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  • UFOs and the National Security State

    Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973

    by Richard Dolan ...
    "The documentation is spectacularly good, the best ever on the UFO subject. And the conclusion is overwhelmingly powerful." —Whitley Strieber, New York Times–bestselling authorRichard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of US Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Code of the Suburb

    Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

    by Scott Jacques, Richard Wright ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers "provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war" (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run).When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Disney's Land

    by Richard Snow ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Potato Beetles

    by Richard L. Jacques ...
    Based on over 2,500 specimens representing all the species of Leptinotarsa in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this book includes studies on 31 of the 41 known species of the world. Included are host records, when available, and distribution data. The most complete information is available for nine species found in the United States. ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

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    Energy

    A Human History

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 48 min

    A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Sailing the Graveyard Sea

    The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

    by Richard Snow ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    A “compelling” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives—part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian.On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in the New York Harbor at the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Capitalism as Megamachine

    A New Historical, Legal and Political Approach

    by Jacques Richard ...
    Series series Economics and Humanities
    The concept of a “megamachine” – a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinisation of humanity – has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century.This book builds on previous attempts to define and analyse the machine and argues that modern industrial capitalism is at the heart of it. The first part of the book takes stock of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The World's Great Sermons

    Volume II—Hooker to South

    by Kleiser Grenville, Thomas Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, Richard Baxter, Jacques-Bénigne Bousset, John Bunyan, John Tillotson, Louis Bourdaloue, John Howe, François Fenelon, Robert South ...
    Series Book 2 - The World's Great Sermons
    The aim in preparing this work has been to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit through the Christian centuries, and to present these masterpieces in attractive and convenient form. It is believed that they will be found valuable as instruction to ministers of to-day. They should also be helpful to others who, tho not preachers, yet seek reading of this kind for the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet

    The Failure of Mainstream Economists

    by Jacques Richard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues – such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation – most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods from the sphere of ecological accounting.The work has four main themes: First, the book provides a ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

    Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

    by Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud ...
    Series series Economics and Humanities
    Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both economics and management.It is argued that while for the practitioners of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Building Governance and Climate Change

    Regulation and Related Policies

    Edited by Richard Lorch, Jacques Laubscher, Edwin Hon-wan Chan, Henk Visscher ...
    The contribution of buildings to climate change is widely acknowledged. This book investigates how building regulatory systems are addressing the current and future effects of climate change, and how these systems can be improved. After presenting a comprehensive overview of how the current building regulatory system developed, some of the inadequacies are identified. The largest part of the book ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2

    by Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Carl Jacobi, H. Beam Piper, Alan E. Nourse, Andre Norton, Henry Kuttner, Poul Anderson, Frank Belknap Long, Evelyn E. Smith, John Victor Peterson, Irving E. Cox, Jr., Richard R. Smith, Jacques Jean Ferrat, George H. Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, Walt Sheldon, Robert F. Young, Robert J. Shea, Richard E. Lowe, M. A. Cummings, William Logan, Eando Binder, Charles E. Fritch, William Gerken, David C. Knight, Robert Abernathy ...
    Series Book 25 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazine publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the field's best known writers. This is our second Fantastic Universe Super Pack. Collected in this oversized edition are more than 100,000 words of science fiction and ... Read more

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