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  • Audiobook

    COVID - The Musical

    by David Barratt ...
    Narrated by Mark Arden, Sangeeta Samsera Sharma, Kerry Enright, Papa Dee, Suzanne Rhatigan, Luke Edney ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    "COVID THE MUSICAL" weaves together the stories of six individuals navigating the unprecedented landscape of the pandemic, framed by a philosophical battle between two narrators—THE AUDITOR and THE CLEANER.THE AUDITOR, detached and analytical, presents the pandemic in cold statistics and financial terms, believing that "everything is fiction" and life has no inherent meaning. THE CLEANER counters ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda

    International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion

    by K. Edney ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China's international power. ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Introducing Time

    A Graphic Guide

    by Craig Callender ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him.Is time a fourth dimension similar to space or does it flow in some sense? And if it flows, does it make sense to say how fast? Does the future exist? Is time travel possible? Why does time seem to pass in only one direction?These questions and others are among the deepest ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping an Empire

    The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843

    by Matthew H. Edney ...
    In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities."There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cartography

    The Ideal and Its History

    by Matthew H. Edney ...
    "In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of 'cartography' to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps." —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 MapsOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics

    China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds

    Edited by Kingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen, Ying Zhu ...
    This book examines the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to improve China’s image around the world, thereby increasing its "soft power." This soft, attractive form of power is crucial if China is to avoid provoking an international backlash against its growing military and economic might.The volume focuses on the period since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, and is global in scope, examining the ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Introducing Relativity

    A Graphic Guide

    by Bruce Bassett ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since.It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, Introducing Relativity plots a visually ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hannah More in Context

    Edited by Kerri Andrews, Sue Edney ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, More’s reputation has suffered unfairly from accusations ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Georgic Literature and the Environment

    Working Land, Reworking Genre

    Edited by Sue Edney, Tess Somervell ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
    This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. Together, its chapters demonstrate that georgic—a genre based primarily on two classical poems about farming, Virgil’s Georgics and Hesiod’s Works and Days—has been reworked by writers throughout modern and early modern English-language literary history as a way of thinking about humans’ ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

    Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

    Edited by Sue Edney ...
    EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through twelve exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Straight Talk About Breast Cancer

    From Diagnosis to Recovery

    by Margaret Block, Suzanne W. Braddock, John J. Edney, Jane M. Kercher, Melanie Morrissey Clark ...
    This volume serves as an accessible and practical guide for answering the questions of women with breast cancer as well as a resource for easing the concerns of the spouse and family members of breast cancer patients. Drawing on the personal experiences of a breast cancer survivor and the professional expertise of medical professionals, this guide details the various treatment options for cancer ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Fractals Introducing Fractals

    A Graphic Guide

    by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Will Rood ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Fractals are the geometry of the natural world. They're about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world- the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealised forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals everywhere; indeed, we are fractals ourselves.Fractal geometry is an extension of classical geometry which can make precise models of physical structures, from ferns to galaxies. It can describe the shape of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD