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  • Dirty Deeds Done Cheap

    by Peter Mercer ...
    Pete Mercer takes us on an unforgettable journey through the dangerous backstreets of 21st-century Iraq, and reveals that the realities of the ongoing War on Terror are not all that they seem.Northern Iraq, 2004 - a lawless region so dangerous the regular coalition armies were reluctant to put their soliders in harm's way. Enter the 'civilian contractors': private armies in all but name. Working ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Renaissance

    The Rebirth of Civilization

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Europe did not simply emerge from the Middle Ages. It was reinvented.In the cities of Florence and Rome, artists, scholars, architects, merchants, and rulers began looking backward—to ancient Greece and Rome—to imagine something entirely new. Their ideas transformed painting, politics, science, literature, religion, and the very meaning of human potential.The Renaissance: The Rebirth of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Deadliest Battle in History and the Winter the War Turned

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Hitler had never lost. He had also never fought for a city that carried his greatest enemy's name.In the summer of 1942, the German army rolled east toward the Volga, unstoppable and certain of victory. What waited for them in Stalingrad was not a battle but a slaughter without end—two hundred days of fighting in cellars and stairwells, sewers and shattered factories, where the front line moved ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let the Atom Be a Worker

    Chernobyl, and the Lie That Outlived the Fire

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    They were told the reactor could not explode. At 1:23 in the morning, it did just that.April 26, 1986. In a routine safety test pushed past every limit, the core of Reactor No. 4 tore itself apart and hurled a plume of radiation across a sleeping continent. The men in the control room did not believe their own instruments. The state would not admit what had happened. And as officials assured the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Empire Is the Chef

    How Conquest, Trade, and War Cooked the World's Favorite Foods

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Your favorite meal is a war memorial. You just can't taste it.The chili that defines Thai cooking, the tomato at the heart of Italian food, the potato that feeds half of Europe, the coffee that runs the modern world—none of them were "local" until an empire made them so. Behind every beloved national dish is a story of conquest, plunder, slave ships, and spice routes soaked in ambition and blood ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Athens vs. Sparta

    The War That Broke Classical Greece (The Great Wars of History)

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    What happens when the greatest civilization in the ancient world turns against itself?Athens was wealthy, innovative, and fiercely democratic. Sparta was disciplined, militaristic, and built upon an uncompromising way of life. Together, they had helped save Greece from the Persian Empire.Then they went to war.What began as a rivalry between two powerful city-states grew into a devastating conflict ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spartacus War

    Rome and the Slave Revolt, 73-71 BCE

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    The Roman Republic had crushed every enemy it ever faced. It had never faced an enemy like this.In the gladiator schools of Capua, men were bought to bleed and die for the pleasure of the crowd. In 73 BC, seventy of them seized kitchen knives, broke for the gates, and vanished onto the slopes of Vesuvius. Led by a Thracian slave named Spartacus, they would become the deadliest uprising the ancient ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Titanic

    The Nearly Unsinkable Tragedy

    by Nathan Mercer, Peter Hollins ...
    They called her practically unsinkable. Four days later, she was at the bottom of the Atlantic.The Titanic was more than a ship. She was a floating symbol of a new age—larger, faster, richer, and more technologically advanced than almost anything the world had seen. Her first-class cabins rivaled luxury hotels. Her engines embodied industrial power. Her passengers ranged from millionaires and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild History of Ancient Egypt: Pharaohs, Pyramids, Mummies, and the True Stories Your Teacher Skipped

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Journey Back 5,000 Years Into One of the World's Most Fascinating CivilizationsWhat if you could walk beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramids, decipher the secrets of hieroglyphs, witness the rise of powerful pharaohs, and uncover the everyday lives of the people who built one of history's greatest civilizations?Ancient Egypt brings this extraordinary world to life through vivid storytelling, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Compact Capstone Course in Classical Calculus

    by Peter R. Mercer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook offers undergraduates a self-contained introduction to advanced topics not covered in a standard calculus sequence. The author’s enthusiastic and engaging style makes this material, which typically requires a substantial amount of study, accessible to students with minimal prerequisites. Readers will gain a broad knowledge of the area, with approaches based on those found in recent ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • More Calculus of a Single Variable

    by Peter R. Mercer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book goes beyond the basics of a first course in calculus to reveal the power and richness of the subject. Standard topics from calculus — such as the real numbers, differentiation and integration, mean value theorems, the exponential function — are reviewed and elucidated before digging into a deeper exploration of theory and applications, such as the AGM inequality, convexity, the art of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Critical Role: Tales of Exandria Volume 2--Artagan

    by Sam Maggs, Matthew Mercer ...
    Series series Critical Role
    The powerful and mischievous Archfey Artagan, also known as the Traveler, finally gets his day in court—which is the LAST thing he wanted.But since he’s here, he’s happy to tell the Seelie and Unseelie courts how he’s graced the material realms with his knowledge and mentorship. But there are witnesses who may have a different take, and the consequences could be dire.Writer Sam Maggs, artist Aviv ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD