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  • Formwork

    A practical guide

    by Geoffrey Lee ...
    To optimise formwork costs and minimise the time for its construction, the contractor needs to understand the guiding principles of safe and efficient formwork construction. He must also have some insight into the relative merits of the various methods, and should appreciate the practical details of formwork construction. ... Read more

    $261.08 CAD

  • Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy

    Edited by Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone ...
    A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of "bad" speech on the internet within the American context. One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence-on the internet, and in particular speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In Social ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Importance of Being Conscious

    Edited by Geoffrey Lee, Adam Pautz ...
    This volume is a collection of new work on the significance of consciousness: in what ways does conscious experience matter, and why? Many have thought that consciousness is not merely a theoretically puzzling phenomenon, but that it is important morally, epistemically, or in other ways. For example, this is a key reason why people care how consciousness is distributed: do animals, insects or even ... Read more

    $170.39 CAD

  • Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump

    Edited by Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone ...
    The university is a foundational institution in society and a cornerstone of democracy. However, recent actions taken by the Trump administration pose an existential threat to this institution by undermining its singular animating right: academic freedom. In Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, preeminent thinkers draw from their experience as university leaders and First Amendment scholars to ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

  • Mythic Delirium: Volume Two

    Mythic Delirium, #2

    by Jane Yolen, Jessy Randall, Swapna Kishore, Michele Bannister, Sunny Moraine, Saira Ali, Sheree Renée Thomas, Jamie Killen, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Lynette Mejía, Rose Lemberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Margo Lanagan, Virginia M. Mohlere, Shveta Thakrar, Sonya Taaffe, Wendy Rathbone, John Philip Johnson, Brady Golden, Geoffrey A. Landis, Nathaniel Lee, Dominik Parisien, Gwynne Garfinkle, Adam Howe, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Alicia Cole, Livia Llewellyn, Natalia Theodoridou, C.S. MacCath ...
    Series Book 2 - Mythic Delirium
    Assembled from the second year of the digital journal Mythic Delirium and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity.Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money, Politics, and the First Amendment

    Fifty Years of Supreme Court Decisions and Campaign Finance Reforms

    Edited by Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone ...
    Money in political campaigns is a subject of endless current interest and enormous consequence for American democracy. Beginning in 1976, in Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court established a framework for public campaign regulation that declared that money constitutes "speech" and that the only constitutional basis upon which the government can regulate money was to prohibit corruption or the ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • Roe v. Dobbs

    The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion

    Edited by Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey Stone ...
    With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end--once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The goal of this book is to bring together some of our nation's leading ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Free Speech Century

    Edited by Geoffrey R. Stone, Lee C. Bollinger ...
    The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase "clear and present danger." Although the decision upheld the conviction of an individual for criticizing the draft during World War I, it also laid the foundation for our nation's ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Eternally Vigilant

    Free Speech in the Modern Era

    Edited by Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone ...
    While freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries, the First Amendment as we know it today is largely a creation of the past eighty years. Eternally Vigilant brings together a group of distinguished legal scholars to reflect boldly on its past, its present shape, and what forms our understanding of it might take in the future. The result is a unique volume spanning the entire spectrum ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press

    The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On

    Edited by Geoffrey R. Stone, Lee C. Bollinger ...
    Written by a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars, a deeply informed, thoughtful, and often surprising examination of who has First Amendment rights to disclose, to obtain, or to publish classified information relating to the national security of the United States. One of the most vexing and perennial questions facing any democracy is how to balance the government's legitimate ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

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    Flaubert

    A Life

    by Geoffrey Wall ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 11 min

    A blond giant of a man with green eyes and a resonant actor’s voice, Gustave Flaubert was perhaps the finest French writer of the nineteenth century. He lived quietly in the provinces with his widowed mother, composing his novels at the rate of five words an hour. He detested his respectable neighbors, and they, in turn, helped to ensure his infamy as a writer of immoral books. Geoffrey Wall’s ... Read more

    $34.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadows Out Of Time

    by Darrell Schweitzer, Ann K. Schwader, Don Webb, James Chambers, Robert Guffey, Gordon Linzner, Bryan D. Dietrich, John R. Fultz, Frederic S.Durbin, Nicholas Kaufmann, Tim Lees, Adrian Cole, Geoffrey Hart, Harry Turtledove, Will Murray, Robert M. Price, Keith Taylor ...
    I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus