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Gods and Kings

The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano

by Dana Thomas ...

More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs. They turned out landmark collections in mesmerizing, theatrical shows that retailers ... Read more

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More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs. They turned out landmark collections in mesmerizing, theatrical shows that retailers
... Read more

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Fashionopolis

Why What We Wear Matters

by Dana Thomas ...

A “fascinating” (New York Times Book Review) investigation into the human and environmental cost of fast fashion and global supply chains—and what we can actually do to enact change“A glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability.” —The New YorkerWhat should I wear? It’s a fundamental question we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we ... Read more

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A “fascinating” (New York Times Book Review) investigation into the human and environmental cost of fast fashion and global supply chains—and what we can actually do to enact change“A glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability.” —The New YorkerWhat should I wear? It’s a fundamental question we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we
... Read more
Deluxe

How Luxury Lost Its Luster

by Dana Thomas ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A hard-hitting behind-the-scenes look at how luxury fashion went global, revealing manufacturing secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don’t want you to know“Fascinating . . . The story of luxury goods today is really about globalization, capitalization, class, and culture.”—Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek“What Fast Food Nation did for food service, this book does for ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A hard-hitting behind-the-scenes look at how luxury fashion went global, revealing manufacturing secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don’t want you to know“Fascinating . . . The story of luxury goods today is really about globalization, capitalization, class, and culture.”—Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek“What Fast Food Nation did for food service, this book does for
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Made For More - Mental Health Edition : Powerful Stories Of people Rising Above Depression, Anxiety, Addiction, Sexual Abuse & Other Traumas

Made For More, #1

by Chou Hallegra, Catherine Hughes, Shawnee Penkacik, Karsten Penkacik, Carrie Reichartz, Karima Leslie, Carol Strang, Al Levin, Dan Esterly, Nikki Burgess, Holly Miller, Thomas Newman Powell, Dana Lambert-Hodge, Justin Birckbichler, Dani Adams, Cherie Faus-Smith ...

Series Book 1 - Made For More
Sixteen (16) men and women from different walks of life united to create this collaboration. They openly share how they are rising above depression, anxiety, addiction, sexual abuse, and other traumas.Through their powerful stories, they want their readers to know:There is hope.You are not alone; we are all in this together.Help is available.You can thrive in spite of what you've been through in ... Read more

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Sixteen (16) men and women from different walks of life united to create this collaboration. They openly share how they are rising above depression, anxiety, addiction, sexual abuse, and other traumas.Through their powerful stories, they want their readers to know:There is hope.You are not alone; we are all in this together.Help is available.You can thrive in spite of what you've been through in
... Read more
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Fashionopolis

The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

by Dana Thomas ...

Narrated by Dana Thomas ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

A “fascinating” (New York Times Book Review) investigation into the human and environmental cost of fast fashion and global supply chains—and what we can actually do to enact change“A glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability.” —The New YorkerWhat should I wear? It’s a fundamental question we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

A “fascinating” (New York Times Book Review) investigation into the human and environmental cost of fast fashion and global supply chains—and what we can actually do to enact change“A glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability.” —The New YorkerWhat should I wear? It’s a fundamental question we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we
... Read more
Fashionopolis (Young Readers Edition)

The Secrets Behind the Clothes We Wear

by Dana Thomas ...

A look at fast fashion and its impact on the environment and social justice, perfect for middle grade classroomsDid you ever think about where your jeans come from? How about the people who made your T-shirt, or what happens to the clothes you grow out of when you're done wearing them? The fabrics clothes are made of, the way they are designed and sewn and shipped around the world, and the way we ... Read more

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A look at fast fashion and its impact on the environment and social justice, perfect for middle grade classroomsDid you ever think about where your jeans come from? How about the people who made your T-shirt, or what happens to the clothes you grow out of when you're done wearing them? The fabrics clothes are made of, the way they are designed and sewn and shipped around the world, and the way we
... Read more

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Love Inspired Suspense September 2024 - Box Set 2 of 2

by Dana Mentink, Sami A. Abrams, Jacquelin Thomas ...

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith.This box set includes:FUGITIVE SEARCH (A Security Hounds Investigations novel)by USA TODAY bestselling author Dana MentinkWhen the man who killed her father is finally arrested, Catherine Hart thinks it’s safe to come out of hiding…until he escapes and abducts her. But private investigator ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith.This box set includes:FUGITIVE SEARCH (A Security Hounds Investigations novel)by USA TODAY bestselling author Dana MentinkWhen the man who killed her father is finally arrested, Catherine Hart thinks it’s safe to come out of hiding…until he escapes and abducts her. But private investigator
... Read more
The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection

The Greatest Works of World Literature

by Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Burke, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare, Homer, Friedrich von Schiller, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, William A. Neilson ...

The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection offers an unparalleled exploration of the foundational texts that have shaped Western thought, literature, and science. This anthology encompasses a breathtaking array of genres and styles, ranging from the drama of Shakespeare and Sophocles to the philosophical treatises of Plato and Kant, and the insightful essays of Montaigne and Emerson. The ... Read more

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The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection offers an unparalleled exploration of the foundational texts that have shaped Western thought, literature, and science. This anthology encompasses a breathtaking array of genres and styles, ranging from the drama of Shakespeare and Sophocles to the philosophical treatises of Plato and Kant, and the insightful essays of Montaigne and Emerson. The
... Read more
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Fashionopolis (Young Readers Edition)

The Secrets Behind the Clothes We Wear

by Dana Thomas ...

Narrated by Dana Thomas ...

Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

A look at fast fashion and its impact on the environment and social justice, perfect for middle grade classroomsDid you ever think about where your jeans come from? How about the people who made your T-shirt, or what happens to the clothes you grow out of when you're done wearing them? The fabrics clothes are made of, the way they are designed and sewn and shipped around the world, and the way we ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

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A look at fast fashion and its impact on the environment and social justice, perfect for middle grade classroomsDid you ever think about where your jeans come from? How about the people who made your T-shirt, or what happens to the clothes you grow out of when you're done wearing them? The fabrics clothes are made of, the way they are designed and sewn and shipped around the world, and the way we
... Read more

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Always Young and Restless

My Life On and Off America's #1 Daytime Drama

by Melody Thomas Scott, Dana L. Davis ...

The renowned actress who played Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless opens up about her sixty-year career in this scintillating memoir.Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her character on The Young and the Restless, who's seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America's highest-rated daytime serial. But there's plenty of drama beyond her character's plotlines. In this captivating ... Read more

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The renowned actress who played Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless opens up about her sixty-year career in this scintillating memoir.Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her character on The Young and the Restless, who's seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America's highest-rated daytime serial. But there's plenty of drama beyond her character's plotlines. In this captivating
... Read more

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Denim, Diamonds and Death

Bouchercon Anthology 2019

by Rick Ollerman, Carole Nelson Douglas, John M. Floyd, Dana Haynes, Thomas Luka, Michael Allan Mallory, Angela Crider Neary, Laura Oles, Josh Pachter, John Shepphird, Debra Luttanzi Shutika, Julie Tollefson, Tim P. Walker, Robb White, Kenneth Wishnia, Mark Wisniewski ...

Denim, Diamonds and Death offers a fine collection from authors supporting the 50th Anniversary of the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Dallas, Texas.Here are fifteen stories that run the gamut from heists to revenge, intricate plots to secrets uncovered, and more than a few tales that defy easy classification.Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the 2019 Bouchercon’s official ... Read more

$10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Denim, Diamonds and Death offers a fine collection from authors supporting the 50th Anniversary of the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Dallas, Texas.Here are fifteen stories that run the gamut from heists to revenge, intricate plots to secrets uncovered, and more than a few tales that defy easy classification.Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the 2019 Bouchercon’s official
... Read more
The Political System of Brazil

Edited by Dana de la Fontaine, Thomas Stehnken ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This volume presents in-depth insights into the polity, politics and policies of the Brazilian political system. It reassesses the processes of change since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s, in the light of autocratic societal structures and suboptimal institutional design, on the one hand, and the political and economic achievements observed, on the other. In their contributions, ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

This volume presents in-depth insights into the polity, politics and policies of the Brazilian political system. It reassesses the processes of change since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s, in the light of autocratic societal structures and suboptimal institutional design, on the one hand, and the political and economic achievements observed, on the other. In their contributions,
... Read more

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