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  • The Kangaroo Chronicles

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    Translated by Paul-Henri Campbell, Sarah Cossaboon ...
    Marc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana. It's a classical Berlin flat-sharing community, where the deep questions of life are debated: Is lying in a hammock already a kind of passive resistance? Must the Kangaroo place its pouch onto the conveyor belt at the airport security check? Did the Kangaroo really fight for the Vietcong? And why is ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Views

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    Translated by Boris Löbsack ...
    Black Mirror meets Stieg Larsson in Views, a compulsive thriller that explores the toxic relationship between technology and humanity, and the fallout after unthinkable lines are crossed.Sixteen-year-old Lena Palmer has gone missing when a violent video of her assault by masked men goes viral. Yashira, chief inspector at the German FBI, has been put in charge of the case. As a single mother of a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Qualityland

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Anniversaries

    From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl

    by Uwe Johnson ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time.Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Kraftwerk

    Future Music from Germany

    by Uwe Schütte ...
    The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • February 1933

    The Winter of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literary scene gave way to a long, dark winter, and how the net drew ever ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Marseille 1940

    The Flight of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in Marseille with the aim of rescuing as many as possible. This is the harrowing story of their flight from the Nazis under the most ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Junkers Ju 287 and EF 131 Luftwaffe 6-engine Jet-Bomber with Forward Swept Wings

    Aerospace History Files, #1

    by Uwe W. Jack ...
    Series Book 1 - Aerospace History Files
    Junkers Ju 287The most advanced Jet-Bomber of the LuftwaffeThis is the story of an aircraft that might have changed the air-war in 1945/46. Lots of photos, drawings, information, data and more than 6000 words give a detailed insight into the development of this unique piece of aviation. When US troops in May 1945 moved into the Junkers aviation works in East Germany, they discovered two very ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tower

    Tales from a Lost Country

    by Uwe Tellkamp ...
    In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Disinformation Attacks On Businesses

    The Dark Business of Fake News & Co. and How to Combat it

    by Uwe Wolff ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Disinformation has become one of the most dangerous threats to modern businesses. In this book, communications expert Uwe Wolff reveals how false narratives, digital smear campaigns, deepfakes, bots and state-sponsored influence operations are used to damage companies, manipulate markets and erode public trust. Through real-life case studies and explanations, Wolff demonstrates how these attacks ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • The Cannabis Health Index

    Combining the Science of Medical Marijuana with Mindfulness Techniques To Heal 100 Chronic Symptoms and Diseases

    by Uwe Blesching ...
    This comprehensive sourcebook combines evidence-based insights from more than 1,000 studies from cannabinoid and consciousness research to present a convincing case for the powerful healing effects of medical marijuana on over 100 chronic symptoms and diseases. Written by a former paramedic with a PhD in alternative healthcare, this in-depth reference shows that the subtle shifts in awareness ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Second Life of the Wine Bottle

    by Uwe Geilert ...
    Approximately twenty five years ago a new geological era was baptized: the »Anthropocene«. We humans leave behind innumerable everlasting traces on the surface, in the rivers and seas of our planet: concrete, microplastics, radioactive waste and much, much more. Among it Glass Bottles. And they are the subject of this booklet, strictly speaking Wine Bottles. The question is, what can we do with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus