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  • Wrist Watches Explained

    How to fully appreciate one of the most complex machine ever invented

    by Michael Fraser ...
    This book wants to be an introductory book to those who have always been wondered how their precious watches work but never dared to ask. In this technical but yet easy to understand work, wrist watches are covered in an orderly way to have eventually an idea of not only the complex watches mechanisms but also the most important watch models and companies. It is not a substitute for the more ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Day-Breakers

    by Michael Fraser ...
    Longlisted for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize • Longlisted for the 2023 Raymond Souster Poetry Prize • A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022**• Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Poetry**Saturated with locutions lifted from the late 19th century, The Day-Breakers deeply conceives of what African Canadian soldiers experienced before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.<... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Day-Breakers

    by Michael Fraser ...
    Narrated by Michael Fraser ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Saturated with locutions lifted from the late 19th century, The Day-Breakers deeply conceives of what African Canadian soldiers experienced before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.“It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sun” wrote Arna Bontemps. In The Day-Breakers, poet ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Heartstone Chronicles: Windchaser

    by Michael Fraser ...
    The Allarei Heartstone has sustained the world of Lor for two thousand years. But now, as natural disasters ravage the lands and Hellsprings manifest with alarming frequency, spewing murderous daemons into the mortal realm, one thing is becoming clear…The Heartstone is dying.And with it, the world will die, too.As an ancient evil stirs in the bowels of Hell, hope is borne from the Heavens in the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Serenity of Stone

    by Michael Fraser ...
    The poems in The Serenity of Stone emerge from places as disparate as author's childhood in Grenada, adolescence in Edmonton, and teenage years and adulthood in Toronto. They span the themes of diasporadic life, themes ranging from landscape and family history, romance and love, crime and racism to kindness and abuse, squalor and education. Stylistically the poems fall into many camps. The work is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rethinking Children's Play

    by Dr Fraser Brown, Dr Michael Patte, Dr Phil Jones ...
    Series series New Childhoods
    Rethinking Children's Play examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, children's play. Fraser Brown and Michael Patte draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children in the play environment.Children need to play and the benefits of play are ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Building Strategic Skills for Better Health

    A Primer for Public Health Professionals

    Edited by Michael R. Fraser, Brian C. Castrucci ...
    While academic programs prepare public health graduates for the technical challenges of practice, many professionals new to the field also need training in the cross-cutting strategic skills required for successful leadership and management of health agencies. Successful practitioners blend subject matter expertise with administrative and leadership acumen to ensure that improvements in public ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Rethinking Biology: Public Understandings

    by Michael J Reiss, Fraser Watts, Harris Wiseman ...
    'Rethinking Biology offers many useful perspectives on a range of topics: why neuroscience and brain imaging threaten to create a reductive view of self and behaviour every bit as misleading as the genetic one, why adaptationism needs taming in evolutionary narratives …'Public Understanding of ScienceBiologists always need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the one hand, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography

    Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture

    by Linda Fraser, Michael McMordie, Geoffrey Simmins ...
    Series Book 11 - Art in Profile: Canadian Art and Architecture
    Architectural practice in post-World War II Canada brought substantial change to the face of the Canadian built environment, led by the contribution of John C. Parkin. As senior partner at the Toronto-based architectural firm John B. Parkin Associates (no relation) from 1947 to the 1970s, Parkin oversaw the creation of a large number of modernist projects, including hospitals, airports, schools, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • A Public Health Guide to Ending the Opioid Epidemic

    Edited by Jay C. Butler, Michael R. Fraser ...
    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FIGHTING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC The opioid crisis has devastated families and communities across the United States. Changes in policing and medical practices have been swift, but they've achieved only a modest impact on the fundamental causes of substance misuse and addiction. The necessity for upstream intervention is clear. But what does that ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Brian Sutton-Smith, Playful Scholar

    A Centennial Celebration, Volume 17

    Edited by Anna Beresin, Michael M. Patte, Fraser Brown ...
    Series series Play and Culture Studies
    This book honors the legacy of Dr. Brian Sutton-Smith, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sutton-Smith was considered the premier play scholar of his generation, with numerous publications in the fields of developmental psychology, folklore, anthropology, sociology of sport, education, and philosophy. We present an eclectic array of essays written ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Missionary Baptism & Evangelical Unity

    An Historical, Theological, Pastoral Inquiry

    by J. Cameron Fraser ...
    The concept of missionary baptism is based on the household baptism of converts and their families described in the New Testament. This is most commonly experienced today in missionary situations, when entire families become Christians. Building on the work of nineteenth-century Scottish theologian William Cunningham, this study explores some implications for the connection between believers' ... Read more

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