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Chronicles of the Roaring Game
2025
EN
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Drawing on author John Cullen’s years of experience as both a stand-up comic and an elite curler, Curling Rocks! offers a lighthearted, expertly detailed look at a unique sport and its history, from the most absurd curling fashions to the most sublime matches ever played.The sport of curling continues to expand its global reach, attracting new players and fans far beyond traditional strongholds. Yet, even in Canada—a country with a long curling history and...
Black on Black
Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa
2021
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Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, "What is Africa to Me?"John Gruesser uses the conce...
2012
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This handbook will provide the reader with a clear and reliable means of identifying those plants which grow wild in Ireland. This book is a comprehensive re-working of the classic and standard Flora of Ireland which was last published 16 years ago: this will be the eighth edition of that work. It has been brought fully up to date through incorporating the latest in botanical research and it reflects contemporary and modern approaches to plant classification based on recent advances in gen...
Latin Stories
A GCSE Reader
2017
EN
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Latin Stories is an ideal first reader for students of Latin. It offers 100 self-contained passages of manageable length, chosen for their intrinsic interest and adapted from a wide range of ancient authors. Generous help is given, with a short introduction to each story and glossing of all proper names and non-GCSE vocabulary. The collection will also be attractive to older students beginning or returning to the language.Updated to match the 2016 OCR specification, this e...
Unbreakable
Surviving Adversity
2024
EN
John Cullen was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2015 at age 56. As the son of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel, Cullen maintains a warrior mindset and faces his adversity with grit, courage, and humor. In 2019 he created his mantra, "It's Just Parkinson's"(IJP), the philosophy he uses as he battles this incurable disease. This mindset later led to the feature-length documentary It's Just Parkinson's.In Unbreakable, Cullen pulls no punches as he l...
A Calvary Covenant
The Stations of the Cross
2021
EN
The Stations of the Cross unfold for us a story of the passion and pain – where all sources of evil are connected: jealousy, betrayal, cowardice, injustice, cruelty and weakness. Jesus takes everything on himself and assumes all human suffering.The Stations of the Cross are in the present tense: Jesus is condemned, Jesus takes his Cross, Jesus meets, Simon carries, Veronica wipes and Jesus is stripped. It is our tears that flow down his cheek, our pain that is felt in his bruised, ...
Alert, Aware, Attentive
Advent Reflections
2020
EN
We often find it hard to believe that we have a unique voice. Advent begins with a voice crying in the wilderness. Every voice matters – especially voices in the wilderness that are stifled and silenced by alienation and apathy. This book dares you to take the time to listen to Advent voices in the wilderness that persist with calls to be heard and respected.December is a month when we fill the winter days and nights with a new busyness. This book is a chance to p...
Curling Rocks!
Chronicles of the Roaring Game
- Narrated by
- John Cullen
Unabridged
6 hours 53 min
2026
EN
The sport of curling continues to expand its global reach, attracting new players and fans far beyond traditional strongholds. Yet, even in Canada—a country with a long curling history and fifteen hundred clubs of its own—the game is often dismissed as an eccentric pastime.According to author John Cullen, this is because curling is both inherently funny and chronically underestimated as a battle of skill and strategy. And Cullen is perfectly qualified to make this double-edged clai...
Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth
An Anthology of Timeless Poetry for Young Readers
- by
- Robert Louis StevensonWilliam ShakespeareHenry Wadsworth LongfellowCharles KingsleyPercy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam Cullen BryantEdmund SpenserJohn FletcherWilliam Dean HowellsEmily DickinsonRalph Waldo EmersonWilliam WatsonJames Russell LowellMichael DraytonRobert BrowningRobert SoutheyJohn MiltonThomas Bailey AldrichWilliam BlakeJohn KeatsThomas CarewGeorge ArnoldLord Alfred TennysonSusan Hartley SwettDinah M. Mulock
2023
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Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth is a carefully curated anthology that traverses the rich tapestry of poetic expression across multiple eras, offering a treasure trove of literary styles that range from vibrant sonnets to profound lyrics. This collection encapsulates the essence of poetry that speaks to the youthful spirit while subtly imparting timeless wisdom. It offers readers an exploration into the themes of nature, imagination, spirit, and the inherent beauty discovered in c...
2021
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The King of Monsters reigns supreme, no matter the timeline or world, in this compendium collecting three graphic novels—Gangsters & Goliaths by John Layman and Alberto Ponticelli, Cataclysm by Cullen Bunn and Dave Wachter, and Oblivion by Joshua Fialkov and Brian Churilla! First, in Gangsters & Goliaths, monster recognizes monster, which quickly becomes obvious when Godzilla collides head on with the Yakuza-dominated Tokyo underworld. In Cataclysm, does any hope remain for humanity in an ...
Different Diagnoses, Similar Experiences
Narratives of Mental Health, Addiction Recovery and Dual Diagnosis
2024
EN
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Emerging from an era of changing mental health and addiction services, Different Diagnoses, Similar Experiences is the first work in its field to gather narratives of mental health, addiction and dual diagnoses into one publication, as well as to critically examine the differences and similarities of these experiences.Documenting their own personal narratives, contributors share their unique journey to recovery, while Michael John Norton and Oliver John Cullen construct a ...
Business, Ethics and Society
Key Concepts, Current Debates and Contemporary Innovations
2021
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With an emphasis on psychoanalytic theory, Business, Ethics and Society: Key Concepts, Current Debates and Contemporary Innovations provides a clear, concise introduction to the field of business ethics, while addressing contemporary issues and debates around the impacts of artificial intelligence, social media, the gig economy and populist politics on business and society.The book features mini-case studies from a variety of contexts and companies, including Gillette, Nik...











