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  • Historical Grammar of Japanese

    by G. B. Sansom ...
    First published in 1928, this path-breaking work is still of importance and interest to Japanese scholars and linguists. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Japan

    A Short Cultural History

    by G.B. Sansom ...
    Originally published in 1931, this classic work of interpretative Japanese scholarship was revised in 1946 and again in 1952.Although termed "a short history," the book-the only distinguished general survey of Japanese history in English before World War II-covers the economic, social, and religious changes in Japan from the fourth through to the nineteenth century and the breakdown of feudalism. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Nueces River

    Río Escondido

    by Margie Crisp ...
    Series series River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    First appearing on early Spanish maps as the Río Escondido, or hidden river, and later named Río de las Nueces after the abundant pecan trees along its banks, the Nueces today is a stream of seeming contradictions: a river that runs above and below ground; a geographic reminder of a history both noble and egregious; and a spring-fed stream transformed into a salty, steep-sided channel.From its ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Natural History of Texas

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
    From two veteran ecologists comes a new and sweeping exploration of the natural history of Texas in all its biological diversity and geological variation. Few states, if any, can match Texas for its myriad species, past and present, and its many distinctive landscapes, from prairie grasslands and hardwood forests to coastal lagoons and desert mountains.Beginning with the stories of how biologists ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Norfolk Mystery

    A County Guides Mystery

    by Ian Sansom ...
    Series Book 1 - A County Guides Mystery
    Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley's guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England: quaint villages, eccentric locals—and murder …It is 1937, and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where "intelligence is essential," he eagerly applies.Thus begins Sefton's association with Professor Swanton ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Shardlake: Sovereign

    BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas

    by CJ Sansom ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the third novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series featuring hunchback lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.Autumn, 1541. Henry VIII, accompanied by his young bride Catherine Howard, has embarked on a Great Progress from London to York, to establish his power and authority with his rebellious subjects in the North and receive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Shardlake: Dark Fire

    BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

    Unabridged

    2 hours 13 min

    A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the second novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series.Summer, 1540. It has been three years since the terrible events at Scarnsea monastery, and lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is living a quiet life in London – until a summons from Cromwell sees him embarking on another dangerous secret assignment.Someone has stolen the last ... Read more

    $8.05 USD

  • Audiobook

    Shardlake: Dissolution

    BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

    by CJ Sansom ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Jason Watkins, Mark Bonnar ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 14 min

    A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on CJ Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel.Winter, 1537. Henry VIII has declared himself Supreme Head of the Church, and instructed his chief minister Thomas Cromwell to dissolve England's religious houses and seize their wealth. But Cromwell's plot to bring down the abbeys has hit a snag – one of the King's Commissioners has been found ... Read more

    $12.08 USD

  • Ring Road

    There’s no place like home

    by Ian Sansom ...
    A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving.Big Davey Jones is coming home. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. Davey's a local hero – his miracle birth as the seventh son of a seventh son brought fame to this little town and they've been grateful ever since. But Davey's home town has changed much in the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Paper

    An Elegy

    by Ian Sansom ...
    From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper—an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Case of the Missing Books

    by Ian Sansom ...
    Series series The Mobile Library
    Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature’s most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road.Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he’s Jewish; he’s a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he’s just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Shardlake: Revelation

    BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

    by CJ Sansom ...
    Narrated by Jason Watkins, Mark Bonnar, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 14 min

    Shardlake returns in this atmospheric BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of the fourth novel in C. J. Sansom’s bestselling Tudor crime series.Spring, 1543. London’s streets are filled with preachers; strange signs and portents are seen everywhere; and young men, maddened by differing interpretations of the Bible, are drawn into dangerous fundamentalism.The family of one such man, Adam Kite, has ... Read more

    $8.05 USD