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  • Faith in Fallacy

    A Century of State-Sanctioned Science Denial

    Today, when global warming denial and vaccination denial are alarmingly prevalent, it is crucial to understand that throughout history, science denial at the state level has cost scores of millions of lives. In the Soviet Union under Stalin, Lysenko's denial of genetics led to disastrous agricultural policies, resulting in the persecution and execution of dissenting scientists and widespread ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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    Sons & Lovers

    by D H Lawrence ...
    Narrated by Robert Powell ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 17 min

    Lawrence’s style is bold, intimate and inventive and he always has the capacity to shock. His great strength comes from the realism of the characters he portrays and the play on tension – first seen in the exchanges between Gertrude and Morel and continuing with Paul, his Mother and his two women – which never lets up. Then marvel at the depth and quality of the writing as the story moves ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Accidental City

    Improvising New Orleans

    This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Troubled Memory, Second Edition

    Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana

    This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Accidental City

    Improvising New Orleans

    Narrated by Brian Arens ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 33 min

    “Should stand for years as the definitive history of New Orleans’s first century.” ―Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostThis is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It's Your Call

    7 Sure Ways to Fulfill Your Life's Purpose

    It's Your Call will inspire and empower you to grab hold of your destiny and never let go. Seven chapters skillfully present a powerful and practical guide to overcoming the most difficult challenges in the quest to fulfill your God given purpose. Compelling insights and humorous personal anecdotes provide tools necessary to help you reach maximum levels of productivity in your ministry, business ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 2084 Report

    A Novel of the Great Warming

    For fans of The Drowned World and World War Z**, this “sobering and scary (and fascinating) novel—a look at where we’re going if we don’t quickly get our act together” (Bill McKibben,** New York Times bestselling author) regarding climate change—unveils our potential terrifying future.2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the most dire predictio... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Risky Business

    Insurance Markets and Regulation

    Today’s insurance regulation in the United States is at a crossroads: while some segments of the insurance industry are moving away from a state-based approach toward regulation, others favor a greater role for the federal government—despite the opposition from other stakeholders. Written by leading scholars in risk management, this book addresses some of the most important questions facing the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New Orleans City Guide

    The classic Federal Writers' Project guide to New Orleans history, folklore, and streets.Written in 1938 under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, this New Orleans guide was produced by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).A detailed portrait of the city, it gathers local history, folklore, photographs, and traditional recipes into a single volume ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Sentinels in the Sky

    How Satellites Have Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth and Space

    Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, satellites have become the silent sentinels of our planet and the cosmos. Orbiting high above, they have changed the way we live, the way we think, and most profoundly, the way we see. In Sentinels in the Sky: How Satellites Have Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth and Space, geologist and author James Lawrence Powell tells the remarkable story of how ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Using Generative AI Effectively in Higher Education

    Sustainable and Ethical Practices for Learning, Teaching and Assessment

    Series series SEDA Focus Series
    Using Generative AI Effectively in Higher Education explores how higher education providers can realise their role and responsibility in harnessing the power of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ethically and sustainably.This rich collection of established and evaluated practices from across global higher education offers a practical guide to leading an agile institutional response to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The New Orleans of George Washington Cable

    The 1887 Census Office Report

    Edited by Lawrence N. Powell ...
    A pioneering local-color writer about Creole New Orleans and a public advocate for black equality in his native South during and after Reconstruction, George Washington Cable (1844--1925) depicted in his writing the clash between American newcomers and a quaint but proud French-speaking population in post--Louisiana Purchase New Orleans. His work, including the short-story collection Old Creole ... Read more

    $18.99 USD