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  • The Redouté brothers

    Masters of scientific illustration in Paris

    by Hans Walter Lack, James A. Compton, Martin W. Callmander ...
    Series series Archives
    This work provides the first comprehensive biography of the three Redouté brothers, Antoine-Ferdinand, Pierre-Joseph and Henri-Joseph. Originating from humble origins in the Ardennes, they all took root in Paris where Antoine-Ferdinand became a decorative painter. By contrast Pierre-Joseph and Henri-Joseph embarked as botanical illustrators on a scientific and aesthetic career including numerous ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • ON FISTULAE

    by Burnett, James Compton ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

    $9.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organizing Equality

    Dispatches from a Global Struggle

    Edited by Alison Hearn, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Amanda Grzyb ...
    Series Book 3 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance
    Struggles for equality happen in all corners of the world. While social and economic justice movements are specific to their different national contexts, identities, and forms of oppression, collaboration and coalition building are required if we are to attain sustainable equality and healing justice.Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Persuasion and Communication in Sport, Exercise, and Physical Activity

    Edited by Ben Jackson, James Dimmock, Josh Compton ...
    Series series Routledge Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity
    How can we use persuasion methods to make people more physically active and improve their sport and exercise experiences? How can instructors, coaches, athletes, and practitioners most effectively communicate their messages to others?Persuasion and Communication in Sport, Exercise, and Physical Activity is the first book to consider the applications of persuasion frameworks within activity-related ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age

    by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Thomas H Davenport, H. James Wilson, Paul R. Daugherty ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton, Teri Schnaubelt ...
    Series series HBR's 10 Must Reads

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready?We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how these technologies work together, how to adopt them, and why your strategy can't ignore them.In this book you'll learn how: data science, driven by artificial ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Making a Metaverse That Matters

    From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For

    by Wagner James Au ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    An up-close account from the world's first metaverse-embedded reporterIn Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For, the celebrated author of The Making of Second Life and Game Design Secrets, Wagner James Au, delivers an engrossing exploration of how nascent metaverse platforms have already captured the imagination of millions. Featuring ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Series Book 26 - Ancient Textiles
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    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue

    The History of a Color

    by Michel Pastoureau ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its ... Read more

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  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

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  • White

    The History of a Color

    by Michel Pastoureau ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow—and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • French Literature

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
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  • Elephant Slaves & Pampered Parrots

    Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Louise E. Robbins ...
    Series series Animals, History, Culture
    This lively history "adds a new dimension to our understanding of 18th-century France" by exploring the Parisian fashion of importing exotic animals ( American Historical Review).In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor—in all, forty-two live animals. In ... Read more

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