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  • Acts of Allegiance

    A Novel

    For readers of The Goldfinch and classic le Carré, a propulsive tale of espionage, betrayal, loyalty, and love, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing, Anglican wife, Sugar, and a job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Trout

    A Novel

    At the heart of every life there lies a secret.Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old ... Read more

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  • Positively Fourth and Mercer

    The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, The Bottom Line

    In 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one could have foreseen either its long-term success or its impact on the musical and cultural landscape of New York City. Over the next thirty years, while trends and tastes came and went, the Bottom Line ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Trout

    A Novel

    Narrated by Jeff Harding ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    After the publication of his most recent book, Alex Smyth receives a trout fly in the mail at his home address in rural Canada - with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear in him that he is being stalked, and it awakens deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, a time before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Dewey in Our Time

    Learning from John Dewey for transcultural practice

    Edited by Peter Cunningham ...
    Dewey in Our Time brings together leading writers from around the world who are actively engaged in applying Dewey's thought to the challenges facing educational systems and teachers in school. Issues concerning equity, social justice, curriculum and pedagogy, teachers' roles and their professional identity are considered, with examples from the Americas, Asia and Europe. John Dewey's outstanding ... Read more

    $30.19 USD

  • Medicine and the Reformation

    The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent.Medicine and the Reformation charts how both popular and official religion affected orthodox medicine as ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe

    The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, examines the effects of the Counter-Reformation on health care and poor relief in Southern Catholic Europe in the period between 1540 and 1700.As well as a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • It All Depends on the Dose

    Poisons and Medicines in European History

    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Becoming Teachers

    Texts and Testimonies, 1907-1950

    Series series Woburn Education Series
    There is an extraordinary gap in the published history of schooling in the twentieth century. Nowhere is the voice of the teacher, telling his or her own story, extensively to be heard. This book, drawing not only upon the official documentary record, but also upon the previously untapped recollections of more than 100 former classroom teachers, aims to fill this gap. In Becoming Teachers, the ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

  • Comparative and Veterinary Pharmacology

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The human–animal bond has evolved and diversi?ed down the ages. Dogs, cats and even horses, have long ful?lled the role of faithful companion and indeed, as exempli?ed by the introduction of seeing and hearing dogs, there may be a critical level of co-dependency between the species. In the twenty-?rst century, the animal types that are kept as pets in many parts of the world are extensive ranging ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community

    The Vision and Legacy of Sir Alec Clegg

    Series series Progressive Education
    Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community examines Sir Alec Clegg’s distinctive contribution to education reform. Revisiting the significance of Clegg’s principles for education in the 21st century, the book investigates the impact of his innovative approach to education and his advocacy of an arts-based curriculum to promote physical and mental health.The book explores a variety of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. This volume provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in the economically important regions of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD