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Big-Box Swindle

The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses

by Stacy Mitchell ...

Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising water pollution and diminished civic engagement.Mitchell's investigation takes us from ... Read more

$18.39 CAD

Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising water pollution and diminished civic engagement.Mitchell's investigation takes us from
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Teachers Sweet and Sour

by Stacy N. Mitchell ...

Teachers Sweet and Sour is a children’s picture book that addresses Hungry Huey’s wish to have another teacher because he does not get what he wants. Ms. Sweet is his wonderfully sweet teacher who makes learning fun and tasty for the entire class. She is beautiful, kind, smart, and very, very sweet. Ms. Sweet smells pretty and she even makes the classroom smell pretty too. Each morning, Hungry ... Read more

$5.99 CAD

Teachers Sweet and Sour is a children’s picture book that addresses Hungry Huey’s wish to have another teacher because he does not get what he wants. Ms. Sweet is his wonderfully sweet teacher who makes learning fun and tasty for the entire class. She is beautiful, kind, smart, and very, very sweet. Ms. Sweet smells pretty and she even makes the classroom smell pretty too. Each morning, Hungry
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Saving Each Other

by Stacy Mitchell ...

Series Book 1 - Saving Series
Two hearts, two souls. Devastated by loss, united through destiny.The rules: Communicate only through text messages and never reveal our real names or other personal details.My name is Ean Montgomery. After the drunk-driving accident that killed my wife, son, and unborn daughter, I was forced to see a grief counselor. In an unconventional move, she gave me a private cell phone and the first ... Read more

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Two hearts, two souls. Devastated by loss, united through destiny.The rules: Communicate only through text messages and never reveal our real names or other personal details.My name is Ean Montgomery. After the drunk-driving accident that killed my wife, son, and unborn daughter, I was forced to see a grief counselor. In an unconventional move, she gave me a private cell phone and the first
... Read more
Declarations of Independents

by Stacy Mitchell, Hildegarde Hannum ...

Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Independent businesses in the United States have been under attack in recent decades. Large chains, or "big-box" stores, have dominated the market for nearly every product, in the process homogenizing our once unique Main Streets. Now local ... Read more

$1.36 CAD

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Independent businesses in the United States have been under attack in recent decades. Large chains, or "big-box" stores, have dominated the market for nearly every product, in the process homogenizing our once unique Main Streets. Now local
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Drowned Worlds

by Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Jeffrey Ford ...

Narrated by Jason Culp, Basil Sands, Jay Aaseng, Fran Tunno, Candice Moll, Ann Richardson, MiMi Chang, Michael G. Welch, Stacy Mitchell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 54 min

The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and James Morrow. We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time of Man. The ... Read more

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The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and James Morrow. We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time of Man. The
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I'm Fine … Thanks

by Jahquel J. ...

Narrated by Ace Bentley, Staci Mitchell ...

Series series Lennox Hills
Unabridged

10 hours 40 min

I wasn't supposed to take on any new clients.All my current couples were already a handful.A marriage therapist with a failing marriage.If only they knew.That is until Kami Lynn walked into my office without her husband.I only treated couples.I was supposed to help save her marriage; instead, I was the main reason for its destruction.I did everything the way I was supposed to.I graduated college ... Read more

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I wasn't supposed to take on any new clients.All my current couples were already a handful.A marriage therapist with a failing marriage.If only they knew.That is until Kami Lynn walked into my office without her husband.I only treated couples.I was supposed to help save her marriage; instead, I was the main reason for its destruction.I did everything the way I was supposed to.I graduated college
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Histories of the Musical

An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1

Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In ... Read more

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The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In
... Read more
Identities and Audiences in the Musical

An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3

Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this third volume of the reissued Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, chapters focus on race, ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this third volume of the reissued Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, chapters focus on race,
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Media and Performance in the Musical

An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 2

Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging
... Read more
Building and Understanding Company Culture and Transition

Discover in depth how vital culture is to a company's success, how to approach it as a leader, and how to deal with transition

by Feiner, Stacy, Levy, Mitchell ...

Every company, big or small, has its own set of customs, norms, and even rules that no one talks about, yet everybody seems to adhere to. When you talk about culture in companies, it pertains to both positive and negative aspects. Business leaders understand how important it is for consultants and specialists to be able to penetrate through a company’s culture before leading them through a ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Every company, big or small, has its own set of customs, norms, and even rules that no one talks about, yet everybody seems to adhere to. When you talk about culture in companies, it pertains to both positive and negative aspects. Business leaders understand how important it is for consultants and specialists to be able to penetrate through a company’s culture before leading them through a
... Read more
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Playing with Fire

by Kiki Swinson ...

Narrated by Staci Mitchell ...

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min

National bestselling author Kiki Swinson never lets up with relentless characters, unpredictable twists, and a merciless depiction of Southern striving, scheming—and dying. Now she takes you to the explosive beginnings of wild-card lawyerYoshi Lomax, who discovers that even a life of privilege isn’t bullet proof …The perfect storm …Young, irreverent, and reckless, Yoshi is struggling to make good ... Read more

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National bestselling author Kiki Swinson never lets up with relentless characters, unpredictable twists, and a merciless depiction of Southern striving, scheming—and dying. Now she takes you to the explosive beginnings of wild-card lawyerYoshi Lomax, who discovers that even a life of privilege isn’t bullet proof …The perfect storm …Young, irreverent, and reckless, Yoshi is struggling to make good
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(Im)Perfectly Happy

by Sharina Harris ...

Narrated by Ebony Ford, Ebony Mendez, Staci Mitchell, Tamra Thompson ...

Unabridged

11 hours 46 min

When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals—but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can’t help wondering what happened to thehopeful, confident, driven women they used to be—and how to get them back …Radio personality Raina, known as “the black Delilah,” hates the wholesome persona that’s made her a success.Doling out ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals—but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can’t help wondering what happened to thehopeful, confident, driven women they used to be—and how to get them back …Radio personality Raina, known as “the black Delilah,” hates the wholesome persona that’s made her a success.Doling out
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