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  • Merchants of Culture

    The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

    "All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change."-Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & CompanyFor nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces a combination of economic pressures and technological change that is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Book Wars

    The Digital Revolution in Publishing

    This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Building Analytics Teams

    Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement

    Master the skills necessary to hire and manage a team of highly skilled individuals to design, build, and implement applications and systems based on advanced analytics and AIKey FeaturesLearn to create an operationally effective advanced analytics team in a corporate environmentSelect and undertake projects that have a high probability of success and deliver the improved top and bottom-line ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reservoir

    A Novel

    On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. The case attracts local attention, and an eccentric group of men collaborate to solve the crime. Detective Jack Wren lurks in the shadows, weaseling his way ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Stilt Jack

    by John Thompson ...
    Series series A List
    The much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - First Grade

    First Grade

    by John Thompson ...
    (Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Sandy

    Hurricane Sandy . . . Meet Hurricane Sandy! The hurricane may have hit New York City in 2012, but the melodrama is all Southern, straight from the banks of the Mississippi, in John B. Thompson’s 1953 pulp classic, Sandy. Blackbird Books is pleased to reissue Sandy as an eBook-only special, donating all proceeds to hurricane relief. So get your copy of this classic from the golden age of pulps, and ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Seven Years From Tomorrow

    A speculative mystery of second chances, fate, and everything left to lose.When fifty-three-year-old Jack Soladay learns he has eighteen months to live, he must confront a lifetime of regrets filled with poor choices, failed relationships, lost opportunities, and the family he abandoned.After one last night of drinking, Jack gives his remaining cash to a homeless man, believing it a trivial act of ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Merchants of Culture

    The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

    These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • I Came As a Shadow

    An Autobiography

    by John Thompson ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp reliefJohn Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.After three decades at the center of race and sports ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Canada 1922-1939

    Decades of Discord

    Series Book 15 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume XV of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.Incorporating the research of a new generation of Canadian ... Read more

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