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  • Capital of Mind

    The Idea of a Modern American University

    by Adam R. Nelson ...
    The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas, Adam R. Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explaining how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Huckleberry Jim

    by Adam Nelson ...
    A darkly funny road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down Huckleberry Finn through a hostile America - publishing during Banned Books Week, in the year of America's Semiquincentennial, and the 150th anniversary of Tom Sawyer. Inspired by real events.Axel Emerson isn't chasing a dream - he's running from a body. After the sudden death of his estranged father, and the detective's calls that ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Exchange of Ideas

    The Economy of Higher Education in Early America

    by Adam R. Nelson ...
    The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became salable goods and American colleges were drawn into transatlantic ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Citizen Keane

    The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes

    by Cletus Nelson, Adam Parfrey ...
    Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane-the credited artist of the weepy waifs, for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992-he discovered some shocking facts. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the reality that Keane was more of a con man than an artist ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward

    Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good

    by Adam R. Nelson ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Honorable Mention: Robert L. Hampel Outstanding Book AwardDartmouth College v. Woodward examines the landmark case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1819 after New Hampshire’s state legislature attempted to amend Dartmouth’s charter to place the college under greater public control. Adam R. Nelson interprets the case not only as one about higher-education governance or American ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Gospels and the Roman Empire

    Edited by Jillian D. Nelson, Adam Winn ...
    This edited collection explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical Gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world.Within this volume, scholars from a variety of interdisciplinary contexts come together, examining a particular aspect of the New Testament's complex relationship with the Roman Empire. By incorporating literary studies, gender criticism, Jewish studies, and disability ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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    Huckleberry Jim

    A Novel

    by Adam Nelson ...
    Narrated by Adam Nelson, Leon Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    A Publishers Weekly Editor’s PickA darkly funny 1991 road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down Huckleberry Finn through a hostile America—perfect for listeners of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Percival Everett’s James.Axel Emerson isn’t chasing a dream—he’s running from a body. After the sudden death of his estranged father, and the detective’s calls that follow, a washed-up casting ... Read more

    $31.54 CAD

  • The Swann Way

    by Marcel Proust, Brian Nelson, Adam Watt ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, ... Read more

    $12.39 CAD

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    Secrets of Syrtisia

    by Adam Nelson ...
    Narrated by Peyton Clarkson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    A stroll on the beach became the adventure of a lifetime when Dylan and his dad were unexpectedly transported to a mysterious world filled with exploding bomb fires, carnivorous vegetation, and deadly cave creatures. To find a way home, they must work together to survive the dangerous journey across this unfamiliar land. Along the way, Dylan will make some incredible new friends, show his father ... Read more

    $10.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confident Data Science

    Discover the Essential Skills of Data Science

    by Adam Ross Nelson ...
    Series series Confident Series
    The global data market is estimated to be worth $64 billion dollars, making it a more valuable resource than oil. But data is useless without the analysis, interpretation and innovations of data scientists.With Confident Data Science*,* learn the essential skills and build your confidence in this sector through key insights and practical tools for success. In this book, you will discover all of ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Chemical and Biological Synthesis

    Enabling Approaches for Understanding Biology

    Edited by Nick J Westwood, Adam Nelson ...
    Series Book 10 - Chemical Biology
    Synthetic chemistry plays a central role in many areas of chemical biology; utilising recent case studies, the goal of Chemical and Biological Synthesis is to highlight the full impact that the preparation of novel reagents can have in chemical biology. Covering the synthetic approaches that can be applied across the whole field of chemical biology, this book provides synthetic chemists with the ... Read more

    $255.99 CAD

  • Seeing Clearly

    A View from Heaven

    by Rick Mapson ...
    "What happens when you die?"The words burst out of young Matthew's mouth louder than he intended. This is the start of Matthew Peterson's journey. Like all of us he wanted to know the unknowable.His dad sets him straight. You're nine years old now and should know the truth. When you die it, all ends, ashes to ashes dust to dust. "Heaven is for kids and women who can't live with the truth, or ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD