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The Rise of Real-Life Superheroes

and the Fall of Everything Else

by Peter Nowak ...

Meanwhile, back in the darkened alleys of a city near you… trouble is brewing. A fight breaks out. A mugger shakes down an innocent tourist. Inequality is on the rise.Enter our heroes. Dark Guardian chases off an angry drug dealer in Manhattan. Mr. Xtreme charges in and breaks up a San Diego bar brawl. T.O. Ronin hugs a homeless man on the snowy streets of Toronto. These aren’t the big-screen or ... Read more

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Meanwhile, back in the darkened alleys of a city near you… trouble is brewing. A fight breaks out. A mugger shakes down an innocent tourist. Inequality is on the rise.Enter our heroes. Dark Guardian chases off an angry drug dealer in Manhattan. Mr. Xtreme charges in and breaks up a San Diego bar brawl. T.O. Ronin hugs a homeless man on the snowy streets of Toronto. These aren’t the big-screen or
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Sex Bombs and Burgers

by Peter Nowak ...

In this surprising history of technology, Peter Nowak argues that most of the innovations that make modern life modern can be directly traced to one of three questionable aspects of human activity—war, porn, and the fast food industry. Following developments in technology from the 1940s to the present, Nowak reveals the links between Barbie and U.S. missile systems, how the porn industry killed ... Read more

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In this surprising history of technology, Peter Nowak argues that most of the innovations that make modern life modern can be directly traced to one of three questionable aspects of human activity—war, porn, and the fast food industry. Following developments in technology from the 1940s to the present, Nowak reveals the links between Barbie and U.S. missile systems, how the porn industry killed
... Read more
Humans 3.0

The Upgrading of the Species

by Peter Nowak ...

Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new ... Read more

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Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new
... Read more
International Handbook of Health Literacy

Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span

by Christina Wieczorek, Josefine Wangdahl, Gillian Rowlands, Diana Sahrai, Tetine Sentell, Connie Arnold, James Davis, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, Elizabeth McFarlane, Phillip Massey, Jennifer Manganello0, Terry Davis1, Ruth Pitt2, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer3, Barbara K Kondilis4, Melanie Messer5, Evelyn McElhinney6, Vanessa Rawlings7, Emma Bond8, Ullrich Bauer9, Paulo Pinheiro1, Leena Paakkari3, Olli Paakkari4, Carla White5, Susan Reid6, Robert Vann (R.V) Rikard7, Julie McKinney8, Sarity Dodson9, Emma Fitzsimon0, Anita Trezona1, Marlene Sator2, Christina Dietscher3, Peter Nowak4, Lorie Donelle5, Linda Shohet6, Irving Rootman7, Sandra Vamos8, Andrew Pearson9, Phyllis Easton0, Blythe Robertson1, Graham Kramer2, Jany Rademakers3, Monique Heijmans4, Iris van der Heide5, Maricel G Santos6, Phil Michael Rehder7, Stefanie Harsch8, Dirk Bruland9, Patricia Wahl0, Kathrin Schulze1, Anne Konring Larsen2, Marie Birk Jørgensen3, Theckla Kwangsa Mbunwe4, Kenneth Yongabi Anchang5, Sarah Marshall6, Suzanne McCarthy7, Laura J Sahm8, Catina O’Leary9, Richard Carmona0, Caitlin Maish1, Kristen Haven Griffin2, Alyssia Rossetto3, Kathryn Cairns4, Isabella Bertschi5, Deborah L Begoray6, E. Anne Marshall7, Marlies Casteleijn8, Paola Ardiles9, Eva Maria Bitzer0, Thomas Mößle1, Anja Stiller2, Lea Kuntz3, Simone Flaig4, Bronwyn McGill5, Hanna Schwendemann6, Paula Bleckmann7, Don Nutbeam8, Diane Levin-Zamir9, Luis Saboga-Nunes1, Joanne Protheroe2, Jane Wills3, Susie Sykes4, Eva-Maria Berens5, Doris Schaeffer6, Dominique Vogt7, Nicola Diviani8, Sarah Mantwill9, Stephan van den Broucke0, Kristin Ganahl1, Jürgen M Pelikan2, Susanne Jordan3, Olga Domanska4, Christiane Firnges5, Torsten Michael Bollweg6, Andrew Pleasant7, Anthony Francis Jorm8, Graca S Carvalho9, Janine Broder00 ...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for ... Read more

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for
... Read more
Sex, Bombs, and Burgers

How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern Technology

by Peter Nowak ...

