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  • Wolf Moon

    by Julio Llamazares ...
    Translated by Simon Deefholts, Kathryn Phillips-Miles ...
    Series series Peter Owen World Series: Spain
    Having lost the Civil War in Spain, four republican rebels lead a fugitive existence deep in the Cantabrian mountains. Wounded and hungry the rebels are frequently drawn from the safety of the mountains into the villages they once inhabited, risking their lives and the lives of anyone helping them. Faced with the lonely mountains, its harsh winters and unforgiving summers, it is only a matter of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging the Evil Empire

    Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War

    by Simon Miles ...
    In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Reagan Moment

    America and the World in the 1980s

    Edited by Jonathan R. Hunt, Simon Miles ...
    In The Reagan Moment, the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had lasting effects on international relations: The United States went from a creditor to a debtor nation; democracy crested in East Asia and returned to Latin America; the People's Republic of China moved to privatize, decentralize, and open its economy; Osama bin Laden founded Al ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Wolf Moon

    by Julio Llamazares ...
    Translated by Simon Deefholts, Kathryn Phillips-Miles ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A tense, lyrical novel of life on the run in Franco's Spain that offers a bold, timeless challenge against fascism and authoritarianism.FOR FANS OF ROGUE MALE: A literary thriller full of action and dramatic landscapes, and the first novel to break the national pact of silence after Francisco Franco’s death.**Having lost the Civil War in Spain, four republican soldiers lead a fugitive existence ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories

    Edited by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well as giants of Spanish ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Inventing Love

    Peter Owen World Series: Spain

    by Jose Ovejero ...
    Translated by Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles ...
    Winner of the 2013 Alfaguara Novel Prize, one of the most significant prizes in the Spanish languageWhen Samuel receives a call out of the blue about the death of his lover Clara, his own numbing existence seems about to come to an end. Does it matter that he never knew Clara? And, if he invents a past for his love and his loss, could he even fake his way through her funeral? Unable to pass up the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nona's Room

    Peter Owen World Series: Spain

    by Cristina Fernandez Cubas ...
    Translated by Simon Deefholts, Kathryn Phillips-Miles ...
    Winner of:Premio Nacional de Narrativa (2016)Premio de la Critica Española (2016)Premio Dulce Chacón (2016)Book of the Year 2015:La VanguardiaEl CulturalBabeliaABCAn award-winning collection of six uncanny and atonal stories from one of Europe's most celebrated contemporary writers of short fiction. Suffused with the chilling tones of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the psychological ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Take Six; Six Spanish women Writers

    Edited by Simon Deefholts, Kathryn Phillips-Miles ...
    Series Book 2 - Take Six
    Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers is an anthology of short stories by six outstanding Spanish women writers: Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), Carmen Laforet (1921-2004), Cristina Fernández Cubas (born 1945), Soledad Puértolas (born 1947) and Patricia Erlés (born 1972). The stories span over one hundred years, starting with the indomitable Emilia Pardo Bazán, whose ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Take Six; Six Spanish women Writers

    Edited by Simon Deefholts, Kathryn Phillips-Miles ...
    Series Book 2 - Take Six
    Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers is an anthology of short stories by six outstanding Spanish women writers: Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), Carmen Laforet (1921-2004), Cristina Fernández Cubas (born 1945), Soledad Puértolas (born 1947) and Patricia Erlés (born 1972). The stories span over one hundred years, starting with the indomitable Emilia Pardo Bazán, whose ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Great Spanish Stories

    10 Parallel Texts

    by Various ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Thomas Bunstead, Peter Bush, Kathryn Phillips-Miles, Simon Deefholt, Kit Maude ...
    Series series Parallel Texts
    A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary inspiration for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Bir Messaouda Basilica

    Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage

    by Richard Miles, Simon Greenslade ...
    This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hill to the ports, the neighbourhood remained primarily a residential one from the second century until 530s AD when a substantial basilica was constructed ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x

    An in-depth guide to becoming proficient in spatial data analysis using QGIS 3.4 and 3.6 with Python

    by Shammunul Islam, Simon Miles, Luigi Pirelli, Kurt Menke, GISP, Richard Smith Jr., GISP, John Van Hoesen, GISP ...
    Go beyond the basics and unleash the full power of QGIS 3.4 and 3.6 with practical, step-by-step examplesKey FeaturesOne-stop solution to all of your GIS needs Master QGIS by learning about database integration, and geoprocessing tools Learn about the new and updated Processing toolbox and perform spatial analysisBook DescriptionQGIS is an open source solution to GIS and widely used by GIS ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus