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  • Operation Jericho

    A Novel

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    In this novel of clandestine warfare, two Arab-American Marines must infiltrate a terrorist training camp . . .Operation Jericho takes the reader into the world of clandestine warfare, focusing on two Arab American brothers who face a formidable enemy in Afghanistan.Much like the story of Jericho in the book of Joshua, two spies are sent into a terrorist training camp to determine if there are any ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • National Gallery

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    A poetic collage of art in the modern world: from Rilkean elegies for an iPhone to a meditation on Melville's classic Jonathan Ball's fourth poetry book, the first in seven years, swirls chaos and confession together. At the book's heart is a question: Why create art? A series of poetic sequences torment themselves over this question, offering few answers and taking fewer prisoners. Loose sonnets ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • John Paizs's Crime Wave

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    Series series Canadian Cinema
    John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave’ examines the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave’s comic plot is simple: aspiring screenwriter Steven Penny, played by Paizs, finds himself able to write only the beginnings and endings of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Politics of Knives

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    If David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to disembowelled films, these poems land us in a limbo between the intellectual and the visceral, between speaking and screaming. Finding the language of violence and the violence in language, Jonathan Ball becomes the Stephen King of verse. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Lightning of Possible Storms

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    Winner of the 2021 Margaret Laurence Award for FictionAleya's world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book…A mad scientist seeks to steal his son's dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Clockfire

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    Jonathan Ball's Clock?re is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce – plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience or the laws of physics are de?led. The poems in a sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and '?re' and thus fails to offer its ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Dalnavert

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    “Dalnavert” tells the story of a writer who sleeps overnight in a supposedly haunted museum and is possessed by the ghost of its previous owner. This ghost, disoriented to awaken in this strange body and inside a warped version of his home, finds the writer’s computer and begins to type out the story as his plea for help. ... Read more

    $1.47 USD

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    The Lightning of Possible Storms

    by Jonathan Ball ...
    Narrated by Matt Hawkins, Gabi Epstein ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 9 min

    Winner of the 2021 Margaret Laurence Award for FictionAleya's world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book…A mad scientist seeks to steal his son's dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Shared World

    by Jonathan Ball, Chadwick Ginther, GMB Chomichuk, James Gillespie ...
    Series series Shared World
    A home to reavers and rakes, sorcerers and slayers, undead king and undying things—expanding a page at a time in the stories added by its authors.In the Once Lands, a lineage of sorcerous wayfinders work to keep godlike monstrosities locked behind the crumbling walls of cursed cities by allowing the vengeful ghosts of forest gods to inhabit their living flesh.In the wild wastes, tribes of cannibal ... Read more

    $7.36 USD

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    Beyond Weird

    by Philip Ball ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education

    A New Level Playing Field?

    Edited by Marion Bowl, Colin McCaig, Jonathan Hughes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the contributors and editors expose the contradictions arising from the tension between aims for increased equality and an increasingly marketised higher ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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    The World According to Physics

    by Jim Al-Khalili ...
    Narrated by Jim Al-Khalili ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    This audiobook narrated by quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers an illuminating look at what physics reveals about the worldShining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality itself.Al ... Read more

    $20.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook