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  • Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.

    California Blackrobe

    This in-depth, page-turning biography of Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder of Ignatius Press and the University of San Francisco's Saint Ignatius Institute, is written by one of Fessio's earliest Jesuit mentors, historian Father Cornelius Buckley, S.J.Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the golden age after World War II, the bold, often reckless Joe Fessio would suddenly enter ... Read more

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  • Beyond Nancy Drew

    U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century

    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Invoking Destiny

    Series Book 1 - Wands, Wings, and Wardens Series
    What would happen if a dragon ran a bank? Can a nocturnal troll find beauty in the daylight?All these questions-and more you haven't even thought of-will be answered inside these pages.Set in the times and places of magic, these fantastic tales contain dragons, fairies, trolls, and warriors. Kings and queens rule, while knights do whatever they can to protect their kingdom and its people. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • New Directions in Childhood Studies

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    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children’s literature, film, and video games ... Read more

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  • Intelligence and the National Security Strategist

    Enduring Issues and Challenges

    Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice

    Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations

    Series series Worlds of Archaeology
    Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed, and the explainers and the explained ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Stories from the cockpit

    Unabridged

    59 min

    Exciting and funny stories from the cockpit collected by a pilot during his 30 year flying career. Michael Weber, an experienced pilot, tells stories from the cockpit from the perspective of a pilot. Numerous incidents remain hidden from passengers because the door to the cockpit is closed. Pilots are only human and mistakes happen in the cockpit like everywhere else. In this book, experience the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    FIT WITH ONLY 4 HOURS OF SLEEP:

    THE SLEEP METHOD OF THE PILOTS

    Unabridged

    47 min

    Fully recovered with four hours of sleep! Is this possible? The sleeping technique of pilots allows you to have this fun too. You skip the falling asleep phase with a special technique and recover intensively in the deep sleep phase. This technology is used by pilots for a restful short sleep. This book contains a practice meditation that guides you to get into the deep sleep phase. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Representing Agency in Popular Culture

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    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. (1786–1864) and the Reform of the American Jesuits

    Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J. delves into Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson’s life, using him as the point of departure to describe the tensions among Jesuits in Maryland after the restoration of the order in 1814. A refugee of the violent slave rebellions in Haiti, where he was born, and the Terror in France, Dubuisson became a clerk in Napoleon’s personal treasury and a resident in the Tuileries. ... Read more

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  • Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture

    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings

    Human Factors, Team Psychology, and Patient Safety in a High Stakes Environment

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Critical situations in acute and emergency care are one of the great clinical challenges because of the uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress that are involved. This book provides a comprehensive outline of all the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. Following an initial section discussing the basic principles of human behavior and decision making, the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD