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  • Audiobook

    75+ Horror Anthologies

    The Black Cat, The Raven, Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla, The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Willows and others

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Francis Marion Crawford, Robert W. Chambers ...
    Narrated by David J. Miles, Michael Goodrick, Peter Coates, Paul Gibson, Martina Mercer-Hall, David McCord, Kenneth Elliot, Alfred Costa ...

    Unabridged

    87 hours 49 min

    Contents:Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Gold BugThe Black CatThe Pit and the PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarHop-FrogThe RavenBram StokerDraculaMary Shelley</... ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Compact Capstone Course in Classical Calculus

    by Peter R. Mercer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook offers undergraduates a self-contained introduction to advanced topics not covered in a standard calculus sequence. The author’s enthusiastic and engaging style makes this material, which typically requires a substantial amount of study, accessible to students with minimal prerequisites. Readers will gain a broad knowledge of the area, with approaches based on those found in recent ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Empire Is the Tailor

    Ten Famous Garments and the Conquests That Cut Them

    by Nathan Mercer, Peter Hollins ...
    You got dressed this morning without knowing you were putting on an empire.The jeans gone soft at the knee. The watch on your wrist. The waterproof coat by the door, the ring on your finger, the heels at the back of the closet. Every one of them began as a weapon, a conquest, or a crime — and then quietly moved into your wardrobe.The Empire Is the Tailor tells the true story of ten everyday ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michelangelo vs. Leonardo

    The True Story of How the Renaissance's Greatest Grudge Match Happened Under One Roof

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Two titans. One room. A duel history tried to erase.Florence, 1504. The city commissions the two greatest artists alive to paint the facing walls of its grandest hall — at the same time, in full view of each other. Leonardo da Vinci: fifty-two, famous, untouchable. Michelangelo Buonarroti: twenty-nine, and hungry to dethrone him. They already despise each other. Now the Republic has handed them ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Calculus of a Single Variable

    by Peter R. Mercer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book goes beyond the basics of a first course in calculus to reveal the power and richness of the subject. Standard topics from calculus — such as the real numbers, differentiation and integration, mean value theorems, the exponential function — are reviewed and elucidated before digging into a deeper exploration of theory and applications, such as the AGM inequality, convexity, the art of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Renaissance

    The Rebirth of Civilization

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Europe did not simply emerge from the Middle Ages. It was reinvented.In the cities of Florence and Rome, artists, scholars, architects, merchants, and rulers began looking backward—to ancient Greece and Rome—to imagine something entirely new. Their ideas transformed painting, politics, science, literature, religion, and the very meaning of human potential.The Renaissance: The Rebirth of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Empire Is the Bartender

    Ten Famous Drinks and the Conquests That Poured Them

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Every bottle behind the bar is a relic of a conquest. Not one of them will tell you so.Around 1898, on the hot southeast coast of Cuba, an American mining engineer named Jennings Cox ran an iron works at a place called Daiquirí. He had cheap Cuban rum, limes that grew like weeds, sugar, and, on a good day, ice. He mixed them and named the drink after the town. In June 1898, about sixteen thousand ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Terrain of Empire

    How Geography Shaped the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    History is usually told as a story of kings and armies. Its real author was the land.Why did civilization rise on some rivers and never on others? Why did some peoples build empires while their neighbors—no less clever or brave—vanished from the record? For most of human history, the answer was not character or destiny. It was terrain: the mountains, coastlines, rivers, and soil that quietly ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cradle of Civilization

    How the World's First Cities Rose and Vanished

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Around six thousand years ago, communities between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers began building some of the world’s earliest cities. In Mesopotamia, systems of writing, law, government, trade, religion, and warfare developed in forms that would influence later civilizations.This book traces the rise and decline of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. It explores the growth of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let the Atom Be a Worker

    Chernobyl, and the Lie That Outlived the Fire

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    They were told the reactor could not explode. At 1:23 in the morning, it did just that.April 26, 1986. In a routine safety test pushed past every limit, the core of Reactor No. 4 tore itself apart and hurled a plume of radiation across a sleeping continent. The men in the control room did not believe their own instruments. The state would not admit what had happened. And as officials assured the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buddha

    The Middle Way and The Life and Philosophy of the Buddha

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    He was a prince who had everything. One night, he walked away from all of it.Twenty-five centuries ago, a young man slipped out of his palace, cut off his hair, and vanished into the dark to answer a single question: why do we suffer — and can it end? What he found would shape the inner lives of half a billion people, with no god, no holy book, and no promise of heaven.The Middle Way, Book Four of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spartacus War

    Rome and the Slave Revolt, 73-71 BCE

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    The Roman Republic had crushed every enemy it ever faced. It had never faced an enemy like this.In the gladiator schools of Capua, men were bought to bleed and die for the pleasure of the crowd. In 73 BC, seventy of them seized kitchen knives, broke for the gates, and vanished onto the slopes of Vesuvius. Led by a Thracian slave named Spartacus, they would become the deadliest uprising the ancient ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus