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 33 results for “peter cunningham”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Trout

    A Novel

    by Peter Cunningham ...
    At the heart of every life there lies a secret.Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Acts of Allegiance

    A Novel

    by Peter Cunningham ...
    For readers of The Goldfinch and classic le Carré, a propulsive tale of espionage, betrayal, loyalty, and love, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing, Anglican wife, Sugar, and a job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Trout

    A Novel

    by Peter Cunningham ...
    Narrated by Jeff Harding ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    After the publication of his most recent book, Alex Smyth receives a trout fly in the mail at his home address in rural Canada - with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear in him that he is being stalked, and it awakens deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, a time before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Dewey in Our Time

    Learning from John Dewey for transcultural practice

    Edited by Peter Cunningham ...
    Dewey in Our Time brings together leading writers from around the world who are actively engaged in applying Dewey's thought to the challenges facing educational systems and teachers in school. Issues concerning equity, social justice, curriculum and pedagogy, teachers' roles and their professional identity are considered, with examples from the Americas, Asia and Europe. John Dewey's outstanding ... Read more

    $30.19 USD

  • Becoming Teachers

    Texts and Testimonies, 1907-1950

    Edited by Peter Cunningham, Philip Gardner ...
    Series series Woburn Education Series
    There is an extraordinary gap in the published history of schooling in the twentieth century. Nowhere is the voice of the teacher, telling his or her own story, extensively to be heard. This book, drawing not only upon the official documentary record, but also upon the previously untapped recollections of more than 100 former classroom teachers, aims to fill this gap. In Becoming Teachers, the ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

  • Positively Fourth and Mercer

    The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, The Bottom Line

    by Allan Pepper, Billy Altman ...
    In 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one could have foreseen either its long-term success or its impact on the musical and cultural landscape of New York City. Over the next thirty years, while trends and tastes came and went, the Bottom Line ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community

    The Vision and Legacy of Sir Alec Clegg

    Edited by Catherine Burke, Peter Cunningham, Lottie Hoare ...
    Series series Progressive Education
    Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community examines Sir Alec Clegg’s distinctive contribution to education reform. Revisiting the significance of Clegg’s principles for education in the 21st century, the book investigates the impact of his innovative approach to education and his advocacy of an arts-based curriculum to promote physical and mental health.The book explores a variety of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe

    by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth century, however, the rapid social and economic changes brought about by industrialisation put these systems ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are they a necessary presence for the true Christian to live the true Christian life? In the 18th and 19th centuries what happened to the poor and the sick-poor in the north and south of Europe was ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Comparative and Veterinary Pharmacology

    Edited by Jonathan Elliott, Peter Lees, Fiona Cunningham ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The human–animal bond has evolved and diversi?ed down the ages. Dogs, cats and even horses, have long ful?lled the role of faithful companion and indeed, as exempli?ed by the introduction of seeing and hearing dogs, there may be a critical level of co-dependency between the species. In the twenty-?rst century, the animal types that are kept as pets in many parts of the world are extensive ranging ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • It All Depends on the Dose

    Poisons and Medicines in European History

    Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, Jon Arrizabalaga ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700

    Edited by Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. This volume provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in the economically important regions of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD