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  • Evolution and 'the Sex Problem'

    American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism

    by Bender ...
    A noteworthy investigation of the Darwinian element in American fiction from the realist through the Freudian erasIn Evolution and “the Sex Problem” author Bert Bender argues that Darwin’s theories of sexual selection and of the emotions are essential elements in American fiction from the late 1800s through the 1950s, particularly during the Freudian era and the years surrounding the Scopes trial ... Read more

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  • Everyday Sacred

    A Woman's Journey Home

    by Sue Bender ...
    WITH SIMPLE SHIFTS OF PERCEPTION, EACH OF US CAN FIND THE SACRED IN EVERY DAY.Like the vibrant yet simple quilts that led her to live within the Amish community and to write about the experience in her bestselling book 'Plain and Simple', the em ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The AI Con

    How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

    A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think ... Read more

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  • Instant Insights: Biofertiliser use in agriculture

    Series Book 101 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on biofertiliser use in agriculture.The first chapter examines the role of biofertilisers and consortia of microorganisms to improve the effectiveness of organic fertilisation, before moving on to consider the use of animal excrement, including manures, slurry and guano.The second chapter presents the key issues in the optimum use of treated wastes in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • An Invisible Sign of My Own

    A Novel

    by Aimee Bender ...
    Aimee Bender’s stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt*,* proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise.Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can’t stop doing is math: ... Read more

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  • Perry County at Gettysburg

    Perry County At GettysburgBy: Terry F. BenderPerry County At Gettysburg provides biographical sketches of 108 Perry County soldiers who were present at the battle of Gettysburg in the Union Army. It gives brief descriptions of the units in which they fought and the locations of those units on the Gettysburg battlefield. It briefly describes the lives of these men before the war and afterwards for ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Plain and Simple

    A Woman's Journey to the Amish

    by Sue Bender ...
    "I had an obsession with the Amish. Plan and simple. Objectively it made no sense. I, who worked hard at being special, fell in love with a people who valued being ordinary."So begins Sue Bender's story, the captivating and inspiring true story of a harried urban Californian moved by the beauty of a display of quilts to seek out and live with the Amish. Discovering lives shaped by unfamiliar yet ... Read more

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  • How to Talk Well

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom at a Cost

    Freedom

    FREEDOMWithout It, What Are We?WITH IT, WHO ARE WE?This Collection of Work was Done in the months following the Unlawful U.S. Invasion of a Sovereign Nation of, Iraq.Written By Jeremy Bender, "FREEDOM AT A COST" is my creative presentation of social commentary constructed entirely from beginning each statement with the word F-R-E-E-D-O-M, among the issues I touch upon are war, poverty, America's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Nation Among Nations

    America's Place in World History

    by Thomas Bender ...
    A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to todayAmericans like to tell their country's story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and situations unique to itself. Thomas Bender asks us to rethink this "exceptionalism" and to reconsider the conventional narrative. He ... Read more

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  • The Abyss or Life Is Simple

    Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion

    An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard's writings and our time.Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the same name as the ... Read more

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