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  • Paris and the Parasite

    Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City

    by Macs Smith ...
    The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites.According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In Paris and the Parasite, Macs Smith extends Serres's approach to Paris as a mediatic city, asking what ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Great Fire of 1947

    And the End of Bar Harbor's Golden Era

    by Mac Smith ...
    The Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor’s Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Mount Desert Island. After an extremely dry summer, all areas of Maine spent the month of October fighting fires, with the island seeing the worst of the damage. Soon after the first flames were spotted, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Scurry Vol. 1

    by Mac Smith ...
    Series series Scurry
    "An incredibly beautiful book!" —JAMES TYNION IV (THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH, Batman, Something is Killing the Children) The middle-grade webcomic and Kickstarter smash hit from MAC SMITH arrives in a single-print volume for the first time! Enter a world where humanity is gone and only animals have survived. Wix, a brave scout from a colony of house mice, must embark on a perilous journey into parts ... Read more

    $20.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolting Prostitutes

    The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights

    by Molly Smith, Juno Mac ...
    How the law harms sex workers—and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Disaster at the Bar Harbor Ferry

    Maine's Worst Maritime Tragedy

    by Mac Smith ...
    “Sunday, August 6, 1899, is a date that for many years will be held in memory as signalizing the most dreadful accident that has ever occurred within the boundaries of the state of Maine.”Bangor Daily Commercial, August 7, 1899In an era when the only means of travel to the new, glamorous, and growing resort of Bar Harbor was through a small, isolated, rural-yet-elegant point of land on the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Siege at the State House

    The 1879 Coup that Nearly Plunged Maine into Civil War

    by Mac Smith ...
    Siege at the State House tells the true story of a coup that was attempted between Maine’s governor and the leaders of a new political party, almost plunging the United States into its second Civil War. With the Maine State House under siege for several weeks by a confederate force, the occupation culminated in a showdown between armed rebels and Civil War hero General Joshua Chamberlain, with ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Plain Madeleine

    Mrs. John Jacob Astor in Bar Harbor

    by Mac Smith ...
    The story of Madeleine and Colonel John Jacob Astor is very much part of the story of Bar Harbor, Maine. The relatively poor Madeleine Force met Colonel Astor, the third richest man in the United States, in Bar Harbor in 1910. The vicious scandal after they're wedding caused the newlyweds to board the Titanic to return to America; the ensuing tragedy would claim the life of the colonel.Madeleine ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Maine's Hail to the Chief

    A History of Presidential Visits to the Pine Tree State

    by Mac Smith ...
    A visit from the President of the United States always brings with it excitement. In Maine, perhaps part of that excitement stems from the fact that presidents rarely visit the state–only 18 of the 45 presidents have visited Maine in the nation’s 244-year history.Many of these visits came at significant points in a presidency; and some visits had controversy, conflict, and ironic twists. For ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Travels with a Tangerine

    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Peyton Place Comes Home to Maine

    The Making of the Iconic Film

    by Mac Smith ...
    It is a well-known fact, perhaps legend now, that Peyton Place, the controversial, scandalous blockbuster was filmed in Camden, Maine and the surrounding towns in 1957. But how did the movie come to be filmed in Maine, who was involved in getting it here, and what did the locals think about 20th Century Fox shooting a big-budget film in their front yards?Historian Mac Smith (Mainers on the Titanic ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Arabs

    A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstoneThis kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mainers on the Titanic

    by Mac Smith ...
    Meticulously researched, this book reveals the agonizing day-to-day wait of Mainers for news of what really happened on the Titanic, and tells the stories of Maine passengers from their boarding to the sinking and rescue; and, for those who survived, of their coming ashore in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's a fascinating addition to the Titanic story. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD