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  • More Collected Couteau

    Essays and Interviews

    by Rob Couteau ...
    Literary essays on Marion Morehouse, Hubert Selby, Henry Miller, and Jack Kerouac; interviews with Albert Hofmann (about LSD), Michael Korda (about T.E. Lawrence and Ulysses S. Grant), Jeffrey Jackson (about the Paris flood of 1910), Robert Roper (about Walt Whitman and Nabokov's Lolita, Justin Kaplan (about Mark Twain and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass), Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno (about E.E. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

    by James Dempsey ...
    The influential literary magazine The Dial is regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement for having published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and editor of The Dial from 1920 to 1926, Scofield Thayer was gatekeeper and guide for the movement, introducing the ideas of literary modernism to America and giving American artists a new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis

    Lessons from The Crash

    Edited by Christopher Cowton, James Dempsey, Tom Sorell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Ethics
    The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities. Just as mainstream businesses became increasingly defined by their financial performance, banks, it seemed, got themselves – and everyone else – into trouble through an over-emphasis on themselves as commercial enterprises that need pay little attention to traditional ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Frontier of Patriotism

    Alberta and the First World War

    by David Borys, Juliette Champagne, Brett Clifton, Catherine C. Cole, Rory Cory, Duff Crerar, Michael Dawe, L. James Dempsey, Antonella Fanella, Alvin Finkel, Ryan Flavelle, David Gallant, Stephen Greenhalgh, Jarett Henderson, Mark Osborne Humphries, Chris Hyland, Kathryn Ivany, Allan Kerr, Norman Knowles, J. Whitney Lackenbauer, Robert Lampard, Michale Lang, Kassandra Luciuk, Rod McLeod, John Matthews, Peter McKenzie-Brown, Sean Moir, Patricia Myers, Allan Rowe, Robert Rutherdale, Amy Shaw, Donald J. Smith, Paul Stortz, Doug Styles, Ken Tingley, Aritha van Herk, Donald G. Wetherell, Anthony Worman ...
    Series Book 6 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
    With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and sacrifices of those who supported those soldiers, and the war effort in general, back at home. The ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

    A Life-Changing List

    by James Mustich ...
    "The ultimate literary bucket list. . . . 948 pages later, you still want more!" —The Washington PostCelebrate the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the one,zero-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Firm Commitment

    Why the corporation is failing us and how to restore trust in it

    by Colin Mayer ...
    The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world. It affects all our lives continuously. It feeds, entertains, houses and, employs us. It generates vast amounts of revenue for those who own it and it invests a substantial proportion of the wealth that we possess. But the corporation is also the cause of immense problems and suffering, a source of poverty and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A Passion for Books

    A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books

    Edited by Harold Rabinowitz, Rob Kaplan ...
    A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity.Booklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of A Passion for Books, beginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Microeconomics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Avinash Dixit ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Microeconomics - individuals' choices of where to live and work, how much to save, what to buy, and firms' decisions about location, hiring, firing, and investment - involves issues that concern us on a daily basis. But when people think about economics, they tend to place importance on the bigger picture - macroeconomics - including issues such as unemployment, inflation, and the competitiveness ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Talented Miss Highsmith

    The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

    by Joan Schenkar ...
    A biography of the novelist who created Tom Ripley that is "both dazzling and definitive . . . as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject" ( Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable Book * A Lambda Literary Award Winner * An Edgar Award Nominee * An Agatha Award Nominee * A Publishers Weekly Pick of the WeekPatricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Economics After the Crisis

    Objectives and Means

    by Adair Turner ...
    Series series Lionel Robbins Lectures
    A noted economist challenges the fundamental economic assumptions that cast economic growth as the objective and markets as the universally applicable means of achieving it.The global economic crisis of 2008–2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • College of One

    The Story of How F. Scott Fitzgerald Educated the Woman He Loved

    by Sheilah Graham, Wendy W. Fairey ...
    Series series Neversink
    The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald—washed up, alcoholic and ill—dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved.In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack ... Read more

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  • No Modernism Without Lesbians

    by Diana Souhami ...
    A Sunday Times Book of the YearWinner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times.The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal ... Read more

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