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  • Audiobook

    A Treasury of Deception

    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    We may say that honesty is the best policy, but history suggests otherwise. In this infinitely citable book, the author recounts some of the greatest deceptions of all time.With what forged document did the Vatican lay claim to much of Europe?Why do millions still believe the vague doggerel Nostradamus passed off as prophecy?Who actually wrote Hitler's diaries?All these questions and many more are ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A Treasury of Great American Scandals

    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...
    Series series

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our Founding Fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mine!

    How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

    “Mine” is one of the first words babies learn, and by the time we grow up, the idea of ownership seems natural, whether we are buying a cup of coffee or a house. But who controls the space behind your airplane seat: you, reclining, or the squished laptop user behind you? Why is plagiarism wrong, but it’s okay to knock off a recipe or a dress design? And after a snowstorm, why does a chair in the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Growing Tomato/The Rising Dough

    The trials and tribulations of losses and gains, that the main character Herbie experiences and learns from early teens to young adulthood, growing up in a world with all the complexities of "coming of age". ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking Closer 5

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

    The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines, as well as on blogs and Internet journals. Prominent contributors include Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods

    History, Concepts, and Methods

    Translated by Marcel Duclos ...
    From yoga to neuroscience, a tour of major ideas about the body and mind.Body psychotherapy, which examines the relationship of bodily and physical experiences to emotional and psychological experiences, seems at first glance to be a relatively new area and on the cutting edge of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. It is, but the major concepts of body/mind treatment are actually drawn from a ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it? To find a window onto our ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Gridlock Economy

    How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

    25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why can't we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why won't they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service lags far behind Japan's and Korea's. Why are we wasting our airwaves? 98% of African American -- owned farms have been ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Miami Experience

    A work of fiction based on actual events that occurred in Miami in the spring of 1980. The story begins however, a year and a half earlier in Ames, Iowa when the narrator visits his brother, by himself at 15, at Iowa State University. This trip ensures his allowance by his mother to later, with three friends visit his sister in Miami. There he first encounters a Hall of Fame baseball player who, ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London Clerical Workers, 1880-1914

    Development of the Labour Market

    Series series Perspectives in Economic and Social History
    This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Telescope

    Selected Poems

    An original selection of work by one of America's greatest living poets.For more than fifty years, Michael Heller has been building one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. His poems, shaped by Jewish and Buddhist thought and simultaneously lyrical and philosophical, engage the political and the natural world in an ongoing consideration of the responsibility and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Philosophy in Science

    An Historical Introduction

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" — space, time, causality, the structure of the universe — are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD