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  • My Father's Eyes

    by Michael Osborne ...
    In a time far removed from our memories......there was a great flood that wiped out all life on this planet except for the inhabitants of a solitary ark, the first destruction of Earth. Could there have been other survivors? Today half of the world’s population vanished in a split second, plunging humanity into cataclysmic chaos. This activated seven years of the greatest suffering and loss ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Michael Osborn on Metaphor and Style

    by Michael Osborn ...
    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    This volume features two dimensions of Michael Osborn’s work with rhetorical metaphor. The first focuses on his early efforts to develop a conception of metaphor to advance the understanding of rhetoric, while the second concerns more recent efforts to apply this enriched conception in the analysis and criticism of significant rhetorical practice. The older emphasis features four of Osborn’s more ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France

    by Michael A. Osborne ...
    The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusively in a system of provincial medical schools built by the navy in the port cities of Brest, Rochefort ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • American Tall Tales

    by Mary Pope Osborne ...
    Illustrated by Michael McCurdy ...
    The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories.Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • OZ Wicked City

    by Michael R. Osborne ...
    Mike had been captured by a CIA agent on a mission to make contact with a known Muslim terrorist. On board the plane was the one man, Mike sought to kill but could not deliver the lethal blow. The plane was shot down over the desert. After weeks of fighting the terrorist in the desert, a legend begun. OZ, known to the terrorist as the red glowing face demon and OZ to the Americans. He crossed the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Surviving Ministry

    How to Weather the Storms of Church Leadership

    by Michael E. Osborne ...
    Being a pastor has its rewards and pleasures. But churches can be unsafe places. They are filled with broken, imperfect people. Many ministers of the gospel walk into a church naive about the potential hazards of their vocation. They are vulnerable to difficult people, unresolved conflict, incompatible visions, hidden agendas, mission drift, and sin--their own and that of others. Other pastors ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncanny Magazine Issue 27

    March/April 2019

    by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Karen Osborne, Tina Connolly, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Marie Brennan, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, A.T. Greenblatt, Beth Cato, Cassandra Khaw ...
    The March/April 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Karen Osborne, Tina Connolly, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Marie Brennan, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and A.T. Greenblatt. Reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Tracy Townsend, Briana Lawrence, Marissa Lingen, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Beth Cato, D.A. Xaolin Spires, Cassandra Khaw, Sandi Liebowitz, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improving What is Learned at University

    An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education

    by John Brennan, Robert Edmunds, Muir Houston, David Jary, Yann Lebeau, Michael Osborne, John T.E. Richardson ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010.What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according to what, where and how one studies?As higher education has expanded, it has diversified both in terms of its ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning

    by Brenda Morgan-Klein, Michael Osborne ...
    This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation of texts focussing on particular areas ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • A new imperative

    Regions and higher education in difficult times

    by Chris Duke, Michael Osborne, Bruce Wilson ...
    Series series Universities and Lifelong Learning
    At a time in history when global challenges are becoming more intractable and threatening, it makes sense to draw on the specialist expertise of our universities. Much of government interest in doing so has typically focused on the major research institutions with their records of new discovery and invention. However, there is extensive evidence that the greatest opportunities are at regional ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Access, Lifelong Learning and Education for All

    Edited by Gareth Parry, Michael Osborne, Peter Scott ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines access, lifelong learning and education for all, which have been policy preoccupations in all countries for more than half a century, but have been overlaid and pushed aside by the development of mass higher education. The authors examine what has been achieved, what lessons have been learnt and what still remains to be done, addressing matters of equity, agency, community, ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Social Capital, Lifelong Learning and the Management of Place

    An International Perspective

    Edited by Michael Osborne, Kate Sankey, Bruce Wilson ...
    With contributions from around the world, this book brings together inter-related research from three fields: social capital, place management and lifelong learning regions. Providing valuable insight into the management of place and the development of learning at a regional level, the book presents international research that underpins the development and implementation of policies and practices ... Read more

    $72.99 USD