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  • The Unaccountability Machine

    Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind

    by Dan Davies ...
    Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Vampire Crusader

    by Dan Davis ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...
    Series series Immortal Knight Chronicles

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    The immortal knight, Sir Richard of Ashbury, hunts his nemesis through centuries of war . . .AD 1190, England. A young knight's family is slaughtered. As the lords of Europe seek to retake Jerusalem from the mighty Saladin, Sir Richard swears an oath of vengeance against Earl William de Ferrers, who has returned from the dead with an insatiable thirst for violence.Richard stalks William and his ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lying for Money

    How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World

    by Dan Davies ...
    An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Unaccountability Machine, The

    Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind

    by Dan Davies ...
    Narrated by Peter Dickson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • In Plain Sight

    The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile

    by Dan Davies ...
    A major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black PrizeDan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Godborn

    Gods of Bronze, Book 1

    by Dan Davis ...
    Narrated by Alex Wyndham ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Gods of Bronze

    Unabridged

    15 hours 36 min

    A savage demon clan. A godborn warrior. An oath to save his clan.It is 3000 BC. A hundred clans have been destroyed and thousands of people are dead. The Wolf God commands an inexperienced young warrior to hunt down the bloodthirsty demon horde. With a handful of his faithful spear-brothers and a heartbroken young seeress at his side, his quest will take him on a perilous journey through ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • STOP THE WORLD: Snapshots from a Pandemic

    an anthology: all profits go to charity

    by Lise McClendon, Kate Flora, Taffy Cannon, Gary Phillips, George Arion, Meredith Blevins, Jacqui Brown, Robin Burcell, Tim Cahill, Richard Cass, Sarah M. Chen, Matt Coyle, John Clark, Z.J. Czupor, J. Madison Davis, Eoghan Egan, Dan Fesperman, Tami Haaland, Naomi Hirahara, Wendy Hornsby, Jody Jaffe, Paul Jeffcutt, Allen Morris Jones, Tatjana Kruse, Craig Lancaster, Adriana Liciio, Sharan Newman, Mike Monson, Donna Moore, Jim Nisbet, John Rember, Travis Richardson, Merrilee Robson, Caitlin Rother, Wendy Salinger, John Shepphird, Keith Snyder, Gerald So, Marion Stanley, Piet Tiegeler ...
    HOW WILL YOU REMEMBER THE PANDEMIC?40 authors from around the world set out to record their innermost feelings-- to offer inspiring, heartfelt, creative takes on the Covid-19 pandemic. Crime fiction, elegant and angry poetry, and gut-wrenching personal essays: all paint a picture of the year and help us make sense of the sacrifices we've made in 2020.Thank you for your generous support: all ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bull Island Rock Festival

    The experience had by me and others at 1972's Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival

    by Dan Davis ...
    In 1972 the banks of the Wabash River in southeastern Illinois played host to one of the most disorganized music festivals in history. The Bull Island Rock Festival was officially called The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival and also went by Woodstock on the Wabash— and the 3 day event degenerated into chaos. By the end of the festival even the stage had been burned down. "The Bull Island Rock Festival ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hubbub in Outer Space

    by Dan Davies ...
    Six years after comet Lihtan swerves past planet Earth...."A delightfully offbeat tale of a dystopian world."—Kirkus Reviews ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ELEVATE

    Mindset Matters Athletics Mental Performance Playbook

    by Dan Davis, Chad Dennis ...
    As athletes, we constantly push ourselves to be our best. And that’s precisely what the Elevate Playbook is designed to help us do. Whether you’re looking to become a pro athlete or just want to improve your overall performance and mindset, this program will give you the tools and strategies you need to succeed both on and off the field. Through this program, we’ll explore various aspects of our ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • My Family, My Law, My Life and My Land

    by Dan Davis ...
    Growing up in a small town to me was an adventure. In Bluff, a small town in central Queensland, everyone knew everyone. I had plenty of friends to hang out with. My mates and I were always outside playing and never got home until dark, which I sometimes got a flogging for, but I had fun playing. The school had about five to six buildings in the seventies and eighties but big enough to keep us ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The Flight of Oscar

    by Dan Davis ...
    The Flight of Oscar is the story of a mouse who wears plaid shirts, which he makes himself, and has a fascination with flying. Well, he can’t fly but he really wants to. One day, after watching and studying the birds in flight (which he did a lot), he makes a plan that he hopes will get him up in the air. During his trials, he makes a new friend who understands his passion and may be able to help ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD