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  • The Catskills

    "The Adirondacks is a lovely dedication and exploration of the area just a year after President Roosevelt preserved the park." The Sun Community NewsThomas Morris Longstreth (1886–1975) was a famous American author of over 40 books. In 1918 he published "The Catskills"Longstreth had for many years been acquainted with the several ranges of the Appalachians, had described the Adirondacks and the ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth

    And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

    by Thomas Morris ...
    "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many... ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Always the Music

    Over the course of 34 years, Thomas W. Morris worked at the top levels of the symphony orchestra world, running two of the biggest and most famous, the Boston Symphony and The Cleveland Orchestra. He commissioned music from the world's most important composers, interacted with the greatest musical artists and produced thousands of concerts. He worked closely with Arthur Fiedler, famed conductor of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Recollections of Military Service in 1813, 1814, and 1815, through Germany, Holland, and France

    including some Details of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo [New Edition]

    This account of military service during the Peninsular War penned by the late sergeant of the 2nd Battalion of the 73rd Regiment of Foot, Thomas Morris, who was not even born by the time of the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. At the tender age of 16 in 1812 he became a substitute volunteer in the British Army, enticed by the tales of derring-do and the £60 bounty paid to each man. Even ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Up

    Stories

    by Thomas Morris ...
    “This brilliant, funny, unsettling book is a work of deep psychological realism and a philosophical inquiry at the same time. Thomas Morris is a master of the contemporary short story, and the stories in this collection are his best yet.” —SALLY ROONEY author of INTERMEZZOStrikingly original and wonderfully tender, Open Up is a vivid exploration of the thrills, challenges, and aches of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860

    Series series Studies in Legal History
    This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Reading the Weather

    by Thomas Morris ...
    Once interested in the air, science soon began to take up that commonplace but baffling phase of it called the weather. Now, of all matters under the sun the weather was the deepest intrenched in superstition and hearsay. From the era of Noah it had been made the subject of more remarks unrelieved by common sense than any other. It was at once the commonest topic for conversation and the rarest ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics and Sports in America

    Parallels and Intersections

    Series series Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
    Politics and Sports in America offers a fresh perspective on the dynamic relationship between athletics and political life in the United States. While recent scholarship has focused on the rise of athlete activism, few political scientists have examined sports through a distinctly American lens. Most existing studies emphasize international contexts.Thomas R. Morris and Daniel J. Palazzolo address ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Dublin Railway Murder

    The sensational true story of a Victorian murder mystery

    by Thomas Morris ...
    **A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station.Dublin, November 1856:** George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk.He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the inside. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Always the Music

    How a lifelong passion framed a future for orchestras

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    Always The Music is the fascinating story of Morris’ personal metamorphosis through the highest levels of the world of classical music, his learning and insights into how storied musical institutions function, great artists create, and audiences engage. Over the course of 34 years running the Boston Symphony and The Cleveland Orchestra, he had the growing realization that American orchestras had ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fishbowl

    The first works of Thomas W. Morris, followed by poetry collections of a negative and positive nature, disconnection, surrealism and love. ... Read more

    Free

  • The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms

    The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms is a must for busy professionals and students involved in accounting or finance. This comprehensive reference book defines close to 2,000 acronyms. Examples and graphic illustrations are used throughout to clarify definitions. The Dictionary contains an appendix of sources of further information and is fully cross-referenced. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD