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  • The Pyramids

    The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments

    by Miroslav Verner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A "richly illustrated . . . engaging, lucid account" of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, what we know about them now, what we don't, and what is still debated today ( Kirkus Reviews).Hailed by Science News as "the new seminal text," The Pyramids is a comprehensive record of Egypt's most awe-inspiring monuments and what Egyptologists now know about them today—from their construction and purpose to the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Manhunts

    A Philosophical History

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A comprehensive history of manhunting in the West, from ancient times to the presentTouching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gunzburgs

    A Family Biography

    by Lorraine de Meaux ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large family, a retinue of business staff and extensive domestic help: personal assistants, secretaries, tutors, wet-nurses and nannies, coachmen, ladies' companions, valets and maids, and even a kosher cook. For the Gunzburgs were practising Jews who observed every religious law whilst also launching themselves into Parisian high ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Valkyrie

    The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member

    by Philip Freiherr Von Boeselager, Florence Fehrenbach, Jerome Fehrenbach ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    When the Second World War broke out, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, then 25-years-old, fought enthusiastically for Germany as a cavalry officer. But after discovering Nazi crimes, von Boeselager’s patriotism quickly turned to disgust, and he joined a group of conspirators who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. In this elegant but unflinching memoir, von Boeselager gives voice to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Economics for the Common Good

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    by Jean Tirole ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored

    by Philippe Georget ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Series Book 1 - The Inspector Sebag Mysteries
    The first Inspector Sebag mystery. "The plot is intricate and tense . . . [A] fantastic French ticking-clock thriller" ( Daily Mail).It's the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is teeming with tourists. Sebag and Molino, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day's misdemeanors and petty complaints at ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Perpetual Euphoria

    On the Duty to Be Happy

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    How happiness became mandatory—and why we should reject the demand to "be happy"Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion—one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Autumn, All the Cats Return

    by Philippe Georget ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Series Book 2 - The Inspector Sebag Mysteries
    The second Inspector Sebag mystery following Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored: "A man like this—a cop like this—is definitely worth knowing" ( Los Angeles Review of Books).Inspector Sebag is a policeman in southern France with an unparalleled sixth sense, who excels at slipping into the skin of killers and hunting them down. However, when a retired French Algerian cop is discovered in his ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Tyranny of Guilt

    An Essay on Western Masochism

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become a pathology, and even an obstacle to fighting today's atrocities. Bruckner, one of France's leading ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Disturbance

    Surviving Charlie Hebdo

    by Philippe Lançon ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    In this Prix Femina–winning memoir, a writer at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo recounts surviving the deadly terror attack on their office.On January 7, 2015, two terrorists claiming allegiance to ISIS attack the Paris office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse

    Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.Modern society’s ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD