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  • A Painful Duty

    Forty Years at the Criminal Bar

    by C.D. Evans ...
    In his memoir, C.D. Evans reveals insights into the practice and the characters of the Canadian Criminal Bar. Special attention is given to notorious clients and special tributes are given to non-nonsense judges of the early days."There have been many bios of colourful trial lawyers, eg. Liebowitz, Darrow, the Halls, Marshall and Emmet, but C.D. Evans has topped all their biographers with his ... Read more

    $14.52 USD

  • Ducks Redux

    Fueling Flames in Oil Land

    by LM Shyba, CD Evans ...
    In Ducks Redux, enviro-science grad Maeve Wong gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of her life lusts for climate activism and justice, the other for resource exploitation at all cost. She needs to decide whose side she is on. ... Read more

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    Tough Crimes

    True Cases by Top Criminal Lawyers

    Narrated by Bonnie Horton ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - True Cases Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them? We’ve all lamented the fate ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ducks Redux

    Fueling Flames in Oil Land

    Narrated by Lorene Shyba ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    In Ducks Redux, enviro-science grad Maeve Wong gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of her life lusts for climate activism and justice, the other for resource exploitation at all cost. She needs to decide whose side she is on. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Less Painful Duties

    Reflections on the Revolution in the Legal Profession

    by C.D. Evans QC ...
    Series series Durvile Reflections series
    Less Painful Duties is a sequel to C.D. Evans’ memoir A Painful Duty: Forty Years at the Criminal Bar. In Less Painful Duties, Evans reflects on truly revolutionary changes that have come about within the Canadian legal profession, in particular the Criminal Bar, over the past fifty years. Topics he covers include ascendancy of women in the profession, effects on criminal litigation of the ... Read more

    $12.33 USD

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  • Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

    Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

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    A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fictionWinner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book FestivalLeaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early ... Read more

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    Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front

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  • The Men of the Last Frontier

    by Grey Owl ...
    Series Book 20 - Voyageur Classics
    In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for the protection and preservation of the natural environment pervades Grey Owls words and makes his literary debut still ring with great relevance in ... Read more

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  • Invisible Punishment

    The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

    Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind, Marc Mauer ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of the Oak Island Treasure

    Two Hundred Years of Hope and Despair

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    Series series Amazing Stories
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  • Seeking a Better Future

    The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec

    Series Book 2 - The English in Canada
    The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.Drawing on wide-ranging data collected from English record offices and Canadian archives, Lucille Campey ... Read more

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