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    The Punitive Turn in American Life

    How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War

    by Michael S. Sherry ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 24 min

    In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of American Air Power

    The Creation of Armageddon

    by Michael S. Sherry ...
    The Bancroft Prize-winning history of American strategic bombing"Sherry has given us more than just a major contribution to the literature about air power and World War Two. His real subject is nothing less than the destructiveness of our modern age."—John W. Dower, author of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarThis book offers an in-depth history of American strategic bombing. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Gay Artists in Modern American Culture

    An Imagined Conspiracy

    by Michael S. Sherry ...
    Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly “American” on the stage and screen. Even though few gay artists were “out,” their sexuality caused significant anxiety ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Punitive Turn in American Life

    How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War

    by Michael S. Sherry ...
    In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that “the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime,” and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • How to Facilitate Meaningful Classroom Conversations across Disciplines, Grade Levels, and Digital Platforms

    by Michael B. Sherry ...
    How can teachers facilitate meaningful classroom conversations in which students engage in shared inquiry, building on what others have written or said (even to disagree)? Such discussions can have many benefits: students can learn from each other, can bring their out-of-school ways of talking into classroom dialog, can make evidence-based, collaborative arguments, and can begin to communicate ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Odds On

    by Michael Crichton writing as John Lange™ ...
    The very first novel by Michael Crichton, the legendary creator of Jurassic Park and ERSteven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every ... Read more

    $14.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Easy Go

    by Michael Crichton writing as John Lange™ ...
    From the creator of Jurassic Park and EREgyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh’s lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever ... Read more

    $14.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Apocalypse TV

    Essays on Society and Self at the End of the World

    Edited by Michael G. Cornelius, Sherry Ginn ...
    The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been "walking" for nearly a decade. There are now dozens of apocalyptic television shows and we use the "end times" to describe everything from domestic politics and international conflict, to the weather and our views of the future.This collection of new essays asks ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Easy Go

    by Michael Crichton writing as John Lange™ ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    From the creator of Jurassic Park and EREgyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh’s lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever ... Read more

    $32.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Grave Descend

    by Michael Crichton writing as John Lange™ ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours

    From the creator of Jurassic Park and ERLeagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it.For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long ... Read more

    $28.13 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • To Boldly Stay

    Essays on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Edited by Sherry Ginn, Michael G. Cornelius ...
    Despite the fact that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended over twenty-five years ago, there has yet to be a stand-alone assessment of the series. This collection corrects that omission, examining what made Deep Space Nine so unique within the Star Trek universe, and how that uniqueness paved the way for an altogether new, entirely different vision for Star Trek. If the Star Trek slogan has always ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Weird Fantastic Detective Stories

    by Russ Crossley, J. D. Brink, Blaze Ward, Michael Warren Lucas, Rebecca M. Senese, Sherry D. Ramsey, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Rita Schulz ...
    In the tradition of classic pulp crime fiction these talented writers are sharing their takes on strange and weird detectives in strange worlds:Paranormal detective, Amanda Dark, seeks answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner from the ghost of her dead uncle.Dean Wesley Smith asks the question, can a ghost and a superhero find true happiness and sex and stop a few killers along the way?When Helmie—a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD