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  • Number Systems

    A Path into Rigorous Mathematics

    by Anthony Kay ...
    Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics aims to introduce number systems to an undergraduate audience in a way that emphasises the importance of rigour, and with a focus on providing detailed but accessible explanations of theorems and their proofs.The book continually seeks to build upon students' intuitive ideas of how numbers and arithmetic work, and to guide them towards the means to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Nat Turner, Black Prophet

    A Visionary History

    "Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." —Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post"An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer." —David W. Blight, Los Angeles TimesA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year | One of Literary Hub's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA bold reinterpre... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joining Places

    Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Nat Turner, Black Prophet

    A Visionary History

    Narrated by Leon Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion―and the definitive account.In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Using the Media for Adult Basic Education

    Edited by Anthony Kaye, Keith Harry ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education
    Originally published in 1982 this volume examines some of the themes and issues involved in the combined use of broadcasting, distance teaching methods and local tutorial or counselling provision for adult basic education. Particular emphasis is laid on identifying means of reaching groups and individuals with special needs in literacy, numeracy and social skills. Detailed case-studies are ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Distance Teaching For Higher and Adult Education

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education
    Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financial -which should be taken into account in the planning and running of large-scale, centralised distance education systems at the higher education level. The book uses evidence drawn from Open University type institutions in Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The War Was You and Me

    Civilians in the American Civil War

    Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including, of course, slavery. Northerners witnessed the reorganization of ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • New Directions in Slavery Studies

    Commodification, Community, and Comparison

    In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline’s major themes—commodification, community, and comparison—and indicating paths for future inquiry.New Directions in Slavery Studies addresses the various ways in which the institution of slavery reduced human beings to a form of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century

    This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the “second slavery.” The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing the expansion of reconfigured slaveries in extensive new zones of commodity production in Brazil, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Baseball: The New York Game

    How the National Pastime Paralleled US History

    BASEBALL The New York Game is organized as a linear narrative of facts and events that marries America's illustrious history with the rich background of baseball, our national pastime, beginning in the early nineteenth century until the present. The narrative includes many watershed moments that illustrate the importance of baseball during many crises and global conflicts, including the aftermath ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Peking

    An Epic Novel of Twentieth-Century China

    by Anthony Grey ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 37 min

    This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope" (Financial Times).In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism.But ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Lines in Latin, inscribed with a pin upon her prison wall. (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    6 min

    In the year 1554, a young queen ascends a perilous throne. Sixteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey, caught in a web of courtly intrigue, finds herself crowned amidst turmoil. But her reign is fleeting, and soon the walls of the Tower of London loom. Now, from the confines of her cell, a voice emerges. With a sharpened pin, Lady Jane scratches defiant messages into the cold stone. Lines in Latin, inscribed ... Read more

    $4.99 USD