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  • Equations from God

    Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith

    by Daniel J. Cohen ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics
    Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction methods. But the religious upheaval in Victorian England and the fledgling United States opened the way for the ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

  • Equations from God

    Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith

    by Daniel J. Cohen ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    This illuminating history explores the complex relationship between mathematics, religious belief, and Victorian culture.Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of the Economy

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Economic growth is the religion of the modern world. It promises a solution to the most basic drama of our human existence: wanting what we don’t have. But we live in a time when the frenzied pursuit of economic growth is jeopardizing the planet’s viability and our very survival as a species. How did we get to this point in human history? How did we allow the pursuit of growth to become the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Homo Numericus

    The coming 'civilization'

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce costs by forgoing face-to-face interactions, and it was a direct result of the free-market shock of the 1980s, which sought to expand the marketplace seamlessly in every possible dimension. Today, we can be algorithmically ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

  • Hiram Bingham and the Dream of Gold

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Hiram Bingham was the ideal explorer-adventurer—handsome, rich, intelligent, brave, and tough. His life seems like something out of film hero Indiana Jones’s exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark.The descendant of strong-willed missionaries, Bingham was born in Hawaii in 1875, At Yale he specialized in South American studies and became a college teacher. Gradually, the romance of the past took hold ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Infinite Desire for Growth

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • "The Female Marine" and Related Works

    Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic

    Edited by Daniel A. Cohen ...
    This is the first complete modern edition of The Female Marine, a fictional cross-dressing trilogy originally published between 1815 and 1818. Enormously popular among New England readers, the tale in various versions appeared in no fewer than nineteen editions over that brief four-year span. This new edition appends three other contemporary accounts of cross-dressing and urban vice which, ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • Single Handed

    The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient

    by Daniel M. Cohen ...
    From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the incredible story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor...In 1944, a thirteen-year-old Hungarian boy named Tibor Rubin was captured by the Nazis and sent to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp. The teenager endured its horrors for more than a year. After ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Homo Economicus

    The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Adventures of Gibby and Libby

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Meet Gibby, a fun-loving 7-year-old alien boy from Dustbinville who loves to imagine and dream big. With his best friend Libby by his side, Gibby learns that imagination is powerful and that it's okay to try again when things don't go as planned. Together, they discover that believing in yourself can lead to wonderful surprises. This sweet and encouraging story is all about friendship, creativity, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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    The New Friends

    by Daniel Hurst ...
    Narrated by Danielle Cohen, Jason Munn, Gemma Dawson, Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    Becky and Jamie are an ordinary hard-working couple trapped in the daily grind, dreaming of an easier life. On one of their rare vacations, they meet Phil and Mel, a wealthy couple who seem to have it all—they're fun, well-traveled, and very generous with their money. But they are also very very dangerous. Phil and Mel are not who they say they are, and this is no random vacation friendship. They ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • New York Motion Practice Handbook and Forms 2026

    by Daniel A. Cohen ...
    New York Motion Practice Handbook & Forms is an all-inclusive guide to this critical practice discipline. More than a mere recitation of the governing provisions of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR), this volume fully explores the underlying substantive law, giving both the basis for the moving party to make its motion and the basis for the non-moving party to oppose. This ... Read more

    $357.29 CAD