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  • Presidential Migraines

    by Fritz Strobl ...
    "You'll never look at your cell phone the same way again after reading Presidential Migraines..."With the first presidential debate to be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota just a few weeks away, the focus of the nation is upon a young senator from California of Chinese descent who has begun to inexplicably surge in the polls in his bid to overtake the relatively popular ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Forgotten Authors - Continental European Men

    by Théophile Gautier, Alfred Lichtenstein, Karl Hans Ströbl ...
    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • A Trio of Stories - Karl Hans Strӧbl

    by Karl Hans Strobl ...
    Karl Hans Strӧbl was born in Jihlava, Moravia in the Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the 18th of January 1877.His education finished with his studies at the University of Prague, where he became involved in nationalist student politics, a precursor to his later right-wing and anti-semitic viewpoints.In 1910 he wrote an apocalyptic novel ‘Eleagabal Kuperus’, which was ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3 Stories by The Dark Princes of Austrian Literature

    by Hanns Heinz Ewers, Gustav Meyrick, Karls Hans Ströbl ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3 Stories About Ambitious Inventors

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Florence McLandburgh, Karl Hans Ströbl ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Day Inspirations

    A Poetry Journey

    by Rebecca Strobl ...
    Life is a series of moments. Like a heartbeat, those moments go up and down, taking us to the highest peaks and the lowest valleys. Often, we face moments (both good and bad) where we struggle to find words to express our feelings. What happens when we hit a mental block while seeking to provide hope to help ourselves or others?New Day Inspirations: A Poetry Journey by Rebecca Strobl shares a ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greek Flu

    by Fritz Strobl ...
    During his Inauguration, President Kozdronski receives a disturbing piece of intelligence indicating that a highly fatal flu epidemic in Greece and the death of an experienced American CIA operative in the Cyclades may be no coincidence. It may, in fact, relate to an unconfirmed covert biologic lab on the small, sacred Greek island of Delos.The President needs a couple to go undercover as tourists ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backspin

    One Player's Journey From the U.S. to Europe and Back Again.

    by Pete Strobl ...
    Backspin traces the playing career of an athlete, beginning with the rigors of college life, and continuing through nine seasons in the European leagues. It is through the author's reflections of life before college, that we get an inside look at some of the quirky characters and unexpected events that help him cope with the challenges of a sometimes lonely life far from home. Humorous, ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time Capital

    by Strobl ...
    What if time, not money, is the real currency? Every economic framework in history has tried to explain what value is and where it comes from. Adam Smith said labour. Ricardo dissolved capital into stored labour. Marx formalised socially necessary labour time. The marginalists abandoned labour entirely and replaced it with desire. None of them finished the job. This book argues that they were all ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Aligned to What?

    by Jimmy Strobl ...
    Aligned to what?The major AI laboratories have, across the past several years, built and deployed systems they describe as aligned. Asked to name what the alignment specifies, the laboratories have produced a vocabulary of formulations that does not, on close examination, name anything at all. Human values. Shared values. Helpful, honest, harmless. Broadly distributed benefits. The collective will ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Retiring Consciousness

    by Jimmy Strobl ...
    For three and a half centuries, a single word has governed the philosophy of mind. "Consciousness" determines which beings have moral status, which patients receive continued care, and whether an artificial system has an inner life. It organises research programmes, shapes legislation, and frames the hardest questions in science. It does all of this without an agreed definition. This book argues ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Axiom of Finite Bounds

    by Jimmy Strobl ...
    In 610 BCE, Anaximander declared the fundamental principle of reality to be the boundless, the infinite. No argument established it. No observation confirmed it. It was posited, and from that positing a trajectory began that would run for 2,500 years without interruption. This book questions the assumption. It traces the commitment to infinity from Anaximander through Zeno, Aristotle, Leibniz, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD