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What Are The Chances?

by John Cantor ...

Anthony has only one standard by which he measures women, the girl who he innocently fell in love with as a boy. Even now as a man, he is still desperately in love with her, despite knowing she doesn't feel that way for him. So, to fulfil his desires, he searches escort agencies to find a woman in her image and one day comes across Emilly. Her face is blurred in her pictures, but she has a quite ... Read more

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Anthony has only one standard by which he measures women, the girl who he innocently fell in love with as a boy. Even now as a man, he is still desperately in love with her, despite knowing she doesn't feel that way for him. So, to fulfil his desires, he searches escort agencies to find a woman in her image and one day comes across Emilly. Her face is blurred in her pictures, but she has a quite
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Heat Pumps for the Home

2nd Edition

by John Cantor ...

In recent years, heat pumps have emerged as a promising new form of technology with a relatively low environmental impact. Moreover, they have presented householders with an opportunity to reduce their heating bills. Heat pumps can heat a building by 'pumping' heat from either the ground or the air outside: an intriguing process which utilizes principles that are somewhat analogous to those ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

In recent years, heat pumps have emerged as a promising new form of technology with a relatively low environmental impact. Moreover, they have presented householders with an opportunity to reduce their heating bills. Heat pumps can heat a building by 'pumping' heat from either the ground or the air outside: an intriguing process which utilizes principles that are somewhat analogous to those
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Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction

Edited by Nancy Cantor, John F. Kihlstrom ...

Series series Psychology Library Editions: Perception
Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology. Few of the individual contributions are centrally concerned with individual differences and cross-situational stability, but these traditional themes certainly appear in several of the chapters. The remaining chapters deal ... Read more

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Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology. Few of the individual contributions are centrally concerned with individual differences and cross-situational stability, but these traditional themes certainly appear in several of the chapters. The remaining chapters deal
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Souls with Longing

Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare

by Dustin A. Gish, John Briggs, Leon Craig, Scott Crider, Carson Holloway, David Lowenthal, Glenn Arbery, Carol McNamara, John E. Alvis, George Anastaplo0, Paul Cantor1, Laurence D. Nee2 ...

The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors ... Read more

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The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors
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Private and Public Corruption

by Arlene W. Saxonhouse, J Peter Euben, Shelley Burtt, Daniel Lowenstein, Adina Schwartz, He Qinglian, Michael Johnston, Frank Anechiarico, Paul Cantor, John T. Noonan Jr. ...

The various essays in this volume explore the development of ideas of corruption, employing a range of disciplinary approaches. Although we are accustomed to think of corruption as the misuse of public office for private gain, corruption has its deeper roots in the idea of a standard that has been eroded. That standard, however, need not be construed idealistically: much of what is asserted to be ... Read more

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The various essays in this volume explore the development of ideas of corruption, employing a range of disciplinary approaches. Although we are accustomed to think of corruption as the misuse of public office for private gain, corruption has its deeper roots in the idea of a standard that has been eroded. That standard, however, need not be construed idealistically: much of what is asserted to be
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In the Wake of the Plague

The Black Death and the World It Made

by Norman F. Cantor ...

Narrated by John McDonough ...

Unabridged

6 hours 30 min

In this New York Times best-seller, Norman F. Cantor digs through the medical evidence and concludes that the Black Death of the 14th century was probably two diseases at once: bubonic plague and anthrax. He shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as individuals, and thus altered history. Concise, informative, and touched with dark humor, this book is a startlingly fresh view of a ... Read more

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In this New York Times best-seller, Norman F. Cantor digs through the medical evidence and concludes that the Black Death of the 14th century was probably two diseases at once: bubonic plague and anthrax. He shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as individuals, and thus altered history. Concise, informative, and touched with dark humor, this book is a startlingly fresh view of a
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Out of the Ruins

The Apocalyptic Anthology

by Preston Grassmann, China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Charlie Jane Anders, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, various authors, others ...

Narrated by Alex Boyles0, Chelsea Stephens1, Heath Miller2, Helen Lloyd3, James Anderson Foster4, Kevin Kenerly5 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and moreThis anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: What would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it?Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville, ... Read more

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A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and moreThis anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: What would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it?Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville,
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Ancestral Night

by Elizabeth Bear ...

Narrated by Nneka Okoye ...

Unabridged

16 hours 48 min

“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award–winning author Elizabeth Bear.Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law.. ... Read more

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“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award–winning author Elizabeth Bear.Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law..
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Powers and Thrones

A New History of the Middle Ages

by Dan Jones ...

Narrated by Dan Jones ...

Unabridged

24 hours 33 min

From the bestselling author of The Templars, Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones' trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting – or stealing – the most valuable ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of The Templars, Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones' trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting – or stealing – the most valuable
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A Train in Winter

An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two

by Caroline Moorehead ...

Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

Unabridged

11 hours 56 min

“How can you do this work if you have a child?” asked her mother.“It is because I have a child that I do it,” replied Cecile. “This is not a world I wish her to grow up in.”On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, in northeastern France, and the doors bolted shut for the journey to Auschwitz. They were members of the French Resistance, ranging in ... Read more

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“How can you do this work if you have a child?” asked her mother.“It is because I have a child that I do it,” replied Cecile. “This is not a world I wish her to grow up in.”On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, in northeastern France, and the doors bolted shut for the journey to Auschwitz. They were members of the French Resistance, ranging in
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The Girl in the Woods

by Gregg Olsen ...

Narrated by Corey M. Snow ...

Series series Waterman and Stark
Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail—to a dangerous psychopath whose powers of persuasion seem to have no end. Only by teaming up with sheriff's detective Kendall Stark can Birdy hope to even the odds in a deadly game. It's a fateful decision the ... Read more

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A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail—to a dangerous psychopath whose powers of persuasion seem to have no end. Only by teaming up with sheriff's detective Kendall Stark can Birdy hope to even the odds in a deadly game. It's a fateful decision the
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Bring Up The Bodies

A Novel

by Hilary Mantel ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

14 hours 35 min

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry’s actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line. ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry’s actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line.
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