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  • Little Junior

    by James Stauffer ...
    One fateful and particularly awful night a short, sad and chubby little boy named Little Junior trudges to his bedroom window (more of a hole in the wall) and lets the world (or at least his neighborhood: Cinnamon Spice Lane) know what he wants more than anything. "I want to be evil!" he shouts into the night. All the while, his loathsome family scurries about below doing terrible deeds and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speculative Modernism

    How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century

    by James Reitter, Robert Stauffer, William Gillard ...
    Series Book 77 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipated literary ... Read more

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  • The Spark of Modernism

    Twenty Speculative Stories and Writings That Defined an Era, 1886-1939

    Edited by James Reitter, Robert Stauffer, William Gillard ...
    Between the years of 1886 and 1939, the world saw the first automobiles, rapid urbanization, the decay of empires, vast economic inequality, the first airplanes and the terrifying secrets of the atom. It was a time of cataclysmic cultural and technological transformation, and spawned the rise of the literary genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror.This work assembles gems of late nineteenth ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Christopher Bruell

    Essays of Five Decades on Philosophy and Philosophers

    by Christopher Bruell ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    Brings together the most remarkable essays on classical and modern philosophy by noted political philosopher Christopher Bruell.Christopher Bruell (1942–2024) was one of the great modern interpreters of classical and modern political philosophy. This volume includes almost all the essays, lectures, and book chapters that he published during a remarkable scholarly career that spanned more than four ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Pathfinder

    by James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Berger ...
    The third novel in James Fennimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic Natty Bumppo.Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the ... Read more

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  • Maps and Legends

    Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

    by Michael Chabon ...
    The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together."I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period." Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown who maintains a fierce appreciation of the seductive arts of so-called "genre" fiction.In this lively collection ... Read more

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  • The Republic

    by Plato ...
    The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophyPlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    by Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Open Society and Its Enemies

    by Karl Sir Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    ‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’- Karl Popper, from the PrefaceWritten in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    by Maria Tatar ...
    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Promise of Politics

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    After the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, Hannah Arendt undertook an investigation of Marxism, a subject that she had deliberately left out of her earlier work. Her inquiry into Marx’s philosophy led her to a critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins in Plato and Aristotle to its culmination and conclusion in Marx. The ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Open Society and its Enemies

    by Karl Popper ...
    Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered ... Read more

    $261.08 CAD