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  • The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

    Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide

    by William E. Blundell ...
    Storytelling—how to catch and hold a reader’s interest through artful narration of factual materialWilliam E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America's best-written papers—The Wall Street Journal—has put his famous Journal Feature-Writing Seminars into this step-by-step guide for turning out great articles. Filled with expert instruction on a complex art, it provides beginners with a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Wind Shadow

    by William Blundell ...
    On a remote indian reservation near the Canadian border, an ancient tribal clan has guarded for time out of mind a secret that has become the most valuable thing in the world—an energy source of unimagined richness. In a near future when overdevelopment and population growth have driven an energy-starved planet back into a second Age of Coal, alarmed American researchers using a new supercomputer ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waging the War of Ideas

    by John Blundell ...
    Series series Occasional Paper
    This paper discusses how wars of ideas can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal think tanks. John Blundell begins his stimulating collection of published essays, reviews and introductions by showing how the founders of the IEA successfully fought the conventional planning wisdom of the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Watchdog That Didn't Bark

    The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

    by Dean Starkman ...
    Series series Columbia Journalism Review
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details " how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years" (Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation ).In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2024

    by Sarah Janssen ...
    Series series The World Almanac and Book of Facts
    #1 New York Times Bestseller! Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business, and so much more.The World Almanac® is America’s bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the ... Read more

    $18.84 CAD

  • Dirt

    A Social History as Seen Through the Uses and Abuses of Dirt

    by Terence McLaughlin ...
    Delve into the fascinating world of dirt in this history of culture, cleanliness, and our evolving perceptions of what is and isn't gross.In this engaging and often humorous study of life's imperfections, public health and hygiene authority Terence McLaughlin dissects our attitudes toward the filth that has accompanied society throughout human history. According to him, "dirt" is a matter of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Nazi Seizure of Power

    The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945

    by William Sheridan Allen ...
    "Tells us how Nazism happened, in microcosm, in a single German town that was neither typical nor exceptional in admitting and then yielding to tyranny." — The New York TimesIn this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tyranny of Words

    by Stuart Chase ...
    The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language.In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, The Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful analysis of the way we use words continues to resonate. A contemporary of the economist Thorstein Veblen ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inventing English

    A Portable History of the Language

    by Seth Lerer ...
    A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, "written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language" ( The Washington Post).Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition of his ... Read more

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  • Why We Make Things and Why It Matters

    The Education of a Craftsman

    by Peter Korn ...
    A furniture maker and author offers a mix of personal memoir and personal philosophy in a book perfect for craftspersons, artisans, and artists.Woodworking, handicrafts—the rewards of creative practice, bringing something new and meaningful into the world through one's own vision, make us fully alive. Peter Korn explains his search for meaning as an Ivy League-educated child of the middle class ... Read more

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  • Madness and Memory

    The Discovery of Prions—A New Biological Principle of Disease

    by Stanley B. Prusiner ...
    In this "utterly fascinating" science memoir, the Nobel Prize–winning author chronicles his revolutionary discovery of a major cause of brain diseases ( The New York Times).In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on devastating brain diseases. That he was the award's sole recipient was entirely appropriate. His struggle to identify the agent ... Read more

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