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  • Gorging Out

    by Robert MacNeill ...
    Two days after graduate student Roger Froehlich fails his thesis exam and resigns from Berkeley, he finds himself dividing his worldly goodsincluding his young sonwith his wife. Left with nothing but his shattered dreams, Roger escapes to his hometown and to the only person who means anything to himhis aunt Alicia. Terminally ill, Alicias last wish is to reconcile with her estranged son, Fritz, a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Burden of Desire

    by Robert MacNeil ...
    Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth.Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the Halifax Explosion. She hides her diary in her coat, which is subsequently donated to a clothing ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Thirty Years of Failure

    Understanding Canadian Climate Policy

    by Robert MacNeil ...
    Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a climate villain, rejecting global attempts to slow climate change and ignoring ever-increasing emissions at home.How did Canada go from climate leader to climate villain?In Thirty Years of Failure, Robert ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Breaking News

    by Robert Macneil ...
    Famous for his nearly forty years in broadcast journalism, Robert MacNeil is one of the most respected television journalists in America. Now in Breaking News, a blistering, behind-the-scenes novel about the savagely competitive world of television news, he writes about this world he knows best--a world where integrity is held hostage in the relentless pursuit of the bottom line.Anchorman Grant ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Portrait of Julia

    A Novel

    by Robert MacNeil ...
    In 1920 Julia Robertson is a young, beautiful war widow, aware of the radical new ideas bursting into the settled thinking of post-Victorian Canada. That new thinking, about the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexual frankness, about women as well as skepticism about religion, shaped the emerging 20th century world and infused modern painting, music, and literature.Julia struggles ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Burden of Desire

    by Robert MacNeil ...
    Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth.Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the Halifax Explosion. She hides her diary in her coat, which is subsequently donated to a clothing ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Looking for My Country

    Finding Myself in America

    by Robert Macneil ...
    Renowned journalist and author of the international bestseller Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American.Growing up in Halifax during World War II, it seemed to Robert MacNeil that nothing of significance ever happened in Canada. From his mother’s obsession with all things English (even the marmalade) to his own love ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Climate Policy in the United States

    From market fetishism to the developmental state

    by Robert MacNeil ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This book explores how Washington’s efforts to act on climate change have been translated under conditions of American neoliberalism, where the state struggles to find a stable and legitimate role in the economy, and where environmental and industrial policy are enormously contentious topics.This original work conceptualizes US climate policy first and foremost as a question of innovation policy, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Portrait of Julia

    A Novel

    by Robert MacNeil ...
    In 1920 Julia Robertson is a young, beautiful war widow, aware of the radical new ideas bursting into the settled thinking of post-Victorian Canada. That new thinking, about the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexual frankness, about women as well as skepticism about religion, shaped the emerging 20th century world and infused modern painting, music, and literature.Julia struggles ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sex Sells, Or Not: Sex in Advertising

    by Trevor Clinger ...
    Narrated by Robert MacNeill ...

    Unabridged

    17 min

    Explore the intriguing dynamics of using sex as a tool for marketing success in the business world with this captivating bestseller. Delve into the reasons behind its controversial yet attention-grabbing nature, and uncover why it has propelled numerous companies and industries to unprecedented heights of achievement. Authored by a seasoned business professional with a Bachelor's Degree in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do You Speak American?

    by Robert Macneil, William Cran ...
    Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations?These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Holding IT Together

    Social Control in an Age of Great Transformation

    by Robert MacNeil Christie ...
    Can modern Civilization Transform Itself in Order to Survive?The prospects for humanity may look dismal now, but hope resides in realism, which means facing up to the destructive consequences of creating industrial-consumer societies. In Holding It Together: Social Control in an Age of Great Transformation, Dr. Robert MacNeil Christie explains how we got into this mess and what it will take to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD