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  • Audiobook

    Deception

    by Anke Zet ...
    Narrated by Mary Jane Wells ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 7 min

    Book 1: Unearthly Talents seriesSet in the heart of the Australian outback, Ellie is looking for answers. What she uncovers is not what she expected, and dark intentions shadow every new discovery in her investigation. Things get complicated as she uncovers the truth and suddenly, the world is not as it seems.Deception is a futuristic romantic mystery where a young woman tries to understand the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Capitalism

    A Global History

    by Sven Beckert ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year*"*A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come." — Marcus Rediker, The New York Times“Epic… Read this book and you will learn innumerable things you ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Truman Toad and the Quest for the Perfect Hug

    by Oren Lavie ...
    Illustrated by Anke Kuhl ...
    A self-important but good-hearted toad, with an ample amount of self-love, discovers his love for others in this entertaining and charming picture book!When Truman Toad—the most stubborn, perfectionist toad in Green Grove—wakes up one morning from a dream about the perfect hug, he knows exactly what he must do: find whoever is holding the other half.With a charmingly witty text by author Oren ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disrupting the university

    The stifling of academic freedom in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

    by Heike Egner, Anke Uhlenwinkel ...
    Translated by Zachary Gallant ...
    At universities, professors are increasingly being dismissed or demoted from high positions for allegedly disruptive behaviors. But when is a professor disruptive? In the media, you read about unpopular statements, false attitudes, bullying or abuse of power. But that is only part of the story. This book looks at the structures behind the cases and shows that the dismissals repeatedly affect ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • economic words

    by Anke Becker ...
    Gibt es einen verborgenen Sinn hinter den täglichen Nachrichten der Welt der Finanzen und der Ökonomie? Seit 2012 zeichnet die Künstlerin Anke Becker in regelmäßigen Abständen economic words: Mit einem schwarzen Filzstift werden Wörter und Sätze aus Zeitungsartikeln der Wirtschaftszeitung Financial Times gestrichen, vereinzelte Worte bleiben sichtbar. Zuvor Verborgenes kommt zum Vorschein – ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Empire of Cotton

    A Global History

    by Sven Beckert ...
    The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
 
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • World's Greatest Classics in One Volume

    Enriched edition. Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, War and Peace, Art of War, Faust, Don Quixote, Bushido…

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe0, Rabindranath Tagore1, Fyodor Dostoyevsky2, Walt Whitman3, Niccolò Machiavelli4, Oscar Wilde5, Robert Louis Stevenson6, James Fenimore Cooper7, Edgar Allan Poe8, William Shakespeare9, Giovanni Boccaccio0, Confucius1, George MacDonald2, Bram Stoker3, Charlotte Brontë4, Emily Brontë5, Henry David Thoreau6, Weedon Grossmith7, Jack London8, Henry James9, Louisa May Alcott0, Victor Hugo1, Arthur Conan Doyle2, Frances Hodgson Burnett3, Joseph Conrad4, Jane Austen5, Herman Melville6, George Eliot7, Laurence Sterne8, Thomas Hardy9, Jonathan Swift0, Edith Wharton1, Benito Pérez Galdós2, Daniel Defoe3, Henry Fielding4, Alexandre Dumas5, Kalidasa6, Kenneth Grahame7, Marcel Proust8, Willa Cather9, Nathaniel Hawthorne0, Homer1, Gaston Leroux2, Charles Baudelaire3, Wilkie Collins4, William Makepeace Thackeray5, Voltaire6, Kate Chopin7, Apuleius8, John Milton9, Frederick Douglass0, Laozi1, John Keats2, James Joyce3, Ann Ward Radcliffe4, Kahlil Gibran5, Kakuzo Okakura6, Soseki Natsume7, Princess Der Ling8, H. G. Wells9, W. B. Yeats0, J. M. Barrie1, G. K. Chesterton2, T. S. Eliot3, L. M. Montgomery4, C. S. Lewis5, D. H. Lawrence6, E. M. Forster7, H. P. Lovecraft8, Marcus Aurelius9, Friedrich Nietzsche0, Lewis Wallace1, Ivan Turgenev2, Anton Chekhov3, Leo Tolstoy4, Nikolai Gogol5, Sir Walter Scott6, George Bernard Shaw7, Miguel de Cervantes8, Mary Shelley9, Cao Xueqin0, Emile Zola1, Válmíki2, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee3, P. B. Shelley4, Elizabeth von Arnim5, Herman Hesse6, Dante7, Pedro Calderon de la Barca8, Sun Tzu9, Inazo Nitobé00, Connor Remington43 ...
    Translated by James Legge02, Andrew Lang03, Bayard Taylor04, Ellen Marriage05, Samuel Butler06, Thomas Seltzer07, Lionel Giles08, Constance Garnett09, Havelock Ellis10, Benjamin Jowett11, Miriam S. Knight12, Louise Maude13, Thomas Common14, C. J. Hogarth15, Alexander Pope16, John Payne17, Aylmer Maude18, Helen Zimmern19, William F. Fleming20, Cyril Scott21, William Robson22, Gunther Olesch23, W. K. Marriott24, Ralph T. H. Griffith25, Arthur W. Ryder26, Yasotarō Mōri27, Eleanor Marx-Aveling28, Frederick Amadeus Malleson29, Lewis Page Mercier30, Isabel Hapgood31, Horace B. Samuel32, H. W. Longfellow33, William Adlington34, Anke Dreher35, Amy Coulter36, Stefan Langer37, Semyon Chaichenets38, C. K. Scott Moncrieff39, Edward Fitzgerald40, Henry Bencraft Joly41 ...
    World's Greatest Classics in One Volume offers an unparalleled exploration into the heart of timeless literary beauty and philosophical inquiry. This anthology captures a panorama of human experience through an extraordinary array of narratives, lyrical poetry, and philosophical discourses spanning ancient to modern eras. From profound contemplations of the self and society to captivating tales of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Excel Mastery

    The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Microsoft Excel

    by Dickson Anke ...
    Have you ever felt like you're drowning in data, struggling to make sense of it all? Maybe you're a small business owner trying to keep track of your finances or a student trying to organize research data for a project. Whatever your situation, Microsoft Excel can help you make sense of the chaos.With our book, "Mastering Microsoft Excel: A Beginner's Guide," you can learn how to use Excel to its ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slavery's Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    Edited by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bahman Mohassess: Human Assemblage

    by Anke Kempkes, Maryam Athari, Claire Davis, Salman Matinfar, Reza Mirzaei, Thomas Spallek, Bahman Mohasses ...
    Bahman Mohassess conceived his lifelong experimentation with collage as "assemblage"–an extension of the fractured figuration and charged materiality that shaped his paintings and sculptures. This publication repositions his assemblages as a radical laboratory of artistic, intellectual, and political engagement. Essays by leading scholars and curators explore how Mohassess negotiated exile, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Slavery’s Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Narrated by William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pam Ward, Ron Butler ...
    Series series The Early American Studies Series

    Unabridged

    13 hours 50 min

    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • The Monied Metropolis

    New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

    by Sven Beckert ...
    This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power, and decisively put their mark on the age. Professor Beckert explores how capital-owning New Yorkers overcame their distinct ... Read more

    $34.99 USD