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  • The Written World

    The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization

    by Martin Puchner ...
    The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world historyIn this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Culture

    The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

    by Martin Puchner ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice"A mighty, polymathic work, equally at home in all four corners of the globe.…It is a gift to be savored." —Chris Vognar, Boston GlobeIn Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Language of Thieves

    My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival becomes "a deeply personal project, one that probes the meaning of language and family, inheritance and debt" (Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times Book Review).Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know). This ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stage Fright

    Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead. ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Literature for a Changing Planet

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Series series The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture
    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Drama of Ideas

    Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas. Challenging both views, The Drama of Ideas shows that theater and philosophy have been crucially intertwined from the start. Plato is the presiding genius of this alternative history. The Drama of Ideas ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    Culture

    The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Written World

    The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 3 min

    The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world historyIn this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Language of Thieves

    My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Narrated by Qarie Marshall ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were wiz (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight?whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Pure America

    Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

    by Elizabeth Catte ...
    Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Virginia's twentieth-century eugenics program was not the misguided initiative of well-meaning men of the day, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    No Democracy Lasts Forever

    How the Constitution Threatens the United States

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.Deeply troubled by the Constitution's inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Why Dinosaurs Matter

    by Kenneth Lacovara ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Lacovara ...
    Series Audiobook 17 - TED Books

    Unabridged

    4 hours 24 min

    What can extinct dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our geological awakening, of humanity’s epic struggle to understand the nature of deep time, the meaning of fossils, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook