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  • Neglected or Misunderstood

    Introducing Theodor Adorno

    by Stuart Walton ...
    While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the category of Cultural Marxism. Adorno has wrongly been blamed for everything from the Beatles to postmodernism, but he has continued to be read, if ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Classic Cocktails:150 Sensational Drink Recipes Shown in 250 Fabulous Photographs

    by Stuart Walton ...
    The ultimate bartenders guide how to create delicious drinks using spirits, liqueurs, wine, beers and mixers. There are instructions for making both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, accompanied by glorious photographs. All the best-loved cocktails are featured, as well as some more unusual drinks to try. Here are classic formulas of the 1920s Jazz Age such as White Lady and Maiden's Blush, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Devil's Dinner

    A Gastronomic and Cultural History of Chili Peppers

    by Stuart Walton ...
    Stuart Walton's The Devil's Dinner looks at the history of hot peppers, their culinary uses through the ages, and the significance of spicy food in an increasingly homogenous world.The Devil's Dinner is the first authoritative history of chili peppers. There are countless books on cooking with chilies, but no book goes into depth about the biological, gastronomical, and cultural impact this ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Sleepless Nights

    The Faults and Failings of Love

    by Stuart Walton ...
    Sleepless Nights: The Faults and Failings of Love is an inquiry into the cultural and psychological forces at work in our most intimate relationships. Romanticized and theorized throughout all ages, love remains the paradigm of human experience, the one aspect of life that could redeem all the suffering and disappointment to which we are otherwise heir. And yet it too often forms part of that very ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Excursion through Chaos

    Disorder under the Heavens

    by Stuart Walton ...
    From its original meaning as a gaping void, or the emptiness that precedes the whole of creation, chaos has taken on the exclusive meaning of confusion, pandemonium and mayhem. This definition has become the overarching word to describe any challenge to the established order; be it railway strikes or political dissent, any unexpected event is routinely described in the media and popular parlance ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Intoxicology

    A Cultural History of Drink and Drugs

    by Stuart Walton ...
    "Like any good cocktail, this book brings together tasty ingredients in a delicious mix." Boston HeraldIntoxicology is an addictive investigation into the history and culture of Narcotica - from the everyday use of alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco to the illicit realm of opiates, amphetamines, and hallucinogens. The book is a witty and provocative look at why intoxication has always been a part of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In The Realm of the Senses

    A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling

    by Stuart Walton ...
    The five physical senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching have been held to underpin the complexity of human experience ever since Aristotle first theorised about how they worked. Classical and scholastic philosophy up to the time of the European Enlightenment relegated their operations to its margins, viewing them as at best a distraction from higher thinking, and at worst a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The First Day in Paradise

    by Stuart Walton ...
    The First Day in Paradise tells the story of a young orphaned family who have been passed on from one set of relations to another, and whose eldest sibling, Adam, becomes enthralled by the impending opening nearby of a gigantic and beautiful shopping-mall by a flamboyant entrepreneur. To the consternation of his aunt and uncle, who run a small business, he joins the staff of one of its stores, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Natural History of Human Emotions

    by Stuart Walton ...
    'I love Walton's work for its deftness in combining high culture with demotic allusions. Michael Douglas, the Simpsons and Dolly Parton jostle Schopenhauer, Sophocles and Adorno in his pages.' Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The TimesCharles Darwin believed that the emotions of all human beings are as innate and as regular as our bone structure.Using Darwin's survey of emotions as a starting point, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clinical Medicine of the Dog and Cat

    Edited by Michael Schaer, Stuart Walton ...
    The fourth edition of Clinical Medicine of the Dog and Cat remains the most extensively illustrated and practical small animal veterinary textbook on the market.It continues and expands on the revolutionary problem-based approach of the previous three editions, with more than 1,100 clinical color photographs, diagrams, and tables. The book is divided into five color-coded sections—General Approach ... Read more

    $309.99 CAD

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    Everybody's Perfect

    by Jo Walton ...
    Narrated by Stewart Crank, Gabrielle Baker ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    Piranesi meets Swordspoint in an elegant relay race through fantasy Venice from Hugo award-winning author Jo WaltonThe Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds.When a laborer called Tiry has a dream that Serenissima will have a doge, and that they will marry the sea, he tells it to a fortune teller named Khadsha. She te... ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD

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    The Gates of Midnight

    A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni

    by Helene Wecker ...
    Narrated by George Guidall, John Marshall Media ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Golem and the Jinni

    Unabridged

    15 hours 17 min

    "Wecker is a marvelous storyteller.”—USA Today“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle.”— Entertainment WeeklyThe long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy.At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Wecker’s Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to... ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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