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  • Audiobook

    An Audio Bundle: Blood & The War

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    In Blood, the Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, ... Read more

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  • The Stone Face

    A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The War: Stories of Life and Death From World War II

    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    No one knew it was going to be that bad. World War II killed some 60 million people—20 million of them soldiers—and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others.But such destruction was an impossible to imagine in advance as it was for young pilots-in-training to imagine their coming fiery deaths; or for Jews to foresee their last moments in the gas chambers; or for ... Read more

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  • The Metabolist Imagination

    Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction

    Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authorsThe devastation of the Second World War gave rise to imaginations both utopian and apocalyptic. In Japan, a fascinating confluence of architects and science fiction writers took advantage of this space to begin remaking urban design. In The Metabolist Imagination, William O. Gardner ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

    "The Life of Stephen A. Douglas" by William Gardner is a comprehensive biography that delves into the life and political career of one of America's most influential figures during the 19th century. Douglas, known for his role in the debates with Abraham Lincoln and his advocacy for popular sovereignty, played a pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of the United States. Gardner ... Read more

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  • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

    De mortuis nil nisi bonum, (of the dead speak nothing but good), is the rule which governed the friends of Stephen A. Douglas after his death. “Of political foes speak nothing but ill,” is the rule which has guided much of our discussion of him for forty years. The time has now arrived when we can study him dispassionately and judge him justly, when we can take his measure, if not with scientific ... Read more

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  • The Life Of Stephen A. Douglas

    The life of Stephen A. Douglas traces the evolution of a major political figure whose journey from modest beginnings to national prominence reflects the tensions and ambitions shaping a transforming nation. The book examines formative influences, highlighting how early struggles, limited resources, and a determined pursuit of education shaped a strong public voice. It follows the individual’s rise ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Good Work

    When Excellence and Ethics Meet

    What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus ... Read more

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  • The Tunnel

    In September 1963 President Kennedy commissions intelligence officer Tom Grant to ferret out stolen gold and other treasure that vanished while in the hands of Nazi army officials.Grant soon discovers that nothing in his training at Langley and Fort Benning could adequately prepare him to deal with the deceitful minds and extreme dangers that lie ahead of him. He is caught in a web of intrigue and ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Before the Fall

    An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House

    William Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon from 1968 to 1973. During that time, as a Washington insider, Safire was able to observe the thirty-seventh president in his entirety: as noble and mean-spirited; as good and bad; as a man desirous of greatness. Rarely has there been a White House memoir more intimate or revealing in its exploration of the great events that took place "before the ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Behavior Modification in Mental Retardation

    The Education and Rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded Adolescent and Adult

    In this important book, one of the most exciting and promising developments in clinical psychology-behavior modification is applied to the treatment of the mentally retarded, particularly those whose behavior poses difficult problems for institutions. Professor Gardner presents an easily intelligible yet detailed account of the concepts and practices of behavior modification and the underlying ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

    Biography of Lincoln's opponent. According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 - June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was ... Read more

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