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  • The Gods of Vainglory

    by Robert Damien ...
    This story takes place in the chaotic, inhospitable confines of United States Marine Corps boot camp, where civilian boys are morphed into lean, mean fighting machines, willing to give a limb to go to war. For Mark Damion Wool, who hails from an upper-middle-class California suburb and fancies himself special and exceptional, it proves unpredictably shocking, even terrifying. Mark and his ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Paradise of Exiles

    by Robert Damien ...
    In this compelling, enlightening journey of self-discovery, the author introduces us to the unrivaled artistic, cultural, historical, and culinary riches of Italy. Along the way, he samples Venetian tapas, Renaissance and Baroque treasures, ancient history, and sweet romance. He delves into the country's very soul, intent on gleaning as much pleasure and knowledge as is humanly possible from his ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Play

    An Anthropological Study

    by Roberte Hamayon ...
    Translated by Damien Simon ...
    Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s many ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Carole Hillenbrand's The Crusades

    Islamic Perspectives

    by Robert Houghton, Damien Peters ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that the crusaders attacked was used only sparingly – in part because it was hard for most westerners to read, and in part because much of it was inaccessible even for historians who did speak Arabic.Carole Hillenbrand set out to re-evaluate ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Programming Using Function Approximators

    by Lucian Busoniu, Robert Babuska, Bart De Schutter, Damien Ernst ...
    Series series Automation and Control Engineering
    From household appliances to applications in robotics, engineered systems involving complex dynamics can only be as effective as the algorithms that control them. While Dynamic Programming (DP) has provided researchers with a way to optimally solve decision and control problems involving complex dynamic systems, its practical value was limited by algorithms that lacked the capacity to scale up to ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Medieval Sensibilities

    A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages

    by Damien Boquet, Piroska Nagy ...
    Translated by Robert Shaw ...
    What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society.In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve into a rich variety of texts and images to reveal ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Songs of a Sourdough (UNABRIDGED)

    by Robert W. SERVICE ...
    Narrated by Damien Hassan ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 27 min

    Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon ballads, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGhee'. Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, and grew up in Scotland. In his twenties, he made his way to Canada and settled in the Yukon where he worked as a bank clerk but evidently ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • From Scratch

    A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

    by Tembi Locke ...
    Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldaña!This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is “a captivating story of love lost and found” (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hours.It was love at first sight when actress Tembi met professional chef, Saro, ... Read more

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  • Under the Tuscan Sun

    20th-Anniversary Edition

    by Frances Mayes ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword“This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved ... Read more

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  • A World Without Islam

    by Graham E. Fuller ...
    "[A] must-read by one of the most thought-provoking writers on Islam and the Middle East." —#1 New York Times –Bestselling Author Reza AslanWhat if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. But what if that weren't the case at all?In A World Without Islam, Graham E. Fuller, a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence ... Read more

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    The Sweet Life in Italy

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