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  • War! What Is It Good For?

    Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

    by Ian Morris ...
    A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society—for the better."War!. . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Bad Things Happen to Rich People

    by Ian Morris ...
    Series series Switchgrass Books
    When Bad Things Happen to Rich People is a novel of social satire, a black comedy set in Chicago in the summer of 1995. The novel's protagonist, Nix Walters, is an adjunct instructor of English at a communications college in the loop with few prospects for advancement. He had become a literary punch line when his novel, touted as the next big literary phenomenon, was universally panned by critics. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Why the West Rules - For Now

    The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

    by Ian Morris ...
    Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century.There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Judge: Part 1

    by Ian Morris ...
    Series Book 1 - The Judge
    Peter Ritchie is just an ordinary solicitor, with an ordinary (if slightly shambolic) life, until the day his client, a male prostitute called Bobby Black dies suddenly when a kinky trick goes wrong. Bobby has been brutally murdered, and someone had tried to cover it up. But who, and why?Peter cannot rest until he knows the truth. And so begins a rollercoaster ride for him and his on-off ... Read more

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  • Geography Is Destiny

    Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History

    by Ian Morris ...
    In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other of stupidity, fraud, and treason. In reality, the Brexit debate merely reran a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Judge: Part 2

    by Ian Morris ...
    In the addictive sequel to The Judge: Part 1, the deadly game of cat and mouse continues for the protagonist, Peter Ritchie before drawing to a revealing and haunting close. We are again transported to London in the nineties, where Peter Ritchie’s list of suspects for the murder of prostitute Bobby Black is getting shorter and shorter. Due to his involvement with the case, Ritchie now finds ... Read more

    $6.03 CAD

  • The Measure of Civilization

    How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations

    by Ian Morris ...
    In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, ... Read more

    $56.09 CAD

  • Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

    How Human Values Evolve

    by Ian Morris, Richard Seaford, Jonathan D. Spence, Christine M. Korsgaard, Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human valuesMost people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Palmers Hill

    by Ian Morris ...
    Worcestershire brothers, Mac and Barry Goodwin’s, true story told from a bedrock of fact but as living flesh. Their mastery of the air as teenagers and then as RAF pilots in 605 (The County of Warwick) Squadron and 609 (West Riding) Squadron in WW2 flying Hurricanes and Spitfires is set against a privileged family background. It includes Barry’s hard won fame at Shelsley Walsh, hill climbing in a ... Read more

    $8.30 CAD

  • The Dynamics of Ancient Empires

    State Power from Assyria to Byzantium

    by Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2

    by RG Clark, Andre DeCuir, Anne Elliot, Denise Johnson, Lisa M. Lane, Sam Morris, Julie A. Sellers, Ian Tucker ...
    Welcome to A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2!A Warm Mug of Cozy was launched in October 2022 to promote the cozy mystery genre through interviews, reviews, resources, and news for readers and authors alike. Its creators, Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, are established multi-genre authors themselves who love promoting books, stories, movies, shows, and art that inspire people.A Warm Mug of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Happiness and Well-Being in Schools, Second edition

    Learning To Ride Elephants

    by Ian Morris ...
    This updated edition is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing a well-being programme in your school. The book covers three areas: well-being as a philosophy of education, the teaching approach to well-being and the content that might form a well-being programme in a school. It is also a manifesto for a meaningful aim to education.There has recently been an explosion of interest in ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD