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“charles gordon”

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  • The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise

    by Charles Gordon Cumming ...
    The Book of Psalms is no longer to be regarded by Old Testament scholars as an isolated phenomenon. Similar religious poetry is found not only in the narrative and prophetic portions of the Old Testament, in the Apocrypha, and the New Testament, but also in the literatures of Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, India, and Greece. Indeed, wherever religion really develops beyond the primitive stage, it ... Read more

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  • Health-Care For All: History of a ‘Third-World’ Dilemma

    by Gordon Charles Cook ...
    In the 1960s to 1980s, a heated controversy arose as to how best medical care could be delivered to individuals living in rural 'third-world' communities. This became polarised: should the national health budget be directed to primary health care with the exclusion of tertiary care (including hospitals)? This became confused with the training of medical personnel, including doctors. Of course, a ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of a Medical Specialty: London's Clinical Tropical Medicine

    by Gordon Charles Cook ...
    In the late nineteenth century it became clear to the British government that health hazards facing those serving in warmer climates, particularly West Africa, were unacceptable. This led to the origin of a new clinical specialty – tropical medicine. Until the Great War (1914-18), the discipline flourished not only in Britain but in every country with possessions in a warm climate. However, in the ... Read more

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  • National Service Fifty Years Ago: Life of a Medical Conscript in West Africa

    by Gordon Charles Cook ...
    Between 1946 and 1962, following World War II (1939-45), for the first time in peace-time Britain, conscription was introduced as a partial solution to Churchill's 'cold war' strategy. While the majority of conscripts served their two-years within the UK or Europe, a minority was sent to overseas locations, some to where actual fighting was taking place. The author of this book was based in ... Read more

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  • At the Cottage

    by Charles Gordon ...
    Whatever you call it, every Canadian summer home needs at least one copy of Charles Gordon's wry, affectionate, and very funny study of our national obsession with that special summer place. ... Read more

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  • The Canada Trip

    by Charles Gordon ...
    It started out as a simple idea: Charles Gordon and his wife, Nancy, drive across Canada. Starting from Ottawa they drove east through Quebec, through New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, where they learned about “soap for the moose.” From St. John’s they headed west on a different route through the Maritimes to Montreal, Toronto, and Lake of the Woods (scene of the famous cottage ... Read more

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  • The Grim Pig

    by Charles Gordon ...
    Modern management has come to The World Beacon. This means that a new editor, Fred Morgan, has been sent to inspire everyone to get out and write newspaper stories that will matter to their readers, stories about their lives, their children, their careers – and cloth.Cloth? Clearly, the new editor is making some unusual plans and Parker MacVeigh, our hero, senses an opportunity. Parker – divorced, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Still at the Cottage

    Or the Cabin, the Shack, the Lake, the Beach, or Camp

    by Charles Gordon ...
    In 1989, Charles Gordon wrote a book about the joys of life at the cottage called, well, At the Cottage. It was a huge success, selling thousands of copies every year since then. A copy sits, dog-eared and smeared with sunscreen, in every cottage worthy of the name, right beside the bird book with the missing pages.Now, showing the same creative spirit when it comes to names, comes Still at the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Be Not Too Bad

    A Canadian Guide to Superior Behaviour

    by Charles Gordon ...
    Move over, Miss Manners. Step aside, Emily Post. It’s time for a truly modern book (“How To Make Love to a Laptopper”) on proper behaviour at work (“Walk fast and carry a piece of paper”) and at play (“Riding a Bicicyle Without Being a Geek”). Forget excellence. This book will help you rise above it all and become, well, not too bad. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    In Solitary Witness

    The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter

    by Gordon Charles Zahn ...
    Narrated by Pete Cross ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    This is the book that discovered Franz Jägerstätter and his inspiring story of unyielding resistance to Nazi orders and his commitment to the dictates of conscience even at the cost of life itself. When German troops moved into Austria in 1938, Jägerstätter was the only man in his village to vote against the Anschluss (Annexation of Austria). Although he was not involved in any political ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Giver

    A Newbery Award Winner

    by Lois Lowry ...
    Series Book 1 - Giver Quartet
    In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned ... Read more

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