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  • David Hockney

    The Biography, 1975-2012

    by christopher simon sykes ...
    In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Simon Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist.David Hockney is one of the most influential and best-loved artists of the twentieth century. His career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of the past five decades. Picking up Hockney's story in 1975, this book finds him flitting between Notting ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • David Hockney

    The Biography, 1937-1975

    by christopher simon sykes ...
    Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Crossroads to Israel

    by Christopher Sykes ...
    “Christopher Sykes has written the authoritative work on the Palestine Mandate... His account is almost unbearably fair to all concerned, even to Britain... a very excellent book. Mr. Sykes steers his way through the reigns of successive High Commissioners and through the maze of White Papers and Royal Commissions with amazing virtuosity. We see the whole picture of the Mandate in a way which was ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • Orde Wingate

    by Christopher Sykes ...
    Four months after Orde Wingate (1903-1944) died in a plane crash in Burma, Churchill told the House of Commons that he was “a man of genius who might well have become also a man of destiny.” An unconventional soldier — as a junior officer, he complained directly to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during an exercise about being refused entry to the Staff College —, Wingate first showed his ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • It Is What It Is

    The Feminist Man's Guide to Apathy

    by Christopher George Sykes ...
    Congratulations.Someone thought of you when they saw this book.Whether that's an honor or an intervention remains to be seen.Inside you'll discover the official training manual for the Certified Feminist Man, where everyday passivity is celebrated as a competitive sport. Learn how to master the art of saying, "Whatever you want," walk past an overflowing trash can with confidence, postpone every ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Adam's Curse

    A Future Without Men

    by Bryan Sykes ...
    Narrated by Christopher Kay ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    By the nationally best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, Adam's Curse investigates the ultimate evolutionary crisis: a man-free future. How is it possible that the Y chromosome, which separated the sexes and allowed humans to rise to the apex of the animal kingdom, also threatens to destroy sexual reproduction altogether? Bryan Sykes confronts recent advances in evolutionary theory to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Man Who Created the Middle East

    A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement

    by Christopher Simon Sykes ...
    Narrated by Mike Grady ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 44 min

    At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.The Sykes–Picot agreement was drawn by the eponymousBritish and French diplomats in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Organizational Change and Temporality

    Bending the Arrow of Time

    by Patrick Dawson, Christopher Sykes ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
    Organizational Change and Temporality: Bending the Arrow of Time looks to address the important area of time and temporality, especially as it relates to frameworks and studies for explaining change processes in organizations. It commences with a selective history on the science and philosophy of time before examining the place of time in work and employment, and the presence and absence of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • A Place Called Home

    Print, colour, pattern

    by Cath Kidston, Christopher Simon Sykes ...
    Cath Kidston – queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces – grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book.The name ‘Cath Kidston’ is associated worldwide with pattern, colour, dreamlike nostalgia, and comforting, cheerful spaces. In her new book, the founder of the eponymous brand invites us ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Israel

    A History

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    "The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published" (Efraim Karsh, The Sunday Telegraph).Fleeing persecution in Europe, thousands of Jewish immigrants settled in Palestine after World War II. Renowned historian Martin Gilbert crafts a riveting account of Israel's turbulent history, from the birth of the Zionist movement under Theodor Herzl to the unexpected declaration of its ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill

    Walking with Destiny

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historiansWinston Churchill towers over every other figu... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • A History of the Kitchen

    The Sutton Life Series

    by David J Eveleigh ...
    Series series The Sutton Life Series
    What were early kitchens like? How have they evolved over time? What factors have influenced their design? David Eveleigh takes you into the heart of the home and shows us why modern kitchens are the way they are. Everything you could wish to know about kitchens and their unusual history will be found with these pages. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus