Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • Maine Lobster Boat

    History of an Iconic Fishing Vessel

    The modern lobster boat has evolved slowly over decades to become the craft it is today: seaworthy, strong, fast, and trusted implicitly by the lobstermen and women to get the job done and get them home, each and every time, through the most terrifying--and sometimes life-threatening--conditions that the sea can dish up. “Where do lobster boats come from?” “What is the origin of their design?” ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Fall Shook Up

    A Cozy Creek Collection Standalone

    de Piper Sheldon ...
    Narrado por Vincent Skye, Lee Daniels ...
    Series series Cozy Creek Collection

    Completo

    9 hora 49 minutos

    Fall Shook Up is a cozy, autumn-inspired, grumpy/sunshine small-town romantic comedy about a reclusive artist and a nosy journalist who just can't seem to stay away from him…The grumpy recluse begrudgingly rents me his guest house if I agree to leave him alone. Too bad I've never been good at doing what I'm told.I am in desperate need of a place to live when my ex-boyfriend unceremoniously kicks ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    Series series The American Campus
    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • The Finest Hours

    The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

    The story behind the major motion picture from Disney—starring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Casey Affleck—written by a recognized master of the genre—“a blockbuster account of tragedy at sea” (The Providence Journal).It’s the winter of 1952 and a ferocious Nor’easter is pounding New England with howling winds and seventy-foot seas. Two oil tankers get caught in the violent storm off Cape Cod, its ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Hard Lessons

    The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

    This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Deep Descent

    Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria

    An in-depth look at the danger of diving the Andrea Doria, the "Everest" of deep-sea diving, by an award-winning journalist and photographer.On a foggy July evening in 1956, the Italian cruise liner Andrea Doria, bound for New York, was struck broadside by another vessel. In eleven hours, she would sink nearly 250 feet to the murky Atlantic Ocean floor. Thanks to a daring rescue operation, only ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • University Governance in Canada

    Navigating Complexity

    Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Stowaway

    A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

    The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation” (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Republic of Therapy

    Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Great Hurricane, 1938

    de Cherie Burns ...
    "Before there was the Perfect Storm, there was the Great Hurricane of 1938. A riveting and wonderfully written account." —Nathaniel PhilbrickOn the night of September 21, 1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color in the sky, it was too late to escape. In an age before ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Governance, Management, And Accountability In Secondary Education In Sub-Saharan Africa

    de World Bank; ...
    Increasingly the role of management and governance is recognized as important for providing and delivering effective services at all levels of education. In view of the growing demand for more and better services at secondary education levels, these are crucial issues that must be addressed urgently. Sub-Saharan Africa's secondary education and training systems must become more efficient and more ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD