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  • Audiobook

    The Iliad & The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Michael Powers, Anna Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 12 min

    The Iliad (Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς Iliás; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the End of History

    American Fiction in the 1990s

    by Samuel Cohen ...
    In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Banning Books in America

    Not a How-to

    Edited by Samuel Cohen ...
    This is a book about banned books in the U.S. - about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books in America features novelists on banning and being banned, arguments about the histories and politics of book banning, readings of banned books in national and international contexts, and responses to new legislation by anti-censorship ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Stochastic Processes, Finance And Control: A Festschrift In Honor Of Robert J Elliott

    Series Book 1 - Advances In Statistics, Probability And Actuarial Science
    This book consists of a series of new, peer-reviewed papers in stochastic processes, analysis, filtering and control, with particular emphasis on mathematical finance, actuarial science and engineering. Paper contributors include colleagues, collaborators and former students of Robert Elliott, many of whom are world-leading experts and have made fundamental and significant contributions to these ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Future Perfect

    The Case For Progress In A Networked Age

    Narrated by Samuel Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest movements to health care. Johnson paints a compelling ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Work of Teachers in America

    A Social History Through Stories

    This volume presents a complex portrait of the American teacher through a fascinating range of "story" narratives, including fictional short stories, poetry, diaries, letters, ethnographies, and autobiographies. Through these stories, the volume traces the evolution of the teacher and the profession over the course of two centuries -- from the late 1700s to the late 1900s. In depicting the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Clash Takes on the World

    Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters

    On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be “bored with the USA,” but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as “Hate and War” were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin's reggae hit “Police and Thieves” showed that the band's musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of David Foster Wallace

    Series series New American Canon
    Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Frontiers in Stochastic Analysis–BSDEs, SPDEs and their Applications

    Edinburgh, July 2017 Selected, Revised and Extended Contributions

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This collection of selected, revised and extended contributions resulted from a Workshop on BSDEs, SPDEs and their Applications that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2017 and included the 8th World Symposium on BSDEs.The volume addresses recent advances involving backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). These equations are of ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Forces of Nature

    Narrated by Samuel West ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 15 min

    Sunday Times BestsellerA breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.How did life on Earth begin?What is the nature of space and time?What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds?Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Human Universe

    Narrated by Samuel West ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary ... ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Planets

    Narrated by Samuel West ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 43 min

    ‘So staggering you go “whoa!” every few seconds’ Guardian‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This MorningA companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before.Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD