Barlow: 250 books
Blue Future
Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Water is a human right: “A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Booklist
The United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right—but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental...
Blue Gold
The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
“Probably the most eloquent call to arms we’re likely to hear about the politics of water” (The Globe and Mail**, Toronto).**
In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis,” Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization...
by Frank Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy...
by Frank Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror and England’s king for only 13 years (1087–1100) before he was mysteriously assassinated. In this vivid biography, here updated and reissued with a new preface, Frank Barlow reveals an unconventional, flamboyant...
The Godwins
The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold.
Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold – the last Anglo-Saxon king – and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest. Set against...
by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife...
Abode of Love
Growing Up in a Messianic Cult
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
When Kate Barlow was a little girl, she moved with her mother and her older sisters to a ramshackle English mansion. They were not alone on the once-grand estate, surrounded as they were by twenty eccentric, elderly women, one of whom was her grandmother . . . or was she? This remarkable memoir is...
Statistics
A Guide to the Use of Statistical Methods in the Physical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The Manchester Physics Series General Editors: D. J. Sandiford; F. Mandl; A. C. Phillips Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Properties of Matter B. H. Flowers and E. Mendoza Optics Second Edition F. G. Smith and J. H. Thomson Statistical Physics Second Edition F. Mandl Electromagnetism...
Profit Is Not the Cure
A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.
More than thirty years later, the same battle is...
Kitty's Countryside Dream
A feel good romantic comedy about life, love and family.
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
New home. New life. New beginning. Love affairs can blossom in the most unlikely places . . .
When Kitty inherits Bluebell Lodge from her grandmother, a farm in the beautiful Staffordshire countryside, it’s time for fresh air and a fresh start. Up to her elbows in chickens and ponies, Kitty...
Lizzie's Christmas Escape
A sparkling feel good Christmas romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
A gorgeous country house hotel, a liberal dusting of snow, a cosy weekend away…what more could Lizzie ask for at Christmas?
Every Christmas Lizzie promises herself that things will change and she will leap into the new year a new woman. And yet here she is again, at the beginning of December...
Swimming Laps in August
And Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
The author says of this collection:
My poems are my life on paper, in snapshots of course. I try to recapture the emotions of remembered scenes and to render them with a moderately subdued passion. Actually, I have long withheld some of these poems, fearing they are a little too personal, but...
by Mike Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Charmed Lives: charmed as in surviving, as in getting away with it, as in possessed, as in fortunate. The lives and moments in these poems are about being vulnerable, getting by and sometimes being at one with the world. This visually evocative and grounded writing is able to cross and recross the divide between the familiar and the strange.
by Jane Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of the most rural of rural places in Ireland. Although of a higher social class than...