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  • Supernavigators

    Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way

    by David Barrie ...
    "Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book."—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book ReviewPublisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys.Animals plainly know where they're going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. Supernavigators is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Supernavigators

    Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way

    by David Barrie ...
    Narrated by David Barrie ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    A globetrotting voyage of discovery celebrating the navigational superpowers of animals—by land, sea, and skyAnimals plainly know where they're going, but how they get there has remained surprisingly mysterious—until now.In Supernavigators, award-winning author David Barrie catches us up on the cutting-edge science. Here are astounding animals of every stripe: Dung beetles that steer by the light ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sextant

    A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

    by David Barrie ...
    In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Asterisk 1.6

    Build feature-rich telephony systems with Asterisk

    Build feature-rich telephony systems with AsteriskKey FeaturesInstall, configure, deploy, secure, and maintain AsteriskBuild a fully-featured telephony system and create a dial plan that suits your needsLearn from example configurations for different requirementImplement 3rd party applications which will help you manage Asterisk through a web interfaceBook DescriptionAsterisk is a powerful and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Police in the Age of Improvement

    by David Barrie ...
    The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected. Little is known about the Scottish police's origins, development and character despite growing interest in the machinery of law enforcement in other parts of the United Kingdom. This book seeks to remedy this deficiency.Based on extensive archival research, its central aim is to provide an in-depth analysis of the economic, social ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-in-Law

    Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister in the Nineteenth Century

    by David Barrie ...
    This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain – the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife’s sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom. It provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Embracing Exile

    The Case for Jewish Diaspora

    by David Kraemer ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    Jewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan, then Egypt, and then back to Canaan. From there, they were exiled to Babylon, where they lived for centuries. They also settled in Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, England, and the United States, among other places. Diaspora became normal to Jews, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Convicts

    100 Criminal Lives

    "An interesting introduction to Victorian crimes, the people who committed them, and how effective rehabilitation may have been." — Ripperologist MagazineWhat was life like in the Victorian underworld—who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison? Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classic Children's Adventure Stories

    Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Swiss Family Robinson

    Four timeless tales of adventure that have delighted generations of readers, young and old.Peter Pan is the enchanting story of a boy who wouldn't grow up and the girl he promised to always remember. One magical night, two mischievous denizens of an island of the imagination visit Wendy Darling and her younger brothers in their London home. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell whisk the children away to ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girl on the Stairs

    The Search for a Missing Witness to the JFK Assassination

    by Barry Ernest ...
    One man's quest to investigate a dismissed eyewitness account of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Victoria Elizabeth Adams worked on the fourth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. She was on the back staircase of the building at the precise moment that Lee Harvey Oswald—according to the Warren Commission's account—was making his escape. Yet, Adams saw and heard no one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Political Babble

    The Dumbest Things Politicians Ever Said

    by David Olive ...
    "I was dramatically shaped by my grandmother and my aunts because they convinced me there was always a cookie available. Deep down inside I'm four years old, and I wake up and think out there, there's a cookie. Every morning I'm going, you know, either it can be baked or it's already been bought, but it's in a jar . . . somewhere. . . ." — Newt Gingrich in 1994,from his Renewing American ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Extermination, The

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Barry Pain ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    19 min

    Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children.He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta.Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus