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  • Audiobook

    Space 2069

    After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond

    Narrated by Desmond O’Connor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    Half a century after Apollo 11 we have still not returned to the Moon, but that is about to change. The thirteenth person to walk on the Moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole. The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions transforms our ability to live on the Moon. From bases on the Moon we can make the long, lonely ... Read more

    $16.76 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Space 2069

    After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond

    'It is rare to read something that so closely mixes science fiction with reality, but Space 2069 does just that ... [It's] an intelligent portrait of where we may be in the next half-century. - BBC Sky at NightNearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apollo 11

    The Inside Story

    'Terrific and enthralling' New ScientistFifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong the first man to step on to its surface. He and his crewmates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, were the latest men to risk their lives in this extraordinary scientific, engineering and human venture that would come to define the era.In Apollo 11: ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Forgotten

    'This is a wonderful book, its different strands weaving around each other and coming together in the most fantastic conclusion. I am so jealous of David Whitehouse’s writing.' Adam KayMemories make us who we are – but what if yours belonged to someone else?David Whitehouse's The Long Forgotten is the story of a missing plane, a rare-flower hunter, and a lonely young man who has begun to remember ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Alien Perspective

    A New View of Humanity and the Cosmos

    Astronomer and science writer David Whitehouse takes us on a journey through the evolving cosmos as he considers humankind's place in the universe - and how our survival depends on otherworldly perspectives.From the Earth to the depths of outer space, this inspiring book shows how human evolution has been intertwined with the workings of the cosmos from the very beginning, and what the far-distant ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bed

    A Novel

    Reminiscent of such novels as A Confederacy of Dunces and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Bed is a darkly funny and surprisingly tender debut novel about two brothers, one of whom refuses to leave his bed on his twenty-fifth birthday.Mal Ede, a child of untamed manners and unbounded curiosity, is the eccentric eldest son of an otherwise typical middle-class family. But as the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • About A Son

    A Murder and A Father’s Search for Truth

    'A book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed'ELIZABETH DAYOne night in October 2015, twenty-year-old Morgan Hehir went out with friends and never came home.In the aftermath of his funny, talented son's murder, Morgan's father Colin began to keep an extraordinary diary. It became a record of his family's grief, the ensuing trial, and his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • One Small Step

    Here is the most up-to-date history of man in space, researched by a NASA insider from astronaut interviews, diaries and speeches, and even top-secret documents from the former Soviet Union, with many revelations appearing in print for the very first time,.One Small Step shows space travel as it's never been seen before and those who read it will be both shocked at the dangers and failings of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mobile Library

    A Novel

    From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by The New York Times as “a writer to watch,” a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels.“An archivist of his mother,” Bobby Nusku spends his nights meticulously cataloging her hair, clothing, and other traces of the life she left behind. By day, Bobby and his best friend ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Missionaries and the Colonial State

    Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission.The archives of the White Fathers Catholic missionary order in Rome and Paris are read alongside primary sources ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Into the Heart of Our World

    The journey to the center of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Our planet appears tranquil from outer space. And yet the arcs of volcanoes, the earthquake zones, and the auroral glow rippling above our heads are testimony to the remarkable happenings within the earth’s core. For thousands of years these phenomena were explained in legend and myth. Only in recent times has the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Apley and Solomon’s Concise System of Orthopaedics and Trauma

    Apley & Solomon's Concise System of Orthopaedics and Trauma is firmly established as the leading introductory textbook of orthopaedic practice and the principles of fracture and trauma management. Praised in previous editions for the systematic approach, balanced content and easy-to-read style, this fifth edition has been brought fully up to date under the direction of the new and distinguished ... Read more

    $64.99 USD