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  • Digital Proxemics

    How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move

    by John A. McArthur ...
    Series Book 110 - Digital Formations
    The study of proxemics – the human use of space – is reimagined for the digital age in this book, a compelling examination of the future of the ways we move. Whereas much writing on the subject focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what the same technology might do to us.Combining dynamic stories, cutting-edge research, and deep reflection on the role of space in ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • For the World’s Profit

    How Business Can Support Sustainable Development

    Edited by Homi Kharas, Koji Makino, John W. McArthur, Ms. Jane Nelson ...
    This edited volume brings together a remarkable array of distinguished corporate, investor, government, academic, and nonprofit perspectives to consider how the targeted pursuit of business profits can better add up to the world's profit, broadly defined.Chapter authors tackle such questions as how businesses can work more effectively with governments, financial institutions, and civil society to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Leave No One Behind

    Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Homi Kharas, Izumi Ohno, John W. McArthur ...
    The ambitious 15-year agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015 by all members of the United Nations, contains a pledge that “no one will be left behind.” This book aims to translate that bold global commitment into an action-oriented mindset, focused on supporting specific people in specific places who are facing specific problems.In this volume, experts from Japan, the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Breakthrough

    The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development

    Edited by Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, Izumi Ohno ...
    Series series The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
    One overall takeaway is that gradualist approaches will not achieve those goals by 2030. Breakthroughs will be necessary in science, in the development of new products and services, and in institutional systems. Each of the experts responded with stories that reflect big ambitions for what the future may bring. Their stories are not projections or forecasts as to what will happen; they are ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Robot Sex

    Social and Ethical Implications

    Edited by John Danaher, Neil McArthur ...
    Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture's fascination with the topic, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall

    by Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown, Karen A. Franck, Jennifer Jones Barbour, Michael R. Kramer, Jennifer Keohane, Catherine L. Langford, John A. McArthur, Lawrence J. Prelli, Ernest Stromberg, Lisa Benton-Short, Casey R. Schmitt ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
    US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the United States and, in so doing, reveals ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Crash Course Lit: The Great Gatsby

    Slyly Annotated Classics for Book Nerds

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Crash Course, Elizabeth A. McArthur ...
    Series series Crash Course Lit
    An engagingly annotated edition of an American classic, with irreverent margin notes, historical context, informational sidebars, and more! Perfect for students, independent readers, and lifelong learners.Experience the Roaring Twenties like never before through lively annotations and accessible literary analysis. The lives of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby in West Egg and Daisy and Tom Buchanan in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Transatlantic Scots

    by Celeste Ray, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan, Paul Basu, Andrew Hook, Grant Jarvie, Colin McArthur, John W. Sheets, Michael Vance0, Jonathan Dembling1 ...
    Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritageDuring the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada.Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Crash Course Lit: The Great Gatsby

    Slyly Annotated Classics for Book Nerds

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Crash Course, Elizabeth A. McArthur ...
    Series series Crash Course Lit

    Unabridged

    5 hours

    An engagingly annotated edition of an American classic, with irreverent margin notes, historical context, informational sidebars, and more! Perfect for students, independent readers, and lifelong learners.Experience the Roaring Twenties like never before through lively annotations and accessible literary analysis. The lives of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby in West Egg and Daisy and Tom Buchanan in ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    PRE-ORDER

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The White Donkey: Terminal Lance

    by Maximilian Uriarte ...
    Narrated by Maximilian Uriarte, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Nick Jones, Maxwell Hamilton, Grace Lee, Adam McArthur, John Glouchevitch ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 52 min

    A Marine stationed in Iraq discovers the harrowing realities of war and its aftermath in this New York Times–bestselling graphic novel.A vivid and moving tribute to the experience of war and PTSD, The White Donkey tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. He enlists in hopes of finding that ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

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    2034

    A Novel of the Next World War

    by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, P.J. Ochlan, Vikas Adam, Dion Graham, Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 49 min

    From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    The Last Wish

    Introducing the Witcher

    by Andrzej Sapkowski ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Witcher

    Unabridged

    10 hours 17 min

    Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in this collection of adventures, the first chapter in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.★ The New York Times bestselling series★ Over Fifteen Million Copies Sold Worldwide★ World Fantasy Award Winning Author★... ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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