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  • There We Are Human Again

    A Diplomat’s Journey to Anarchism

    by Carne Ross ...
    An extraordinary and powerful story of disillusionment, despair and recovery, There We Are Human Again vividly describes the journey of former British diplomat Carne Ross, a journey from commitment and service to the state and 'the system', the shattering of that belief, and the discovery of better way of organising our affairs, a philosophy often dismissed as violent and utopian but that is in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Leaderless Revolution

    How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

    by Carne Ross ...
    The Leaderless Revolution explains why our government institutions are inadequate to the task of solving major problems and offers a set of steps we can take to create lasting and workable solutions ourselves. In taking these steps, we can not only reclaim the control we have lost, but also a sense of meaning and community so elusive in the current circumstance. In a day and age when things feel ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Independent Diplomat

    Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite

    by Carne Ross ...
    Series series Crises in World Politics
    Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world affairs—from trade and security issues to health, human rights, and the environment—we have little idea of, and even less control over, what they are doing in our name. In Independent Diplomat, Carne Ross provides a compelling account of what's wrong with contemporary diplomacy and offers a bold new vision of how it might be put right.For ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Odyssey

    The Fitzgerald Translation

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Robert Fitzgerald ...
    Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Odyssey

    The Fitzgerald Translation

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Dan Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    "In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could do it better." — Wall Street JournalRobert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    The Iliad

    The Fitzgerald Translation

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Dan Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 59 min

    Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its authority and always fresh in its vivid rendering of the preeminent war story of the Western world.In ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Laws of Thought

    The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    Narrated by Tom Griffiths ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human mindsEveryone has a basic understanding of how the physical world works. We learn about physics and chemistry in school, letting us explain the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Brilliant Abyss

    Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It

    by Helen Scales ...
    Narrated by Helen Scales ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our planet, its topography even more varied and extreme than its landmass counterpart.Teeming with unsuspected life, an extraordinary, interconnected ecosystem deep below ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Science Fictions

    How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

    by Stuart Ritchie ...
    Narrated by Stuart Ritchie ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 35 min

    An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Laws of Thought

    The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human mindsEveryone has a basic understanding of how the physical world works. We learn about physics and chemistry in school, letting us explain the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Roger Rees ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 7 min

    The world's greatest adventure story is now the source of the epic film from Christopher Nolan.Long considered the world's greatest adventure story, The Odyssey recounts the arduous struggles of a man who seeks to reunite with his family in ancient Greece. After the ten-year Trojan war, the heroic King Odysseus begins his ten-year journey home to Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Shape of a Life

    One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry

    by Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 59 min

    A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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