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  • Alpha Gods

    Revelation

    by Ian Sharman, J.J Alonso ...
    On the run from their former masters in the Department of Extra-Human Affairs, the Alpha Gods are forced to face the consequences of their actions as a series of revelations threatens to tear the team apart. Caught up in a scheme by the Nephilim to use a mysterious child, known only as the Merovingian Prince, to fulfil an ancient prophecy and finally free their fathers, the Grigori, from their ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ties That Bound

    Slavery and Power in Africa

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    How slavery and the slave trade provided African rulers with a path to political powerAcross history, slavery has been central to political power. By the nineteenth century, African rulers dominated the slave trade with the European and Islamic worlds. In Ties That Bound, J. C. Sharman shows how these rulers were empowered by slavery, converting profits from the market for humans into political ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management

    On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries—such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo, and more recently those overthrown in revolutions in the Arab world and Ukraine—loot billions of ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Money Laundry

    Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    A generation ago not a single country had laws to counter money laundering; now, more countries have standardized anti–money laundering (AML) policies than have armed forces. In The Money Laundry, J. C. Sharman investigates whether AML policy works, and why it has spread so rapidly to so many states with so little in common. Sharman asserts that there are few benefits to such policies but high ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Empires of the Weak

    The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 ... Read more

    Was $49.49 CAD Now $24.19 CAD

  • Alpha Gods

    Omnibus

    by Ian Sharman, Ezequiel Pineda/J.J. Alonso ...
    In the year 2086 humanity faces a new threat, Extra Humans. The government is struggling to cope with the growing number of mutants, aliens and supernatural beings who are living amongst us. They formed a new rapid response strike force, the Alpha Gods. Who better to police the Extra Human community than Extra Humans themselves? ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Remedy

    Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

    Edited by Zena Sharman ...
    Winner, Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Anthology)The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hero 9 to 5

    by Ian Sharman, David Gray ...
    What if being a super hero was just like any other job? What if you fell in love with your arch enemy? What if your sidekick had a crush on you? Meet Jacob Reilly, aka Flame-O. He didn’t want to be a hero, he wanted to be a rock star, but now he’s stuck working for Heroes for Zeroes, and his life is about to get, really, really complicated… ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scented Bath

    by Sharman Schubert ...
    We are wired in such a way that emotions like frustration, anger or nervousness can raise our heartbeat and alter our breathing patterns. So, a change in your outlook can affect your wellbeing. It has long been proven that when you like a particular scent, your heart instinctively beats at a slower, steadier pace. Your breathing calms much like in meditation. A soothing bath combined with certain ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hero 9 to 5

    Disposable Heroes

    by Ian Sharman, David Gray ...
    Returning once more to a world where being a superhero is just another nine to five job! When Frostica flies into a jealous rage after Flame-O and Pink Girl are caught kissing on live TV, the government gives in to pressure from religious fundamentalists to ban superhero agencies. All hell breaks loose as villains reign supreme across the UK. Nobody is safe in this mad rampage, not the Houses of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alpha Gods

    Betrayal

    by Ian Sharman, Ezequiel Pineda ...
    The Alpha Gods stage an assault on a secret laboratory to save a young girl from an evil organization’s clandestine schemes. Who is Nyssa? And what is her connection to the Alpha God’s leader, Paladin? They pursue the evil Lester Cravely to Mount Ararat where he has discovered a portal that will help him restore the Nephilim and their fathers, the Grigori, to this world. Can our heroes stop him ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alpha Gods

    Emergence

    by Ian Sharman, Ezequiel Pineda ...
    The Alpha Gods’ first mission sees them taking on an ancient evil, Malak. He is a Nephilim, an ancient race that was spawned when fallen angels mated with human women. He’s seeking a way to bring his “fathers” through to our world, and only the Alpha Gods stand in his way. ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus