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  • 130th Altgeld Gardens

    by Slim ...
    Welcome to the "Toxic Doughnut."If you miss the exit, you're gone.At the far edge of Chicago, where the city limits end and the industrial wasteland begins, sits Altgeld Gardens. It's an island trapped between a sewage plant, a landfill, and the steel mills that rain "Gray Snow" down on the residents every day.Malik Vance is just trying to breathe. A warehouse worker doing his best to keep his ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Captured at Singapore

    A Diary of a Far East Prisoner of War

    by Jan Slimming, Jill Robertson ...
    Drawn from a journal secretly written by a young soldier in the Royal Army Service Corps, a true POW story of adventure, courage, resilience and luck.What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? What if you had to depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination only to find yourself in the heat of a battle that concludes in ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defeat Into Victory

    by Viscount Field Marshal William Slim ...
    Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of World War II. Defeat Into Victory is his classic account of the Burma campaign: a story of retreat, attrition and final hard-fought victory over the Japanese. Told by a commander always at the centre of events, this is a narrative which captures both the high drama and the harsh reality of war. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker

    Codebreaker Girls

    by Jan Slimming ...
    The tale of a college student's top-secret life: "A welcome addition to the seldom told story of the role of American women in [WWII] codebreaking." — The Spectrum MonitorThe Secret Life of an American Codebreaker is the true account of Janice Martin, a college student recruited to the military in 1943 after she was secretly approached by a professor at Goucher College, a liberal arts ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defeat Into Victory

    Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

    by Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim ...
    Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma.The first edition of Defeat Into Victory ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Battle Tales from Burma

    by John Randle ...
    A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving Queen

    by Slim ...
    A story about a lady who went through so much abuse in her life. She was a casualty and had to be strong and solid for herself and her children, and she survived it. She will go on with her life in this book ofSurvivor Queen."This is about a Survivor who went through so much in my life. I was pulled in every direction by a man that said he loved me! The only thing that helped me cope with the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Surviving Queen

    by Slim ...
    This is a story about a woman who went through so much abuse in her life. She was a victim and had to be strong for herself and her children, and survived it. She will go on with life, thus the story of a survivor queen. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Humanitarian Ethics

    A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

    by Hugo Slim ...
    Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Codebreaker Girls

    A Secret Life at Bletchley Park

    by Jan Slimming ...
    "What would it be like to keep a secret for fifty years? Never telling your parents, your children, or even your husband?"Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park tells the true story of Daisy Lawrence. Following extensive research, the author uses snippets of information, unpublished photographs and her own recollections to describe scenes from her mother's poor, but happy, upbringing ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phytoceuticals in Food for Health and Wellness

    Harnessing Plant Therapeutics

    Edited by Tanmay Sarkar, Slim Smaoui, Wing-Fu Lai ...
    Phytoceuticals in Food for Health and Wellness: Harnessing Plant Therapeutics emphasizes the growing interest in the potential health benefits of phytochemicals in wellness and product development by uncovering innate bioactive compounds found in plants. Highlighting the diverse classes of phytochemicals, including flavonoids, carotenoids, polyphenols, antioxidants, and alkaloids, this book ... Read more

    $219.99 CAD

  • Health, Nutrition, and Sustainability

    Exploring Unconventional Food Sources Volume 1

    Edited by Tanmay Sarkar, Slim Smaoui ...
    Evolving dietary preferences, increasing concerns over food security and a growing awareness of the negative impact traditional food production practices have on the environment, have caused a major shift in the food landscape. Health, Nutrition and Sustainability: Exploring Unconventional Food Sources, Volume 1, addresses the surge in interest in exploring unconventional and alternative food ... Read more

    $219.99 CAD