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  • Xoga and Kindness

    by Fara ...
    This is a heartwarming children's story about a brave little fox named Xhoga. Left alone in the wild after losing her mother, she travels to a new mountain. There, she meets a wise turtle who becomes like a mother to her. This beautiful encounter starts a new life filled with exciting adventures and valuable life lessons about love, resilience, and hope. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    What Is Free Speech?

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Fara Dabhoiwala ...
    Narrated by Matthew Spencer ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 3 min

    Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth–century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and create political unrest. Given the obvious dangers of outspokenness, regulating speech and print was universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government. Only in the early 1700s did this old way begin to break down. In a brief span of ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Origins of Sex

    A History of the First Sexual Revolution

    by Fara Dabhoiwala ...
    Nowadays we believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies. We publicise and celebrate sex; we discuss it endlessly; we are obsessed with the sex lives of celebrities. We think it wrong that in other cultures people suffer for their sexual orientation, that women are treated as second-class citizens, or that adulterers are put to death. Yet until quite ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Jurists and Legal Science in the History of Roman Law

    Edited by Fara Nasti, Aldo Schiavone ...
    Series series Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law
    This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani - dedicated to a new collection of the texts of Roman jurisprudence, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works.Jurists were great ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • What Is Free Speech?

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Fara Dabhoiwala ...
    “A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” —The GuardianA leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, with enormous consequences for our society today.Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth–century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and create ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Newton

    The Making of Genius

    by Patricia Fara ...
    Isaac Newton is now universally celebrated as a genius of science, renowned for his innovatory work on gravity and optics. Yet Newton did not always enjoy such legendary status. His posthumous reputation has constantly changed and is riddled with contradictions.NEWTON investigates the different ways in which Newton's life and works have been interpreted at different times. It charts his ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • A Lab of One's Own

    Science and Suffrage in the First World War

    by Patricia Fara ...
    2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook endeavours normally reserved for men. It tells fascinating and extraordinary stories featuring initiative, determination, and isolation, ... Read more

    $8.79 CAD

  • Life after Gravity

    Isaac Newton's London Career

    by Patricia Fara ...
    The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in ... Read more

    $19.69 CAD

  • Governance and Sustainable Development in South Asia

    Bridging the Gap

    Edited by Habib Zafarullah, Fara Azmat ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume analyzes South Asian public administration and its role in development through the lens of SDG 16. Chapters explore how SDG 16 has influenced the development of effective and accountable public institutions and the initiatives taken within this region to promote an inclusive society, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Advanced Solar Cell Materials, Technology, Modeling, and Simulation

    Edited by Laurentiu Fara, Masafumi Yamaguchi ...
    While measuring the effectiveness of solar cell materials may not always be practical once a device has been created, solar cell modeling may allow researchers to obtain prospective analyses of the internal processes of potential materials prior to their manufacture. Advanced Solar Cell Materials, Technology, Modeling, and Simulation discusses the development and use of modern solar cells made ... Read more

    $206.39 CAD

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  • Erasmus Darwin

    Sex, Science, and Serendipity

    by Patricia Fara ...
    Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems explaining his theories about sex and science. Yet he became a target for the political classes, the victim of a sustained and vitriolic ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Voting Power and Procedures

    Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover

    Edited by Rudolf Fara, Dennis Leech, Maurice Salles ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others are revisited. The book proposes new voting procedures and studies ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD