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The Emperor's New Mathematics

Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)

by Catherine Jami ...

In 1644 the Qing dynasty seized power in China. Its Manchu elite were at first seen by most of their subjects as foreigners from beyond the Great Wall, and the consolidation of Qing rule presented significant cultural and political problems, as well as military challenges. It was the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722) who set the dynasty on a firm footing, and one of his main stratagems to achieve this ... Read more

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In 1644 the Qing dynasty seized power in China. Its Manchu elite were at first seen by most of their subjects as foreigners from beyond the Great Wall, and the consolidation of Qing rule presented significant cultural and political problems, as well as military challenges. It was the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722) who set the dynasty on a firm footing, and one of his main stratagems to achieve this
... Read more
The Care Manifesto

The Politics of Interdependence

by The Care Collective, Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo Litter, Catherine Rottenberg ...

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors ... Read more

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We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors
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Mark of the Castle

by Rose Catherine Khan ...

Narrated by Jamie-Lyn Markos ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Centernia
Unabridged

17 hours 56 min

Book Two of the Centernia Series from Rose Catherine Khan!Reunited with her long-lost kin in Castle Aurumice, Jessica Ravenwolfe fights to find balance. She spends her days struggling through the tribulations of high school in Autumn Valley, Pennsylvania and her nights in the wild realm of the cat-like ailurians.With the knowledge of earth at her fingertips, Jessi has been tasked with repairing ... Read more

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Book Two of the Centernia Series from Rose Catherine Khan!Reunited with her long-lost kin in Castle Aurumice, Jessica Ravenwolfe fights to find balance. She spends her days struggling through the tribulations of high school in Autumn Valley, Pennsylvania and her nights in the wild realm of the cat-like ailurians.With the knowledge of earth at her fingertips, Jessi has been tasked with repairing
... Read more
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Whispers in the Azure

by Rose Catherine Khan ...

Narrated by Jamie-Lyn Markos ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Centernia
Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

Deep beneath the cellars of Castle Aurumice, a portal leads to a musty basement in suburban Pennsylvania. Jessica Ravenwolfe has been crossing that Gate for five years, adventuring with her eclectic friends and occasionally making poor choices. Now she is ready to leave the suburbs and the castle, accepting an invitation to the mage academy in resplendent Katanzarko City.Jessica’s choice has ... Read more

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Deep beneath the cellars of Castle Aurumice, a portal leads to a musty basement in suburban Pennsylvania. Jessica Ravenwolfe has been crossing that Gate for five years, adventuring with her eclectic friends and occasionally making poor choices. Now she is ready to leave the suburbs and the castle, accepting an invitation to the mage academy in resplendent Katanzarko City.Jessica’s choice has
... Read more
Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

by Karine Chemla, Catherine Jami, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust ...

Series series History (R0)
How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians’ sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed ... Read more

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How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians’ sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed
... Read more
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Centernia Return to the Castle

by Rose Catherine Khan ...

Narrated by Jamie-Lyn Markos ...

Unabridged

13 hours 56 min

A dark and elegant contemporary fantasy novel from the mind of internationally acclaimed fantasy artist Rose Catherine Khan.Artemisa Wynter yearns for the realm of Pennsylvania, a world she has only glimpsed through her mother's bedtime stories. Her deepest desire is to leave Castle Aurumice and embrace a life filled with movies, malls, and microwave burritos. However, Artemisa was blessed with ... Read more

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A dark and elegant contemporary fantasy novel from the mind of internationally acclaimed fantasy artist Rose Catherine Khan.Artemisa Wynter yearns for the realm of Pennsylvania, a world she has only glimpsed through her mother's bedtime stories. Her deepest desire is to leave Castle Aurumice and embrace a life filled with movies, malls, and microwave burritos. However, Artemisa was blessed with
... Read more
Prayers and Blessings for Healthcare Workers

by Chelsea Brooke Yarborough, Virgil Fry, Kevin M. Roberts, Andrew Phillips, Mishca R. Russell-Smith, Martha Spong, Leenah Safi, Kelly Gregory, Elizabeth Felicetti, Jessica Covil, James R. Adams, Paul Roberts Abernathy, Sarah Griffith Lund, Ruth McMeekin Skjerseth, Ginny Wilder, Paula Wells, Katherine Willis Pershey, Laura Martin, Randy Lewis, Laura Johnson, Hayden Dawes, Molly Bolton, Hadley H. Kifner, Allyson S. Vertigan, Gayle Fisher-Stewart, David Finnegan-Hosey, Molly Brummett Wudel, Traci Smith, Katherine K. Henderson, Arianne Braithwaite Lehn, Keith A. Menhinik, Sonya Gravlee, Jennifer Grant, Heather Bachelder, Ineda Pearl Adesanya, Mark Wingfield, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, Danielle Buhuro, Catherine McNiel, Brian Nelson, Malcolm Marler, Nathan Brown, Leslie Deslauriers, Catherine Meeks, Karl Pellegrino, Jamie R. Rivera, Deborah Jill Schloss, Shiela P. Spencer, Ellen M. Swinford, Michael B. Curry ...

An interfaith collection of prayers, blessings, and poems offering comfort and hope to the healthcare workers that give so much.The COVID-19 pandemic has left few of us unaffected, but our healthcare workers have borne the brunt of its impact. Chaplains and clergy across all lines of faith have ministered to those caregivers through prayers and blessings.This curated collection of interfaith ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An interfaith collection of prayers, blessings, and poems offering comfort and hope to the healthcare workers that give so much.The COVID-19 pandemic has left few of us unaffected, but our healthcare workers have borne the brunt of its impact. Chaplains and clergy across all lines of faith have ministered to those caregivers through prayers and blessings.This curated collection of interfaith
... Read more
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The Amalfi Secret

by Dean Reineking, Catherine Reineking ...

Narrated by Jamie Renell, Jamie Renell ...

Unabridged

14 hours 52 min

When Gabe Roslo arrives in Amalfi, Italy, a long-awaited reunion with his grandparents takes a tragic turn. His beloved grandfather is dead—and a cryptic diary left behind is Gabe's only clue to the mystery surrounding his sudden death. But what starts as a personal tragedy quickly spirals into a high-stakes international puzzle. Teaming up with Anna, a resourceful Roman local, Gabe follows a ... Read more

$37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

When Gabe Roslo arrives in Amalfi, Italy, a long-awaited reunion with his grandparents takes a tragic turn. His beloved grandfather is dead—and a cryptic diary left behind is Gabe's only clue to the mystery surrounding his sudden death. But what starts as a personal tragedy quickly spirals into a high-stakes international puzzle. Teaming up with Anna, a resourceful Roman local, Gabe follows a
... Read more
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The Resilience of Red Thread

A Novel

by Catherine Marshall-Smith ...

Narrated by Amy Jensen, Jamie Renell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 48 min

After twenty-one-year-old Emily Miller flees her ex-husband, Lee, with the exterminator she hired to kill hornets in her backyard, she finally feels safe. Jake Clayton offers Emily and her daughter a beautiful place to live where neither Lee nor her mother, who wants custody of Jenna, can find them. Unlike Lee, Jake has a steady job, doesn't drink (she's never met a man who doesn't), and doesn't ... Read more

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After twenty-one-year-old Emily Miller flees her ex-husband, Lee, with the exterminator she hired to kill hornets in her backyard, she finally feels safe. Jake Clayton offers Emily and her daughter a beautiful place to live where neither Lee nor her mother, who wants custody of Jenna, can find them. Unlike Lee, Jake has a steady job, doesn't drink (she's never met a man who doesn't), and doesn't
... Read more

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Frostfire

by Jamie Smith ...

Narrated by Catherine Ho ...

Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

Chosen as one of hundreds to journey to the top of the glacier in their village, Sabira will embark on a dangerous pilgrimage that will guarantee her a life of importance, but only if she can survive.On Choosing Day, children of Adranna who reach the age of fourteen are finally eligible to undergo the tests to determine if they are worthy of bonding a Frostsliver. Only one in a hundred are ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Chosen as one of hundreds to journey to the top of the glacier in their village, Sabira will embark on a dangerous pilgrimage that will guarantee her a life of importance, but only if she can survive.On Choosing Day, children of Adranna who reach the age of fourteen are finally eligible to undergo the tests to determine if they are worthy of bonding a Frostsliver. Only one in a hundred are
... Read more

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Mutual Aid

Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

by Dean Spade ...

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As ... Read more

$11.19 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As
... Read more

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The Future of Capitalism

Facing the New Anxieties

by Paul Collier ...

A top economist's "engaging and well-reasoned" look at how to save capitalism from itself—and from the twin threats of populism and socialism ( The Washington Post).Winner, Handelsblatt Prize for Best Business BookDeep rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus struggling rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less ... Read more

$23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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A top economist's "engaging and well-reasoned" look at how to save capitalism from itself—and from the twin threats of populism and socialism ( The Washington Post).Winner, Handelsblatt Prize for Best Business BookDeep rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus struggling rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less
... Read more

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