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  • Stealing Sisi's Star

    How a Master Thief Nearly Got Away with Austria's Most Famous Jewel

    by Jennifer Bowers Bahney ...
    While on honeymoon in Vienna in June of 1998, at the height of the tourist season, Gerald Daniel Blanchard, an accomplished thief, happened upon the greatest challenge of his life when he spotted the last remaining "Sisi Star" on display in Schonbrunn Palace. Named after its former owner, the Empress Elisabeth, the ten-pointed diamond and pearl star was originally one of 27 that the enigmatic Sisi ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Deriving

    by Jennifer Bowering Delisle ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Deriving is a feminist exploration of the creation of life, of family, and of words themselves. Delisle asks: How does past infertility colour the experience of new motherhood? How do historical voices echo in the present? How does language impact our ways of being in the world? These poems embrace the rich material of mothering with unapologetic honesty, confronting the experiences that some ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Stock

    by Jennifer Bowering Delisle ...
    Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they’re instantly familiar – and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubiquity shapes and reinforces the biases, privilege, and stereotypes of their distinct aesthetic.From found poems using metadata and keywords to riffs on stock image database search results with titles ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Rethinking Reference for Academic Libraries

    Innovative Developments and Future Trends

    by Jennifer Bowers, Carrie Forbes ...
    The rapid development of the Web and Web-based technologies has led to an ongoing redefinition of reference services in academic libraries. A growing diversity of users and the need and possibility for collaboration in delivering reference services bring additional pressures for change. At the same time, there are growing demands for libraries to show accountability and service value. All of these ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period

    Strategies and Sources

    by Jennifer Bowers, Peggy Keeran ...
    Series series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
    Recognizing that every literary era presents scholars with particular challenges, this volume covers the best practices and describes important reference resources, both print and electronic, that can be used in conducting literary research of the British Renaissance and Early Modern period. Although the primary emphasis is on literature produced in England, the guide also covers literature from ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Micrographia

    by Jennifer Bowering Delisle ...
    Winner of The City of Edmonton Robert Kroetsch Book PrizeWinner of The Writers Guild of Alberta Memoir AwardAs Jennifer Bowering Delisle was on her path through infertility towards motherhood, she was simultaneously losing her own mother to a rare degenerative neurological disease and an approaching medically-assisted death.The lyric essays in Micrographia explore how losses can collide and ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • The Bosun Chair

    by Jennifer Bowering Delisle ...
    Part family memoir, part poetry, part love letter to Newfoundland and its people, The Bosun Chair is a lyrical exploration of how we are fortified by the places of our foremothers and forefathers and by how they endured.Like 'ballycater,' the ice that gathers in harbours along the coast, Jennifer Bowering Delisle gathers fragments of history, family lore, and poetry—both her own and that of her ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Betrayer's Waltz

    The Unlikely Bond Between Marie Valerie of Austria and Hitler's Princess-Spy

    by Jennifer Bowers Bahney ...
    Born into one of 19th century Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie was the favorite daughter of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. Determined to marry for love, in 1890 she wed her cousin, Franz Salvator of Tuscany and bore him 10 children.The dashing Archduke was not faithful. His affair with Stephanie Richter, a young, middle-class Jewish woman with a ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Newfoundland Diaspora

    Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration

    by Jennifer Bowering Delisle ...
    Out-migration, driven by high unemployment and a floundering economy, has been a defining aspect of Newfoundland society for well over a century, and it reached new heights with the cod moratorium in 1992. This Newfoundland “diaspora” has had a profound impact on the province’s literature.Many writers and scholars have referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a diaspora, but few have examined the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century

    Strategies and Sources

    by Peggy Keeran, Jennifer Bowers ...
    Series series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
    The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half of the century, with the first periodical founded in 1749. For the literary scholar, these gradual changes mean that ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Summa Theologica - 11 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues (Unabridged)

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    by THOMAS AQUINAS ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Bowers, Mia Mcclure, Thomas Cruz, Jon Holt ...

    Unabridged

    59 hours 12 min

    The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • North Carolina Aviatrix, Viola Gentry

    The Flying Cashier

    by Jennifer Bean Bower ...
    A photo-filled biography of a pioneering female pilot who became a champion of aviation for women.Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924—and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's ... Read more

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