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  • Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts

    by David Gerard ...
    "A sober riposte to all the upbeat forecasts about cryptocurrency" — New York Review of Books"A very convincing takedown of the whole phenomenon" — BBC NewsAn experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money

    by David Gerard ...
    cSilicon Valley tries to disrupt the world — and the world says "no."Facebook: the biggest social network in history. A stupendous, world-shaping success. But governments were giving Facebook trouble over personal data abuses, election rigging and fake news.Mark Zuckerberg wondered: what if Facebook could pivot to finance? Or, better: what if Facebook started its own private world currency ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Me, My Family, Our Lives

    A Memoir, and More

    by David Gerard ...
    David Gerard was born David Gerard Jurkiewicz in 1952 in St. Joseph, Missouri, the fifth child of seven to Anne and William Jurkiewicz. He did not turn out to be the best looking or smartest, or the most talented, most disciplined, or most successful of the seven. He did, however, turn out to be a writer, and because of that, the other six children have had to endure the notoriety and shame of ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Technology of Property Rights

    by Bruce Yandle, Clay J. Landry, Robert B. Naeser, Mark Griffin Smith, Barrett P. Walker, Daniel Huppert, Gunnar Knapp, Gregory B. Christainsen, Brian C. Gothberg, Anna M. Michalak, David Gerard, Timothy J. LeCain ...
    Series series The Political Economy Forum
    The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, as well as other pressing environmental issues. No other work brings ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    by Steve Kluger ...
    "An engrossing, often laugh-out-loud tale of two unlikely lovers" told in an epistolary style "to brilliant comic and dramatic effect" ( Publishers Weekly).A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart.Flash forward twenty years.Travis and Craig ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lukewarming

    The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

    by Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger ...
    In Lukewarming, two environmental scientists explain the science and spin behind the headlines and come to a provocative conclusion: climate change is real, and partially man-made, but it is becoming obvious that far more warming has been forecast than will occur, with some of the catastrophic impacts implausible or impossible. Global warming is more lukewarm than hot. This fresh analysis is an ... Read more

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  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada

    101 Heartwarming and Inspiring Stories by and for Canadians

    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...
    With 101 heartwarming and inspiring stories by Canadians and for Canadians, this book will delight, amuse, and invigorate Canadian readers.Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada is full of inspirational, amusing, and encouraging stories that will touch the heart of any Canadian. Stories include a wide range of topics written by Canadians, from daily life to Canadian holidays, along with tales from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Should Trees Have Standing?

    Law, Morality, and the Environment

    by Christopher D. Stone ...
    Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Secrets for Success and Happiness

    by Og Mandino ...
    It's safe to say that world-famed speaker and author Og Mandino has as many friends as any man alive, thanks to his inspiring motivational lectures and his bestselling books. This new book is a special gift to all his friends, old and new, a book they may cherish above all the rest. Secrets for Success and Happiness is Og's beautifully written journal, an intimate record of his innermost thoughts ... Read more

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  • Kivalina

    A Climate Change Story

    by Christine Shearer ...
    The true story of an Alaska Native village destroyed by flooding and erosion caused by climate change—and how they fought for help.Warming Arctic temperatures have been making coastal areas of Alaska increasingly uninhabitable. In 2008, the small Alaska Native village of Kivalina filed a legal claim against some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies for damaging their homeland and creating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul

    Stories to Inspire and Uplift the Hearts of Canadians

    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Janet Matthews, Raymond Aaron ...
    Written by fellow Canadians from Cape Breton Island to Prince Edward Island, from Montreal to Vancouver, this book reveals the people, the history and the special moments that give Canada such a distinctive charm and character. ... Read more

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  • Storm Warning

    Water and Climate Security in a Changing World

    by Robert William Sandford ...
    Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which as a result is moving through the global hydrological cycle faster and in unprecedented ways. A warmer atmosphere carries more water vapour, which means that as ... Read more

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