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  • Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations

    Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems

    by Jules Evans ...
    When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us today. He interviewed soldiers, psychologists, gangsters, astronauts, and anarchists and discovered the ways that people are using philosophy now to build better lives. Ancient philosophy has inspired modern communities — Socratic cafés, Stoic armies, ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Losing Control

    A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience

    by Jules Evans ...
    Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable of so many more states of experience?Piecing together interviews, analysis of ancient and modern philosophy, and his own eclectic encounters with the sublime, philosopher Jules Evans mounts an ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Philosophy For Life

    And Other Dangerous Situations

    by Jules Evans ...
    Narrated by John Voce ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 49 min

    This audiobook is an invitation to a dream school with a faculty that includes 12 of the greatest philosophers from the ancient world, sharing their lessons in happiness, resilience and much more. Discover how soldiers, psychologists, gangsters, astronauts, anarchists and others use these ideas today. Lively and powerful, this is philosophy for the street, for the workplace, for the battlefield, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Breaking Open

    Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency

    Edited by Jules Evans, Tim Read ...
    The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight and poetry. There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy

    Edited by Evan Selinger, Jules Polonetsky, Omer Tene ...
    Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
    Businesses are rushing to collect personal data to fuel surging demand. Data enthusiasts claim personal information that's obtained from the commercial internet, including mobile platforms, social networks, cloud computing, and connected devices, will unlock path-breaking innovation, including advanced data security. By contrast, regulators and activists contend that corporate data practices too ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Robur the Conqueror

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Alex Kirstukas ...
    First complete English translation of Jules Verne's classic novel of flightAt the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, a mob of zealous balloon enthusiasts plans to conquer the sky in a state-of-the-art dirigible. When a stranger, the mysterious Robur, declares that the future belongs not to balloons but to heavier-than-air flying machines, the Institute scornfully dismisses the idea. But Robur ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Invasion of the Sea

    by Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans ...
    Translated by Edward Baxter ...
    First English edition of a classic Verne novel.Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robur the Conqueror

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Alex Kirstukas ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    At the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, a mob of zealous balloon enthusiasts plans to conquer the sky in a state-of-the-art dirigible. When a stranger, the mysterious Robur, declares that the future belongs not to balloons but to heavier-than-air flying machines, the Institute scornfully dismisses the idea. But Robur demands vengeance—and has a unique flying machine that will allow him to take it ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mighty Orinoco

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Stanford L. Luce ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure tale: exploration ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Travel Scholarships

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Teri J. Hernández ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    Nine students from London's Antillean School receive travel scholarships to visit their island homelands in the Caribbean. Accompanied by their eccentric Latin professor, they set sail on what they expect to be a thrilling educational voyage. Little do they realize that, prior to their arrival on board, their ship had been hijacked by escaped convicts who murdered its original captain and crew. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Dialogues and Essays

    by Seneca, Tobias Reinhardt ...
    Translated by John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day. They also have much to say ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Stoicism, Enkrasia and Happiness

    How Stoic Philosophy Can Bring Happiness

    by John L. Bowman ...
    This book is about the philosophy of Stoicism and how it can help people achieve greater personal happiness. There are many ways of living and thinking that lead to unhappiness. These ways are paradigms for unhappiness that can cause people to pursue false gods. Some struggle trying to make reality adjust to them rather than adjusting themselves to reality; some invest their happiness in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD