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  • Martyr! (National Book Award Finalist)

    A novel

    by Kaveh Akbar ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ATIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Calling a Wolf a Wolf

    by Kaveh Akbar ...
    "The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny HoweThis highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature-based Solutions and Circularity Perspectives in the Built Environment

    Multidisciplinary Approaches

    The main purpose of this book is to examine the applications of nature-based solutions (NBS) and circularity in the built environment from a multidisciplinary perspective, but with a focus on energy, civil, and environmental engineering. The book is therefore divided into three sections, energy management, hydrology and water management, and applications of sustainable natural resources in soil ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Armies of Ancient Persia

    The Sassanians

    by Kaveh Farrokh ...
    Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of Western powers. It was the most formidable rival to the Roman empire for centuries, until Persia, by then under the Sassanians, was overwhelmed by the Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD. Yet, the armies of ancient Persia have received relatively little detailed attention, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

    110 Poets on the Divine

    Edited by Kaveh Akbar ...
    'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Pilgrim Bell

    Poems

    by Kaveh Akbar ...
    Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a WolfWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Calling a Wolf a Wolf

    by Kaveh Akbar ...
    A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONI could not be held responsiblefor desirehe could not be held at allTracking the joys and pains of the path through addiction, and wrestling with desire, inheritance and faith, Calling a Wolf a Wolf is the darkly sumptuous debut from award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar. These are powerful, intimate poems of thirst: for alcohol, for other bodies, for knowledge and for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Polygeneration with Polystorage

    For Chemical and Energy Hubs

    Edited by Kaveh Khalilpour ...
    Polygeneration with Polystorage: For Energy and Chemicals addresses the problem of both traditional and dispersed generation with a broad, multidisciplinary perspective. As the first book to thoroughly focus on the topic of polygeneration, users will find the problem presented from different scientific and technical domains down to both macro and micro levels. Detailed analyses and state-of-the ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Capitalisms

    Towards a Global History

    Edited by Kaveh Yazdani, Dilip M. Menon ...
    Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Handbook of Research for Fluid and Solid Mechanics

    Theory, Simulation, and Experiment

    This valuable volume provides a broad understanding of the main computational techniques used for processing reclamation of fluid and solid mechanics. The aim of these computational techniques is to reduce and eliminate the risks of mechanical systems failure in hydraulic machines. Using many computational methods for mechanical engineering problems, the book presents not only a platform for ... Read more

    $240.48 CAD

  • The Book of China

    A Persian Merchant’s Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court

    In the early sixteenth century, a Muslim merchant from Central Eurasia named ʿAli Akbar Khatayi traveled to China and stayed for six years, observing government agents and soldiers, interacting with ordinary people, and even obtaining inside knowledge of the Ming court. He then traveled thousands of miles west to Istanbul, where he presented a description of the Chinese state to the Ottoman ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Water Diplomacy in Action

    Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems

    Edited by Shafiqul Islam, Kaveh Madani ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    Complex water problems cannot be resolved by numbers or narratives. Contingent and negotiated approaches are necessary for actionable outcome. In the face of a constantly changing array of interconnected water issues that cross multiple boundaries, the challenge is how to translate solutions that emerge from science and technology into the context of real-world policy and politics. Water Diplomacy ... Read more

    $40.59 CAD