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  • Wreckers

    Disaster in the Age of Discovery

    by Simon Park ...
    Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could be a model for how academics should write history for a general audience' The Times‘A flowing, gripping narrative, Wreckers is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal

    From Paper to Gold

    by Simon Park ...
    Series series Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
    Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's annexation by Spain in 1580, and ongoing religious controversy, poets struggled to articulate their worth to rulers and patrons. This did not prevent them, however, from persisting in their craft. Indeed, many of their works reflected precisely on the question of ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • A Psychiatrist, Screams: An Abbot Peter Mystery

    by Simon Parke ...
    ‘Although seven clowns started the evening alive, only six still breathed by the evening’s end. And while everyone saw the murderer and knew the murderer, no one knew their name.’Henry House, an Elizabethan manor, is now occupied by Mind Gains, a new therapy centre in Stormhaven. But a Halloween party for staff and clients ends in gruesome and bloody murder. Once again, retired monk Abbot Peter ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Molecular Genetics of Bacteria

    by Jeremy W. Dale, Simon F. Park ...
    The fifth edition of this highly successful book provides students with an essential introduction to the molecular genetics of bacteria covering the basic concepts and the latest developments. It is comprehensive, easy to use and well structured with clear two-colour diagrams throughout.Specific changes to the new edition include:More detail on sigma factors, anti-sigma factors and anti-anti sigma ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Leo Tolstoy

    by Simon Parke, Leo Tolstoy ...
    When most think of Tolstoy they think of the great author. War and Peace and Anna Karenina brought him worldwide fame and a good deal of money. Had he done nothing else in life these two novels would have ensured him status and respect. Few others had written both a national epic and a great love story; and some might have been content with that. For his last thirty years however Tolstoy walked a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Wreckers

    Disaster in the Age of Discovery

    by Simon Park ...
    Narrated by Esh Alladi ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Wreckers** sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.While figures such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are celebrated for their maritime achievements – reaching the Americas, India, and circumnavigating the globe – focusing ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A Cosmopolitan Modernist

    Edited by Fernando Beleza, Simon Park ...
    Series Book 6 - Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
    Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess Sá-Carneiro’s contribution to Portuguese and European Modernism(s). In the book, established ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Solitude

    by Simon Parke ...
    What does solitude mean to you? Albert Einstein once said: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.In his latest book Simon Parke, author of The Beautiful Life and One-Minute Mindfulness describes solitude as the active path to inner silence and takes us on an enthralling journey there. In a world of haste and ... ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Advances in Computer Science and Ubiquitous Computing

    CSA-CUTE 2019

    Edited by James J. Park, Simon James Fong, Yi Pan, Yunsick Sung ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book presents the combined proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA 2019) and the 14th KIPS International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2019), both held in Macau, China, December 18–20, 2019.The aim of these two meetings was to promote discussion and interaction among academics, researchers and ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Live At the Brixton Academy

    A riotous life in the music business

    by JS Rafaeli, Simon Parkes ...
    In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid £1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain's most iconic music venue. And now he's telling his story: full of fond - and wild - reminiscences of the famous musicians who played at the venue, including Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Lou Reed, The Ramones, New Order, the Beastie Boys and The ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Journey Home

    Ten New Commandments for Discovering Your True Self

    by Simon Parke ...
    This book offers ten new commandments for coping with the stresses, strains and pressures of modern life. These ten new commandments are ten skilful attitudes for the attainment of your true self.Be presentObserve yourselfBe nothingFlee attachmentTranscend sufferingDrop your illusionsPrepare for truthCease separationKnow your soulFear nothingThis handbook will set you on t... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • One-Minute Mindfulness

    How to Live in the Moment

    by Simon Parke ...
    Sometimes we can lose touch with ourselves so much that we don't even know we have done so, until suddenly we realize with a start that we have just been going through the motions, without really experiencing our lives. The simple fact is that in today's world, we spend so much time looking forward, rushing on to the next thing, or looking backwards, stressing and worrying about our perceived ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD