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Einstein's Wife

The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

by Allen Esterson, David C. Cassidy, Ruth Lewin Sime ...

The real-life story behind Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—a fascinating profile of mathematician Mileva Einstein-Marić and her contributions to her husband’s scientific discoveries.Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Einstein-Marić, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

The real-life story behind Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—a fascinating profile of mathematician Mileva Einstein-Marić and her contributions to her husband’s scientific discoveries.Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Einstein-Marić, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some
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Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South

Edited by Cassidy Johnson, Adriana Allen, Liza Griffin ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to ... Read more

$204.99 CAD

This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to
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Game On

An Into Darkness Novel

by Navessa Allen ...

Narrated by James Cassidy, Tara Langella, Christopher Tester ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Into Darkness Series
Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

Book three in the #1 New York Times bestselling Into Darkness Series, following the dark rom-com sensations Lights Out and Caught Up. The game is on for these enemies-to-lovers with laugh-out-loud banter and scorching-hot brat play.I hate that woman.Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not because he wants to meet the man. No, he wants to destroy him. And he’ll manipulate who. ... Read more

$32.00 CAD

Book three in the #1 New York Times bestselling Into Darkness Series, following the dark rom-com sensations Lights Out and Caught Up. The game is on for these enemies-to-lovers with laugh-out-loud banter and scorching-hot brat play.I hate that woman.Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not because he wants to meet the man. No, he wants to destroy him. And he’ll manipulate who.
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Sally Rooney

Perspectives and Approaches

by Barry Devine, María Amor Barros-del Río, Jennifer A. Slivka, Deirdre Flynn, Mary M. McGlynn, Colleen English, Cassidy Allen, Matthew J. Fee0, Katarzyna Bartoszynska1, Molly Ferguson2, Rachael Sealy Lynch3, John C. Kerrigan4, Melania Terrazas5, Kristy DeStefano6 ...

Series series Contemporary Irish Writers
Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy, politics, and the millennial condition. This new collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to offer fresh critical ... Read more

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Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy, politics, and the millennial condition. This new collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to offer fresh critical
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Einstein's Wife

The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

by Allen Esterson, David C. Cassidy, Ruth Lewin Sime ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some of the tellers of the "Mileva Story" made startling claims: that she was a brilliant mathematician who surpassed her husband, and that she made uncredited contributions to his most ... Read more

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Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some of the tellers of the "Mileva Story" made startling claims: that she was a brilliant mathematician who surpassed her husband, and that she made uncredited contributions to his most
... Read more
On the Horseshoe

A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina

by Elizabeth Cassidy West, Katharine Thompson Allen ...

A complete guide to the historic campus, featuring archival photos along with a close look at the structures and the people who inhabited them.Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, the University of South Carolina is one of the nation's oldest public colleges. Located in the heart of downtown Columbia and bound by Sumter, Pendleton, Bull, and Greene Streets, this historic landscape, known ... Read more

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A complete guide to the historic campus, featuring archival photos along with a close look at the structures and the people who inhabited them.Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, the University of South Carolina is one of the nation's oldest public colleges. Located in the heart of downtown Columbia and bound by Sumter, Pendleton, Bull, and Greene Streets, this historic landscape, known
... Read more
Mindfulness in Texas Nature

by Meghan Cassidy, Michael Allen Smith ...

Series series Gideon Lincecum Nature and Environment Series
There are a few remaining wild places in Texas, notes author and nature educator Michael A. Smith, and exposure to these locales—from the high deserts and mountains of the Big Bend to the prairies and grasslands across the center of the state and the Piney Woods and Big Thicket of East Texas—can be restorative, both emotionally and physically. In this thoughtful tour of Texas ecoregions, Smith ... Read more

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There are a few remaining wild places in Texas, notes author and nature educator Michael A. Smith, and exposure to these locales—from the high deserts and mountains of the Big Bend to the prairies and grasslands across the center of the state and the Piney Woods and Big Thicket of East Texas—can be restorative, both emotionally and physically. In this thoughtful tour of Texas ecoregions, Smith
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Memories of a Lost Age

by Jaime Acosta Allen ...

Translated by Mariana Cassidy ...

'A long era of chaos, disease and death is approaching. The hairy men who have arrived in our world bear the seeds of many ills that will afflict our nations.'The prophetic words of the Supreme Shaman.At the turn of the 16th century, a young Tairona sets out on a long journey to the hallowed place called Rapa in the high mountains of the Andes, to become a Shaman and 'The Messenger of the Future.' ... Read more

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'A long era of chaos, disease and death is approaching. The hairy men who have arrived in our world bear the seeds of many ills that will afflict our nations.'The prophetic words of the Supreme Shaman.At the turn of the 16th century, a young Tairona sets out on a long journey to the hallowed place called Rapa in the high mountains of the Andes, to become a Shaman and 'The Messenger of the Future.'
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Harvest Season

by Brynne Weaver ...

Narrated by Brynne Weaver, Samantha Brentmoor, Robert Hatchet ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy
Unabridged

11 hours 24 min

**From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes the second book in the devilishly steamy Seasons of Carnage trilogy where dark romantic comedy meets thrilling suspense—and where love is ripe for ruin.It’s time to reap what you sow.**Cape Carnage is blooming with secrets, and they’re ready to harvest. But every time Nolan Rhodes digs one up, another grows in its place. Harper ... Read more

$33.00 CAD

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**From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes the second book in the devilishly steamy Seasons of Carnage trilogy where dark romantic comedy meets thrilling suspense—and where love is ripe for ruin.It’s time to reap what you sow.**Cape Carnage is blooming with secrets, and they’re ready to harvest. But every time Nolan Rhodes digs one up, another grows in its place. Harper
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Greed in the Gilded Age

The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

by William Elliott Hazelgrove ...

Narrated by Cindy Piller, Cindy Piller ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

Bloomsbury presents Greed in the Gilded Age by William Elliott Hazelgrove, read by Cindy Piller.Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration. Using these newspaper articles, ... Read more

$22.00 CAD

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Bloomsbury presents Greed in the Gilded Age by William Elliott Hazelgrove, read by Cindy Piller.Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration. Using these newspaper articles,
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The Scandalous Hamiltons

A Gilded Age Grifter, A Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

by Bill Shaffer ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

It's a story almost too tawdry to be true—a con woman prostitute who met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage using an infant purchased from a baby farm, then went to prison for stabbing the couple's baby nurse—all while in a common-law marriage with another man. The scandal surrounding Evangeline and Robert Ray Hamilton, though little known today, was one of ... Read more

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It's a story almost too tawdry to be true—a con woman prostitute who met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage using an infant purchased from a baby farm, then went to prison for stabbing the couple's baby nurse—all while in a common-law marriage with another man. The scandal surrounding Evangeline and Robert Ray Hamilton, though little known today, was one of
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A Peculiar Indifference

The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

by Elliott Currie ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a ... Read more

$30.99 CAD

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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a
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