How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern TechnologyGuns, Germs, and Steel meets the age of technology in this rollicking history of how our pursuit of lust, gluttony, and rage has led to our greatest technological advancements. It is also a chronicle of popular culture, packed with surprising revelations. From the unexpected origins of aerosols, cold medicine, and Google to Saran ... Read more

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How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern TechnologyGuns, Germs, and Steel meets the age of technology in this rollicking history of how our pursuit of lust, gluttony, and rage has led to our greatest technological advancements. It is also a chronicle of popular culture, packed with surprising revelations. From the unexpected origins of aerosols, cold medicine, and Google to Saran
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The Rise of Real-Life Superheroes

And the Fall of Everything Else

by Peter Nowak ...

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6 hours 50 min

Meanwhile, back in the darkened alleys of a city near you . . . trouble is brewing. A fight breaks out. A mugger shakes down an innocent tourist. Inequality is on the rise.Enter our heroes. Dark Guardian chases off an angry drug dealer in Manhattan. Mr. Xtreme charges in and breaks up a San Diego bar brawl. T. O. Ronin hugs a homeless man on the snowy streets of Toronto. These aren't the big ... Read more

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Meanwhile, back in the darkened alleys of a city near you . . . trouble is brewing. A fight breaks out. A mugger shakes down an innocent tourist. Inequality is on the rise.Enter our heroes. Dark Guardian chases off an angry drug dealer in Manhattan. Mr. Xtreme charges in and breaks up a San Diego bar brawl. T. O. Ronin hugs a homeless man on the snowy streets of Toronto. These aren't the big
... Read more

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Where the Nights Are Twice as Long

Love Letters of Canadian Poets

Edited by David Eso, Jeanette Lynes ...

Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary poems from more than 120 Canadian poets, including Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Louis Riel, Alden Nowlan, Anne Szumigalski , Leonard Cohen, John Barton, and Di Brandt, and many others, encompassing the breadth of this country's English literary ... Read more

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Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary poems from more than 120 Canadian poets, including Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Louis Riel, Alden Nowlan, Anne Szumigalski , Leonard Cohen, John Barton, and Di Brandt, and many others, encompassing the breadth of this country's English literary
... Read more
Chorus of Mushrooms

20th Anniversary Edition

by Hiromi Goto ...

Series Book 5 - Nunatak First Fiction Series
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region)!Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award!Hiromi Goto’s debut novel has become a Canadian classic. It is a powerful narrative of three generations of Japanese Canadian women on the Canadian prairies.Funny, scandalous, and melancholic, this superlative narrative is filled with echoes and retellings, ... Read more

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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region)!Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award!Hiromi Goto’s debut novel has become a Canadian classic. It is a powerful narrative of three generations of Japanese Canadian women on the Canadian prairies.Funny, scandalous, and melancholic, this superlative narrative is filled with echoes and retellings,
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Pilgrimage

by Diana Davidson ...

Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis and missionary settlement of Lac St. Anne, Canada. A young woman of mixed-blood named Mahkesîs is carrying the child of the married Englishman who manages the Hudson Bay Company trading post. She is forced to reveal her devastating secret to her Cree grandmother. As an unmarried Catholic girl, Mahkesîs waits for a miracle in the very place ... Read more

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Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis and missionary settlement of Lac St. Anne, Canada. A young woman of mixed-blood named Mahkesîs is carrying the child of the married Englishman who manages the Hudson Bay Company trading post. She is forced to reveal her devastating secret to her Cree grandmother. As an unmarried Catholic girl, Mahkesîs waits for a miracle in the very place
... Read more
Will Starling

by Ian Weir ...

Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the FantasticLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin International Literary AwardFrom the acclaimed author of Daniel O'Thunder comes a rollicking, bawdy, and haunting novel about love and redemption, death and resurrection.The great metropolis of London swaggers with Regency abandon as nineteen-year-old Will Starling returns from the Napoleonic ... Read more

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Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the FantasticLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin International Literary AwardFrom the acclaimed author of Daniel O'Thunder comes a rollicking, bawdy, and haunting novel about love and redemption, death and resurrection.The great metropolis of London swaggers with Regency abandon as nineteen-year-old Will Starling returns from the Napoleonic
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Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

Detours into mayhem

by Paul Carter ...

More of Paul Carter's hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures.Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name.Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera ... Read more

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More of Paul Carter's hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures.Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name.Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera
... Read more

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Fighter Pilot

Mis-Adventures beyond the sound barrier with an Australian Top Gun

by Mac 'Serge' Tucker ...

Sit down and strap yourself in for an exhilarating ride to the sound barrier and beyond with a real life Topgun!Mac Tucker, or 'Serge' to use his callsign name, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal what it's really like.Find out how it feels to be shot at by SAS snipers, to be lost ... Read more

$10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sit down and strap yourself in for an exhilarating ride to the sound barrier and beyond with a real life Topgun!Mac Tucker, or 'Serge' to use his callsign name, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal what it's really like.Find out how it feels to be shot at by SAS snipers, to be lost
... Read more

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