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  • Literary Criticism

    A Concise Political History

    by Joseph North ...
    Literary Criticism offers a concise overview of literary studies in the English-speaking world from the early twentieth century to the present. Joseph North steps back from the usual tangle of figures, schools, and movements in order to analyze the intellectual paradigms that underpinned them. The result is a radically new account of the discipline’s development, together with a trenchant argument ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • In the Shadow of Violence

    Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development

    Edited by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Steven B. Webb, Barry R. Weingast ...
    This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Rather than castigating politicians and elites as simply ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, July 2013

    by John Joseph Adams, Ryan North, Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Benjamin Roy Lambert ("Division of ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Violence and Social Orders

    A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

    by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast ...
    All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural states, limit violence by political manipulation of the economy to create privileged interests. These ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, November 2013

    by John Joseph Adams, Beth Revis, Ryan North ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Sean Williams ("Death and the ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • With Napoleon's Guard in Russia

    The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812

    by Louis Joseph Vionnet ...
    Major Louis Joseph Vionnets memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all the major actions and followed the entire course of the campaign from the opening moves in July 1812 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Lightspeed Magazine, October 2013

    by John Joseph Adams, Neil Gaiman, Melissa Marr ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Keffy R.M. Kehrli ("HELP FUND MY ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, December 2010

    by John Joseph Adams, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    Our lead story this month, “In-fall,” by Ted Kosmatka, puts us aboard a ship hurtling through space. Aboard this ship, two men—mortal enemies—await their inevitable deaths, although that means something very different for each of them.“The Observer,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch tells the story of a woman separated into various parts of herself. However, there’s always a dominant side. And that side ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, September 2011

    by John Joseph Adams, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Brin ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    In our first story this month, Liz Coleman’s “Join,” a man who has always felt alienated returns home to visit his family on Earth, and brings with him part of his new family—a newborn, parasitic alien.Most of the universe is the regions between galaxies, yet no stories are ever set in that vast emptiness. In “Bubbles” by David Brin, we get to know Serena, a lonely entity traveling the space ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, March 2015

    by John Joseph Adams, Ursula K. Le Guin, Linda Nagata ...
    Series Book 58 - Lightspeed Magazine
    LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Marissa Lingen ("Surfacing") and ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, September 2010

    by John Joseph Adams, Geoffrey A. Landis, Robert Silverberg ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    Fiction: “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee, “The Long Chase” by Geoffrey A. Landis, “Amid the Words of War” by Cat Rambo, and “Travelers” by Robert Silverberg. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, November 2010

    by John Joseph Adams, Charles Yu, Caitlin R. Kiernan ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    In our lead story this month, “Standard Loneliness Package,” Charles Yu—author of the debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe—takes us to a strange future in which those who don’t want to feel pain, don’t have to: You can hire someone else to do it…whether it’s suffering through a root canal, a migraine, or the loss of a loved one.“Faces in Revolving Souls” by Caitlin R. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD