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  • Dream Cities

    Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

    by Wade Graham ...
    "An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces and the behaviors they engender." — Wall Street JournalFrom the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities.Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Concise Guide to Understanding Music

    by Graham Wade ...
    A Concise Guide to Understanding Music offers guidance on many aspects of musical form, the creative concepts of major composers over the centuries, and developments ranging from early notation to the present day. The book is profusely illustrated and also contains an extensive bibliography as well as detailed lists of compositions for the reader to listen to and enjoy. For those who wish to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Fantasy Worlds Unleashed: A Collection of 84 Enthralling Novels

    Eighty-Four Classic Tales of Enchanted Kingdoms, Lost Worlds, Gothic Mysteries, and Heroic Quests

    by David Garnett, Erckmann-Chatrian, Claude Farrère, W. G. Worfel, Robert E. Howard, Louisa Morgan, Jonathan Swift, Robert Paltock, Alvarado M. Fuller, Frank Aubrey, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles L. Sir Young, Robert W. Chambers, H. Rider Haggard, James Cowan, Joan Conquest, W. A. Darlington, E. S. Dorrance, Pierre Benoît, George Chetwynd Griffith, Hope Mirrlees, Edith Allonby, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inez Haynes Gillmore, James Stephens, Karle Wilson Baker, Anna Goldmark Gross, Lilian Bell, Kendell Foster Crossen, Manly Wade Wellman, James Blish, Kenneth Grahame, James Branch Cabell ...
    Fantasy Worlds Unleashed: A Collection of 84 Enthralling Novels surveys the extraordinary elasticity of fantasy across satire, romance, Gothic terror, lost-world adventure, fairy tale, dream vision, and early science-fictional speculation. Its capacious selection traces imagined realms from enchanted islands and subterranean kingdoms to imperial frontiers, uncanny doubles, and civilizations beyond ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    by Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Concise History of the Classic Guitar

    by Graham Wade ...
    A Concise History of the Classic Guitar by Graham Wade, one of the foremost international writers on the guitar, explores the history of the instrument from the 16th century to the present day. This compact assessment of five centuries of fretted instruments cover the vihuela in Spain, the history of four-course and five-course guitars, the evolution of tablature, and developments in the six ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Braided Waters

    Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii

    by Wade Graham ...
    Series Book 11 - Western Histories
    Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources—especially water—in a fragile, highly ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Dream Cities

    Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

    by Wade Graham ...
    Narrated by Paul Bellantoni ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    Landscape designer and historian Wade Graham follows the acclaimed American Eden with a lively, accessible cultural history of modern cities—from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and “sustainable” developments—seen through the lens of planning, design, and the architects and movements behind them.Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Concise History of Rock Music

    by Paul Fowles, Graham Wade ...
    This book, intended for the general public, music students, and enthusiasts of all ages, explores the entire history of rock music, from its origins up to the twenty-first century. Paul Fowles, guitarist, teacher and writer, has created a fascinating guide to a musical phenomenon which has captured the imagination of young people throughout the world. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Python Workshop

    Learn to code in Python and kickstart your career in software development or data science

    by Andrew Bird, Graham Lee, Corey Wade, Dr. Lau Cher Han, Mario Corchero Jiménez ...
    Learn the fundamentals of clean, effective Python coding and build the practical skills to tackle your own software development or data science projectsKey FeaturesBuild key Python skills with engaging development tasks and challenging activitiesImplement useful algorithms and write programs to solve real-world problemsApply Python in realistic data science projects and create simple machine ... Read more

    $46.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Python Workshop

    Write Python code to solve challenging real-world problems

    by Corey Wade, Mario Corchero Jimenez, Andrew Bird, Graham Lee, Dr. Lau Cher Han ...
    Gain proficiency, productivity, and power by working on projects and kick-starting your career in Python with this comprehensive, hands-on guide. Key Features • Understand and utilize Python syntax, objects, methods, and best practices • Explore Python's many features and libraries through real-world problems and big data • Use your newly acquired Python skills in machine learning as well as web ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Character

    The History of a Cultural Obsession

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    Narrated by Pamela Almand ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 28 min

    A spirited, engaging investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday lifeWhat is “character”? How can it be measured, developed, or built? Are character traits fixed or changeable? Is character innate, or can it be taught?Since Aristotle’s Poetics, philosophers, moralists, artists, and scientists have engaged with the ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Childrens' Gold Bedtime Stories

    All their favorites - 68 Wonderful stories on a Kobo

    by Ray Kay ...
    Classic fairy stories that have been modernized in the English language with derogatory 'old English' removed, so no one can be offended when reading these classic short stories.Many of these stories you may know from cartoons and films, but you will be surprised at how many are actually different to these originals. Many of the fairy tales in this book have different story lines or surprisingly ... Read more

    $4.70 USD or Free with Kobo Plus