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  • Gloria's Gold

    by John Holmes ...
    Unmasking fraudsters and fakes of all kinds brings its own rewards - and no end of trouble.Gloria, in Orange County California, is a soccer-mad college graduate, but her skill on the pitch is not matched by success in relationships. Beautiful, kind, and independent-minded, she finds the guys she meets controlling, while online all she attracts are scammers and 'catfish'. Nor is life with her ... Read more

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  • Animal Tales from the Caribbean

    by George List ...
    Traditional stories from the northern Colombian coast, in both English and Spanish.These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales from Another Mother Runner

    Triumphs, Trials, Tips, and Tricks from the Road

    Edited by John Holmes McDowell, Sarah Bowen Shea ...
    The authors of Run Like a Mother share a collection of inspiring and insightful stories from women who discovered their own power through running.Every mother runner has a tale to tell. A story about how she discovered the fierce and confident athlete inside her. Maybe it's about setting a seemingly impossible goal—and then exceeding it. Maybe it's about finding friends who are also allies, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recollections of Early Texas

    Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins

    Edited by John Holmes Jenkins ...
    Series series Personal Narratives of the West
    "[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented." — Library JournalAs a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather's writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston's army at ... Read more

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  • A Bumper Crop

    by John Holmes ...
    This book is a collection of essays chronicling the remarkable life of a Canadian author, born in London in 1931. It covers his school and university days, a professional career as a chemical scientist, and his lifelong love of travel, particularly by bicycle, camper van, and sailing. These essays offer insights into the joys and challenges of a life filled with adventure, discovery, and personal ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Young People, Alcohol, and Risk

    A Culture of Caution

    by Amy Pennay, Gabriel Caluzzi, Laura Fenton, John Holmes, Michael Livingston, Jonas Raninen, Jukka Törrönen ...
    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people’s drinking in high- income countries.Since the early 2000s, alcohol use among young people has declined significantly in most high- income countries. Situated within a theoretical framework of ‘social generations’ and ‘risk’, this book explores the key ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Palestine To-day and Tomorrow

    A Gentile's Survey of Zionism

    by John Holmes ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1930, Palestine To-day and Tomorrow provides a comprehensive overview of John Haynes Holmes’s experiences in Palestine. Chapter one is a running account, written on the spot, of his experiences in Palestine. Chapter two presents a brief statement of the facts and forces in Jewish history culminating in Zionism, is intended primarily for readers who may not be familiar with them. ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • Sayings of the Ancestors

    The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians

    by John Holmes McDowell ...
    The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture—one that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European influences, particularly folk and orthodox Catholicism. From this cultural enclave, John McDowell ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Shaping of Peace

    Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943-1957 (Volume 2)

    by John Holmes ...
    Series series Heritage
    The establishment of the United Nations system at the conclusion of the Second World War was followed by a period of disillusion in the late 40s about the prospects for world order. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 there came a regrouping of forces and revised calculations of what was possible. The first volume of The Shaping of the Peace described Canadian attitudes and policies ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Shaping of Peace

    Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943-1957 (Volume 1)

    by John Holmes ...
    Series series Heritage
    When Mackenzie King went to the San Francisco Conference he told the Commons that Canada had played its part in winning the war and it was now its duty to play a part in 'the shaping of peace.' This is a history and analysis of Canadian participation in the peace settlement and in the establishment of the United Nations and other international institutions, written by a man who was in the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Performing Environmentalisms

    Expressive Culture and Ecological Change

    by John Holmes McDowell, Rebecca Dirksen, Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Mary Hufford, Mark Pedelty0, Jennifer C. Post1, Chie Sakakibara2, Jeff Todd Titon3, Rory Turner4, Lois Wilcken5 ...
    Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science

    Edited by John Holmes, Sharon Ruston ...
    Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes ... Read more

    $66.99 USD