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  • Climate Change and the Course of Global History

    A Rough Journey

    by John L. Brooke ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • "There Is a North"

    Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War

    by John L. Brooke ...
    How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the "North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North" offered no forceful opposition to the power of the slaveholding South. And yet, as John L. Brooke proves, the North did change. Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Stifling Folds of Love

    by John Brooke ...
    Series Book 3 - An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery
    Pearl Serein is the most desired woman in town. Her lovers are the city’s leading men. She breaks up marriages, and after she dumps her lovers, their careers go down the tubes. Celebrity gossip scribe Tommi Bonneau chronicles Pearl’s every romantic move in the morning paper, Le Cri du Matin. And he is relentless in serving his story, keeping the ideal of romantic love amongst the rich and famous ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Don't Let Go

    Switchboard Duet, Book 2

    by Heather Long ...
    Narrated by Brooke Daniels, John Hartley ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Switchboard Duet

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    I've existed only in the shadows.My only connections were forged through the veil of a computer screen. I was their voice in the dark, their operator. I was their lifeline—until the day my past tore into my present, and they had to become mine.Captured, subjected to torture and relentless interrogation, I survived long enough for them to find me. I harbor no delusions; fleeing and disappearing ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unknown Masterpiece, The

    by John Brooke ...
    Series Book 4 - An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery
    Inspector Aliette Nouvelle’s romantic life is in tatters. This sad fact becomes a heavy distraction as she goes back and forth from France to Switzerland trying to determine who killed a Basel art gallery security guard found at a gay gathering spot on the French bank of the Rhine. A damaged painting of a shoemaker found near the body motivates the inspector almost more than the fact of murder. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Columbia Rising

    Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

    by John L. Brooke ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize–winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Last Days of Montreal

    by John Brooke ...
    Montreal is a city that has always represented the ideal of languages and peoples meeting, mixing and producing a culture greater than the sum of diverse parts. Last Days of Montreal travels through an imaginary cityscape, powered by apples, beer, the dream of love, and a dark but determined joie de vivre which Montrealers adopt to survive the rising tide of bitter political schism, economic ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Walls of a Mind

    by John Brooke ...
    Series Book 5 - An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery
    With fourteen towns and forty villages in her purview, Chief Inspector Aliette Nouvelle had been busy enough since taking over in February, fulfilling her new role quietly and efficiently, learning the lay of the land. The romance of wine country did not mean people were less nasty, brutal or just plain stupid than their fellow humans anywhere else. Yes, the beat was different: apart from gypsy ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Winning Westeros

    How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict

    Edited by Max Brooks, John Amble, ML Cavanaugh, Jaym Gates ...
    Set in the fictitious world of Westeros, the hit television series Game of Thrones chronicles the bitter and violent struggle between the realm’s noble dynasties for control of the Seven Kingdoms. But this beloved fantasy drama has just as much to say about the successful strategies and real-life warfare waged in our own time and place. Winning Westeros brings together more than thirty of today’s ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Science and Religion

    Some Historical Perspectives

    by John Hedley Brooke ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Once in Golconda

    A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938

    by John Brooks ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures comes the chronicle of the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftermathLegend had it that anyone who passed through Golconda, a city in southern India, attained tremendous wealth. But Golconda, now in ruins, ran out of riches, and its glory vanished forever. Some have painted a similar picture of Wall Street between the two world ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wizards of Wall Street

    Business Adventures, Once in Golconda, and The Go-Go Years

    by John Brooks ...
    A collection of true stories about money, the stock market, and high finance from the Gerald Loeb Award–winning "unbelievable business writer" (Bill Gates).For decades, author and New Yorker staff writer John Brooks was renowned for his keen intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and uniquely engaging approach to the dramas and personalities of the financial and business worlds. With a style of prose ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus