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  • The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned

    A Moving Record of America's Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco, April 18, 1906 [Illustrated Edition]

    The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned is the dramatic, complete account of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. In the early morning of that day, the sleeping city was rocked by a violent earth tremor that ravaged buildings, heaved streets, and terrified drowsy residents. But worse was to come: the devastating fire that swept across the city for three days. Nearly 30,000 structures were ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned

    A Photographic Record of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

    Illustrated with more than four hundred on-the-scene photographs, this is the definitive account of the 1906 earthquake and fire that devastated San Francisco.The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned tells the tragic story of the four days of upheaval and destruction that swept San Francisco when a violent earth tremor rocked the land, succeeded rapidly by a devastating fire that destroyed nearly thirty ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Mars Rover Curiosity

    An Inside Account from Curiosity’s Chief Engineer

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.Here, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball and Philosophy

    Thinking Outside the Batter's Box

    Edited by Eric Bronson, William Irwin ...
    Series Book 6 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this most American of games.The contributors include many of the leading voices in the burgeoning new field of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    One Year After

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The One Second After Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second AfterMonths before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at the dangers of EMPs. An EMP is a weapon with the power to destroy the entire United States in a single act of terrorism, in a ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Five Years After

    A John Matherson Novel

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - A John Matherson Novel

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    From William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of the One Second After series, comes Five Years After, a near-future thriller where John Matherson must contend with new threats to the fragile civilization that he helped rebuild.Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Final Day

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The One Second After Series

    Unabridged

    12 hours 12 min

    The highly anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen’s New York Times bestsellers One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses listeners once more in the story of our nation’s struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror.After defeating the designs of the alleged federal ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy

    Everything Is Fire

    Narrated by David G. Roberts ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical issues behind the entire Millennium trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in common? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be ethical? Drawing on some of history's greatest philosophical minds, this book gives fresh insights into Larsson's ingeniously ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Sound and the Fury

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    A new collectible hardcover edition of Faulkner’s masterpiece, with thirteen brand-new illustrationsA classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    48 Hours

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world’s electrical infrastructure.In forty-eight hours, the earth will be hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun, a “Carrington Event” that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world’s ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Day of Wrath

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    This novella by New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen imagines a horrifying scenario where, in the course of one day, the terrorist group ISIS carries out massacres in schools and on highways across the United States. With a surprisingly small but well-organized and ruthless force, the nightmarish devastation brings America to a state of near paralysis.Bob Petersen arrives with ... Read more

    $19.17 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hobbit and Philosophy

    For When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way

    Series Book 10 - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic—just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyJ.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchanting "prequel" to The Lord of the Rings. With the help of some of history's great philosophers, this book ponders a host of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD