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The Trillion Dollar War Machine

How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home

by William D Hartung, Ben Freeman ...

Narrated by Alex Simpson ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

A hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon’s runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite“A damning indictment of the conflicts of interest running rampant in the defense establishment.”―Publishers WeeklyAmerica spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on its military. This extraordinary spending not only detracts from our ability ... Read more

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A hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon’s runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite“A damning indictment of the conflicts of interest running rampant in the defense establishment.”―Publishers WeeklyAmerica spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on its military. This extraordinary spending not only detracts from our ability
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Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London

An Ethnography

by Alex Simpson ...

This book is about disconnection. Disconnection gives vision to the City of London as an insulated social arena that, despite creating vast wealth and being the vanguard of the UK’s aspirational future, has made objects out of you and me. Building on Foucault’s teachings on finance and the ideological force of market competition, this ground-breaking book gives shape and form to how financial ... Read more

$109.99 CAD

This book is about disconnection. Disconnection gives vision to the City of London as an insulated social arena that, despite creating vast wealth and being the vanguard of the UK’s aspirational future, has made objects out of you and me. Building on Foucault’s teachings on finance and the ideological force of market competition, this ground-breaking book gives shape and form to how financial
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The Indigenous City Edit

by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson, Ivy Knight0, Alex Jacobs-Blum2, Liz Howard4, Ladybird Chief6 ...

Narrated by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson, Ivy Knight1, Alex Jacobs-Blum3, Liz Howard5, Ladybird Chief7 ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The City Edits
Unabridged

38 min

West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoke Simpson, Ivy Knight, Dave Bidini, Chief Ladybird, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Liz Howard and original ... Read more

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West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoke Simpson, Ivy Knight, Dave Bidini, Chief Ladybird, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Liz Howard and original
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Hauntology

An Introduction for Criminologists

by Paul McGuinness, Alex Simpson, Tea Fredriksson, Michael Fiddler ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media
In response to the recent ‘spectral turn’ within criminology this book presents, for the first time, a concise, comprehensive, approachable and critically engaged guide to hauntology for criminological researchers and graduate students.Hauntology is, in essence, a mode of analysing the repressions, absences and lacks that shape our social world. The book outlines how criminological researchers may ... Read more

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In response to the recent ‘spectral turn’ within criminology this book presents, for the first time, a concise, comprehensive, approachable and critically engaged guide to hauntology for criminological researchers and graduate students.Hauntology is, in essence, a mode of analysing the repressions, absences and lacks that shape our social world. The book outlines how criminological researchers may
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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures

22nd International Conference, FOSSACS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, April 6–11, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Alex Simpson ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The 29 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The 29 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
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Gendering Place and Affect

Attachment, Disruption and Belonging

by Nick Rumens, Patricia Lewis, Evgenniia Kuziner, Nyk Robertson, Nicholas Hill, Katherine Johnson, Anna Hickey-Moody, Troy Innocent, Daniel Harris, Jessica Horne, Murray Lee, Paul McGuinness, Alison Hirst, Christina Schwabenland, Corina Sheerin, Rachel Morgan, Melissa Tyler, Rajeshwari Chennangodu, George Kandathil ...

Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings – whether urban design, border management or organisations – shape and form experiences of gender.Bringing together key debates across the fields of sociology, geography and organisation studies, the book sets out new theoretical ground to examine and ... Read more

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Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings – whether urban design, border management or organisations – shape and form experiences of gender.Bringing together key debates across the fields of sociology, geography and organisation studies, the book sets out new theoretical ground to examine and
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Brainstorming (Unabridged)

by Alex Faikney Osborn ...

Narrated by Paul Simpson ...

Unabridged

4 hours 32 min

Tap Directly Into Your Creative Mind... And Easily Access YOUR Million-Dollar Ideas. Ideas are the lifeblood of success... and the best ideas originate with brainstorming. ... Read more

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Tap Directly Into Your Creative Mind... And Easily Access YOUR Million-Dollar Ideas. Ideas are the lifeblood of success... and the best ideas originate with brainstorming.
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Crow Valley Karaoke Championships, The

A Novel

by Ali Bryan ...

Narrated by Erin Moon, Christina Traister, Tanya Eby, Alex Perone, Pierre Simpson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley’s most anticipated night of the year?A year after forest fires ravaged the town of Crow Valley and claimed the life of Dale Jepson―karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all-around good guy―the community hosts a high-stakes karaoke competition. But when a convicted murderer escapes from nearby Crow ... Read more

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A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley’s most anticipated night of the year?A year after forest fires ravaged the town of Crow Valley and claimed the life of Dale Jepson―karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all-around good guy―the community hosts a high-stakes karaoke competition. But when a convicted murderer escapes from nearby Crow
... Read more

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Indigenous City Edit

Extended Preview

by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Chief Ladybird, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson0, Ivy Knight2, Alex Jacobs-Blum4, Liz Howard6 ...

Narrated by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Chief Ladybird, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson1, Ivy Knight3, Alex Jacobs-Blum5, Liz Howard7 ...

Unabridged

4 min

This is a free extended preview of Indigenous City Edit. The full audiobook can be found by searching the Kobo store.West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan ... Read more

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This is a free extended preview of Indigenous City Edit. The full audiobook can be found by searching the Kobo store.West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan
... Read more

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Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe

A Novel

by Evan James ...

Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

Unabridged

9 hours 27 min

Named one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” (Cosmopolitan) in the Pacific Northwest.The inimitable—some might say incorrigible—Frank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife, Carol, believes. But Carol is convinced that their new island home ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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Named one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” (Cosmopolitan) in the Pacific Northwest.The inimitable—some might say incorrigible—Frank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife, Carol, believes. But Carol is convinced that their new island home
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Roost

by Ali Bryan ...

Narrated by Nina Richmond ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Roost
Unabridged

6 hours 11 min

Claudia, single mom of two, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, new hobbies and—worst of all—new adult friends. But in Claudia's house she's still finding bananas in the sock drawer, cigarettes taped to wrestling figures, and colourful doodles on her MasterCard bills. Then Claudia receives the unexpected news that her mother has died. Shared ... Read more

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Claudia, single mom of two, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, new hobbies and—worst of all—new adult friends. But in Claudia's house she's still finding bananas in the sock drawer, cigarettes taped to wrestling figures, and colourful doodles on her MasterCard bills. Then Claudia receives the unexpected news that her mother has died. Shared
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Blood on Their Hands

Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

by Mandy Matney ...

Narrated by Mandy Matney ...

Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

**Narrated by Mandy Matney** The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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**Narrated by Mandy Matney** The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the
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