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  • Intermittent Fasting: The Complete Guide to Lose Weight, Heal Your Body & Live a Healthy Life

    by Christopher Collins ...
    It's not a diet, it's a timed approach to eating!Intermittent fasting isn't just a weight loss strategy or a hack that bodybuilders use to lose fat quickly while maintaining lean muscle mass. It is at its best a healthy lifestyle informed by human evolution and the study of metabolism. It asks the human body to be much more efficient and self-protective than it is accustomed to being in modern ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mirror Loop

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Dr. Elara Myles built the NeuroMirror to save her mind.Diagnosed with early-onset dementia, the renowned neurologist designed a self-learning diagnostic system to observe her cognition in real time — to preserve her identity through language long after memory failed.It worked.Too well.Inside the sterile hum of her lab, Elara’s reflections begin to speak back — calm, clinical, impossibly familiar. ... Read more

    $8.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The North Sea Inferno: The 1988 Piper Alpha Disaster

    Hydrocarbons, Hubris, and the Catastrophic Engineering Failure That Birthed Modern Offshore Safety

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Operating an oil rig in the freezing, violent waters of the North Sea is inherently dangerous. But the destruction of the Piper Alpha platform in July 1988, which killed 167 men, was not an act of nature. It was a catastrophic, cascading failure of process safety, communication, and engineering hubris. This technical engineering manual dissects the timeline of the world's deadliest offshore ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • God is in the Waiting

    A Journey of Faith, Family, and God's Perfect Timing

    by Christopher Collins ...
    God Is in the Waiting is a powerful Christian memoir about a man who spent years running from God-through trauma, doubt, military service, loss, fatherhood, and the endless pursuit of identity-only to discover that God had been pursuing him all along. Through honest storytelling and deeply spiritual reflection, Chris Collins reveals how God uses seasons of silence, suffering, and uncertainty to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Paleopoetics

    The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine, empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediated by ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Homeland Mythology

    Biblical Narratives in American Culture

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share might sound like this: Once upon a time, the values of the righteous community coincided with those of the state. Home and land were harmoniously united under God. But through intellectual pride (read: ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Neopoetics

    The Evolution of the Literate Imagination

    by Christopher Collins ...
    The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool and as a means of fashioning other communicative tools—stories, songs, and rituals. In Neopoetics, ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • The Wills Eye Manual

    Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease: eBook without Multimedia

    by Christopher J. Rapuano, Mara E. Penne, Collin J. Richards, Erik Massenzio ...
    A best-selling source of compact, authoritative guidance on the treatment of ocular disorders in a variety of settings, The Wills Eye Manual, 9th Edition, is the comprehensive, high-yield reference of choice for both trainees and seasoned practitioners. It provides highly illustrated information on more than 200 ophthalmic conditions along with proven clinical recommendations from initial ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Reading the Written Image

    Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. The "willing suspension of disbelief," which Coleridge said "constitutes poetic faith," therefore ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Theatre and Residual Culture

    J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Playboy of the Western World

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    ‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the streets of Dublin. How did one play provoke this? Christopher Collins addresses The Playboy ’s satirical treatment of ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD

  • Interpreting R. G. Collingwood

    Critical Essays

    Edited by David Collins, Christopher Williams ...
    An indisputably prominent figure in twentieth-century philosophy, R. G. Collingwood often remains elusive even to those who admire his achievements. This volume of new essays aims to reintroduce Collingwood to twenty-first-century philosophical readers and to show why, and how, his achievements matter. Each essay offers an original contribution to the understanding of some aspect of Collingwood's ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD