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  • How We Changed Toronto

    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

    by John Sewell ...
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Shape of the City

    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning

    by John Sewell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.In this far-ranging review, Sewell recounts the arrival ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Shape of the Suburbs

    Understanding Toronto's Sprawl

    by John Sewell ...
    It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Police in Canada

    The Real Story

    by John Sewell ...
    What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion. The dramatic death of Robert Dziekanski at the hands of the RCMP at Vancouver's airport, accusations of racial profiling, and the resistance of police to independent civilian oversight have created the impression of organizations and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Crisis in Canada's Policing

    Why change is so hard, and how we can get real reform in our police forces

    by John Sewell ...
    In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. In the days and weeks following, the deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto and Chantel Moore in New Brunswick showed that police violence is also a Canadian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Oxford Bookworms Library Level 4: Black Beauty

    by Anna Sewell, John Escott, Jennifer Bassett, Tricia Hedge ...
    Series Book 4 - Oxford Bookworms Library
    When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky – his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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    Black Beauty

    by Anna Sewell, John Escott ...
    Narrated by Multiple Narrators ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Oxford Bookworms Library

    Unabridged

    2 hours 22 min

    When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Rich Country Interests and Third World Development

    Edited by Robert Cassen, Richard Jolly, John W. Sewell, Robert Wood ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1982, Rich Country Interests and Third World Development adds breadth and specificity to the exploration of the interests in Third World development of eleven “rich” countries—the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and France.The authors analyze a spectrum of Northern economic, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Black Beauty

    by Anna Sewell ...
    Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
    Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Black Beauty features illustrations by Cecil Aldin and an afterword by author and conservationist Lauren St. John.Black Beauty enjoys a carefree upbringing in a pleasant meadow with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • You Are Greater Than You Know

    by John H. Sewell ...
    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Black Beauty

    by Anna Sewell ...
    Narrated by John Rayburn ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    Written nearly a century and a half ago, this book was the first major animal story in children’s literature, although the author had intended it for adults.Anna Sewell had been crippled at a young age but could still drive a horse-drawn carriage. She often drove her father to the station to go to work and later picked him up to bring him home. During those times, she saw there was often inhumane ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Railway Children

    by E. Nesbit ...
    Narrated by Virginia Leishman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    The Railway Children is the magical children's classic that has charmed readers for over a century. Follow the adventures of three siblings as they begin a new life in the countryside and discover the wonders of the railway behind their home.After their father suddenly disappears, Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis are forced to leave their London home and move to the countryside with their mother. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks