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  • The Truth of Yoga

    A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices

    by Daniel Simpson ...
    A succinct, approachable guide to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga.Yoga is practiced by many millions of people worldwide and is celebrated for its mental, physical, and spiritual benefits. And yet, as Daniel Simpson reveals in The Truth of Yoga, much of what is said about yoga is misleading. For example, the word “yoga” does not always mean union. In fact, in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rough Guide To The Dark Side

    by Daniel Simpson ...
    Ever dreamed of changing the world? Daniel Simpson shows how not to do it. His memoir charts a gonzo career at The New York Times. Ambitious and idealistic, he was hired to report on the Balkans but quit within months, freaked out by his editor s zeal for starting wars. Disillusioned, he went native in Belgrade. Together with the charismatic G, who had appeared one night in lavish puffs of dope ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855

    Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections

    by Daniel Simpson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum. In response to increasing calls for the ‘decolonisation’ of museums and the restitution of ethnographic collections, the book seeks to return knowledge of the moments, methods, and motivations whereby Indigenous ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Truth of Yoga

    A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices

    by Daniel Simpson ...
    Narrated by Tim Bruce ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    Much of what is said about yoga is misleading. To take two examples, it is neither five thousand years old, as is commonly claimed, nor does it mean union, at least not exclusively. In perhaps the most famous text-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali-the aim is separation, isolating consciousness from everything else. And the earliest evidence of practice dates back about twenty-five hundred years. Yoga ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Virtue reconsider’d

    Married women in England during the long eighteenth century

    Edited by Alison Daniell, Kim Simpson ...
    Series Book 21 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
    Wives have long been neglected as a topic of scholarly research. The invisibility of married women in England within the historical record, the complexities of their legal and economic status, and an erroneous belief that women’s activities were confined to the domestic has meant that little attention has been focussed exclusively on wives. Now, however, new scholarship is challenging the ... Read more

    $148.99 CAD

  • Bayesian Workflow

    by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, Richard McElreath, Daniel Simpson, Charles C. Margossian, Yuling Yao, Lauren Kennedy, Jonah Gabry, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Martin Modrák, Vianey Leos Barajas ...
    Bayesian statistics and statistical practice have evolved over the years, driven by advancements in theory, methods, and computational tools. Bayesian Workflow explores the intricate workflows of applied Bayesian statistics, aiming to uncover the tacit knowledge often overlooked in published papers and textbooks. By systematizing the process of Bayesian model development, the book seeks to improve ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • War and Imagination

    Perspectives from the Hudson Review

    by Ronald Koury, Nina Bogin, Frederick Morgan, Franz Schneider, Charles Gullans, Joseph Bennett, John Finlay, Marilyn Nelson, Brooke Allen, Abraham Pais0, Louis Simpson1, Anne Stevenson2, Daniel Hoffman3, John Ridland4, Maria Terrone5, Maxine Kumin6, Benjamin Fondane7, John Balaban8, Donka Farkas9, Tennessee Williams0, Leo Tolstoy1, Richard Pevear2, Larissa Volokhonsky3, Wendell Berry4, Julián Ríos5, Nick Caistor6, Asako Serizawa7, Luke Mogelson8, Lara Prescott9, Cary Holladay0 ...
    Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Touching The Void

    by Joe Simpson ...
    Narrated by Daniel Weyman, Andrew Wincott ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to ... Read more

    $18.45 CAD

  • Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Using R and INLA

    by Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Haakon Bakka, Amanda Lenzi, Daniela Castro-Camilo, Daniel Simpson, Finn Lindgren, Håvard Rue, Elias Krainski ...
    Modeling spatial and spatio-temporal continuous processes is an important and challenging problem in spatial statistics. Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Using R and INLA describes in detail the stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) approach for modeling continuous spatial processes with a Matérn covariance, which has been implemented using the ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • The World Aircraft Industry

    by Daniel Todd, Jamie Simpson ...
    Aircraft building is a major industry for many developed countries. This book, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive survey of the state of the world aircraft industry. It looks at how the industry developed, and at its problems. It examines the role of governments, showing how this differs from country to country. It concludes by assessing the prospects for the future shape of the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Black in Time

    The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today

    by Alison Hammond, E. L. Norry ...
    Narrated by Alison Hammond, Daniel Reid-Walter, Natalie Simpson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 35 min

    Brought to you by Puffin.Hiya! Alison Hammond here! I love getting to know all about different people and I'll tell you a secret . . . sometimes people we don't know much about are the most interesting of all! Which is really what this book is all about.Let me ask you a question: How many Black people can you name from our history? Mary Seacole? Ira Aldridge? George Bridget... ... Read more

    $16.60 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Pygmalion

    Directed by John Tydeman

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser, Lucy Whybrow, Geoffrey Palmer, Hannah Gordon, David Burke, Kate Binchy, Frances Jeater, Charlie Simpson, Fritha Goodey, Daniel Philpott, Ben Warwick, Denys Hawthorne ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 37 min

    Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady. But much of the charm and wit comes from the words and timing in Shaw’s original play. Here are the characters of Professor Higgins, his friend Colonel Pickering, and their charge, Eliza Doolittle. Directed by John Tydeman, this delightful comedy is presented in its original play ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD