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  • Miss Manners: On Endless Texting

    by Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin ...
    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

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Florence Foster Jenkins

    The Inspiring True Story of the World's Worst Singer

    by Nicholas Martin, Jasper Rees ...
    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

    $17.59 CAD

  • Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan

    by Nicolas Martin ...
    Series series Exploring the Political in South Asia
    This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional patron–client ties have not empowered the lower classes. The monograph highlights the persistence of debt-bondage, and illustrates how electoral politics provides assertive landlord politicians with ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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

    Beyond Brussels

    Edited by Nicholas Ross Smith, Martin Holland ...
    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

    $89.31 CAD

  • Fighting the Fangs

    A Guide to Vampires and Werewolves

    by Nicholas Martin ...
    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

  • Anti-Piketty

    Capital for the 21st Century

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, Emmanuel Martin ...
    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

    $20.89 CAD

  • Mafia Raj

    The Rule of Bosses in South Asia

    by Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud, Clarinda Still ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    "Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

    World, Finitude, Solitude

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by William McNeill, Nicholas Walker ...
    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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wiseguy

    The 25th Anniversary Edition

    by Nicholas Pileggi ...
    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

    $19.50 CAD

  • Mafia Raj

    The Rule of Bosses in South Asia

    by Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild E Ruud, Clarinda Still ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    "The authors . . . illustrate the 'art of bossing'—techniques and methods used by such figures to climb to power and maintain their sovereignty." —A. Y. Lee, Choice"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Florence Foster Jenkins

    The biography that inspired the critically-acclaimed film

    by Nicholas Martin, Jasper Rees ...
    Narrated by Katherine E. Kellgren ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    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

    $32.99 CAD

  • Miss Manners' Guide to Contagious Etiquette

    by Judith Martin, Nicolas Martin, Jacobina Martin ...
    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

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus