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  • AUP New Poets 11

    by J. A. Vili, Xiaole Zhan, Margo Montes de Oca ...
    Series series AUP New Poets
    Memoir, myth and critical theory weave through Xiaole Zhan' s essay-poem ' Arcadiana' as they explore their Pakeha-Chinese family. Meanwhile, Margo Montes de Oca' s ' intertidal' combines rich, elemental imagery – water, light, colour – with a world of feeling and poetic homage. In an affecting conclusion, J. A. Vili' s ' Poems Lost During the Void' pays tribute to family and friends, reaching out ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cartesianism and Philosophy of Mind

    Edited by Vili Lähteenmäki, Oberto Marrama, Jani Sinokki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    This book explores themes in the philosophy of mind as they emerge within the early modern Cartesian tradition. It brings together 13 contributions from international scholars to provide a fine‑grained account of how 17th‑century thinkers scrutinized and re‑interpreted Descartes’ doctrines about the nature and functions of the mind.Although it is well known that many of the challenges that ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Book of Riga

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Pauls Bankovskis, Gundega Repse, Dace Ruksane, Sven Kuzmins, Kristine Zelve, Andra Neiburga, Ilze Jansone, Arno Jundze, Juris Zvirgzdins, Vilis Lacitis ...
    Series series Reading the City
    A suicide attempt, staged to attract as much attention as possible, from the top of St. Peter’s Church, quickly evolves into an outlandish and absurd, televised spectacle...When a PA is invited into her boss’s office one day to observe a protest unfold, just as he predicts, in the streets below, she begins to suspect his powers of foresight might extend beyond mere business matters...Finally ... Read more

    $10.13 CAD

  • The Sabbath Algorithm

    by Vili Costescu ...
    You don't live under communism. But you live under something just as totalizing.In 1980s Romania, Vili Costescu was the "Saturday boy", the teenager who risked his academic future to observe Sabbath when the regime demanded total allegiance. That single act of resistance shaped everything that followed: surviving the Romanian Revolution, building businesses, navigating ministry, and eventually ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Advances in Databases and Information Systems

    23rd European Conference, ADBIS 2019, Bled, Slovenia, September 8–11, 2019, Proceedings

    Edited by Tatjana Welzer, Johann Eder, Vili Podgorelec, Aida Kamišalić Latifić ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2019, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2019.The 27 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics from different areas of research in database and information systems technologies and their ... Read more

    $93.49 CAD

  • New Trends in Databases and Information Systems

    ADBIS 2019 Short Papers, Workshops BBIGAP, QAUCA, SemBDM, SIMPDA, M2P, MADEISD, and Doctoral Consortium, Bled, Slovenia, September 8–11, 2019, Proceedings

    Edited by Tatjana Welzer, Johann Eder, Vili Podgorelec, Robert Wrembel, Mirjana Ivanović, Johann Gamper, Mikoƚaj Morzy, Theodoros Tzouramanis, Jérôme Darmont, Aida Kamišalić Latifić ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers, workshops and doctoral consortium papers of the 23rd European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2019, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2019.The 19 short research papers and the 5 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions, and the 31 workshop papers were ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Virtual Economies

    Design and Analysis

    by Vili Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova ...
    Series series Information Policy
    How the basic concepts of economics—including markets, institutions, and money—can be used to create and analyze virtual economies in digital games.In the 21st-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money. Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind every virtual sale, there is a virtual economy, simple or complex. In this book, Vili ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Face to Face With Russia

    by Vilis Vitols ...
    While there are many books published in English about Russia, the vast majority of them are written from the perspective of Western academics and journalists. Very few studies are conducted by people who live at the frontiers of this newly constituted Russian empire, under the leadership of Vladamir Putin. Face to Face with Russia offers this critical perspective to English-speaking audiences ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • VILI AVA'S AN FBI Confession: Based on a true story

    by Vili Ava ...
    Blindsided by the very people he honored, they threw him out among wolves, and co-workers who skillfully exercised improprieties sealed their fallacious accusations by carefully altering bank records. Having proven an inability to detect inappropriate practices by those within who hold approval authority, fraud was rampant within the institution. Unwittingly, he became a scapegoat. This story ... Read more

    $6.69 CAD

  • Cloud Empires

    How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control

    by Vili Lehdonvirta ...
    The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • Being and Nothingness

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Sarah Richmond ...
    Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation—the first in more than 60 years—of Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal treatise on existentialism. “This is a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own intrinsic power and as a profound symptom of our time” (The New York Times).In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Doppler

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best BookA bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose.This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a ... Read more

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