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  • Destination Elsewhere

    Greetings and thank you for coming along on our journey of a lifetime to the little-known place called Elsewhere. We'll be leaving soon, so please have a seat and relax. We don't stand on formalities here, so kick off your shoes and let your hair down if you'd like.Our ride should be smooth and event-free—most trips of the mind are. The actual travel time to Elsewhere will be very short, but ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • What Did Eye See?

    George ORourke had witnessed something but had no idea what he had seen. All he knew was that someone was trying to kill him for it. He and his wife were at risk, and after the second attempt on both their lives, they went into hiding. George and some of his old colleagues who had served with him in the UK Special Forces had to quickly work together. There was an underlying threat that had the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Cultural History of Physics

    Translated by Charles Simonyi, David Kramer ...
    While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture, "The Two Cultures."In A Cultural History of ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Kidnapped

    The Tragic Life of J. Paul Getty III

    by Charles Fox ...
    Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    Previously published as Uncommon Youth, Charles Fox's Kidnapped examines the glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973.J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Living Waters of Texas

    Series series River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    In ten impassioned essays, veteran Texas environmental advocates and conservation professionals step outside their roles as lawyers, lobbyists, administrators, consultants, and researchers to write about water. Their personal stories of what the springs, rivers, bottomlands, bayous, marshes, estuaries, bays, lakes, and reservoirs mean to them and to our state come alive in the landscape ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Divide By Zero

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    TRUTH AND FAILURE AT THE EDGE OF UNDERSTANDINGWinston doesn’t think like other people. He struggles to explain himself and questions basic mathematics. Fearing expulsion from his graduate program, he takes a leave of absence to test a new class of computer. Nothing about this computer is normal and Winston unleashes ambitious code to push its limits only to discover there is a reason he struggles ... Read more

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    Mrs. Astor Regrets

    The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach

    by Meryl Gordon ...
    Narrated by Lorna Raver ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 41 min

    The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Malaise of Modernity

    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In Malaise of Modernity, Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism. To Taylor, self-fulfillment, although often expressed in self-centered ways, isn't necessarily a rejection of traditional values and social commitment; it also reflects something authentic and valuable ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Ops

    The 12th Spider Shepherd Thriller

    Series Book 12 - The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
    In what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil.As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he's asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows he'll become a wanted man.And things are about to get more complicated: Spider ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Reality Is Not What It Seems

    The Journey to Quantum Gravity

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Translated by Simon Carnell, Erica Segre ...
    “The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they’re calling the next Stephen Hawking.” —**The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times–bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, Helgoland, and Anaximander, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.**What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD