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  • Carbon Capital

    Climate Change and the Ethics of Oil Investing

    by Sean Field ...
    Surprising insights into the worldviews of oil and gas financiersIt is no secret that the fossil fuel industry, whose products power modern America both physically and financially, inflicts immense destruction to our environment. The past, present, and future of US energy have been determined not just by engineers, but by financiers, an under-studied group of energy investors.Drawing on four years ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Courting Sanctity

    Holy Women and the Capetians

    by Sean L. Field ...
    The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into "Saint Louis" to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity, Sean L. Field argues that, in fact, holy women were central to the Capetian's self ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Deeds of Philip Augustus

    An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi Augusti"

    by Rigord ...
    Translated by Larry F. Field ...
    The first full English translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi Augusti**,** The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes available to Anglophone readers the most important narrative account of the reign of King Philip II of France (r. 1180–1223), a critical source about this pivotal figure in the development of the medieval French monarchy and an intriguing window into many aspects of the broader twelfth ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome

    The Lives of Margherita Colonna by Giovanni Colonna and Stefania

    Edited by Lezlie S. Knox, Sean L. Field ...
    Margherita Colonna (1255–1280) was born into one of the great baronial families that dominated Rome politically and culturally in the thirteenth century. After the death of her father and mother, Margherita was raised by her brothers, including Cardinal Giacomo Colonna. The two extant contemporary accounts of her short life offer a daring model of mystical lay piety forged in imitation of St. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sanctity of Louis IX

    Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres

    Edited by Sean L. Field, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin ...
    Louis IX of France reigned as king from 1226 to 1270 and was widely considered an exemplary Christian ruler, renowned for his piety, justice, and charity toward the poor. After his death on crusade, he was proclaimed a saint in 1297, and today Saint Louis is regarded as one of the central figures of early French history and the High Middle Ages. In The Sanctity of Louis IX, Larry F. Field offers ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Hamlet

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding, Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker, Jamie Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead, Gavin Muir, Peter Yapp, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Richard Pearce, Paul Panting ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Life at a Glimpse

    A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue

    by Sean St.Clair Fields ...
    Life at a Glimpse is a book full of intrigue and exciting possibilities. It has been cited as "short and sweet" and has received wonderful reviews that purport the book as being " a solid dose of philosophy wrapped in humor and wit". As you take this journey, you will interact with powerful life lessons and practical propositions. Devoted to the notion that all people are born with a distinct ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Special Education Law Case Studies

    A Review from Practitioners

    by Jenifer Cline, David F. Bateman ...
    Tremendous changes have occurred over the past decade in the provision of services to students with disabilities. Federal mandates continue to define requirements for a free appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment. Additionally, there has been an increase in the number of lawsuits filed against school districts regarding the provision of educational services for ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor

    The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart

    by Sean L. Field ...
    On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she had written be confiscated. William next consigned Guiard of Cressonessart, an apocalyptic activist in ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Govern Is to Serve

    An Essay on Medieval Democracy

    by Jacques Dalarun ...
    Translated by Sean L. Field ...
    Series series Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Quantum Lean

    Taking Lean Systems to the Next Level

    by Michael Sanders, Sean Fields ...
    This unique guide details a revolutionary approach to lean systems. Whereas traditional lean techniques suffer from less-than-inspiring results, Quantum Lean (QL) rethinks this subject and provides an overdue remedy. The key to this breakthrough is that QL approaches lean systems from an entirely different perspective than conventional methods. Instead of focusing on resource utilization, QL ... Read more

    $50.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy

    The Life of Clare of Rimini

    by Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, Valerio Cappozzo ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324–29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini is the earliest known saint’s life originally written in Italian, and one of the few such lives to be written while its subject was still living. It tells the story of a controversial woman, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD