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  • Eve Out of Her Ruins

    by Ananda Devi ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman ...
    With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country's endless cycle of fear and violence. Eve out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the Mauritius tourists don't see, and an exploration of the construction of personhood at the margins of society. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grounding from Within: Musings on Detachment, Discipline, Joy, and Truth

    by JMG ...
    This collection is an attempt to communicate musings around our universal condition of constant change. It is designed to help people to think more for themselves, and trust their acute inner knowing. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Representations of *-Algebras, Locally Compact Groups, and Banach *-Algebraic Bundles

    Basic Representation Theory of Groups and Algebras

    Edited by J. M.G. Fell, R. S. Doran ...
    Series Book 1 - Pure and Applied Mathematics
    This is an all-encompassing and exhaustive exposition of the theory of infinite-dimensional Unitary Representations of Locally Compact Groups and its generalization to representations of Banach algebras. The presentation is detailed, accessible, and self-contained (except for some elementary knowledge in algebra, topology, and abstract measure theory). In the later chapters the reader is brought ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Notes on the Cinematograph

    by Robert Bresson ...
    Translated by Jonathan Griffin ...
    The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors—models, as he called them—and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and images to produce such classic works as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and Lancelot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bitna

    Under the Sky of Seoul

    by J. M. G. Le Clézio ...
    An exploration of Seoul — its landscape and its storiesby Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le ClézioThe French writer and Nobel Literature laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio has harbored a keen interest in Korea that not only prompted him to learn and master the Korean language on his own but also inspired his new novel. Bitna: Under the Sky of Seoul is Le Clézio’s portrait of Seoul—its people and its places ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Interrogation

    A Novel

    by J. M. G. Le Clezio ...
    From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964."J.M.G. Le Clézio, revelation of the literary year" ran the headline of the Paris Express after last year's prizes had been awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its president used his double vote to give the prize to the older candidate. Ten minutes later the Renaudot jury elected the candidate they thought they might lose to the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Desert

    by J. M. G. Le Clézio ...
    Translated by C Dickson ...
    A masterpiece from J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The parallel stories of a lost culture in the North African desert and their descendants, unwanted immigrants in Europe.Desert is two stories. The first takes place between 1909 and 1912 and is about the migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men. They are warriors of the desert. Driven ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The African

    by J. M. G. Le Clézio ...
    Translated by C Dickson ...
    From master storyteller J. M. G. Le Clézio: winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe African is a work of bewitching beauty and humanity. With penetrating prose and an eye for lyrical detail, he vividly captures the rhythmic space of his memoir’s African backdrop and makes bare the universal complexity of father-son relationships. A triumph!—Chinua AchebeA short autobiographical account of a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Such Fine Boys

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Polymers

    Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, Third Edition

    by J.M.G. Cowie, Valeria Arrighi ...
    Underscoring the multidisciplinary nature of polymer science, this third edition provides a broad-based and comprehensive text at an introductory, reader-friendly level. With nearly 50 percent new or updated material, this edition presents new polymerization methods, characterization techniques, and applications in electronic, biological, and medical settings. New topics include controlled radical ... Read more

    $200.99 CAD

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  • Blue Sonoma

    by Jane Munro ...
    Winner 2015 Griffin Poetry PrizeIn Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

    A Novel

    by Lisa See ...
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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