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  • Audiobook

    Foundations of Fiction, The - The Murder Mystery

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

    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

  • Wild Blue Yonder

    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

  • Concurrent Aerobic and Strength Training

    Scientific Basics and Practical Applications

    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

  • 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

  • Night Terrors Vol. 23

    Short Horror Stories Anthology

    Series Book 23 - Night Terrors
    Terror comes in many forms and faces...A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What the Hygge!

    An A-Z of Nordic Nonsense

    by Ute Knut ...
    There are 46 Inuit words for snow. There are 168 Nordic words for nonsense. Hygge is just one of them. ... Read more

    $3.74 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terra Preta

    How the World's Most Fertile Soil Can Help Reverse Climate Change and Reduce World Hunger

    Series series
    Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about black gold,” scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world climate change and the hunger crisis - can be solved by it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • XI, XII & XIII Olympiad

    Berlin 1936, St. Moritz 1948

    Series Book 11 - The Olympic Century
    When the modern Olympic movement was launched in Paris in 1894, the goal was to create a global festival of sport that would unite athletes and nations in the spirit of sportsmanship and goodwill. The Olympic movement went on to achieve that lofty goal, but its founders could never have imagined that the Games could be used in equal measure to further mankind's darkest ambitions.The XI, XII, & ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Brazil Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Series series The Latin America Readers
    From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • San Francisco's Market Street Railway

    Series series Images of Rail
    The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the city�s early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged by the emergence of the automobile, cheaper motor coaches, and �nickel jitneys��competing cars ... Read more

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  • Leveraged

    The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility

    Edited by Moritz Schularick ...
    An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century. Published in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking.The 2008 financial crisis was a seismic event that laid bare how financial institutions’ instabilities can have devastating effects on societies and economies. COVID-19 brought similar financial devastation at the beginning of 2020 and once more massive ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • VIII Olympiad

    Paris 1924, St. Moritz 1928

    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

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