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    Poe!

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Narrated by Terrance Mann, Rene Auberjonois, David Mmargulies, Fionnula Flanagan, Harris Yulin, Isaiah Sheffer, Stephen Lang ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    2 hours 21 min

    Poe! is a deliciously gripping sampling of the mad imagination of 19th century gothic master of horror and suspense, murder and mayhem, Edgar Allan Poe. The creepy, breathtaking, and soulful classic tales include: “The Masque of the Red Death,” the terrifying and ironic story of a nobleman who attempts to seal himself and his friends away from a terrible plague raging outside, performed by ... Read more

    $19.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sir Garnet Wolseley

    Soldier of Empire

    by Stephen Manning ...
    Field Marshal Lord Wolseley was an eminent Victorian, one of a handful of late nineteenth-century military men whose reputation transcends his age. He served the British empire in Burma, India, China, the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, South Africa and the Sudan. He excelled as a regimental soldier, staff officer, army commander and reformer and eventually commander-in-chief. Yet there has been no ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    What a Bee Knows

    Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

    by Stephen Buchmann ...
    Narrated by Tristan Morris ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. She may even ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • What a Bee Knows

    Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

    by Stephen L. Buchmann ...
    For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. She may even ... Read more

    Was $35.19 CAD Now $29.69 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900

    "The White Man's Grave"

    by Stephen Manning ...
    This authoritative military history chronicles the significant but overlooked colonial wars between the British and the Asante of West Africa.Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars. And yet these wars are ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reason for Flowers

    Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives

    by Stephen Buchmann ...
    “Fascinating...Buchmann’s knowledge and enthusiasm jump off the page.” —The Wall Street Journal“An extraordinarily good book.” —Edward O. WilsonThe lively and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, lore, economics, and ecology of the world ’s flowers, written by a devoted scientist and illustrated with his stunning photographs.Flowers—and the fruits they often become—feed, clothe, and inspire ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Britain Against the Xhosa and Zulu Peoples

    Lord Chelmsford's South African Campaigns

    by Stephen Manning ...
    Britain's war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British empire, but her earlier wars against the Xhosa, also in southern Africa, are far less well known. And, although the role Lord Chelmsford played in the Anglo-Zulu War has been recounted in exhaustive detail, his earlier experience against the Xhosa ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Reason for Flowers

    Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives

    by Stephen Buchmann ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 23 min

    Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy ten million flowers a day and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion dollars annually.Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Biomedical Visions

    Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice

    by Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, Laura Valterio, Jacob van der Beugel, Lara Keuck, Jaipreet Virdi, Nimisha Bhanot, Paula Muhr, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Stephen A. Geller, Gideon Manning, Flora Lysen, Marlene Bart, Cornelius Borck, Robert Meunier, Adam Christianson, Ariane Hanemaayer, Jan M. Friedman, Alison Elliott, Awa Naghipour, Joana Atemengue Owona, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Cat Dawson ...
    We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare persist. Life and illness play out in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological notions of health and disease. This publication brings ... Read more

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  • Evelyn Wood VC

    Pillar of Empire

    by Stephen Manning, Saul David ...
    Given the increasing interest in the Victorian era an authoritative biography of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC is long overdue. By any standards his career was remarkable and began with him in the Royal Navy in the Crimea before he transferred to the cavalry to see more action. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Martini-Henry Rifle

    by Dr Stephen Manning ...
    Series Book 26 - Weapon
    The breech-loading, single-shot .458in Martini-Henry rifle has become a symbol of both the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the numerous battles in Egypt and the Sudan in 1884–85, but continued to be used by both British and colonial troops well into the 20th century. Its invention and introduction into British service were in direct response to the success of the Prussian Dreyse needle gun, which ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • Emerging International Issues in Student Affairs Research and Practice

    Edited by Amber Manning-Ouellette, Stephen P. Wanger ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
    The editors of Emerging International Issues in Student Affairs Research and Practice situate developing issues in student affairs through research, new and emergent methodologies, pedagogies, and practices. The text aims to encourage intercultural perspectives and opportunities across student affairs research and practice, while calling upon international student affairs practitioners, faculty, ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD