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  • Blue Sky Dream

    A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace

    by David Beers ...
    In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class Americans who believed in something called the American Dream, then woke up one day to discover it was ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Augustine and the Problem of Power

    The Essays and Lectures of Charles Norris Cochrane

    by Charles Norris Cochrane ...
    More than seventy years after his untimely death, this collection of essays and lectures provides the first appearance of Charles Norris Cochrane's follow-up to his seminal work, Christianity and Classical Culture. Augustine and the Problem of Power provides an accessible entrance into the vast sweep of Cochrane's thought through his topical essays and lectures on Augustine, Roman history and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking

    Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

    by David Beer ...
    We are living in algorithmic times.From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated systems can transform the social world in ways that are just starting to be imagined.Redefining these emergent technologies as the new systems of knowing, pioneering scholar David Beer examines the acute tensions they create and how they are changing what is ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts

    Worlds, Lives, Fragments

    by David Beer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing on the relationships between worlds, lives and fragments in these works, David Beer opens up a conceptual toolkit for understanding life as both ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Data Gaze

    Capitalism, Power and Perception

    by David Beer ...
    Series series Society and Space
    A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics. This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social ordering.It is centrally concerned with examining the types of knowledge associated with data analytics and shows that how these analytics ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • The Quirks of Digital Culture

    by David Beer ...
    The culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Google and the like become massive players in shaping cultural consumption. But how can we understand culture once it moves on to big tech platforms? How can we make sense of the changes this brings to our lives? These platforms ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Points of Interest

    In Search of the Places, People, and Stories of BC

    Edited by David Beers, Andrea Bennett ...
    Take a trip across British Columbia with this enchanting collection of essays from thirty local writers.What makes wandering the vibrant land called British Columbia really special? Encounters with locals who are ready to share, over a coffee or a beer, quirky tales and powerful truths rooted in place and time. Consider this book a meet-up with 30 such storytellers, the perfect road companion for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metric Power

    by David Beer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook

    Low carb recipes for the whole family

    by Vickie De Beer, Kath Megaw, Prof. David Segal ...
    This is the ultimate handbook for anyone living with diabetes. Packed with expert advice, alongside delicious, family-friendly recipes that equip you to tackle diabetes head on. You'll learn how to recognize and manage symptoms for both Types 1 and 2 diabetes, and help improve your day-to-day health and lifestyle for good.With the latest research and advice from leading healthcare writers, Type 1 ... Read more

    $18.50 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Kings

    by David Beers, Michael Anderle ...
    Narrated by Pete Bradbury ...
    Series series War Machine

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    An alien race decides humanity’s fate: Eradication.They didn’t count on someone rising to challenge their decree.Constantine had forsaken his family name and birthright. At 28 years old, he’d escaped Earth to help terraform Mars.An empire’s heir went missing just as the universe’s greatest threat announces itself.War Games will decide who represents humanity in this extinction level struggle ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Priest

    by David Beers ...
    Narrated by Joe Hempel ...
    Series series Luke Titan Chronicles

    Unabridged

    5 hours 19 min

    Are you ready for confession?Christian Windsor’s odd genius brought him and his FBI unit fame when he stopped the sadistic murderer called The Surgeon.Christian’s genius couldn’t reveal the sociopath working right next to him, though: the world-renowned psychiatrist, Luke Titan.Dead bodies begin showing up again, but this time, Christian knows them. The killer doesn’t want other people: he wants ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Neuropsychology

    Edited by Gerald Goldstein, Paul David Nussbaum, Sue R. Beers ...
    Series series Human Brain Function: Assessment and Rehabilitation
    In this volume of the series Human Brain Function: Assessment and Rehabilitation we cover the area of how brain function is assessed with behavioral or neuropsycholog ical instruments. These assessments are typically conducted by clinical neuropsy chologists or behavioral neurologists, and so we made an effort to present the somewhat differing approaches to these two related disciplines. Clinical ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD