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  • The Book of the Unknown

    Tales of the Thirty-six

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    Marvelous and mystical stories of the thirty-six anonymous saints whose decency sustains the world–reimagined from Jewish folklore.A liar, a cheat, a degenerate, and a whore. These are the last people one might expect to be virtuous. But a legendary Kabbalist has discovered the truth: they are just some of the thirty-six hidden ones, the righteous individuals who ultimately make the world a better ... Read more

    Was $6.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD

  • Forged

    Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality. Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • You Belong to the Universe

    Buckminster Fuller and the Future

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    You Belong to the Universe

    Buckminster Fuller and the Future

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller’s creative problem solving to present-day problemsA self-professed “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,” the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller’s creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Virtual Words

    Language on the Edge of Science and Technology

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), crowdsourcing (outsourcing to the masses), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in an industrial vat) enter our language? In Virtual Words: ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Virtual Words

    Language on the Edge of Science and Technology

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), crowdsourcing (outsourcing to the masses), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in an industrial vat) enter our language? In Virtual Words: ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Blaming

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 8 - Virago Modern Classics
    'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard*A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's finest novelists.When Amy is suddenly left widowed and alone while on holiday in Istanbul, Martha, an American traveller, comforts her and accompanies her back to England. Upon their return, however, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Angel

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 1 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 2 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' ROBERT McCRUM, GUARDIAN'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' SARAH WATERS'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLEROn a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • In A Summer Season

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 3 - Virago Modern Classics
    In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic.'You taste of rain', he said, kissing her. 'People say I married her for her money', he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him.Kate Heron is a wealthy ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Sleeping Beauty

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 362 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY DAVID BADDIEL'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it' SARAH WATERSVinny ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • At Mrs Lippincote's

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 4 - Virago Modern Classics
    The debut novel from Elizabeth Taylor - shortlisted for the Booker Prize*Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF. Although she can accept the pomposities of service life, Julia's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD