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More Lost Massey Lectures
Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form.
This...
by Della Grant
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
“Mending Matthew” is the story of a child’s first ten years of life, ten years he was not supposed to have. Born with severe Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, he has suffered major cranio-facial deformities, a defective airway, respiratory problems, cardiac problems, renal issues, and significant...
Last Weapons
Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial...
A Civilised Savagery
Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called...
by Alyssa Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
In each of these stories, not everything is what it seems; and this may only prove to create more obstacles in the long run. Spencer, the epitome of social awkwardness, meets his polar opposite. Norman, a man with a deadbeat mom, deals with a subtle yet deadly affliction. Recia, an assassin, is thrown...
How To Resolve Conflicts
Turn conflict into cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Conflict distorts relationships - whether it takes the form of international disputes between countries or cross words exchanged with friend, work colleagues or family members. All too often conflict can slip out of control, with tragic consequences - as seen, for example, in so-called ‘road rage’...
Teenage Romantic Fool
Lost & Found
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Teenage Romantic Fool The teenage romantic fool, created a cornucopian , of self-surviving odes. Which he composed? From an inner portion, completely rooted, internally inside. And so during these, daily afflictions, which he had cultivated, some forty years ago. After awakening, the jotting down, dauntless...
by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Canadian writer Grant Allen gained prominence as an ardent defender of Darwin's theory of evolution. In this volume, a select group of Allen's writings on the topic of evolution are presented. They range in tone from serious to lighthearted and take the form of essays, poems, and vignettes.
Wholehearted Living
Five-Minute Reflections for Modern Moms
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
“Doing it all” and “having it all” have become barriers for women, barbed judgments for moms especially. At a time when it seems that moms should be everything to everyone—and failing at one implies failing at all!—Wholehearted Living cuts through the uncertainty and self-shame and confidently...
by Dr. Jane Grant, Dr Ian Crawford, Dr Katherine Joy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
As an artist Jane Grant is curious working with sound, moving images and drawings. She asks questions. Questions that investigate human behaviour, experimenting through sound and vision, in order to record and draw attention to everyday movement, gesture, noise. This is brought together with Scientific...
Playing the Whore
The Work of Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Recent years have seen a panic over “online red-light districts,” which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. But rarely do these fearful, salacious dispatches come...
by D. Grant Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This work is a compilation of editorial statements produced by the author during the decade of 1997-2007. Those years began with the persecution of Bill Clinton in the so-called Monicagate affair, but were dominated by the much graver ascension of a group of criminally inclined Republicans to the...
Battle Cries and Lullabies
Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In this groundbreaking work, which covers thousands of years and spans the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives and mothers of soldiers; as warrior queens leading armies into battle; and as baggage carriers marching in the rear.
Beginning...
Angela's Affair
West Coast USA Romances, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This book contains mature content.
Kent Ferguson came to the west coast community of Port Townsend to straighten out the mess left behind by his sister, but once he met Angela he was determined to become her lover.
… and Angela was tempted, but could a home-and-family woman manage...