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Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

A Century of Science Fiction

by Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Jules Verne, John W. Campbell, Jr., E.E. Doc Smith, Philip Franics Nowlan, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak0, A. E. van Vogt1, Jack Williamson2, Tom Easton3, Avram Davidson4, Philip Jose Farmer5, C. M. Kornbluth6, Zenna Henderson7, Richard Matheson8, Jack Vance9, Robert Silverberg0, Brian W. Aldiss1, Isaac Asimov2, Ben Bova3, Joe Haldeman4, Ann McCaffrey5, R. A. Lafferty6, Octavia E. Butler7, Jack Dann8, Larry Niven9, Kitt Reed0, Vonda N. MacIntyre1, Joanna Russ2, Keith Roberts3, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.4, Gregory Benford5, H. P. Lovecraft6, Alan Dean Foster7, David Drake8, Pat Cadigan9, Lisa Goldstein0, James Morrow1, James Morrow2, Terry Pratchett3, Lucius Shepard4, Bruce Sterling5, Charles Stross6, Howard Waldrop7, Connie Willis8, Cory Doctorow9 ...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays! ... Read more

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A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
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The Indigenous City Edit

by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson, Ivy Knight0, Alex Jacobs-Blum2, Liz Howard4, Ladybird Chief6 ...

Narrated by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson, Ivy Knight1, Alex Jacobs-Blum3, Liz Howard5, Ladybird Chief7 ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The City Edits
Unabridged

38 min

West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoke Simpson, Ivy Knight, Dave Bidini, Chief Ladybird, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Liz Howard and original ... Read more

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West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoke Simpson, Ivy Knight, Dave Bidini, Chief Ladybird, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Liz Howard and original
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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations

by Michael T. Martin, Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré, Roy Armes, James E. Genova, Femi Okiremuete Shaka, James Burns, Tom Rice0, Odile Goerg1, Med Hondo2, Férid Boughedir3, Haile Gerima4, Sada Niang5, Monique Mbeka Phoba6, Olivier Barlet7, Clyde R. Taylor8, Alexie Tcheuyap9, Esiaba Irobi0, Stephen A. Zacks1, Teshome H. Gabriel2, David Murphy3, Jude Akudinobi4, Maureen N. Eke5, Arnold Shepperson6, Keyan G. Tomaselli7, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra8, Boukary Sawadogo9, Claude Forest0, Samba Gadjigo1, Beti Ellerson2 ...

Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic ... Read more

$37.99 USD

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic
... Read more
Stethoscope

The Making of a Medical Icon

by Anna Harris, Tom Rice ...

This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar and yet charismatic object?Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology and sound studies, the book ... Read more

$22.99 USD

This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar and yet charismatic object?Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology and sound studies, the book
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Films for the Colonies

Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire

by Tom Rice ...

Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely ... Read more

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Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely
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White Robes, Silver Screens

Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan

by Tom Rice ...

The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the little-known relationship between the Klan's success and its use of film and media in the interwar years when the image, ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the little-known relationship between the Klan's success and its use of film and media in the interwar years when the image,
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Russian 19th

The top ten Short Stories of the 19th Century written by Russian authors

by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley, Tom McLean ...

Unabridged

6 hours 42 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Audiobook

Russian Short Story, The - Volume 5

Anton Chekhov to Alexander Kuprin

by Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kuprin ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Tom McLean ...

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min

The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature.Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story. These gems sparkle and beguile the mind ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature.Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story. These gems sparkle and beguile the mind
... Read more
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Dark Masters, The - Volume 3

Anatole France to C J Cutcliffe Hyne

by Anatole France, James Hain Friswell, Richard Le Gallienne, Richard Garnett, Vsevolod Garshin, Arthur Gask, Theophile Gautier, W L George, R Murray Gilchrist, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Gray0, The Brothers Grimm1, H Rider Haggard2, Thomas Hardy3, Augustus Hare4, W F Harvey5, Wilhelm Hauff6, the Reverend R S Hawker7, Nathaniel Hawthorne8, Nathaniel Hawthorne9, Johann Hebel0, Lafcadio Hearn1, William Hope Hodgson2, E T A Hoffman3, Tom Hood4, Anthony Hope5, William Hunt6, C J Cutcliffe Hyne7 ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker8, Christopher Ragland9, Mark Rice-Oxley0 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 39 min

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy,
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 6

Embrace the darkness

by William Hope Hodgson, E T A Hoffman, Tom Hood, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Anthony Hope, Violet Hunt, William Hunt, C J Cutcliffe Hyne, Washington Irving, Violet Jacob, W W Jacobs, M R James, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Franz Kafka, W G Kelly, Arabella Kenealy, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Rudyard Kipling, Perceval Landon, Sheridan Le Fanu ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
Audiobook

Top 10 Short Stories, The - Psychological

The top 10 psychological short stories of all time

by Willa Cather, Mikhail Bulgakov, E T A Hoffman, E T A Hoffman, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Barry Pain, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Mansfield, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman0 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley1, Mark Rice-Oxley2, Tom MacLean3 ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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The Rover Vol. 01 No. 23 (Unabridged)

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by Seba Smith ...

Narrated by Ernest Cremeans, Tom Corpuz, Rose Plant, Walter Rice ...

Unabridged

2 hours 13 min

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry. Every half-year, the 26 weekly issues were also published under a bound compilation. The 23rd issue of the series presents another interesting mix of ... Read more

$4.99 USD

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry. Every half-year, the 26 weekly issues were also published under a bound compilation. The 23rd issue of the series presents another interesting mix of
... Read more

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