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  • Saplings and Spades

    A Woodland Returns

    by David Parkins ...
    As a young boy, David witnessed bulldozers obliterate a forest for a bypass. Decades later, he resolved to replace the annihilated trees with another wood. Starting from nothing, he set about the task. It was not easy; there was vastly more to woodland establishment than planting saplings. Writing informally, David recalls the triumphs and disasters of his undertaking. Success was hard-won and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Broken Crockery - The Dinner Party From Hell

    A West Wales Odyssey, #2

    by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 2 - A West Wales Odyssey
    About Broken Crockery -The villagers in the district are all talking about the recent murder in their small communityTo take their minds off of things, local artist Simon and his wife Arabella decide to throw a dinner party and invite two other couples - their new neighbours Kyle and Deni, plus friends Ashley and Susanne. They also invite Jacqueline, a woman who moved into the area some months ago ... Read more

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  • The Spotter - a Short Story

    by David Parkins ...
    It is 1964 and at the age of eleven, The Spotter finds himself in a school he doesn't like and a target for bullying. He doesn't like sport and he doesn't fit in - plus his hair is too long!He lives for the weekends and his one escape – trainspotting – riding the rails behind the steam locomotives that are now in their final years of operation, and that will soon be sent to the scrap yards.He ... Read more

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  • Sophie - a Death and a Life

    A West Wales Odyssey, #3

    by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 3 - A West Wales Odyssey
    To an already long list of unpleasant and tragic events, that in recent months have been visited upon a small West Wales community, is now added yet another.To Susanne, a local school teacher, there seems to be just too many bad things happening and she is convinced they are part of something bigger, and that much worse is still to come.The latest event is a suicide - that of a still-beautiful ... Read more

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  • Three Insane Poets

    by David Rollins, Julie Stacey, David Parkin ...
    The Three Insane Poets are David Parkin, who has a traumatic brain injury, David Rollins, who has borderline personality disorder, and Julie Stacey, who has bipolar disorder. This collaboration is at times hilarious, poignant, and always thought provoking. All three poets live in Leicester. ... Read more

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  • The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

    by David Parkin ...
    Series Book 19 - Encounters
    This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. The volume makes the argument that language and other forms of communication involve semiotic ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Splitting Rainbows - Must All Dreams End?

    A West Wales Odyssey, #1

    by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 1 - A West Wales Odyssey
    Out on a headland in West Wales where he goes regularly to watch porpoises, seals and sea birds, Marshall meets, apparently by chance, the enigmatic Anna, to whom he is immediately attracted.They begin seeing each other, but it is soon set against a background of Marshall being 'stalked' by someone who appears to have ill-intent towards him - and possibly towards Anna as well.Marshall and Anna ... Read more

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  • Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward

    by David Parkin ...
    This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Egyptian Diary

    The Journal of Nakht, Young Scribe

    by Richard Platt ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    "A fresh, lively voice. . . . Replete with details of daily life." — Kirkus ReviewsThe year is 1464 BC, and Nakht’s family is moving to the city of Memphis. Nakht, who is studying to be a scribe, keeps a journal of the many sights and sounds of the bustling city — temples and pyramids, cargo ships, a hippopotamus hunt, even a tomb robbery. Presented as a lively diary, here is an invitation for ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • That Cat Can't Stay

    by Thad Krasnesky, David Parkins ...
    Bank Street Best Books for Children Smithsonian Notable Books for Children Cat Writers' Association Muse Medallion Winner and World's Best Litter-ary Award Winner Wanda Gág Best Read Aloud Honor Book Included on 4 State Book Award lists – in DE, IL, NE, and NY Stories for Young Listeners category, Storytelling World Resource Awards Society of School Librarians International Honor Book 2010 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    That Cat Can't Stay

    by Thad Krasnesky, David Parkins ...
    Narrated by Thad Krasnesky ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Bank Street Best Books for Children Smithsonian Notable Books for Children Cat Writers' Association Muse Medallion Winner and World's Best Litter-ary Award Winner Wanda Gág Best Read Aloud Honor Book Included on 4 State Book Award lists – in DE, IL, NE, and NY Stories for Young Listeners category, Storytelling World Resource Awards Society of School Librarians International Honor Book 2010 ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Evil in Africa

    Encounters with the Everyday

    Edited by William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek ...
    William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in ... Read more

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