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  • Audiobook

    Convictions of a Chef

    Cooking for the Counterculture and the One Percent

    by Evan Marcus-Rotman ...
    Narrated by Evan Marcus-Rotman ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    Convictions of a Chef is a prison memoir, a travel memoir and a chef's memoir all rolled into one. Filled with fascinating and fun anecdotes about overcoming adversity, culinary challenges and health issues, it's the story of how one boy grew into a man in the trenches of a cruel and senseless drug war, and embraced food, music and travel with all that he had.Gritty, vulnerable and humorous, Chef ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Image: An Integrated Model to Assess the Greenhouse Effect

    by J. Rotmans ...
    Series Book 1 - Environment & Assessment
    This book is the result of a research project entitled "Reference function for Global Air Pollution/C0 " initiated by RIVM. It deals with the description 2 of a computer simulation model of the greenhouse effect. This model, IMAGE, tries to capture the fundamentals of the complex problem of climate change in a simplified way. The model is a multidisciplinary product and is based on knowledge from ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Divine Stories

    Divyavadana, Part 1

    Series Book 1 - Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Divine Stories is the inaugural volume in a landmark translation series devoted to making the wealth of classical Indian Buddhism accessible to modern readers. The stories here, among the first texts to be inscribed by Buddhists, highlight the moral economy of karma, illustrating how gestures of faith, especially offerings, can bring the reward of future happiness and ultimate liberation. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up

    by Isabella Rotman ...
    Illustrated by Isabella Rotman ...
    Join friends Malia, Rico, Max, Sam, and Alexis as they talk about all the weird and exciting parts of growing up! This supportive group of friends are guides for some tricky subjects. Using comics, activities, and examples, they give encouragement and context for new and confusing feelings and experiences. Inclusive of different kinds of genders, sexualities, and other identities, they talk about ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Journey into Mathematics

    An Introduction to Proofs

    by Joseph J. Rotman ...
    Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
    Students learn how to read and write proofs by actually reading and writing them, asserts author Joseph J. Rotman, adding that merely reading about mathematics is no substitute for doing mathematics. In addition to teaching how to interpret and construct proofs, Professor Rotman's introductory text imparts other valuable mathematical tools and illustrates the intrinsic beauty and interest of ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Becoming Beside Ourselves

    The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being

    by Brian Rotman, Timothy Lenoir ...
    Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose. In Becoming Beside Ourselves, Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Morals and Markets

    The Development of Life Insurance in the United States

    by Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer ...
    Series series Legacy Editions
    Life insurance—the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium—is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Hungry Ghosts

    by Andy Rotman ...
    Classical stories and depictions of hungry ghosts not only tell us a great deal about Buddhism in the ancient world—they also speak to the modern human condition.The realm of hungry ghosts is one of the unfortunate realms of rebirth in the Buddhist cycle of existence, and those reborn there are said to have led lives consumed by greed and spite. Hungry ghosts are often described as having enormous ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Divine Stories

    Divyavadana, Part 2

    by Andy Rotman ...
    Series Book 2 - Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Explore this second volume of translations, in vivid prose, from one of the most celebrated collections of ancient Buddhist stories.Actions never come to naught,even after hundreds of millions of years.When the right conditions gather and the time is right,then they will have their effect on embodied beings.Ancient Buddhist literature is filled with tales of past lives. The Buddha, surrounded by ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Transitions in a Globalising World

    Edited by Pim Martens, Jan Rotmans ...
    The Earth System may be the most complex entity that ever emerged in our galaxy and the contemporary process of 'globalisation' may be the most intricate dynamics that will ever pervade that entity: it is the interactive co-evolution of millions of technological, cultural, economic, social and environmental trends at all conceivable spatiotemporal scales that brings about the present fundamental ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Introduction to Homological Algebra, 85

    by Joseph J. Rotman ...
    An Introduction to Homological Algebra discusses the origins of algebraic topology. It also presents the study of homological algebra as a two-stage affair. First, one must learn the language of Ext and Tor and what it describes. Second, one must be able to compute these things, and often, this involves yet another language: spectral sequences. Homological algebra is an accessible subject to those ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Scaling in Integrated Assessment

    Edited by D.S. Rothman, J. Rotmans ...
    A collection of papers prepared for the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment's (EFIEA) Policy Workshop on Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessment, held from 12-19 July 2000. ... Read more

    $474.10 CAD