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  • Himmler's Hostages

    The Untold Story of Himmler's Special Prisoners & the End of WWII

    by Tom Wall ...
    The notorious Nazi leader's attempt to take war prisoners hostage at the end of WWII is revealed in this lively and expertly researched history.During the final weeks of the Second World War, Heinrich Himmler assembled the most famous and noteworthy SS prisoners be taken hostage. Himmler's plan was to use these individuals as bargaining chips to save the Reich—or, failing that, himself. Known as ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Juggling: What It Is and How to Do It

    by Thom Wall ...
    Juggling: What It Is and How to Do It is the result of six years of work by former Cirque du Soleil juggler Thom Wall. This book teaches learners of all ages how to juggle – one of the world's oldest artforms. With a kind demeanor, humor, and enthusiasm, Wall explains the process of juggling through four different modalities, bolstered by the latest physical education research.The practice of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Coward

    Conscience On Trial

    by Tom Wall ...
    Frail and disillusioned, Bill Rowe languishes in a prison cell. As the Luftwaffe pass overhead, he relives his journey from a basement in Gateshead to a tribunal in London tasked with examining and judging that most private and intimate of things: conscience. But will he die a coward or will he find the strength to confront his past? ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Programming Perl

    Unmatched power for text processing and scripting

    by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant ...
    Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that’s helped hundreds of thousands of programmers, system administrators, and enthusiasts, like you, get your job ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Chasing Rubi

    The Truth about Porfirio Rubirosa, the Last Playboy

    by Marty Wall, Isabella Wall, Robert Bruce Woodcox ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 56 min

    Was he a spy, assassin, or just a gigolo? Porfirio Rubirosa mingled with kings, dined with princes, and socialized with presidents, dictators, mobsters, and movie stars. In the wake of his frenzied activities, he left screaming headlines, hundreds of one-night stands, multiple divorces from the world’s richest women—including one who paid $66,000 a day for her dalliance—and more than 500 pages of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Chasing Proof, Finding Faith

    A Young Scientist's Search for Truth in a World of Uncertainty

    by Tom Rudelius ...
    He had science and an Ivy League pedigree—why did he need God? Immersed in his physics studies at Cornell, Tom Rudelius never thought much about God until his brother, a new convert to Christianity, challenged him to explore faith. To placate his twin, he reluctantly began exploring the Bible and the life of Jesus. Seeking proof of God's existence, he found himself in a world of uncertainty, faced ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Thinking Continental

    Writing the Planet One Place at a Time

    Edited by Drucilla Wall, Susan Naramore Maher, Tom Lynch, O. Alan Weltzien ...
    In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Four Dilemmas of the CEO

    Mastering the make-or-break moments in every executive’s career

    by Tom Biesinger, Ross Wall, Clifford Herbertson ...
    Momentum is your greatest ally – with it you can do anything, without it you will stall. As CEO you hate surprises, especially the kind that undermines momentum - yours or the organization you lead.Every CEO's journey is unique. However, there exists a very predictable, but previously unknown pattern: the CEO life cycle. The Four Dilemmas of the CEO outlines the common challenges that every CEO ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The GM Debate

    Risk, Politics and Public Engagement

    by Tom Horlick-Jones, John Walls, Gene Rowe, Nick Pidgeon, Wouter Poortinga, Graham Murdock, Tim O'Riordan ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of ‘GM’ crops in the UK. Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets it within its political and intellectual contexts, and examines the practical implications for future public engagement initiatives.The ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Intermediate Perl

    Beyond The Basics of Learning Perl

    by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix ...
    This book picks up right where Learning Perl leaves off. With Intermediate Perl, you’ll graduate from short scripts to much larger programs, using features that make Perl a general-purpose language. This gentle but thorough guide introduces you to modules, complex data structures, and object-oriented programming.Each chapter is small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with exercises ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mastering Algorithms with Perl

    Practical Programming Through Computer Science

    by Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Macdonald, Jon Orwant ...
    Many programmers would love to use Perl for projects that involve heavy lifting, but miss the many traditional algorithms that textbooks teach for other languages. Computer scientists have identified many techniques that a wide range of programs need, such as:Fuzzy pattern matching for text (identify misspellings!)Finding correlations in dataGame-playing algorithmsPredicting phenomena such as Web ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Learning Perl

    by Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz ...
    If you ask Perl programmers today what book they relied on most when they were learning Perl, you'll find that an overwhelming majority will name Learning Perl--also known affectionately as "the Llama." The first edition of Learning Perl appeared in 1993 and has been a bestseller ever since. Written by two of the most prominent and active members of the Perl community, this book is the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD