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    Principles of Psychology, Volume 1, The

    by William James ...
    Narrated by Hugo Avison ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    "The Principles of Psychology" by William James is a foundational text in the field, exploring the science of mental life. James delves into topics like consciousness, habit, memory, and emotions, blending empirical research with philosophical insight. He introduces key ideas such as the stream of consciousness and pragmatism, emphasizing the importance of understanding psychology through ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    Lines Off

    by Hugo Williams ...
    Narrated by Hugo Williams ...

    Unabridged

    52 min

    Catching a sudden look of defiance from his granddaughter inspires Hugo Williams to take up his pen and write this deeply moving new collection of poetry - the first since I Knew the Bride (2014), shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. He navigates assuredly from thoughtful reminiscences of childhood and accounts of the war, through various climes and sensitively drawn relationships, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Freelancing

    Adventures of a Poet

    by Hugo Williams ...
    In 1988 Hugo Williams began to pen his 'Freelance' column for the Times Literary Supplement: a window that allowed him to exhibit the full panoply of his gifts as travel writer, literary portraitist, working poet, and all-round chronicler of the curious existence of the contemporary writer.Freelancing is a collection of these TLS columns that finds Williams variously in Sarajevo, Central America, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Billy's Rain

    by Hugo Williams ...
    The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair, now ended. Its complications, obsessions, evasions, secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with all the subtlety and irony of which Hugo Williams, among contemporary poets, is the acknowledged master. These are brilliant, wry and moving elegies for a love affair. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Collected Poems

    by Hugo Williams ...
    In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams's Collected Poems brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait with a Slide (1990) and including Writing Home (1985), described by Mick Imlah in the Independent on Sunday as 'a classic of creative autobiography'. The edition is brought up to date with his most recent ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • 50 Eternal Masterpieces of Gothic Stories

    Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Robert Maturin, Mary Shelley, Golden Deer Classics, H.P. Lovecraft, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Horace Walpope, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, William Beckford, William Godwin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Malcom Rymer, Ann Radcliffe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë ...
    The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classic Collection of Autobiographies. Illustrated

    My Inventions, Highlights of His Life, The Story of My Experiments with Truth and others

    by Flavius Josephus, Caius Julius Caesar, Saint Augustine, Saint Ignatius, Earl of Chesterfield, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe, Victor Hugo, M. K. Gandhi ...
    Translated by William Whiston, Mahadev Desai ...
    Autobiographical works can take many forms, from the intimate writings made during life that were not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to a formal book-length autobiography.Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from your own — and these real-life stories are even more ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Municipal Solid Waste Energy Conversion in Developing Countries

    Technologies, Best Practices, Challenges and Policy

    Edited by Suani Teixeira Coelho, Alessandro Sanches Pereira, Shyamala K. Mani, Daniel Hugo Bouille, William H.L. Stafford, Marina Yesica Recalde, Atilio Armando Savino ...
    Municipal Solid Waste Energy Conversion in Emerging Countries: Technologies, Best Practices, Challenges and Policy presents contributions from authors from India, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa and China who come together to present the most reliable technologies for the energy conversion of municipal solid waste. The book addresses existing economic and policy ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • West End Final

    by Hugo Williams ...
    Hugo Williams's new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it.Childhood and school time offer up the amateur theatricals of themselves, in poems of vertiginous retrospect; other poems itemize the professional selves of the poet's ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • I Knew the Bride

    by Hugo Williams ...
    Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' ( The Times).I Knew the Bride is Williams' eleventh collection of poems, and his first since West End Final was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new volume bears ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • No Particular Place to Go

    by Hugo Williams ...
    'A hilarious book of bad times, bedtimes and benders. It is a kind of cool parody of On the Road.' New StatesmanNo Particular Place to Go (first published in 1981) relates Hugo Williams's journey across the USA on a three-month poetry-reading tour wherein he also hoped to discover some of the America he had imagined for so long on the strength of its all-consuming popular culture.' No Particular ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Horror Stories At Sea

    Scary stories, made scarier due to the setting…

    by Joseph Conrad, Guy De Maupassant, Victor Hugo, William Hope Hodgson, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Conan Doyle, F Marion Crawford ...
    Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Christopher Ragland ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    Being on a ship is usually very safe. The days of sinking after hitting an iceberg are almost unthinkable. A ship goes from one port to another, seemingly without a care in the world. Advanced technology has kept this means of transport as no more uncomfortable as maybe a bit of queasiness after going up and down in a storm. But worse? No, not really possible, is it?In this volume our authors beg ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus