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  • The Ghost in My Brain

    How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back

    by Clark Elliott ...
    The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumasIn 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn’t walk across a room, or ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ghost in My Brain, The

    How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back

    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas.In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn’t walk across a room, or ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Black Baptist Experience in Canada

    Series Book 19 - McMaster General Studies Series
    This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important personages such as ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Heart Forgery 10th Anniversary Anthology

    Edited by Georgia Atkin ...
    Open Heart Forgery is a Halifax-based grassroots organization that aims to give voice to Nova Scotia poets and to build a local community of writers and readers who love the written word.Since its creation in March 2010, Open Heart Forgery has published more than 1700 poems and lyrics by over 450 local writers. Run entirely by volunteers, the organization releases free monthly issues both online ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Using African American Literature to Teach ELA Standards Preschool-2nd Grade

    Using African American Literature to Teach ELA Standards (Preschool-2nd Grade) is a practical, standards-aligned instructional guide designed to help educators teach reading and writing through culturally responsive practices.This resource provides ready-to-use lesson plans, comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, and writing activities that support early learners in building strong ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Where Beauty Survived

    A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia

    A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia.As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side—great-grandson to William ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Quest for a 'National' Nationalism

    E.J. Pratt’s Epic Ambition, ‘Race’ Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity

    Series Book 1 - The Pratt Lectures
    In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And while Pratt’s epic poems, such as Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike, stand as lofty poetic achievements, the poet is never able to escape his own identity and speak convincingly for all ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Bridges in New Testament Interpretation

    Interdisciplinary Advances

    The field of New Testament studies often appears splintered into widely different specializations and narrowly defined research projects. Nevertheless, some of the most important insights have come about when curious men and women have defied disciplinary boundaries and drawn on other fields of knowledge in order to gain a more adequate view of history. The essays in Bridges in New Testament ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Viola Desmond’s Canada

    A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land

    Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction! The Miramichi Reader’s best non-fiction book of 2016In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.Most Canadians are ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Evolution of Women's Healthcare Practices

    In "The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art," William Clark meticulously explores the role and evolving practices of midwives in early modern society. Through a blend of historical analysis and nuanced narrative, Clark delves into the significant contributions midwives made to childbirth and maternal health while addressing the often contentious relationship between midwifery and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Luminous Ink

    Writers on Writing in Canada

    Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon

    The Autobiography of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy

    “Dr. Howard McCurdy is the author of this autobiography. Period,” writes George Elliott Clarke in the introduction to Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon. “But in July 2017, seven months before his decease, he requested that I edit this work, which was already progressing toward a conclusion.” McCurdy passed away in February 2018, and with the encouragement of McCurdy’s widow, Clarke took ... Read more

    $8.09 USD