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  • Significance

    How Successful Christians Turn Their Work Into a Calling

    What if the job you already have is the mission you've been praying for?In Significance, David Brühlmann, a chemical engineer turned PhD biologist turned humanitarian entrepreneur, makes the case that God rarely calls people out of their work. He calls them deeper into it. Moving between the book of Acts, the Gospels, and his own unlikely career across three continents, Brühlmann shows how the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • How to Find Out Anything

    From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, a Guide to Uncovering Anything About Everyone and Everything

    by Don MacLeod ...
    In How to Find Out Anything, master researcher Don MacLeod explains how to find what you're looking for quickly, efficiently, and accurately—and how to avoid the most common mistakes of the Google Age.Not your average research book, How to Find Out Anything shows you how to unveil nearly anything about anyone. From top CEO’s salaries to police records, you’ll learn little-known tricks for ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    Series series One World Essentials
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • How to Kill a Language

    Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words

    An urgent, globe-spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we lose—culturally, politically, and personally—when a language is silenced?“Fascinating . . . Galer casts a bright light on the massive linguistic diversity that the world seems set to lose.”—John McWhorter, The New York TimesLanguages can be killed in many ways: war, the climate crisis, ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Mother Earth Is Our Elder

    A Northern Indigenous Path Toward Sustainable Living

    ***Instant Globe and Mail Bestseller***Indigenous solutions we can all apply today to make our lives more sustainable and engage with earth and community from award-winning Dene activist and writer Katlia.The Dene in Canada’s North West territories have lived alongside nature for many generations. From battling environmental racism on the front lines of historical environmental protests, to ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • PORTL

    The Portable Operant Research and Teaching Lab

    Note: This Kobo ebook has a "read-only" format. You will be able to read the book and will have access to all of the content in the book. However, the book does not allow you to highlight text, add notes, or search within the book.PORTL stands for the Portable Operant Research and Teaching Lab.It provides an interactive environment for learning about behavior principles and investigating ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Being Logical

    A Guide to Good Thinking

    by D.Q. McInerny ...
    An essential tool for our post-truth world: a witty primer on logic—and the dangers of illogical thinking—by a renowned Notre Dame professorLogic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Beinglogical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments—arguments that build from given premises, using evidence, to a genuine conclusion. But mastering logical thinking also ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Euphemania

    Our Love Affair with Euphemisms

    by Ralph Keyes ...
    A delightful look at euphemisms—where they come from, why we need them, and why they tell us about who we are."Whether you're looking for information or just browsing, Euphemania is a classic. It is beautifully written, uniformly delightful, and a pleasure to read. Keyes has spread a broad net and offers the tastiest morsels to his readers. I love this book!" ―Rosalie Maggio, author of How t... ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor

    A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between

    The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly difficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in mass media, stoked by foreign ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]

    A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

    THE CLASSIC PARENTING GUIDE -- MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDA revised and updated 6th edition of the groundbreaking, research-based guide to understanding and parenting challenging children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.What’s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Make It Stick

    The Science of Successful Learning

    To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The New Dark Ages

    The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society

    INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • The evidence is clear—we are now entering a post-literate society. In this urgent and timely account, James Marriott shows the potential impact of this shift and offers a passionate defense of the written word.It’s not by chance that the rise of new printing technologies coincided with the age of revolutions and the decline of the aristocratic order. At the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Journeys Through Ancient Literature

    by Emily Wilson ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." —Salman Rushdie"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." —Madeline MillerMost Anticipated Books of Fall: Goodreads, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsFrom the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Redemption

    Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row

    **A powerful and startling account of the unsparing connection between a convent of cloistered nuns and the condemned women on Texas’s death row, exploring questions around crime and punishment, faith, and retribution in America as only Lawrence Wright can.“Redemption gripped me like the best crime novel and left me fundamentally changed. The relationship between two groups of isolated women ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Read & Think Spanish, Premium Fourth Edition

    Your first-class ticket to building better Spanish language skills—and appreciating the diversity of Spanish-speaking culture!From the bestselling Read & Think series, this fully illustrated premium fourth edition of Read & Think Spanish brings the Spanish language to life! In addition to introducing, developing, and growing key vocabulary, this book gives you an insider’s look at the exciting ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition

    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research.With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from high-school students and first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to researchers in business and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    A fiftieth-anniversary edition of the cult classic of gonzo journalism, hailed as “the best book on the dope decade” (The New York Times Book Review), featuring Ralph Steadman’s original drawings and an introduction by Caity WeaverThe inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro“A scorching epochal sensation!”—Tom WolfeFirst ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Curly Haired Company

    Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Simplified Chinese Edition

    Series Book 1 - Mandarin Companion
    Mandarin Companion: New graded readers for a new generation of Chinese learners. Now you can read book in Chinese that are fun and accelerate your language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.Level 1 is written using approximately 300 unique Chinese characters and intended for Chinese ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Why Does He Do That?

    Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

    In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.He says he loves you. So...why does he do that?You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • The Writer's Compass

    From Story Map to Finished Draft in 7 Stages

    Map out your idea and finish your story in 7 stages!This book will show writers how to develop their ideas into a finished novel by working through it in 7 stages, while learning how to mapping out their story's progress and structure so they can evaluate and improve their work. It teaches writers to visualize their story's progress with a story map that helps them see all the different components ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Professor Is In

    The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job

    by Karen Kelsky ...
    UPDATED FOR 2026 • The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs, and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their PhD into their ideal job—now refreshed with new material to equip readers for today’s job market“If you want unvarnished straight talk about the academic job market—and how to navigate it—then heed Karen Kelsky, and heed her now.”—Rebecca Schuman, education ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • The Second Estate

    How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy

    by Ray D. Madoff ...
    Named by The New Yorker as one of the Best Books of 2025 and featured on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepherd.A revelatory book that lifts the curtain on America’s most consequential public deception: how the rich get richer using tools the government gave them.Amid conflicting narratives about the drivers of wealth and inequality in the United St... ... Read more

    Was $13.69 USD Now $8.69 USD

  • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition

    An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

    "On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." —New York TimesA beloved classic and the definitive volume on the art of writing nonfictionOn Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the w ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Interior Castle (The Mansions)

    This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer. She was a reformer of the Carmelite ... Read more

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