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  • Flatlined

    How Profit Broke American Healthcare

    Flatlined: How Profit Broke American HealthcareAmerican healthcare is the most expensive in the world. Yet for millions of Americans, getting sick can mean financial ruin, endless bureaucracy, delayed care, or simply being unable to afford the treatment they need.How did we get here?Flatlined: How Profit Broke American Healthcare takes a hard look at the forces that transformed healthcare from a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • From Cotton Picker to Cowboy to Cattleman

    The Amazing True Story of 80 John Wallace

    "As the shadows grew long and dusk was approaching, 17-year-old Daniel Webster Wallace climbed the rafters of the barn. There, he took out a pocketknife and carved his name into one of the wooden beams. Webster, as he was known to family and friends, wanted to leave a permanent mark of his being there because the next day he was saying goodbye to the Texas cotton farm where he grew up."This ain't ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Story of the Eye

    Narrated by Evan Garrett ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 14 min

    Bataille's first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Confederate Military History

    Vol. 1: Secession And Civil History Of The Confederate States

    Series Book 1 - Confederate Military History
    This work spanning twelve extensive volumes is the result of contributions by many Southern men to the literature of the United States that treats of the eventful years in which occurred the momentous struggle called by Mr. A. H. Stephens "the war between the States." These contributions were made on a well-considered plan, to be wrought out by able writers of unquestionable Confederate record who ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The London Craft Beer Guide

    The best breweries, pubs and tap rooms for the best artisan brews

    "The most brilliant guide to the best beer and pubs in London by connoisseurs Jonny and Brad. Trust me they know their stuff!'" – Jamie OliverTo beer or not to beer, that is the question.The London Craft Beer Guide features 40 of the best pubs, breweries and taprooms across the city.Organised around London boroughs from North to South, East to West, every corner is full of hidden gems to discover. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Education of the Negroes Since 1860: The Trustees of The John F. Slater Fund Occasional Papers, No. 3

    The purpose of this paper is to put into permanent form a narrative of what has been done at the South for the education of the negro since 1860. The historical and statistical details may seem dry and uninteresting, but we can understand the significance of this unprecedented educational movement only by a study of its beginnings and of the difficulties which had to be overcome. The present ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue of Noon

    Translated by Harry Mathews ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Literature and Evil

    Translated by Alastair Hamilton ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Accursed Share, Volume I

    Translated by Robert Hurley ...
    From the acclaimed French philosopher, intellectual, and novelist, a brilliant account of the social and economic costs of civilizationIn this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share, the surplus energy that any system, natural or cultural, must ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Story of the Eye

    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Violence

    Humans in Dark Times

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus