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  • What's Cooking in the Kremlin

    From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork

    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    **A New York Times Editors’ Choice“Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szabłowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence.” —The New York Times Book Review“Riveting—a delicious odyssey full of history, humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to understand the making of modern Russia, read this book.” —Daniel Stone, bestselling ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Possessed

    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translationWitold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, and in The Possessed, he demonstrates his playful brilliance and astonishing range by using the familiar ... Read more

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  • Cosmos

    A Novel

    A "creatively captivating and intellectually challenging" existential mystery from the great Polish author—"sly, funny, and . . . lovingly translated" ( The New York Times).Winner of the 1967 International Prize for LiteratureMilan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz "one of the great novelists of our century." Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing Bears

    True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    ***As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review“Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to UnfreedomAn incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • How to Feed a Dictator

    Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    **“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s Weekend Edition SundayAnthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears and What’s Cooking in the Kremlin**Now ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • How Architecture Works

    A Humanist's Toolkit

    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Read more

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  • The Driving Machine

    A Design History of the Car

    **“[A] compact epic.… Brisk, lucid and enjoyable.” —Richard Snow, Wall Street JournalThe renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design.**In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and ... Read more

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  • The Story of Architecture

    An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field’s eminent authorsIn this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by technological, economic, and social changes—and by changes in taste. The host of examples ranges from places of worship such as Hagia Sophia and Brunelleschi ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Criminal Careers

    Life and Crime Trajectories of Former Juvenile Offenders in Adulthood

    Series series Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour
    Criminal Careers follows the lives and criminal behaviours of 2,397 people in Poland who as juveniles committed a crime and received a form of punishment from the juvenile court between the late 1980s and the year 2000. Through combining quantitative and qualitative research, their criminal careers, the differences between men and women, risk factors, and reasons for nondesistance are analysed ... Read more

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  • Last Harvest

    From Cornfield to New Town

    In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Out of the Lion's Maw

    High Adventure in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Series Book 1 - Fleeing Carthage
    A European bestseller, in print continuously since 1946, now for the first time in English.Can an elderly Zoroastrian priest and his young apprentice foil a dark plot to foment civil war in Egypt?570 BC. Carthage, Sicily, Greece, Egypt, Libya. Two heroes rush across the Mediterranean on a secret diplomatic mission followed by spies and assassins, the Carthaginian navy, and eventually -- the whole ... Read more

    $16.05 CAD

  • Decision-Making in Computational Intelligence-Based Systems

    New Approaches, Methods, and Applications

    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This book delivers actionable insights through 21 peer-reviewed chapters featuring new methods, models, and applications based on computational intelligence. Discover cutting-edge tools to support smart, efficient decision-making in complex, real-world scenarios. Organized into three parts—prescriptive analytics, soft computing models, and practical case studies—it spans domains such as healthcare ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD