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  • Protecting Whitney

    The Memoir of Her Bodyguard

    by David Roberts ...
    David Roberts was Whitney Houston's bodyguard, the real one.Roberts was hired in 1988 for Houston's UK portion of the Moment of Truth world tour. Accustomed to working for diplomats and Fortune 500 clients, Roberts had reservations about working with a pop star. But Houston's heart of gold won him over from the moment they met at Heathrow Airport.There's a high bar for those who work in this ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shantaram

    A Novel

    Now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam!“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • ONCE THEY MOVED LIKE THE WIND: COCHISE, GERONIMO,

    by David Roberts ...
    During the westward settlement, for more than twenty years Apache tribes eluded both US and Mexican armies, and by 1886 an estimated 9,000 armed men were in pursuit. Roberts (Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative) presents a moving account of the end of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. He portrays the great Apache leaders—Cochise, Nana, Juh, Geronimo, the woman warrior Lozen—and U.S. generals George ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Stephen Stills: Change Partners: The Definitive Biography

    by David Roberts ...
    Stephen Stills is one of the last remaining music legends from the rock era without a biography. During his six-decade career, he has played with all the greats. His career sky-rocketed when Crosby, Stills & Nash played only their second gig together at Woodstock in 1969. With the addition of Neil Young, the band would go on to play the first rock stadium tour in 1974.Stephen Stills is the only ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy

    During the early decades of the twentieth century, Italy produced distinctive innovations in both the intellectual and political realms. On the one hand, Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) and Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) spearheaded a radical rethinking of historicism and philosophical idealism that significantly reoriented Italian culture. On the other hand, the period witnessed the first rumblings of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Totalitarianism

    Series series Key Concepts in Political Theory
    Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether. In this accessible, wide-ranging introduction, David Roberts addresses the grounds for skepticism and shows that appropriately recast—as an aspiration and direction, rather than a system of domination—totalitarianism is essential for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    by David Roberts ...
    His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • In Search of the Old Ones

    by David Roberts ...
    Series series A Brief History of the Anasazi
    An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi.David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Escape from Lucania

    An Epic Story of Survival

    by David Roberts ...
    In 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the border of Alaska and the Yukon, and surrounded by glacial peaks, Lucania was all but inaccessible. The leader of one failed expedition deemed it "impregnable." But in that year, a pair of daring young climbers would attempt a first ascent, not knowing that ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Into the Great Emptiness

    Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

    by David Roberts ...
    **A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Science and Technology“A gripping saga—and one of Roberts’s finest books.” —Jon KrakauerThe riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration.**By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Nota Bene

    by David Roberts ...
    Nota Bene is a crime novel taking place in Malta and Tunisia. A detective is hired to find a missing archaeologist, only to find him murdered and this takes him on a road to hell. What is driving everyone to warn him off from investigating? Is a murderer trying to cover his tracks? Did he have a night's frolic with the wrong woman? Is he in league with the wrong people? The detective needs to find ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • On the Ridge Between Life and Death

    A Climbing Life Reexamined

    by David Roberts ...
    What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD