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  • A Communist's Journey

    To Moscow and Beyond

    by William Briggs ...
    Capitalism is destroying the world and crushing humanity. We need a better one.This book, although a memoir is not simply a chronology of a life but a personalised history of a movement. It isnot the drawing of a line under a life, but the turning of a page. Briggs weaves the personal with the political. It is a communist's journey; a political journey that led him to Moscow and beyond. It traces ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Everything You Believe Is Wrong

    by William M Briggs ...
    If you are an Expert, professional, bureaucrat, teacher, professor, Democrat or Republican, liberal, progressive or conservative, consider yourself in any way in the educated classes, the odds are high that everything you believe is wrong.Not everything. Not simple things. Only the most important things. If you are in the majority, then a great deal of what you hold true about the world and of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide

    Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention

    Edited by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma, William Crouch ...
    Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy.This book suggests that suicide and self-harm must be understood as having meaning within interpersonal and intrapsychic relationships, ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Kings, Queens, Sailors, Spies!

    How Francis Drake's Secret Mission Claimed California and Fooled the Mapmakers for 200 Years

    by William Briggs ...
    Famed English privateer Francis Drake navigates the Pacific Northwest on a clandestine search for the fabled Northwest Passage, aided by Portuguese sea secret pilot Nuñez da Moreira. Left on the rugged California coast and sent on a perilous secret mission, Moreira survives only to face the dreaded Spanish Inquisition and, under torture, reveals secrets of Drake's voyage and that California is an ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade

    When Survival is All That Matters

    by William Briggs ...
    As the sun rises on China and sets on America, the world holds its breath. China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade looks at the rise of China and the decline of the USA but from a different angle. William Briggs argues that this struggle for economic supremacy is being played out against a much bigger backdrop; the decline of the economic structure of capitalism. In this sense, the decline of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Removing the Stalin Stain

    Marxism and the Working Class in the 21st Century

    by William Briggs ...
    'Briggs tackles head-on the zone of conflict that Marx never quite got to, though not for lack of ambition. How do nation-states both manage and contest the military-industrial surges of global capitalism? Arguing the novel thesis that Stalin did good work for capitalism, offering its defenders an open goal to score against Marxism, Removing the Stalin Stain presents a clearly argued and outward ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Uncertainty

    The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics

    by William Briggs ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents a philosophical approach to probability and probabilistic thinking, considering the underpinnings of probabilistic reasoning and modeling, which effectively underlie everything in data science. The ultimate goal is to call into question many standard tenets and lay the philosophical and probabilistic groundwork and infrastructure for statistical modeling. It is the first book ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • A Cauldron of Anxiety

    Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

    by William Briggs ...
    The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastrophes of global conflict and of climate change, have a common cause. The inability of capitalism or the state to respond to existential crises and internal contradictions is the cause of what William Briggs terms A Cauldron of Anxiety. Briggs defends a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis

    The Past is Prologue

    by William Briggs ...
    Will capitalism survive forever?Capitalism has always lived in and with crisis. Wars, revolutions, economic depression and repeated recessions, the threat of nuclear annihilation and ecological disaster have all failed to break the dominance of this economic and political system.Challenging the predominance of capitalism in a world fraught with inequalities, this book returns to classical Marxism ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • How America Got Its Guns

    A History of the Gun Violence Crisis

    by William Briggs ...
    In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author’s thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Price of Panic

    How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe

    by Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., Douglas Axe, Ph.D., William M. Briggs, Ph.D. ...
    WHAT JUST HAPPENED?The human cost of the emergency response to COVID-19 has far outweighed the benefits. That’s the sobering verdict of a trio of scholars—a biologist, a statistician, and a philosopher— in this comprehensive assessment of the worst panic-induced disaster in history.As the media fanned the flames of panic, government officials and a new elite of scientific experts ignored the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Operative Orthopaedics

    Edited by Timothy WR Briggs, Jonathan Miles, William Aston, Heledd Havard, Daud TS Chou ...
    Revised, updated and expanded, Operative Orthopaedics: The Stanmore Guide, Second Edition, is a definitive and comprehensive guide to elective orthopaedic surgery. It is suitable for junior trainees during their various orthopaedic rotations and senior trainees preparing for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Tr and Orth) examination. With the emphasis on surgical techniques ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD