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  • Wiseguy

    The 25th Anniversary Edition

    Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for ... Read more

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  • Nazi Villains in Horror Movies

    The real-life horrors committed by the Nazis during the 1930s and early 1940s are well known. The cinema has reacted to this grim period in realistic films like Schindler's List and The Zone of Interest. There is also an alternative cinema in which their activities are fantasized in sensational tales of terror. The horror film has given us Nazi zombies, Nazi vampires, Nazi werewolves, Nazi mad ... Read more

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  • Miss Manners: On Endless Texting

    Series series Miss Manners
    Miss Manners proclaims a text message to be an electronic equivalent of a Post-it note and about as "serious in nature as the hastily written note passed in class." Gone are the days when conversing with people meant being in the same room as them, and with those days went established etiquette of communication. Can one apologize with a text message? Offer condolences? Propose marriage? Use text ... Read more

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  • The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

    World, Finitude, Solitude

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    The renowned academic expounds on how Western philosophy went wrong in these translated lectures from 1929 and 1930."An important addition to the translations of Heidegger's lecture-courses." — International Philosophical QuarterlyFirst published in German in 1938 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics includes an extended treatment of the history ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regional Perspectives on the EU's Indo-Pacific Strategy

    Beyond Brussels

    Series series Rethinking Asia and International Relations
    This edited volume examines how elite policymakers in key Indo-Pacific locations - Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand - view the European Union’s (EU's) strategy in the region.Centred on gauging the opinions of key people involved in the foreign policy making process in each location, the expert international contributors find that while the EU has ... Read more

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  • Anti-Piketty

    Capital for the 21st Century

    Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success and provides a new theory about wealth and inequality. However, there have been major criticisms of his work. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects key criticisms from 20 specialists—economists, historians, and tax experts—who provide rigorous arguments against Piketty's work while examining the ... Read more

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  • Just War

    Authority, Tradition, and Practice

    The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice brings together many of the most important contemporary writers on ... Read more

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  • Miss Manners Minds Your Business

    A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world.What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn with etiquette landmines. And now that the boundaries that once cleanly separated work from personal life ... Read more

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  • Florence Foster Jenkins

    The Inspiring True Story of the World's Worst Singer

    This is the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins—now the basis of a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep!She was a woman with a dream. Nobody believed in her talent. But nothing could stop her. . .She had no pitch, no rhythm, and no tone. Still, Florence Foster Jenkins (Streep) became one of America's best-known sopranos. Born in 1868, Florence was a talented ... Read more

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  • Fighting the Fangs

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    Series series The Making of a Monster: Vampires & Were
    Do you need a field guide to vampires and shape-shifters? Do you really think zombies are just badly dressed vampires? Can you identify a potential werewolf before the moon starts to rise? Is she a vampire or just a girl with an "Emo"-thing? And even more important, do you know how to fight them off if you happen to cross paths with a hungry being of the furry kind or a walking corpse with blood ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Miss Manners' Guide to Contagious Etiquette

    Series series Miss Manners
    From how to connect when we're physically distant to the most effective way to advocate for better public health practices in your community (hint: it is not by yelling at jogging neighbors), Miss Manners guides readers through the unprecedented circumstances of the current global pandemic with humanity and wit. ... Read more

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  • Gastroenterology and Hepatology

    A Clinical Handbook

    The book will aim to provide a simple, practical management approaches rather than detailed disease information. It will have a problem-based focus concentrating on providing management solutions in emergency situations where clinicians have limited time. There will also be detailed chapters on preparing patients for procedures, such as endoscopy and biopsy. - Accessible practical pocketbook ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD