, entire industries thrive on our reluctance to grow old. We fear losing our vigor, our social network, our memories, our wealth, yes, even our hair!But suppose up to 75 percent of how long we live and much of how well we ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Industrial Reformers in Republican China

    by Robin Porter ...
    This is the story of a dedicated group of foreign and Chinese reformers who tried, but failed, to solve China's intractable industrial problems over the three decades prior to 1949. It explores the complex rivalries of Chinese and foreigners against a backdrop of extreme nationalism. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • KiDS FiRST Diabetes Second

    tips for parenting a child with type 1 diabetes

    by Leighann Calentine ...
    2013 ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD WINNERRaising a child is a difficult job. Raising a child with a chronic illness such as diabetes can be a difficult job with a side order of special challenges.Leighann Calentine’s D-Mom Blog is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. Leighann shares her family’s experiences with her daughter’s type 1 diabetes in a forum that is ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Hong Kong in Transition

    One Country, Two Systems

    Edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook, Robin Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Hong Kong in Transition offers a perspective on the exceptional constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule. There have been both successes and failures, and a perceptible process of change which is important to document.The particular appeal of this volume lies in the fact that it combines a broad overview ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Management Issues in China: Volume 1

    Domestic Enterprises

    Edited by David H. Brown, Robin Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia
    This book, first published in 1996, examines the problems associated with the management of change, particularly those brought about by the rapid pace of economic development in China in the ‘reform’ period since 1979. China’s managers were challenged as never before as the country integrated itself into the world economy, introduced new technology, and decentralized control over its industries. ... Read more

    $32.97 CAD

  • Theology and Public Philosophy

    Four Conversations

    by Jeanne Heffernan Schindler, Joshua Mitchell, Robin Lovin, Michael L. Budde, Jean Porter, Eloise A. Buker, Christopher Beem, Peter Berkowitz, Fred Dallmayr, J. Budziszewski, Charles Taylor, William Schweiker, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Charles Mathewes, Jonathan Chaplin, Jean Bethke Elshtain ...
    This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that so often dominate discussions of religion and public life, the contributors address such subjects as ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    The Personality Test

    The complete BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz series

    by John Sergeant, Greg Dyke, Gyles Brandreth, Jennie Bond, Roy Hattersley, Adam Hart-Davis, Antony Worrall-Thompson, Esther Rantzen, Janet Street-Porter, Lorraine Kelly, Edwina Currie, Alan Carr, Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    The comedy panel game where all the questions are about the guest hostWelcome to The Personality Test, the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. Each gets to run the show by their own rules, devising topics and queries based on their life, whims, fancies and past glories. Among the showbiz celebrities in the hot ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Prisoner of the State

    The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

    by Zhao Ziyang ...
    Translated by Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu, Renee Chiang ...
    Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Poverty in the Midst of Affluence

    How Hong Kong Mismanaged Its Prosperity

    by Leo F. Goodstadt ...
    Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • China Renaissance, The: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And The 18th Communist Party Congress

    by Writers, Artists And Editors Of The South China Morning Post, Jonathan Sharp ...
    Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party's 18th National Congress held in November 2012. While the conclave itself passed off with smoothly choreographed efficiency, the months leading up to this once-a-decade transition were anything but orderly. Intense factional wrangling behind the scenes was accompanied by scandals very much in ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • A System Apart

    Hong Kong’s Political Economy from 1997 till Now: Penguin Specials

    by Simon Cartledge ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Since 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth rate has dropped sharply, inequality has increased, and corruption has found its way to the highest levels of government. These developments, Simon Cartledge argues, can be attributed to the city’s ‘pro-business’ constitution, which has held back change and led to the rise of an anti-establishment, localist opposition. A System Apart traces the interplay of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD