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    Foundations of Fiction, The - The Murder Mystery

    The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction

    by Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Charles Dickens, D K Broster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank R Stockton, Fredric Brown, H G Wells, Hugh Walpole, J M Barrie, Jack London, Móritz Jókai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Saki, Susan Glaspell, T F Powys, W F Harvey ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks

    by Moritz Hardt ...
    The first comprehensive introduction to benchmarking, the engine behind progress in AIIn machine learning, researchers split their data into training and test sets, let model builders compete on the test set, and call it a benchmark. Statistical tradition prescribed locking test sets in a vault, but machine learning practitioners shared them freely. Benchmarking shouldn’t have worked, but it did, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Spam Nation

    The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime—from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

    by Brian Krebs ...
    A New York Times bestseller and winner of a 2015 Prose Award!There is a threat lurking online. A secret war with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Blue Yonder

    by Space Fruit Press, Opal Moritz, Rena Butler, Augusta Connor ...
    Wild Blue Yonder contains a trio of novellas inspired by the open range, and the cowboys who are frequently secretly fond of each other to be found there. Saddle up with three all-new gay MM cowboy romances from some of the most up-and-coming queer romance writers right now. From historical love on the range, to outlaws on horseback, to a contemporary twist on the Omegaverse, these three novellas ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brazilian Authoritarianism

    Past and Present

    by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz ...
    Translated by Eric M.B. Becker ...
    How Brazil’s long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country’s present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society. A closer look at the nation's heritage, however, reveals a far more troubling story. In Brazilian Authoritarianism, esteemed anthropologist and historian Lilia ... Read more

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  • Why Ecology Matters

    by Charles J. Krebs ...
    Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world's smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America—but why does it matter? Who cares? With this concise, accessible, and up-to-date book, Charles J. Krebs answers critics and enlightens students and environmental advocates alike, revealing not why phenomena like these ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Promontory

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading

    by Drake Hokanson, Don L. Hofsommer, Maury Klein, Keith L. Bryant ...
    "Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape."— The Michigan RailfanAfter Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Concurrent Aerobic and Strength Training

    Scientific Basics and Practical Applications

    Edited by Moritz Schumann, Bent R. Rønnestad ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides an extensive guide for exercise and health professionals, students, scientists, sport coaches, athletes of various sports and those with a general interest in concurrent aerobic and strength training. Following a brief historical overview of the past decades of research on concurrent training, in section 1 the epigenetic as well as physiological and neuromuscular differences of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Riding the Rails

    Inside the Business of America's Railroads

    by Robert D. Krebs ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    A former Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CEO tells the behind-the-scenes story of the transformation and resurgence of America's ailing railroads.When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ausländer

    One Family's Story of Escape and Exile

    by Michael Moritz ...
    A deeply moving and intimate story that reveals how the ravages of history that tore one family apart echo across continents nearly a century later."A memoir which ranks alongside The Hare with Amber Eyes."—The Times (London)"Brilliant."—The EconomistSorting through papers and photographs after his mother's death, Michael Moritz uncovers the history of close family members murdered by the ... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Failed State

    A Portrait of California in the Twilight of Empire

    by Christopher Moritz ...
    California was once the crown jewel of the American dream: prosperous, innovative, egalitarian, and aspirational. Today, it stands as a dystopian warning of what happens when nihilistic, radical ideology consumes the foundations of governance. In Failed State, Christopher Moritz dissects the unraveling of the Golden State with the precision of a lawyer, the depth of a historian, and the heartbreak ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • VIII Olympiad

    Paris 1924, St. Moritz 1928

    by Ellen Phillips ...
    Series Book 8 - The Olympic Century
    The VIII Olympiad, the eighth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins in the most extraordinary of cities at a most extraordinary time: Paris in the 1920s. Now the stuff of legend, it was a place where the likes of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Pablo Picasso discussed art and culture in the cafes by day and danced in the jazz clubs long into the night.Played out in front of this dazzling ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus