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  • The Big Con

    The Story of the Confidence Man

    by David Maurer ...
    The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”“Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Whiz Mob

    A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern

    by David W. Maurer ...
    Whiz Mob is David W. Maurer's classic study of the world of pickpockets. Similar to his best-known work, The Big Con, in Whiz Mob Maurer explains the colorful expressions and vivid words used by pickpockets and uses them to provide a window into the life and experiences of the professional criminal. Although he is quick to point out that he never had any actual experience on the racket, Maurer ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Kentucky Moonshine

    by David W. Maurer ...
    A concise, lively history of how the Bluegrass State became famous for illicit distilleries, by the author of The Big Con.When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky.Once ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phantom of the Beach

    by David L. Maurer ...
    Phantom of the BeachBy: David L. MaurerEscaping from the world closing in around him, Randy drives away from his family in Boston up the coast of Maine in search of answers. A mysterious woman appears on the beach and compels him into a surreal world of sexual exploitation that he’s only read about in detective novels. How can he, an accountant from Boston, rescue this beautiful young woman? Why ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Kentucky Moonshine

    by David W. Maurer ...
    When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky. Here they used cold limestone spring water to make bourbon and found that corn produced even better yields of whiskey than rye. ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Functional Movement Disorder

    An Interdisciplinary Case-Based Approach

    Edited by Kathrin LaFaver, Carine W. Maurer, Timothy R. Nicholson, David L. Perez ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is a practical manual for clinical practitioners seeking to take an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and management of functional movement disorder (FMD). It discusses case vignettes, reviews the diagnostic approach, provides an update on available treatments, highlights clinical pearls and details references for further reading.Organized into three parts ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

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    A History

    by Lawrence Freedman ...
    In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Antifragile

    Things That Gain from Disorder

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Book 3 - Incerto
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Signal and the Noise

    Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

    by Nate Silver ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to make better predictions in a world drowning in data, from the nation’s foremost political forecaster—updated with insights into the pandemic, journalism today, and pollingOne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Works of Nonfiction of the Year“Could turn out to be one of the more ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Goblin Emperor

    by Katherine Addison ...
    Series series The Chronicles of Osreth
    A lush tale of deadly court intrigue and a modern classic of fantasy by Locus award winner and Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award finalist Katherine AddisonUnbound Worlds 100 Best Fantasy Novels of All TimeA Best Fantasy Novel of the Decade Pick for BookRiot"Striking."—The New York TimesThe youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, dist... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • David and Goliath

    Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

    by Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

    Stories

    by Stephen King ...
    Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineThe masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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