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  • Hamlet's BlackBerry

    A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

    by William Powers ...
    A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: "Where's the rest of my life?"At a time when we're all trying to make sense of our relentlessly connected lives, this revelatory book presents a bold new approach to the digital age. Part intellectual journey, part memoir, Hamlet's BlackBerry sets out to solve what William Powers ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Slow City

    Living Simply in the World's Fastest City

    by William Powers ...
    Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dispatches from the Sweet Life

    One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World

    by William Powers ...
    Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan micro-apartment in search of slow in the fastest ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goldie Vance Book Two

    by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams, Jackie Ball ...
    Illustrated by Noah Hayes, Elle Power, Ollie Roswell ...
    Series Book 2 - Goldie Vance Book
    Teen detective Goldie Vance is back on the case in this thrilling three-for-one whodunnit adventure for upper–middle grade readers!Where sixteen-year-old Goldie goes, mystery follows.Marigold “Goldie” Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad and dreams of one day becoming the hotel’s in-house detective. Armed with endless curiosity and unstoppable determination, she’s ready to prove she has ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • A Succession of Days

    by William Powers ...
    Half of the story is set in Good Samaritan House, a soup kitchen in Manhattan where Dom Gregory goes on a sabbatical to experience firsthand how the unexpected windfall the monks received might be used--this is a radical departure from his quiet monastic life of the past 20-plus years. After struggling with what to do with the inheritance, the abbot holds a meeting of the monks that fails to find ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yuwipi

    Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual

    by William K. Powers ...
    A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the vision quest and ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Sharpening the Legal Mind

    How to Think Like a Lawyer

    by William Powers ...
    The way lawyers think about the law can seem deeply mysterious. They see nuance and meaning in statutes and implications in judicial opinions that are opaque to the rest of us. Accessible and thought provoking, Sharpening the Legal Mind explains how lawyers analyze the cases and controversies that come before the courts.Written by William Powers Jr., the former president of the University of Texas ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Ripple

    An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter

    by William Powers ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner, Bianca Bryan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter is a narrative of letters written by an ecologist dad to his daughter upon her coming-of-age. Drawing upon his personal history, family anecdotes, and shared memories, Powers envisions a path for humanity's reintegration with nature, and a chance to save the life force that runs through all of us. A story of ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Protest, Power, and Change

    An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage

    Edited by Roger S. Powers, William B. Vogele ...
    Covers tactics, leaders, and famous actions From Solidarity's passive/aggressive faceoff with communism to the courageous sit-ins and marches of the Civil Rights Movement, here is the first systematic survey of peaceful confrontations between the forces for the status quo and the forces for change. All the important events, tactics, and leaders are covered: Women's suffrage, blockades, IRA hunger ... Read more

    $322.92 CAD

  • Black Psychedelic Revolution

    From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal from racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture

    by Nicholas Powers ...
    How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma—an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberationThe mainstream has long viewed psychedelic medicine as the purview of people with privilege: money to burn, time to trip, and the social safety to experiment. Though psychedelics have deep roots in Black and Indigenous cultures, Western psychedelic ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Oglala Religion

    by William K. Powers ...
    This study seeks to explain how one group of Native Americans, the Oglala Sioux, has preserved its social and cultural identity despite formidable attempts by the U.S. government to eliminate tribal societies. Treating continuity and change as two aspects of the same phenomenon, it focuses on the nature of the uniquely Oglala values that persist, their modes of cultural expression, and the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis

    Potential Therapeutic Implications

    Edited by Kenneth V. Honn, William E. Powers, Bonnie F. Sloane ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The past twenty years have witnessed significant advances in the treatment of cancer by surgery and radiation therapy. Gains with cytotoxic chemotherapy have been much more modest. Of the approximately 900,000 newly diagnosed cases of cancer each year, 50010 result in death of the patient. The primary cause of these deaths is metastasis. Although the term metastasis was first coined by Recamier in ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD