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  • Audiobook

    Watcher, The

    Narrated by Michael Lyons ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 28 min

    Haunted by footsteps that never show their source and letters signed by a phantom stranger, Captain Barton’s quiet return to Dublin society descends into psychological torment. The Watcher is a chilling Gothic tale of spiritual vengeance, unrepentant guilt, and the inescapable shadow of the past.Written by supernatural master Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, this eerie tale weaves the story of a skeptic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BRAT and the Kids of Warriors

    Adventure, spies, dealing with bullies, and serious ingenuity abound in this fascinating story of Army brat Jack McMasters and his sisters. The author is a master at bringing to life the unique lifestyle of kids growing up in a military family overseas, tightly bound by strict discipline and enjoying great freedom. Any infraction reflects upon, and can influence, their parents' careers, but none ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside Public-Sector Innovation

    How Local Governments Put Ideas into Action

    Series Book 22 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    Faced with increasing demands from residents, and amidst growing legal and resource constraints, municipalities are experimenting to find new ways of making things work. Inside Public-Sector Innovation profiles the expertise and experience of local administrators in Canada who have successfully moved innovation from conception to reality.A practitioner-oriented guide, this volume features multiple ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Trust in Human-Robot Interaction

    Edited by Joseph B. Lyons, Chang S. Nam ...
    Trust in Human-Robot Interaction addresses the gamut of factors that influence trust of robotic systems. The book presents the theory, fundamentals, techniques and diverse applications of the behavioral, cognitive and neural mechanisms of trust in human-robot interaction, covering topics like individual differences, transparency, communication, physical design, privacy and ethics. - Presents a ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Secret Agent

    A Simple Tale

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'A Simple ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Government and Politics in Tennessee

    Most Americans are more aware of the workings of the federal government than of their own state governments. But these “laboratories of democracy” constitute perhaps the most creative components of the American political experiment.This book serves as a guide for students of government and provides a historical context for understanding the forces at work in the state’s political system. Among the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Youth/ Heart of Darkness The End of the Tether

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Conrad's aim was 'by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see' Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'seeing', its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young man's first sea-voyage to the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    by Conrad Joseph ...
    Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent" is a gripping espionage thriller revolving around the anarchists and secret agents of late 19th-century England. The protagonist Mr. Verloc is an employer of foreign embassy in London who gets involved in a terrorist plot that ultimately leads to disaster. The novel has several interesting twists and turns which make it captivating and worth reading. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Understanding Media Economics

    by Gillian Doyle ...
    "Expertly synthesizes economic theory and contemporary cases to both explain the structure of the contemporary media industry and shed insight on the significant challenges and controversies confronting the sector."- Lucy Küng, Oxford University and Jonkoping University"A wide-ranging, accessible introduction to media economics and their application to a broad range of media topics from ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Serious Games

    Mechanisms and Effects

    Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. "Serious games" is defined herein as any form of interactive computer-based game software for one or multiple players to be used on any platform and that has been developed to provide more than entertainment to players. With this volume, the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Invisible Man

    A Grotesque Romance

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals. Speculation about his identity becomes horror and disbelief when the villagers ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Heart of Darkness

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish realities of imperialism.Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of ... Read more

    $7.29 USD