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  • Our Lady of Mile End

    by Sarah Gilbert ...
    **Recommended in *The New York Times.***Our Lady of Mile End is a neighbourhood of stories about gentrification and displacement in a once affordable area that is feeling the squeeze of social and cultural transformation. The overlapping lives of girls and women, tenants and landlords, neighbours and strangers, the old generation and the next chart the tensions and affections among people living ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Unconventional Women

    The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

    by Sarah Gilbert ...
    In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior. By the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Vaxxers

    A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

    by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green ...
    'Moving and awe-inspiring... The story of the decade'Mail on Sunday'Vaxxers is so good that the book will be read for long after the pandemic is over'Financial Times'The amazing tale of a vaccine that has saved so many of our lives. It's a dramatic, page-turning read, and incredibly moving'Chris Evans'I dare anyone to read this... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lonely Planet Costa Rica

    by Elizabeth Lavis, Cassandra Brooklyn, Marco Ferrarese, Sarah Gilbert, Christa Jimenez, Anna Kaminski, Marisa Megan Paska ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Costa Rica.Discover Costa Rica's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from catching a glimpse of shy sloths and white-faced monkeys in Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio; to marvelling at the five scenic cascades in the Central Valley's La Paz Waterfall ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Vaxxers

    A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

    by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green ...
    Narrated by Heather Long, Nicky Diss ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    *The inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, from two of the leading scientists who created it. Fully updated for paperback publication with a preface and a new chapter .*This is the story of a race - not against other vaccines or other scientists, but against a deadly and devastating virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa

    Edited by Sarah Chiumbu, Gilbert Motsaathebe ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Africa
    This book critically analyses the important role of radio in public life in post-apartheid South Africa.As the most widespread and popular form of communication in the country, radio occupies an essential space in the deliberation and the construction of public opinion in South Africa. From just a few state-controlled stations during the apartheid era, there are now more than 100 radio stations, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Television in Africa in the Digital Age

    Edited by Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah H. Chiumbu ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It address the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of television news, internet television and video on demand platforms, adaptations, digital migration, ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Trichloroethylene: Toxicity and Health Risks

    Edited by Kathleen M. Gilbert, Sarah J. Blossom ...
    Series series Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
    A comprehensive overview of the effects of trichloroethylene toxicity caused by real-life exposure levels highlighting how exposure to trichloroethylene may contribute to the etiology of several idiopathic human diseases. Discussion will focus on different kinds of modeling and how they may be used to predict functional consequences and to dissect the contribution of different mechanistic pathways ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Conradology

    A celebration of the work of Joseph Conrad

    by Paul Theroux, Kamila Shamsie, Wojciech Orlinski, Sarah Schofield, Zoe Gilbert, Farah Ahamed, Grazyna Plebanek, SJ Bradley, Agnieszka Dale, Giles Foden, Jacek Dukaj, Jan Krasnowolski, Dr Richard Niland, Prof Robert Hampson ...
    A merchant sailor works for a decade, captaining a yacht up and down the coasts of Malaysia, in the hope that his crooked employer will stay true to a promise...Years after a pandemic sweeps across Europe, wiping out its all-white population, a pilgrim returns to his Polish birthplace in search of the only other non-white kid he knew at school...An inscrutable hotelier loses his composure when a ... Read more

    $10.13 CAD

  • The Bear: Culture, Nature, Heritage

    by Professor Owen Nevin, Henry McGhie, Professor Ian Convery, Jeff Meldrum, Jenny Anne Glikman, John Kitchen, Jón Jónsson, Koen Cuyten, Kristinn Schram0, Lynn Rogers1, Mark Wilson2, Melanie Clapham3, Miha Krofel4, Mike Jeffries5, Professor Peter Davis6, Philip Charles8, Russell C. Van Horn9, Samantha A. Young0, Sarah Elmeligi1, Tracy Hayes2, Barrie K. Gilbert3, Beatrice Frank4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Elizabeth O. Davis6, Gareth Longstaff7, Heather Prince8 ...
    Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children; and act as symbols for conservation and environmental issues. They also symbolise wilderness, reinforcing and maintaining our connection to the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Rebels' War - 47 Personal Accounts of the Confederacy

    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, General Robert E. Lee, The Southern Soldier Boy, A Rebel's Recollections

    by Frank H. Alfriend, Jefferson Davis, John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee, George Cary Eggleston, James Longstreet, John Singleton Mosby, Edward M. Boykin, Heros von Borcke, John Beauchamp Jones, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Isaac Hermann, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, William Watson, Daniel P. Smith, Eliza Frances Andrews, James Carson Elliott, Thomas D. Duncan, David E. Johnston, Francis Warrington Dawson, John A. Sloan, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Henry Lane Stone, Basil Wilson Duke, Fannie A. Beers, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, Rufus H. Peck, Edward Alexander Moore, Raphael Semmes, Cole Younger, William Meade Dame, Caleb Huse, William G. Stevenson, Myrta Lockett Avary, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Gibbs French, Richard L. Maury, J. Wilkinson, Luther W. Hopkins, John Porter Fort, John Milton Hubbard, John Call Dalton, James H. Wood, Frank M. Myers ...
    Southerners should be proud of their ancestors who fought with great courage and sacrifice in the Civil War. This anthology is dedicated to the brave solders of the Rebellion. They are scorned in the pages of history books, but each and every one of them deserves our deepest respect and admiration. These courageous young men valiantly defended their homeland, fought bravely, and ultimately gave ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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    Jenny and the Jaws of Life

    Short Stories

    by Jincy Willett ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman, Jonathan Davis, Sarah Naughton, Robert Fass, Tavia Gilbert, Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett’s eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook