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  • The Architecture of Neoliberalism

    How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

    by Mr Douglas Spencer ...
    The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Form and Fetish

    Architecture, the Commodity, and the Ends of Capitalism

    by Mr Douglas Spencer ...
    For more than half a century, critical theory has seen architecture as an ideological tool of capitalism. Form and Fetish confronts this assumption – developing a new form of critique to fundamentally rethink the relationship between architecture and capitalism at a time of economic crisis and environmental breakdown.Douglas Spencer, author of the critically acclaimed The Architecture of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Back to Life, Back to Normality: Volume 2

    CBT Informed Recovery for Families with Relatives with Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses

    Edited by Douglas Turkington, Helen M. Spencer ...
    What do I do when my son or daughter appears to be hallucinating, paranoid or has stopped looking after themselves? Written for family members and friends of those who suffer from schizophrenia and other psychoses, Back to Life, Back to Normality 2 describes the typical symptoms and problems of those suffering from psychotic disorders and discusses how a relative can best listen, interact and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Futile Deceptions - Book 1 of Basil Ackroyd's France

    by Douglas Spencer Wallis ...
    This is a humerous saga of Basil Ackroyd, a refugee from a financial scandal in an English municipal council, becomes the mayor of a small town in the French Midi which is saturated with expatriates. He has been running the town as his own domain for many years when outside influences threaten to rob him of his ill-gotten gains. His total lack of sensibility to those around him and insatiable ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology

    Edited by Ian Douglas, Tom Spencer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Geology
    The tropics provide the key to understanding much biological and Earth science. This is particularly true for the study of landforms, which in higher latitudes suffer great seasonal contrasts in process intensity and type, and which often in the past underwent the dramatic changes of glaciation and periglaciation. Yet studies in the tropics have shown that the legacy of past climate changes is ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Memory Doctor

    by Douglas Mason, Spencer Smith ...
    Narrated by Erik Singer ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 9 min

    Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In!Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names—as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember why you picked up this audiobook doesn't mean you're losing your mind—or even your memory. It's more likely that stress ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

    by Laurence Davis, Tony Burns, Claire Curtis, Winter Elliot, Chris Ferns, Everett Hamner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avery Plaw, Andrew Reynolds0, Ellen Rigsby1, Jennifer Rodgers2, Dan Sabia3, Bülent Somay4, Douglas Spencer5, Simon Stow6, Mark Tunick7 ...
    The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Wild Girls

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series Book 6 - Outspoken Authors
    Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. In the half century since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender, race, socialism, and anarchism, all the while thrilling readers with trips to strange (and strangely familiar) new worlds. She is our exemplar of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Daughter of Odren

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series series The Books of Earthsea
    The Daughter of Odren is a short fantasy story of betrayal and revenge set in the world of Earthsea, in which Weed, the daughter of Lord Garnet, waits for the day she will have her father back.For fourteen years, Weed, as she is called, the daughter of Lord Garnet, has brought offerings to the standing stone. Alone in a shallow valley, she implores the stone not to forget her. To remember who he ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Birthday of the World

    And Other Stories

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    “Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and force of a Twain. . . . The Birthday of the World is prime new Le Guin. Like a tour of other countries, these splendid and necessary stories will send you back home with new eyes.” —Boston GlobeUrsula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ancillary Justice

    by Ann Leckie ...
    Series Book 1 - Imperial Radch
    Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke AwardsThis record-breaking novel following a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge is a must-read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.**"THRILLING, MOVING AND AWE-INSPIRING." —**GuardianOn a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren—a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook