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  • Making a Career in Dictatorship

    The Secret Logic behind Repression and Coups

    by Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf ...
    Who loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the authoritarian security apparatus to identify which officers participate in repression or coups--and above all, why. The book's compelling theory uncovers career pressure as the secret driver ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Quite funny poems

    Volume 4

    by Christian Adam ...
    Humor is... when it still crashes! "Pretty funny poems" - the title sums it up. With a wealth of witty - sometimes perhaps ludicrous - poems, the author skillfully makes his esteemed audience laugh, but also think. Much of it seems more than taken from life on second reading. Adam knows how to turn even small everyday events into something cheerful with just a few words and skillful rhyming. But ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Year of the Dragon & Everything After

    Lunar New Years, #4

    by Christian Adams ...
    Series Book 4 - Lunar New Years
    The final chapter in the Lunar New Years series—a candid, unforgettable farewell to the long road behind.Charlie Birch never planned to stay in Asia, but here he is—older, wiser, and maybe finally ready to stop running from himself. Year of the Dragon & Everything After brings the Lunar New Years saga to a close with a powerful story of fatherhood, identity, and the emotional wreckage of personal ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lazy Bastards Guide To Mandarin

    An Abridged Corpus of Axioms, Vocabulary and Their Purported Meanings

    by Christian Adams ...
    The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin: An Abridged Corpse of Axioms, Vocabulary, and Their Purported Meanings is an irreverent take on language in the modern age, based on the author's experience in Asia. Loosely satirizing the context and structure of a pocket-sized phrase book, the Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin describes a world where most expats are called “asspats,” and suggests the best way to ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • Years of the Ox & Tiger

    Lunar New Years, #2

    by Christian Adams ...
    Series Book 2 - Lunar New Years
    The continuing saga of Charlie Birch, an American expat and self-described "washout," reinventing himself in Asia. Picking up where Book 1 (Year of the Rat) left off, Charlie and his idiosyncratic Taiwanese Godfather resume their travels in China, Thailand, and the Philippines, while navigating the "sea of trouble" in Taiwan. Years of the Ox & Tiger is a gritty travel memoir inspired by Charlie's ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Year of the Rabbit

    Lunar New Years, #3

    by Christian Adams ...
    Series Book 3 - Lunar New Years
    Darkly funny, brutally honest, and deeply human, Year of the Rabbit is the third book in the Lunar New Years series—a memoir of recklessness, redemption, and what it means to stop searching and start living. For three years, Charlie Birch has been running amok in Asia, thriving on uncertainty, skimming the surface and plumbing the depths of life. Perhaps he has convinced himself that movement ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Year of the Rat

    Lunar New Years, #1

    by Christian Adams ...
    Series Book 1 - Lunar New Years
    In the tradition of countercultural storytelling, this gritty quasi-fictional travel memoir is a brutally honest dive into the expat underworld. Charlie Birch is a 40-year-old American washout fleeing a dead-end life in San Francisco for capricious explorations in Asia. Landing a strange job in Taiwan and mainland China, he quickly descends into the boozy, sex-and-drugs-fueled fringes of expat ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bestsellers of the Third Reich

    Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature

    by Christian Adam ...
    Despite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era’s most popular books were diverse and often surprising in retrospect, despite an oppressive ideological and cultural climate: Huxley’s Brave New World was ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap

    by Christian Adam, Steffen Hurka, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
    The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic government in three ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Book of Dash

    Build Dashboards with Python and Plotly

    by Christian Mayer, Adam Schroeder, Ann Marie Ward ...
    Create stunning interactive dashboard applications in Python with the Dash visualization and data analysis tool. Build interfaces that make sense of your data, and make it pretty.A swift and practical introduction to building interactive data visualization apps in Python, known as dashboards. You’ve seen dashboards before; think election result visualizations you can update in real time, or ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Politics of Judicial Review

    Supranational Administrative Acts and Judicialized Compliance Conflict in the EU

    by Christian Adam ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book unites scholarship on law and politics with compliance research in the EU to shed light on the political role of a neglected dimension of litigation in the EU: the political role of governmental actions for annulment. The book does not portray national governments as passive actors within the EU’s judicial arena. Instead it focuses on cases in which national governments turn to the Court ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • School's First Day of School

    by Adam Rex ...
    Illustrated by Christian Robinson ...
    "An essential purchase that is simultaneously funny, frank, and soothing. A perfect first day read-aloud."― School Library Journal, starred reviewA heartwarming and clever first day of school tale, from New York Times bestsellers Adam Rex (The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors) and Christian Robinson (Last Stop on Market Street).It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD