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  • Inventing Chemistry

    Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

    Series series Synthesis
    The story of this little-known Dutch physician "will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science" ( Choice).In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

    Narrated by John Skelley ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments ofinnocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The youngnarrator becomes ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Progressive Calisthenics: The 20-Minute Dream Body with Bodyweight Exercises and Calisthenics

    by John Powers ...
    Narrated by Sherry Granader ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 36 min

    Do you dream of having a lean, mean, muscular body? Obliterate the old you and create the powerful, toned body you always wanted.Are you worried that you don't have enough time to lose weight? Are you sick of the pounds stacking on and covering up your muscles? John Powers is one of the country's foremost experts in personal training. With years of experience in grueling military workouts, high ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

    by John Powers ...
    Lucid and economical, this introductory text delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey of Tibetan Buddhism. For many years Powers's nearly 600-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive overview of Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Content

    Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a "political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," Cory Doctorow is the web's most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Conten**t is the first collection of Doctorow's infamous articles, essays, and polemics.Here's why Microsoft should stop treating its customers as criminals (through relentless digital ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Liar Liar

    Series Audiobook 4.1 - The Joe Ledger Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    Liar ['l─½-╔Ör] (n): 1. A person who tells lies. 2. A writer."Lying is essential to good storytelling. Daily, we writers sit at our computers—or legal tablets or Underwoods—and write down a bunch of untruths, piling one on top of the other, page after paltering page. We compound them, massage them, edit them, spin them, cut-and-paste them, until we're satisfied that, despite how outlandish or ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dental Materials-E-Book

    Properties and Manipulation

    Focusing on the dental materials most commonly used, Dental Materials: Properties and Manipulation, 10th Edition covers the tasks that dental assistants and dental hygienists typically perform. It shows the most current materials, how to mix and apply them in a clinical setting, and how to educate patients about them. Now in full color, this edition adds more photographs of materials actually ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Dental Materials - E-Book

    Foundations and Applications

    **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Dental Hygiene & Auxiliaries**Get an in-depth understanding of the dental materials and tasks that dental professionals encounter every day with Dental Materials: Foundations and Applications, 11th Edition. Trusted for nearly 40 years, Powers and Wataha's text walks readers through the nature, categories, and uses of clinical and laboratory dental ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Buddhist World

    Edited by John Powers ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Buddhist World joins a series of books on the world’s great religions and cultures, offering a lively and up-to-date survey of Buddhist studies for students and scholars alike. It explores regional varieties of Buddhism and core topics including buddha-nature, ritual, and pilgrimage. In addition to historical and geo-political views of Buddhism, the volume features thematic chapters on ... Read more

    Was $76.99 USD Now $68.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The City of Dreaming Books

    by Walter Moers ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Zamonia Series

    Unabridged

    19 hours 10 min

    Following The 13┬¢ Lives of Captain Bluebear and Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures comes a third hilarious and beloved Zamonia book, the most popular yet. It is a fantastic tale for every book lover.Optimus Yarnspinner inherits from his godfather an unpublished manuscript by an unknown writer and sets off to track down the mysterious author, who disappeared into Bookholm—the so-called City of ... Read more

    $31.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ARMY

    From Citizen to Soldier to Hippie to Patriot

    by John Powers ...
    January 1968-John Powers opens a letter no young man wants to see: "Greetings from the United States Army." Overnight, he's ripped from civilian life and thrown into the chaos of basic training, the scorching deserts of Texas, and eventually, the sweltering warzone of Vietnam.From dodging rattlesnakes at Fort Bliss to gripping an M60 as a helicopter door gunner over enemy territory, Powers ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Last Catholic In America

    It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD