LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan j yates

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  • The Extra Rib & Other Myths
    Alan J. Yates / Alan JYates
    This book tackles delicate issues along the difficult learning path regarding gender. It seeks to trace from childhood, family, and prevailing social conditioning how a person’s very self-identity and attitudes toward gender issues can be shaped and marked throughout one’s entire life. Some of the consequences described in the book are what might be described as the resulting i...
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    16,15 €

  • Butterfly Wings
    Alan J. Yates / Alan JYates
    'Just a word before I sleep. You will be my eternal guiding stars. Let there be no wasted tears or regrets. They would only damage the so-delicate wings of all those wonderful butterflies.'With these last written words, Ida tried to ensure we would continue our family life without her as wife and mother. For her, butterfly wings were the symbol of the almost magic and utterly f...
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    21,98 €

  • To Soar, Like Icarus
    Alan J. Yates / Alan JYates
    The hero of this book was working in a coal mine at age twelve. Despite his lack of education, he pulled himself up to become a highly successful businessman. There is something quintessentially heroic about defying the hopeless hand one was dealt . . . and turning it into straight aces. The fact that our hero John lost it all on another gamble just makes him more truly human a...
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    17,31 €

  • Mirror Images
    Alan J. Yates
    Take an unusual and wry look at the mass media by joining an industry insider who recalls the high and low points of an almost forty-year career. Alan J. Yates, a media professional and academic, dissects the media business as a consumer, theorist, and participant. He observes that we tend to be literate when it comes to information technology but often illiterate regarding me...
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    17,23 €

  • Turn Mill, Turn
    Alan J. Yates / Alan JYates
    Turn, Mill, Turn recounts the cautionary tale of author Alan J. Yates’s bid to restore a mill in southwestern France. We all have our dreams-our castles in the sky. Some of them have been harbored for a long time in the deepest recesses of the soul. Most of these dreams may never be fulfilled. During the long, cold Canadian winters, Yates dreamed of resting his weary bones in a...
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    17,58 €

  • Flickerings
    Alan J. Yates / Alan JYates
    Flickerings is not just an unusual and multi-faceted collection of the author’s poetry. While he uses the poetry form to tackle often disturbing themes, such as the search for the meaning of life, death among family and friends and even large social issues such as consumerism and the environment, he does so with delicacy, wry humour and, through, a love of the musicality of the...
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    17,56 €

  • 'W.O. Mitchell’s Jake & the Kid
    Alan J. Yates / Alan JYates / J. Yates Alan J. Yates / JYates Alan JYates
    W.O. Mitchell’s 'Jake & The Kid' captivated radio audiences in the days before television and enjoyed ratings that rivalled those for the radio broadcasts of the CBC’s 'Hockey Night in Canada.' These homespun tales about the hired hand, Jake Trumper and his sidekick, The Kid, explored very human stories about life on the often cruel Prairies of Saskatchewan in a humorous vein t...
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    20,74 €

  • Figs of the Imagination
    Alan J. Yates / Alan JYates / J. Yates Alan J. Yates / JYates Alan JYates
    'The work explores the notion that we are all perceptually branded by the experiences and milieu of early childhood. The author illustrates this with tales set in his native Edinburgh, Scotland during the 1940s and 1950s.Through a series of adventures and misadventures, the young protagonist makes discoveries about life and people, ranging from the inconsistencies and contradic...
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    24,55 €