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  • The Secret Life of Plants

    A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

    by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird ...
    "Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. Its scope leaves you breathless. This is such a book." — John White, San Francisco ChronicleExplore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Secret Life of Plants

    A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

    by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird ...
    Narrated by D. Michael Hope ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 28 min

    ""Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. Its scope leaves you breathless. This is such a book."" — John White, San Francisco ChronicleExplore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Vision and Communism

    Edited by Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, Stephanie Smith ...
    In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky's art demonstrates what an "avant-garde late Communist art" would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vision and Communism

    Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture

    Edited by Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, Stephanie Smith, Matthew Jesse Jackson ...
    In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky's art demonstrates what an “avant-garde late Communist art” would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Chaos

    Killing People, Places, and the Planet

    by John Hans Gilderbloom, Joshua D. Ambrosius, Bobby Austin, Russell Barnett, Christopher Bird, Leah Callahan, Chad Frederick, Robert Friedland, Elliott Grantz, Matthew Hanka0, Bunny Hayes1, Antwan Jones2, Avery Kahl3, Zachary E. Kenitzer4, Isaiah Kingsberry5, Wesley L. Meares6, Justin Mog7, Lisa Murray8, Chris Nolan9, Karrie Ann Quenichet0, William Riggs1, Stephen A. Roosa2, Ellen Slaten3, Carla J. Snyder4, Jennifer Stekardis5, Porter Stevens6, Ra’Desha Williams7, Garlynn Woodsong8, Charlie Zhang9, Gregory D. Squires0 ...
    Featuring insights from influential figures like Pope Francis and Albert Gore alongside contributions from over thirty esteemed authors, Climate Chaos: Killing People, Places and the Planet charts a transformative path from despair to optimism. Grounded in rigorous scientific research, the book unflinchingly exposes the links between industries such as coal, fossil fuels, chemical factories, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston

    by Christopher Byrd Downey ...
    An in-depth history of Poe's time spent in the South Carolina port city where he secretly enlisted in the United States Army.Edgar Allan Poe arrived in Charleston in November 1827 chased by storms, both literal and figurative. Some of the author's previous indiscretions caused him to enlist in the U.S. Army six months earlier under the pseudonym Edgar A. Perry. The more than one year that Poe ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stede Bonnet

    Charleston's Gentleman Pirate

    by Christopher Byrd Downey ...
    Hundreds of pirates traversed the waters of the Atlantic during America's colonial period, but few had a more adventurous tale than Stede Bonnet. Originally a wealthy plantation owner from Barbados, Bonnet abandoned his wife and children in 1717 to set sail on the pirate ship Revenge. He soon fell into company with Blackbeard in the Bahamas and headed for America. In May 1718, they arrived in ... Read more

    $1.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charleston and the Golden Age of Piracy

    by Christopher Byrd Downey ...
    From its earliest days, Charleston was a vital port of call and center of trade, which left it vulnerable to seafaring criminals. The Golden Age of Piracy, encompassing roughly the first quarter of the eighteenth century, produced some of the most outrageous characters in maritime history. The daring exploits of these infamous plunderers made thievery widespread along Charleston's waterfront, but ... Read more

    $1.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History Lover's Guide to Charleston, A

    by Christopher Byrd Downey ...
    Series series History & Guide
    Founded in 1670, Charleston is among the oldest cities in the nation and site of some of the most pivotal events in American history. Explore the city and discover the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon where South Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1788. Visit beautiful Rainbow Row and learn the true history of this most iconic of Charleston sites. Tour the city's oldest church edifice at ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revisiting Russian Radicals

    by Andrew M. Drozd, Brendan G. Mooney, Charles L. Byrd, Lindsay Ceballos, James Goodwin, Valeria Sobol, Victoria Thorstensson, Alexey Vdovin, Anastasia Williams0, Kirill Zubkov1 ...
    Revisiting Russian Radicals is a collection of ten articles that seeks to promote a revisitation of the Russian Radicals who have been somewhat unjustly forgotten in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. Rather than viewing the radicals through the lens of the 1917 October Revolution, the authors seek to analyze them on their own terms and explore new aspects of their legacy. The chapters ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Love in the Limelight Volume Two

    An Anthology

    by Ann Christopher, Adrianne Byrd ...
    Series series Love in the Limelight
    Enjoy the concluding stories of the Love in the Limelight series, where four unstoppable women embark upon a quest in Hollywood to find fame, fortune and ultimately…true love.Seduced on the Red Carpet by Ann ChristopherSupermodel Livia Blake has lived a life most women only dream of. But beneath the glitz and glamour is a small-town girl who yearns for a family of her own. Then she meets Hunter ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Old Europe's Suicide: The Building of a Pyramid of Errors

    by Christopher Birdwood Thomson ...
    “When the snows melt there will be war in the Balkans,” had become an habitual formula in the Foreign Offices of Europe during the first decade of the twentieth century. Statesmen and diplomats found comfort in this prophecy on their return from cures at different Continental spas, because, the season being autumn, the snow had still to fall, and would not melt for at least six months. This annual ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus