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    How to Invest

    Navigating the Brave New World of Personal Investment

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    A dynamic new guide to personal investment for the era of cryptocurrencies and personal trading platforms.We're all investors now.The first quarter of the new century has seen developments in technology, monetary policy, and the management of large companies that have transformed personal savings and investment around the world.Love it, loathe it, or just not interested in it, this innovation has ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extremisms in Africa Volume 2

    Over the past two decades, the rapid emergence and spread of both local and transnational extremist organisations has become a primary source of insecurity in Africa. Extremist organisations represent the fluid and variable nature of conflict systems today and are at the heart of some of Africa's most enduring conflicts. Moreover, the inability of African states to contain the threat of extremism, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plotinus

    Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice

    "A bold work that applies a new approach to the interpretation of the thought of the founder of Neoplatonism . . . beautifully written." — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsPlotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Annoying The French Encore!

    A NOTE FROM THE AUTHORBonjour cher reader,Ever since European history began, we Brits have been happily engaged in our national pastime - annoying the French. And the past couple of years have shown that this annoying never stops. To give just three examples:After a mid-Atlantic collision between French and British nuclear submarines, France's Minister of Defence seemed to blame the accident on .. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France

    The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France.He had affairs with the most famous Parisian actresses, courtesans and can-can dancers. He spoke French more elegantly than English ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Spy Who Inspired Me

    For legal reasons, this novel does not mention J*mes B*nd. Which is a shame, because it is a comedy spy story based on the idea that I*n Fl*ming’s famously macho secret agent might have been inspired by a woman …A comedy spy spoof set in Occupied France in 1944, by the bestselling author of A Year in the Merde, 1000 Years of Annoying the French and How the French Won Waterloo (or Think They Did) ... Read more

    $16.81 CAD

  • How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did

    Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French are still in denial.If Napoleon lost on 18 June 1815 (and that's a big 'if'), then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Merde Factor

    (Paul West 5)

    Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going tr�s wrong:He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen.His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a national strike - and it could be all his fault.His Parisian business partner is determined ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Merde in Europe

    A Brit goes undercover in Brussels

    THE POST-BREXIT EDITION - brand new chapters with extra EU chaos for Englishman Paul West.An Englishman, Paul West, goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP. There he gets an insider's view of what really goes on in the massive madhouse that is the EU Parliament. With the referendum on the horizon, things are even more hysterical than usual.When the Brexit result comes in, Paul has to make a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Charles Frederick Worth the Englishman Who Invented Parisian Haute Couture

    … with the invaluable help of his French wife Marie and the Empress Eugénie

    Even the French acknowledge this English designer, Charles Worth (1825-95) as the founder of French haute couture. This new biography by the author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French tells for the first time the full story of Worth's often-underestimated wife Marie, who was his muse, chief saleswoman and the first-ever full-time fashion model.Writing with the help of the Worth family, Stephen ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Merde at the Paris Olympics

    Going for Pétanque Gold

    In Merde at the Paris Olympics, Englishman Paul West is living in Paris and gearing up for the 2024 Olympics. He accepts a job translating for a French lobby group who are campaigning to get pétanque accepted as an official Olympic event.In Paul’s opinion, throwing lumps of lead around while drinking pastis is barely a sport – it’s more an excuse for Provencal men to avoid cooking dinner. But he ... Read more

    $19.21 CAD

  • Merde at the Paris Olympics

    Going for Pétanque Gold

    "Some really excellent one-liners and a great story." Ian Moore, author, Death & Croissants."This novel is hysterical!" Rebecca Leffler, writer and Creative Consultant on the Netflix TV series Emily in Paris,.By the author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.Englishman Paul West is living in Paris (where he arrived long before Emily, by the way) and he's gearing up for the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD