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  • Unsavory Thoughts

    by Thomas Walton ...
    These linked essays of personal and cultural critique include meditations on home and childhood, love and sex, art and literature, parenting and self-destruction, on the city and on death. Walton constantly slips through and between memory's tenuous folds: "that never happened, exactly, but it's certainly not a lie." Witty, candid, defying category, dogma, and expectation, Unsavory Thoughts is a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radar in the Corner

    How the Invention of the Mini-Map Rewired Spatial Awareness in Video Games

    by Thomas Walton ...
    In the early days of video games, spatial awareness was limited to exactly what was on the screen. If an enemy was off-screen, it didn't exist until it killed you. Then, arcade classics like 'Defender' introduced a revolutionary concept: a crude, glowing radar at the top of the screen. This tiny UI element, which evolved into the modern mini-map, fundamentally changed how human beings process ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Cats: Why We Love Them So

    by Thomas Walton ...
    In part one a cat-loving married couple are asked for advice on how to rid a feral colony of cats from under a storage trailer at a resort hotel. They decide to take on the task themselves. They spend the next three months on a quest which results in them capturing 23 cats and finding homes for 20 of them. To help understand their desire to undertake the quest, part two retraces the experiences ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Building Design Strategy

    Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives

    How can design be used to solve business problems? That's the question answered, in many innovative ways, by Building Design Strategy. Mark Dziersk, EunSool Kwon, Arnold Levin, Laura Weiss, and many more top-name contributors share their experience and insights. Topics explore the full range of issues today, including thinking ahead; adapting to challenges; developing tangible strategies; using ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Middle Powers in the Asian Century

    New Theories, New Cases

    Series series IR Theory and Practice in Asia
    The term "middle power" is conceptually fragile. Some scholars have even argued for abandoning it. This book argues that the concept needs to be analysed more profoundly and that new analytical tools need to be developed to better understand the phenomenon. The traditional approach, based on Western states, is insufficient and has become increasingly irrelevant in a transformed global environment. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Mallory Goes to Therapy

    Kevin Mallory is a Customer Assistance Representative for a cable company. He keeps his customers on hold, his supervisor on the run and his female nemesis on ice, but a new friend just might change his perspective.Lilly has supported herself since high school with just a little help from her only living relative, her alcoholic older brother. She runs a small non-profit housing agency while ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Doc Doc Zeus

    A Novel of White Coat Crime

    Still mourning the baby she gave away a year before – and feeling rejected by the same church people who had so cheerfully arranged that adoption – sixteen-year-old Diane seems to find a supportive friend in her gynecologist, Dr. Zeus. Diane is intelligent and bold but often leaps before she looks, and now she questions why he has to examine her so often, and why he prescribes her so many drugs ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Hug from the Wind

    A tender, heartfelt story to help children navigate grief - and remember that love never leaves.When a young child loses their father, the world suddenly feels quieter, smaller, and harder to understand. But in the soft whisper of the wind, in the sway of the trees, and in the warmth of a sunny day... love still finds its way through.In A Hug from the Wind, author Thomas Walton Jr. gently guides ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A New God in Town

    Book 2 of the Red State/Blue State Confessions

    Series Book 2 - The Red State/Blue State Confessions
    Stacey Davenport fights back against a regime that is quickly reducing women to concubinage in dystopian Kansas. Even as a motorcycle gang, deputized as religious police, rounds up the designated women, Stacey starts a political campaign to overthrow the regime. But Stacey's initial victory does not really change the status quo on the ground in certain parts of Kansas. Now, while Stacey fights in ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Masterpiece

    Translated by Thomas Walton ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Corporate Creativity

    Developing an Innovative Organization

    Corporate Creativity is the ultimate guide for executives and managers looking to increase creativity and innovation in their companies. This anthology of provocative essays, drawn from the pages of Design Management Review and Design Management Journal, explores personal, team, and organizational creativity, and it is packed with insights from the most respected names in the industry: Jeffrey ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Second Detective MEGAPACK®

    Welcome to our second volume of Detective stories! This is a grab-bag volume with contributions by many top mystery authors from the mid 20th Century pulp and digest magazines. There’s something to appeal to every taste, from noir to crime to even holiday capers and a Christmas tale by Johnson McCulley (creator of Zorro). Included are:DEAD MEN DON'T MOVE, by Thomas ThursdayALIBI--WITH SOUND, by ... Read more

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