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  • The Life And Lies Of Harry Morris

    by Daniel Gardner ...
    The life of Harry Morris was a classic 'rags to riches' tale: an East End Jewish barrow boy who became a feted nightclub operator in Knightsbridge and Mayfair. But there was a price to pay - his drive to transcend humble roots and a devastating early illness came at the cost of much myth-making and a family schism. Now, in 1963, as Harry makes a swansong cruise around the world with his mistress ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Pollution in China

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Daniel K. Gardner ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled the roads; today, China is the world's largest car market. And if forty years ago you looked out ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Confucianism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Daniel K. Gardner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and ethics. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel K. Gardner explores the major philosophical ideas of the Confucian tradition, showing their profound impact on state ideology and imperial government, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects

    Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition

    by Daniel Gardner ...
    The Analects is a compendium of the sayings of Confucius (551–479 b.c.e.), transcribed and passed down by his disciples. How it came to be transformed by Zhu Xi (1130–1200) into one of the most philosophically significant texts in the Confucian tradition is the subject of this book.Scholarly attention in China had long been devoted to the Analects. By the time of Zhu Xi, a rich history of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Living Leadership by Insight

    A Good Leader Achieves, a Great Leader Builds Monuments

    by Gardner E. Daniel ...
    Learning not shared is learning wasted. In my thirty-five years of experience in the oil and banking industries, including ascending levels of management and leadership responsibilities, I have gained what I believe to be valuable insight into many styles of leadership. Former President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, once said Its what you learn after you know it all that really counts. We ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Thresholds of Digital Gameplay

    by Daniel L. Gardner ...
    Series series Software Studies
    How the often-overlooked interfaces, interactions, and inequities on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize.Contemporary digital gameplay is only accessible by navigating an ecosystem of interfaces that support its computational nature. Account logins, controllers, and an assortment of menus, settings, and other peripheral-to-gameplay elements support a range of practical ... Read more

    $74.39 CAD

  • Hunter's Run

    by George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham ...
    Three renowned masters combine a "tense interspecies battle of wits with tangy atmospherics and a bleak lesson on the meaning of freedom. A" (Entertainment Weekly).To be adapted into a major motion picture by Exile Content StudioRunning from poverty and hopelessness, Ramón Espejo boarded one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the new life he found on the far-off planet ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

    by Daniel K. Gardner, Mark C. Carnes ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587 is set in the Hanlin Academy in Ming dynasty China. Most students are members of the Grand Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, the body of top-ranking graduates of the civil service examination who serve as advisers to the Wanli emperor. Some Grand Secretaries are Confucian “purists,” who hold that tradition obliges the emperor to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Banned Together

    Our Fight for Readers' Rights

    Narrated by June Angela, Kyla Garcia, David Lee Huynh, Lori Gardner, Daniel Henning, Maria Liatis, Vico Ortiz, Channie Waites ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 32 min

    A dazzling YA anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators.Books are disappearing from shelves across the country. What does this mean for authors, illustrators, and—most crucially—for young readers?This bold collection of fiction, memoir, poetry, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • MindScience

    An East-West Dialogue

    by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman ...
    What is the subtle relationship between mind and body? What can today's scientists learn about this relationship from masters of Buddhist thought? Is it possible that by combining Western and Eastern approaches, we can reach a new understanding of the nature of the mind, the human potential for growth, the possibilities for mental and physical health?MindScience explores these and other questions ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    The Science of Fear

    Why We Fear the Things We Should not- and Put Ourselves in Great Danger

    by Daniel Gardner ...
    Narrated by Scott Peterson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly—believing they wee ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Zhu Xi

    Basic Teachings

    by Xi Zhu ...
    Translated by Daniel Gardner ...
    Zhu Xi (1130–1200) was the preeminent Confucian thinker of the Song dynasty (960–1279). His teachings profoundly influenced China, where for centuries after his death they formed the basis of the country’s educational system. In Korea, Japan, and Vietnam as well, elites embraced his inspired and authoritative synthesis of Confucian thought.In Zhu’s eyes, the great Way of China was in decline, with ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD