Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert purdy”
Skip side bar filters

  • Particle Physics

    An Introduction

    by Robert Purdy ...
    Series series Essentials of Physics Series
    This book is designed as a brief introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the matter in our universe. Numerous examples, figures, and simple explanations enable general readers and physics students to understand complex concepts related to the universe. Selected topics include atoms, quarks, accelerators, detectors, colliders, string theory, and more. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Tisha

    The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

    by Anne Purdy, Robert Specht ...
    Narrated by Caroline McLaughlin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 29 min

    The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920's to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Nature and Value

    by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay Reddy, Carol Rovane, Jonathan Schell, James Hamilton Tully, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Nature and Value

    by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay Reddy, Carol Rovane, Jonathan Schell, James Hamilton Tully, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • I Am Elijah Thrush

    by James Purdy ...
    On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half-century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and women, is finally in love “incorrectly, if not indecently,” with his great-grandson, Bird of Heaven. To support an unusual habit, a young Black man, Albert Peggs, reluctantly agrees to tell their ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Out with the Stars

    by James Purdy ...
    Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane and his Russian-born wife, the silent-screen star Madame Olga Petrovna, are prepared to go to any length to suppress the truth about them. Vane’s dark secret follows him to the grave. But his jealous ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Fall of the Year

    A Novel

    by Howard Frank Mosher ...
    A priest's adopted son narrates a colorful tale of small-town Vermont life in this autobiographical novel from the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.Set in the beautiful mountains of Kingdom County, The Fall of the Year is Howard Frank Mosher's brilliant autobiographical novel about love in all its forms, from friendship to the most passionate romance, in a place where family, community, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

    A Novel

    by Rita Leganski ...
    A magical debut novel from Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is the tale of a mute boy whose gift of wondrous hearing reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore, and exposes a murder that threatens the souls of those who love him.Bonaventure Arrow didn’t make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. But he was listening, placing sound inside quiet and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition

    by Yoav Peleg, Reuven Pnini, Elyahu Zaarur, Eugene Hecht ...
    Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Shades of Milk and Honey

    by Mary Robinette Kowal ...
    Series Book 1 - Glamourist Histories
    The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had writtenShades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer: Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love in a world where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality.Jane ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Quantum Mechanics Demystified, 2nd Edition

    by David McMahon ...
    If you think projection operators work in the cinema, or learning about spin-1/2 makes your head, well, spin, Quantum Mechanics DeMYSTiFieD will energize your knowledge of this topic's fundamental concepts and theories, and allow you to learn at your own pace. This thoroughly revised and updated guide eases you into the subject, beginning with wave mechanics then introducing you to the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh

    A Society of Gentlemen Short Story

    by KJ Charles ...
    Series series Society of Gentlemen
    Passion is on the cards for two reckless rogues as K. J. Charles ups the ante in her Society of Gentlemen series with a sizzling eBook short story.The youngest son and the blackest sheep in his family, Lord Gabriel Ashleigh never imagined he could sink so low. Though he’s a notoriously bad gambler, he takes on the formidable but strangely alluring Francis Webster, only to lose everything: all his ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD