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  • A Night in the Emperor's Garden

    A True Story of Hope and Resilience in Afghanistan

    by Qais Akbar Omar, Stephen Landrigan ...
    In 2005, everything seemed possible in Afghanistan. The Taliban was gone. A new government had been elected. A cultural renaissance was energizing the country.An actress visiting from Paris casually proposed to some Afghan actors in Kabul: Why not put on a play? The challenges were huge. It had been thirty years since men and women had appeared on stage together in Afghanistan. Was the country ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Wars of Afghanistan

    Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers

    by Peter Tomsen ...
    As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders involved in the region's conflicts over the last two decades. Now Tomsen draws on a rich trove of never-before-published material to shed new light on the American involvement in the long and continuing ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Hamlet

    by William Shakespeare ...
    In this quintessential Shakespearean drama, Hamlet's halting pursuit of revenge for his father's death unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that climax in tragedy. Probing the depths of human feeling like few other works of art, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition complete with illuminating footnotes. A selection of the Common Core State Standards ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • The Mongols

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Morris Rossabi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Evolution of a Revolt

    by T.E. Lawrence ...
    This short (22 page) article by T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia) was first published in the Army Quarterly in 1920. It is incredibly concise and well written. It contains all of the major analysis and conclusions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (his book and most famous work) without the narrative of his war experiences. It is the "cliff notes" to Lawrence, written by Lawrence himself. It is ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Works, Trilingual Edition (in English, French and German), 11 Tragedies, 12 Comedies, 10 Histories, 4 Romances, Poetry

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Translated by M. Guizot, Christoph Martin Wieland ...
    All of Shakespeare's plays (11 tragedies, 12 comedies, 10 histories, and 4 romances) plus his poetry in English with line numbers and in French translation; and many of his plays in German translation as well. ... Read more

    $1.56 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Delphi Classics)

    by Francis Beaumont John Fletcher, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 9 - Delphi Series Five
    Regarded by some as second only to Shakespeare, the Jacobean dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher collaborated to produce some of the finest plays of the seventeenth century. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Beaumont and Fletcher’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Poet and Bin-Laden: A Reality Novel

    by Hamid Ismailov ...
    Series series 1
    A Poet and Bin-Laden is a novel set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond.The story begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator’s haunting description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in Central Asia. Subsequent chapters shift backwards and forwards in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Othello

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the horrifyingly envious villain Iago methodically to promote ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Introducing Shakespeare

    A Graphic Guide

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China Rising

    Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

    by David Kang ...
    Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982

    Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VIII

    Edited by Richard Smith, Patrick Salmon, Stephen Twigge ...
    Series series Whitehall Histories
    This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the eventful years 1979-1982. The new Conservative government, under Margaret Thatcher, was determined to ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD