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  • Discovering the Human Person

    In Conversation with John Paul II

    by Stanislaw Grygiel ...
    Translated by Michelle K. Borras ...
    A longtime friend and student of the late Pope John Paul II, Stanislaw Grygiel in this book reflects on the life and thought of this extraordinary pope, giving new insight into his character and his vision of beauty as the path that leads us to God.More than simply biographical information about John Paul II -- who was Bishop Karol Wojtyla before he became pope -- or a dry academic analysis of his ... Read more

    $38.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Trains & Ghosts on Trains; Expanded Second Edition

    by Robert K. Lesniakiewicz, Stanislaw Bednarz, Milos Jesensky ...
    Ghost Trains & Gosts on TrainsExpanded Second EditionThe railway network covers all continents of our world - except Antarctica - and passenger and freight trains run on it. And everything would be fine, if not for the fact that all these railway lines have become a kind of folklore, an integral part of which are ghosts and specters - of people and trains. And this book is about them.But not only ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Naming and Being

    Knowledges, Identities, and Cultural Politics

    Edited by Gwyneira Isaac, Stanisław Kordasiewicz, Sylvia Ngo, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, Kyunney Takasaeva ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    This experimental volume explores how intersections between different knowledge systems affect identity formation through names and naming, bringing together anthropologists, community scholars, artists, linguists, scientists, poets, specialists in science and technology, as well as legal and Indigenous studies. This interdisciplinary approach values naming practices as creative and political acts ... Read more

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  • The Peasants, A Tale of Our Own Times: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer (Complete)

    by Władysław Stanisław Reymont ...
    “Praised be Jesus Christ!” “World without end!—What, my good Agatha? And whither be you wandering now?” “Out into the world, please your Reverence, into the wide world!” she answered, with a wave of her staff from east to west. The priest mechanically turned his eyes in that direction, but closed them to the blinding sun in the western sky. Then he said, in a lower and somewhat hesitating tone: ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Futurological Congress

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. " Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem. " — The Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress in C... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invincible

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    A space cruiser encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines in this classic science fiction novel with echoes of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.“A giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick.” —The New York TimesStanisław Lem’s The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Imaginary Magnitude

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    "The computer may ultimately be right. But for the time being, in Imaginary Magnitude , an entertaining and intelligent mortal has the first word." —Paul Gray, TimeSatirizing the human mind at its most abstract, these wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-g ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel, Christine Rose ...
    The absurdly brilliant far-future satire from "the Borges of scientific culture" ( Time).The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight—papyralysis—has obliterated much of the planet's written history. Fortunately, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community . . .From the Kafka Prize ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eden

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates "a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad" ( Kirkus Reviews).Six explorers—the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist—crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Star Diaries

    Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Series Book 1 - From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
    Ijon Tichy encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space, satirizing science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.A space explorer travels undercover to a robot world, joining an organization to clean up world history through time travel. The universe may never be the same . . ."Tichy bumbles and stumbles around the cosmos running out of gas between stars, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • His Master's Voice

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris.“The universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem.” —Washington PostBy pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Tales of Pirx the Pilot

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Brilliant stories of a bumbling astronaut, and the human desire to discover the unknown, by the much-loved author of Solaris.Set in the not-too-distant future, when space flight has evolved to the point where humanity is ready to colonize the solar system, Tales of Pirx the Pilot follows one somewhat-hapless explorer as he struggles though his training as a cadet, his career as a pilot, and his ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus