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  • The Fighters

    Americans In Combat

    by C. J. Chivers ...
    The harrowing account of US soldiers caught in America’s forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that The New York Times calls “relentless...a classic of war reporting,” by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Marine C.J. Chivers.More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001, and C.J. Chivers reported on both wars from their beginnings. The Fighters vividly ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Gun

    by C. J. Chivers ...
    Series series A History of Weapons and Warfare
    In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through WWI, Vietnam, to present day Afghanistan when Kalashnikovs and their knock-offs number as many as 100 million—enough for one out of seventy people on earth.At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Magician Next Door

    by Rachel Chivers Khoo ...
    Illustrated by Alice McKinley ...
    An enchanting adventure about a flying house and the power of friendship, from the author of The Wishkeeper’s ApprenticeTen-year-old Callie is desperately homesick. She misses everything about living in London—the apartment building where everyone has known her since she was a baby, her best friend, all the places that remind her of her mother, who died three years ago. She doesn’t care to get to ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mount London

    by Tom Chivers ...
    Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britain's highest peak? This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by a hardened team of writers, poets and urban cartographers, each one scaling a smaller mountain within the city - from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m) - until the accumulative ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Newnes Engineering and Physical Science Pocket Book

    by J O Bird, P J Chivers ...
    Newnes Engineering and Physical Science Pocket Book is an easy reference of engineering formulas, definitions, and general information. Part One deals with the definitions and formulas used in general engineering science, such as those concerning SI units, density, scalar and vector quantities, and standard quantity symbols and their units. Part Two pertains to electrical engineering science and ... Read more

    $83.19 CAD

  • The Wishkeeper's Apprentice

    by Rachel Chivers Khoo ...
    Illustrated by Rachel Sanson ...
    Wishes do come true—with some help from Felix and his quirky mentor, Mr. Beewinkle—in this magical adventure brimming with the power of hope.When ten-year-old Felix drops a penny in the wishing fountain at the center of town, he really doesn’t expect his sixteen-year-old sister to suddenly like him again, or to offer to share a cinnamon bun or watch cartoons like they used to. She hasn’t even ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Everything Is Predictable

    How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

    by Tom Chivers ...
    A “fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting” (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of*The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy*.At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Problem Body

    Projecting Disability on Film

    Edited by SALLY CHIVERS, Nicole Markotic ...
    In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term “the problem body.” The book is a much-needed exploration of the projection of disability on film combined with ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Hands of Primates

    Edited by Holger Preuschoft, David J. Chivers ...
    The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human characteristics, like upright posture, stereoscopic vision, «manipulative» handling of parts of the environment. The German term «Begreifen», which is commonly used for the understanding of complex relationships in a generalised, abstract sense, always implies the original meaning of seizing objects ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Terrors

    by Tom Chivers ...
    The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London's notorious Newgate Prison. Mimicking the tone of its primary source, The Newgate Calendar, The Terrors tacks from horror to humour, from moral disgust to the casual chitchat of the digital generation, all the time delineating London's violent urban undercurrent in bold, energetic ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy

    Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

    by Tom Chivers ...
    'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON'Beautifully written, and with wonderful humour, this is a thrilling adventure story of our own future' LEWIS DARTNELL, author of THE KNOWLEDGE and ORIGINSAre paperclips going to destroy life as we know it?What can Mickey Mouse teach us about how to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Finders of Silverthorn Forest

    by Rachel Chivers Khoo ...
    Illustrated by Laura Catalán ...
    Series Book 1 - Finders of Silverthorn Forest
    "A delightful fantasy told with tenderness and wonder." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A modern classic in the making, this magical new series, beautifully illustrated in black and white, is perfect for fans of adventure stories and secret worlds hidden within our own.While hunting for a time capsule that his grandma buried in the woods years ago, Max never expects to discover the home of a small ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD