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  • Europe After the Rain

    by Alan Burns ...
    Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst's surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction - a theme which Burns here takes to its conclusion, showing man not merely trying to come to terms with desolation, but combating human cruelty with that resilience of spirit without which survival would be impossible. The Europe through which the unnamed narrator travels is a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Babel

    by Alan Burns ...
    Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme contrasts of mood and style and startling surrealist juxtapositions of images and ideas.By turns ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Buster

    by Alan Burns ...
    Buster was the first, and arguably the most traditional, work of fiction by Alan Burns - dating from before his aleatoric style developed into "cutting up", but displaying early examples of the trademark disjointed, brisk and biting style which earned him a cult following. Imbued with autobiographical sentiment, the novel shows a young man's upbringing during World War II and his disillusioned ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Celebrations

    by Alan Burns ...
    Celebrations, Alan Burns’s third novel, brings the inherent violence and oppression so apparent in Europe after the Rain into the setting of a family-owned factory, where social hierarchies, legal structures and humiliation keep the workers in line.By bringing the differences between workers sharply into focus, Burns creates a choking atmosphere of oppression and exploitation heightened and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Fighting Commodores

    Convoy Commanders in the Second World War

    by Alan Burn ...
    As Britain came terrifyingly close to running out of supplies during the Second World War, a group of retired senior naval officers returned to the sea in the role of convoy commanders, and thereby turned the tide. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the British West Indies

    by Sir Alan Burns ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
    History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations. The actions of other nations are studied, as well as the British, as the various colonial powers vied for possession of these valuable possessions. Terrible ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • History of Nigeria

    by Sir Alan Burns ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
    History of Nigeria (1969) was first published in 1929 and completely revised by its author, and gives the history of Nigeria from before its first encounters with the British, through colonial rule, and up to independence in 1960. It describes the peoples of Nigeria and the British conquest and colonial administration, and is full of detailed and valuable information relating to trade and industry ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Fighting Captain

    The Story of Frederic Walker RN CB DSO & The Battle of the Atlantic

    by Alan Burn ...
    Series series Pen & Sword Military Classics
    A riveting account of the World War II naval career of the man who did more to win the Battle of the Atlantic than any other officer at sea.Captain F. J. Walker, RN, dedicated his life to defeating the Germans—and Karl Dönitz, Führer der U-Boote, in particular—by containing the U-boats, wearing them down, and sending them back to their bunkers.He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fundamentals of Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry

    Solutions to the Exercises

    by Pedro Andreo, David T. Burns, Alan E. Nahum, Jan Seuntjens ...
    Fosters a thorough understand of radiation dosimetry concepts: detailed solutions to the exercises in the textbook Fundamentals of Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry! ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Fundamentals of Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry

    by Pedro Andreo, David T. Burns, Alan E. Nahum, Jan Seuntjens, Frank Herbert Attix ...
    A new, comprehensively updated edition of the acclaimed textbook by F.H. Attix (Introduction to Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry) taking into account the substantial developments in dosimetry since its first edition. This monograph covers charged and uncharged particle interactions at a level consistent with the advanced use of the Monte Carlo method in dosimetry; radiation quantities, ... Read more

    $151.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Feeling Good Together

    The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work

    by David D. Burns, M.D. ...
    Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    We all know people who are hard to get along with. It might be your spouse, mother, neighbor, friend, or colleague. In his new book Feeling Good Together, Dr. David D. Burns describes Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy (CIT), a radically different method for developing more loving and satisfying relationships with the people you care about.Based on twenty-five years of clinical experience and new, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Beyond Basic Knitting

    by Anita J. Tosten, Missy Burns ...
    Series series How To Basics
    Detailed information that builds on basic knitting techniques. How-to instructions complete with color photographs. Includes essential skills review and knitting resources list. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD