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  • Expiration Date

    Experiencing the awe of the miracle that we are.

    Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    Series series Carework in a Changing World
    The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    Haunted Nights

    A Horror Writers Association Anthology

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Working in the Context of Austerity

    Challenges and Struggles

    Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Wash, Wear, and Care

    Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care

    Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    Series Book 10 - About Canada
    Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public health care is unsustainable, especially in light of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cyberforce Volume 2 #1

    Series Book 1 - Cyberforce
    Granted superhuman abilities via cybernetic implants, they were created to be the pawns of a corrupt and evil corporation.  Free and united against their creators, they are known as Cyberforce.  Fighting the battles that are never reported by the major media conglomerates, they protect the world from total corporate takeover.  Outnumbered and outgunned in the struggle against international powers ... Read more

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  • Wasting Away

    The Undermining of Canadian Health

    Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). The concluding chapter sums up the winners ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Critical To Care

    The Invisible Women in Health Services

    Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results in a division among workers in ways that undermine care.Critical to Care uses a wide range of evidence ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    Loki's Wolves

    Series Audiobook 1 - The Blackwell Pages

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    Calling all fans of myths, action-adventure, and the Percy Jackson series—don't miss this first book in the Blackwell Pages trilogy from bestselling authors K.L. Armstrong and Melissa Marr.While thirteen-year-old Matt Thorsen has always known he's a modern-day descendent of Thor, he's been living a normal kid's life. In fact, most people in the small town of Blackwell, South Dakota, are direct ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Odin's Ravens

    Series Audiobook 2 - The Blackwell Pages

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    Seven kids, Thor's hammer, and a whole lot of Valkyries are the only things standing against the end of the world.When thirteen-year-olds Matt Thorsen and Fen and Laurie Brekke, modern-day descendants of Thor and Loki, discovered they were fated to take the places of the Norse gods in an epic battle against the apocalypse, they thought they knew how things would play out. Gather the descendants ... Read more

    $24.99 USD