Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 60 results for “john e byrd”
Skip side bar filters

  • Shelby and the Lost Boy of Misbegot Island

    Forever Mpeta, Forever Young

    by John E. Byrd ...
    Our story is set in 1970's Brooklyn with a backstory in the Colonial-African slave trade. As our story begins, we meet fifteen-year-old, Shelby Simmons, who dreams of someday becoming a famous author. She and her siblings, Wade and Todd, have been allowed by their parents to stay up on a balmy summer evening to view the 4th of July fireworks from their favorite spot in nearby Prospect Park.While ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeing MAD

    Essays on MAD Magazine's Humor and Legacy

    Edited by Judith Yaross Lee, John Bird ...
    “Seeing Mad” is an illustrated volume of scholarly essays about the popular and influential humor magazine Mad, with topics ranging across its 65-year history—up to last summer’s downsizing announcement that Mad will publish less new material and will be sold only in comic book shops.Mad magazine stands near the heart of post-WWII American humor, but at the periphery in scholarly recognition from ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird, Tiani Hetherington ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, and citizens at the grassroots level. Decolonization seeks to weaken the effects of colonialism and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Mapping the Futures

    Local Cultures, Global Change

    Edited by John Bird, Barry Curtis, Tim Putnam, Lisa Tickner ...
    Series series FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
    There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Cooking through History

    A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Food with Menus and Recipes [2 volumes]

    Edited by Melanie Byrd, John P. Dunn ...
    From the prehistoric era to the present, food culture has helped to define civilizations. This reference surveys food culture and cooking from antiquity to the modern era, providing background information along with menus and recipes.Food culture has been central to world civilizations since prehistory. While early societies were limited in terms of their resources and cooking technology, methods ... Read more

    $182.29 USD

  • Modern Fiscal Issues

    Essays in Honour of Carl S. Shoup

    Edited by Richard Bird, John Head ...
    Series series Heritage
    The contributors to this work, all leading economists in their own right, are a few of the many colleagues, former students, and friends of Carl Shoup who have benefitted from his many years as a leading teacher and scholar of public finance. They dedicate this book to their mentor on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, in recognition of his intellectual probity and wide influence on thinking ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Understanding Same-Sex Attraction: Where to Turn and How to Help (LDS Edition)

    Edited by Byrd, A. Dean, Livingstone, John P., Wells, M. Gawain ...
    The authors and editors of Understanding Same-Sex Attraction, include scholars, therapists, religious leaders, and people who have dealt with same-sex attraction in their personal lives; all witness that hope, healing, and help are available. True science and true religion — never at odds with each other — come together again on this important subject.In reviewing this groundbreaking book, the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Father of Glacier National Park

    Discoveries and Explorations in His Own Words

    by George Bird Grinell, Hugh Grinnell ...
    The story of this glorious Montana landmark, told through the journals and letters of the man who fought to conserve it—maps and photos included.With his small group of explorers, George Bird Grinnell discovered and named forty geological features east of the Continental Divide and west of the Blackfeet Reservation. He also happened to be a prolific writer and record-keeper who diligently made ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mark Twain in Context

    Edited by John Bird ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Mark Twain In Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of one of the most celebrated American writers. It is a collection of short, lively contributions covering a wide range of topics on Twain's life and works. Twain lived during a time of great change, upheaval, progress, and challenge. He rose from obscurity to become what some have called 'the ... Read more

    $118.09 USD

  • The 10 Keys to Success

    by John Bird ...
    In his inimitable no-nonsense style, John Bird - founder of the Big Issue - shows us how to be successful in whatever we choose in just ten easy steps.No one is born deserving anything - you only deserve what you achieve by yourself. Drawing from this, John's philosophy is based on the idea that success is about deciding what you want, working out what is important to you and then going out to ... Read more

    $2.67 USD

  • Tom Foley

    The Man in the Middle

    by R. Kenton Bird, John C. Pierce ...
    Series series Congressional Leaders
    Thomas S. Foley, a Democratic representative from the traditionally Republican region of eastern Washington, served in Congress from 1964 to 1994. In 1989 he became the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives from a district west of Texas. His thirty years of experience as a Democrat representing a Republican-leaning district contributed to his strong commitment to bipartisanship and ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Mechanical Engineering Principles

    by John Bird, Carl Ross ...
    A student-friendly introduction to core mechanical engineering topics.This book introduces mechanical principles and technology through examples and applications, enabling students to develop a sound understanding of both engineering principles and their use in practice. These theoretical concepts are supported by 400 fully worked problems, 700 further problems with answers, and 300 multiple ... Read more

    $69.99 USD