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  • Audiobook

    Delivering Virtue

    A Dark Comedy Adventure of the West

    by Brian Kindall ...
    Narrated by Chip Davis ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Epic of Didier Rain

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    A magnet for trouble. A dubious destiny. His quest for true love could succeed if only his moral compass didn’t point South.The American West, 1850. Former French dandy Didier Rain’s weakness for saloon girls, money, and whiskey keeps derailing his plan to join the pantheon of epic poets. So, when he’s approached by holy men claiming he’s part of a prophecy, he agrees to transport an infant bride ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

    by Didier Eribon ...
    Translated by Michael Lucey ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
    A personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.A few years ago, Didier Eribon’s mother entered a retirement home. Over the course of several months, she lost her physical and cognitive autonomy, and despite his resistance, Eribon and his brothers were compelled to place her in a nursing home. The doctor had warned that she’d rapidly decline ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Marx and Marxism

    by Gregory Claeys ...
    A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his workKarl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed as "the Prophet himself" whose name and writings would "endure through the ages." He has been viewed as a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Commitment

    My Autobiography

    by Didier Drogba ...
    The story of one of the most recognisable and successful players in world football.Didier Drogba is renowned for his heading ability, sharp shooting and sheer strength. He has played for his native Ivory Coast and for clubs in France, China and Turkey, but it is as a Chelsea striker that he is best known. His feats with Chelsea have made him a cult hero among supporters.In Didier Drogba's honest ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond Tropical Deforestation

    From Tropical Deforestation to Forest Cover Dynamics and Forest Development

    by Didier Babin ...
    Does the diagnosis of irreversible destruction of both forests and their biodiversity actually mask a wide range of patterns? Based on the results of natural and social scientists, this book attempts to answer fundamental questions such as: what is deforestation and how do we mesure it? What changes result from deforestation and how do human societies manage these changes? It explores the many and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Postcards from Congo

    A Graphic History

    by Edmund Trueman ...
    The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitarian rule. The country has played a crucial role in the economic growth of the Global North, but in doing so, has suffered immensely. So many seminal advances in technology were possible only through ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Winter

    by Samwise Didier ...
    An island kingdom unites against evil in this illustrated epic fantasy novel from the Blizzard Entertainment art director and author of Grimbeard.Upon the death of Sprign, goddess and creator of the Pandyr and all other beasts in Mistgard, the island has come under attack by ruthless frost and fire giants from afar. Long fragmented, every creature in the eight clans must now come together to ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

    by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Translated by Michael Lucey ...
    Series series Series Q
    A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A New View of Society and Other Writings

    by Gregory Claeys, Robert Owen ...
    In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Politics of Belgium

    Governing a Divided Society

    by Kris Deschouwer, Didier Caluwaerts, Petra Meier, Min Reuchamps, Dave Sinardet, Emilie van Haute ...
    The third edition of this highly respected book covers the numerous political developments that have taken place in Belgium since 2012.This book features topics such as the implementation of the sixth state reform, the rebranding of political parties with new party leaders, several elections at all levels of government (from local to European) leading to new governing coalitions, democratic ... Read more

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  • Why Stock Markets Crash

    Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

    by Didier Sornette, Didier Sornette ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials. In this book, Didier Sornette boldly applies his varied experience in these areas to propose a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dystopia

    A Natural History

    by Gregory Claeys ...
    Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD