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  • Breakfast with Socrates

    An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

    by Robert Rowland Smith ...
    What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6

    Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

    Edited by Nancy Sottos, Robert Rowlands, Kathryn Dannemann ...
    Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to important areas of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of topics, including:Advances in Residual Stress Measurement MethodsResidual ... Read more

    $329.99 USD

  • Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6

    Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

    Edited by Nancy Sottos, Robert Rowlands, Kathryn Dannemann ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Experimental and Applied Mechanics*, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics*, the sixth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to important areas of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of topics, including:Advances in Residual Stress Measurement ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Driving with Plato

    The Meaning of Life's Milestones

    by Robert Rowland Smith ...
    Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let history’s greatest minds illuminate life’s turning points.In Breakfast with Socrates, Robert Rowland Smith brought the power of philosophy down to earth by proving, in a very engaging and entertaining way, that human moments meet big ideas on a regular ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • On Modern Poetry

    From Theory to Total Criticism

    by Dr Robert Rowland Smith ...
    All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line, 'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.Drawing on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to get beyond the opposition between them, proposing instead a 'total criticism' that draws ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Reality Test

    Still relying on strategy?

    by Robert Rowland Smith ...
    How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.More helpful are these practical questions ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization

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    Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of human cultural evolution at this huge, spectacularly well-preserved 9,500-year-old village in Turkey.Here lie the origins of modern society -- the dawn of ... Read more

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  • At the Edge of Empire

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    by Edward Wong ...
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  • The Strategists

    Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War

    by Phillips Payson O'Brien ...
    Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how ... Read more

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  • Daughters of Bronze

    A Novel of Troy

    by A. D. Rhine ...
    Song of great sorrow. Even greater love.Lost between the timeless lines of Homer’s epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you’ve never encountered, and it will change the fate of Troy forever.Andromache has proven herself a capable leader, but can she maintain that hard-won status now that she is the mother to the city’s long-awaited heir? With enemies closing in, ... Read more

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  • The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

    by Andreas Malm ...
    Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and ... Read more

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  • The Six

    The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts

    by Loren Grush ...
    “Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” —Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden FiguresIn this account of America’s first women astronauts “Grush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nation’s desire to conquer space, but the longing of six women to reach heights that were ... Read more

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