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  • 1967 – The World of Brian Epstein and The Beatles

    The address book that defined an era

    by Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon ...
    “A little peep behind the net curtain of swinging London. Meet the people that made the 60s tick.” Noel GallagherWhen I first saw Brian Epstein’s black Twinlock binder, I was struck by how small and unassuming it was – just 160 by 100 millimetres, the kind of thing you could slip into a coat pocket. But inside, it held a universe. The book felt alive, buzzing, ready and waiting to be explored. So ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts

    by Martin Kemp, Robert B. Simon, Margaret Dalivalle ...
    The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a Russian oligarch. In 2017 it was auctioned by Christie's in New York, fetching the world record price of $450m, and now forms part of the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature

    by Simon Kemp ...
    Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemp's investigation ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century

    The Return to the Story

    by Simon Kemp ...
    Series series French and Francophone Studies
    The French novel’s “return to the story” in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment accurate? With French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, Simon Kemp looks at the work of five contemporary writers—Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, and Patrick ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing the Mind

    Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present

    by Simon Kemp ...
    "My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking." – Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaWriting the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven ground-breaking thinkers and novelists of recent history to compare and contrast the varying representations of the conscious and the unconscious mind. Grounding ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Was Communism Doomed?

    Human Nature, Psychology and the Communist Economy

    by Simon Kemp ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book explores whether the ideology of communism was doomed to failure due to psychological rather than structural flaws. Does communism fail because there is not enough individual incentive and does it discourage psychological ownership? If so, does it produce learned helplessness and therefore empower evil? This book considers such questions, both with respect to how communism actually ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Perspectives and Practices of Education for Sustainable Development

    A Critical Guide for Higher Education

    Edited by Rehema M. White, Simon Kemp, Elizabeth A. C. Price, James W. S. Longhurst ...
    Informed by theory and full of practical advice, this key title offers a clear route to education for sustainable development (ESD) whilst questioning how we reconcile participatory, inclusive processes and the urgency of global crises.This handbook provides guidance for those with an interest in the purpose and direction of learning and the principles and practices of sustainability in ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    1967 – The World of Brian Epstein and The Beatles

    The address book that defined an era

    by Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon ...

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    8 hours 6 min

    “A little peep behind the net curtain of swinging London. Meet the people that made the 60s tick.” Noel GallagherWhen I first saw Brian Epstein’s black Twinlock binder, I was struck by how small and unassuming it was – just 160 by 100 millimetres, the kind of thing you could slip into a coat pocket. But inside, it held a universe. The book felt alive, buzzing, ready and waiting to be explored. So ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Economic Psychology and Experimental Economics

    Edited by Simon Kemp, Gabrielle Wall ...
    The last ten years have seen an enormous surge of interest in issues that are common to psychology and economics. How do people make decisions about economic issues? How should they make such decisions? Does public policy or regulation succeed in its aim of helping people make these decisions? What situations aid cooperation?This volume explores some of the ways in which economists and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement: Aligning Computing Productivity with Human Creativity for Societal Adaptation

    First International Workshop, MOVE 2020, Virtual Event, October 17–18, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Rubina Polovina, Simon Polovina, Neil Kemp ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitures selected and revised papers presented at the First International Workshop on Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement, MOVE 2020, held as Virtual Event in October 2020.The 7 extended and revised papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 13 submissions. Along with them, the volume presents 5 invited papers. The volume articles are arranged in the ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

  • Broken Pieces

    A Diary of Poems and a Breakthrough Testimony

    by Rose Marie Kemp Simon ...
    The Declaration of Independence proclaims that we believe all men to be created equally. It is true that all men are created equally, but all men are not the same. From a biblical perspective, God is not a respecter of persons (Romans 2:11). He is not, but we are. Our differences affect individual concepts of self and our relationships to other people in the world. Diversity causes problems with ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Translation

    The Interpretive Model

    by Marianne Lederer ...
    Translated by Ninon Larche ...
    This book, the English version of La traduction aujourd'hui (Hachette 1994), describes the interpretive theory of translation developed at the Paris Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT) over the last 35 years.The theory identifies the mental and cognitive processes involved in both oral and written translation: understanding the text, deverbalizing its language, re-expressing ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD