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TomDispatch Books eBook Series

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  • A Nation Unmade by War

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    "In his searing new book . . . Engelhardt has composed a requiem for a nation turned upside down by the relentless pursuit of global power" (Karen J. Greenberg, author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State).As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The United States of Fear

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com "focuses on the specific absurdities of American wars . . . strident, passionate, and problem-solving" ( Mother Jones).In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected president Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's "sole superpower" would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Way of War

    How Bush's Wars Became Obama's

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com "tackles our military fetish . . . He takes on our war-possessed world with clear-eyed, penetrating precision" ( Mother Jones).Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to present day, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end.Since 2001, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadow Government

    Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    "A book about secrets and surveillance . . . [from] one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing" (Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark).In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Andrew Hartman ...
    The vital and untold story of Karl Marx's stamp on American life.To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx's ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the ... Read more

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  • Success Is a Numbers Game

    Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds

    by Kyle Austin Young ...
    For fans of James Clear, Nassim Taleb, and Malcolm Gladwell: Stop being someone who could succeed and become someone who predictably should succeed by using a revolutionary “probability hacking” framework to increase your odds of success.Every goal that you’re pursuing has two hidden numbers attached to it—a probability of success and a probability of failure. Whether you’re trying to start a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Quite Possibly the Best Introduction to the Economy

    by Fola Yahaya ...
    Series series Instant Expert
    In today's fast-paced, ever-changing economic landscape, it's easy to feel like you're caught in the crossfire you don't fully understand. Quite Possibly the Best Introduction to the Economy will empower you to understand what causes crashes, bangs and economic wallops, and how to leverage your new-found knowledge to do more than just survive in the global economy.This essential book gives you ... Read more

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  • The Warhead

    The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare

    by Jeffrey E. Stern ...
    **An Apple Best Book of the MonthFrom award-winning journalist and coauthor of The 15:17 to Paris, an affecting human history of the first self-steering bomb**Paveway, the first "smart" bomb, was created to be a more precise and ostensibly humane weapon, reducing civilian casualties. The true impact of the bomb, however, is ever more complex and unpredictable.In The Warhead, Jeffrey Stern tells ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Art, Annotated

    The World's 500 Greatest Paintings Explained

    by DK ...
    A stunning art gallery in a book, art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints.Combining reproductions of each work of art with precise annotations and visual analysis, it is an expertly curated selection of the finest art ever created.Immerse yourself in this book and learn all about art - how Michelangelo painted nudes, what cubism is, and where abstraction ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Resilient Grieving, Second Edition

    How to Find Your Way Through Devastating Loss

    by Lucy Hone ...
    From a leading voice in resilience and bereavement science who has personally experienced incomprehensible loss, a fully updated and expanded new edition incorporating contemporary research, insight, and adviceResilient Grieving offers an empowering alternative to the five stages of grief—and makes clear our capacity for growth following the trauma of a loss that changes everything"The best work I ... Read more

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  • Tamed

    From Wild to Domesticated, the Ten Animals and Plants That Changed Human History

    by Alice Roberts ...
    An "epic and joyous" (Adam Rutherford) history of our species, using recent scientific discoveries to explore humanity's domestication of the plants and animals that have allowed human civilization to thrive."An excellent point of entry for anyone who wants to understand the new deep human history and what it portends." —The GuardianDogs became our companions.Wheat fed booming populations.Cattl... ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    by Clifford D. Conner ...
    A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this ... Read more

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