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History of Ancient Egypt

by Ian Mackenzie ...

In the summer of 1972, TV news featured huge crowds queuing patiently on the pavements outside the British Museum to see the Tutankhamun Exhibition. So great was the clamour to see the exhibition that it had to be extended from the planned six months to nine months to accommodate total visitors of almost 1.7 million. But the world's interest in Ancient Egypt long pre-dates the discovery of ... Read more

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In the summer of 1972, TV news featured huge crowds queuing patiently on the pavements outside the British Museum to see the Tutankhamun Exhibition. So great was the clamour to see the exhibition that it had to be extended from the planned six months to nine months to accommodate total visitors of almost 1.7 million. But the world's interest in Ancient Egypt long pre-dates the discovery of
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Nothing on Earth

by Ian MacKenzie ...

“I often traveled for work.” So begins Nothing on Earth, a propulsive novel that tells the story of Anna Hendrix, an American spy, as she seeks to learn the nature of an unknown, potentially powerful material that appears at seemingly random points around the world and that science can’t explain. No one knows what it is; everyone wants to find it.For a long time, Anna worked in counterterrorism, ... Read more

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“I often traveled for work.” So begins Nothing on Earth, a propulsive novel that tells the story of Anna Hendrix, an American spy, as she seeks to learn the nature of an unknown, potentially powerful material that appears at seemingly random points around the world and that science can’t explain. No one knows what it is; everyone wants to find it.For a long time, Anna worked in counterterrorism,
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Little Book of Steam Classics

by Ian Mackenzie ...

Presented in chronological order, the last locomotive class featured in this volume of 60 classic engines is the British Railways standard 2-10-0 9F freight class which included Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways.Evening Star, completed in 1960, represented the culmination of steam locomotive evolution and design dating back a century and a half. As soon as it was ... Read more

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Presented in chronological order, the last locomotive class featured in this volume of 60 classic engines is the British Railways standard 2-10-0 9F freight class which included Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways.Evening Star, completed in 1960, represented the culmination of steam locomotive evolution and design dating back a century and a half. As soon as it was
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Feast Days

by Ian MacKenzie ...

Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly ... Read more

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Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly
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City of Strangers

A Novel

by Ian MacKenzie ...

Faith, family, and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talentA cold, gray Sunday dawns on New York City to find Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to visit his past. He goes first to see his estranged, decades-older half-brother; then his dying father, whose notorious early life still haunts his children; and finally the ex-wife he cannot ... Read more

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Faith, family, and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talentA cold, gray Sunday dawns on New York City to find Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to visit his past. He goes first to see his estranged, decades-older half-brother; then his dying father, whose notorious early life still haunts his children; and finally the ex-wife he cannot
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English as a Lingua Franca

Theorizing and teaching English

by Ian Mackenzie ...

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching.Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of ... Read more

$77.99 USD

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching.Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of
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Language Contact and the Future of English

by Ian Mackenzie ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining the current position of English in the world and accounts for the differences among native and nativized varieties and ELF usages. It offers a historical perspective on the impact of language contact ... Read more

$61.99 USD

This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining the current position of English in the world and accounts for the differences among native and nativized varieties and ELF usages. It offers a historical perspective on the impact of language contact
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Feast Days

by Ian MacKenzie ...

Narrated by Christine Lakin ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly ... Read more

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Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly
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Spanish: An Essential Grammar

by Peter T Bradley, Ian Mackenzie ...

Series series Routledge Essential Grammars
Spanish: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to the most important aspects of Spanish.It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language that combines traditional and function-based grammar. The book sets out the complexities of Spanish in short, readable sections, and explanations are clear and free from jargon.The Grammar is the ideal reference source ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Spanish: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to the most important aspects of Spanish.It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language that combines traditional and function-based grammar. The book sets out the complexities of Spanish in short, readable sections, and explanations are clear and free from jargon.The Grammar is the ideal reference source
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The Vanished Days

by Susanna Kearsley ...

Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie ...

Unabridged

15 hours 43 min

I HAVE BEEN PERSUADED NOW TO TAKE MY PEN IN HAND AND TELL THE STORYAS IT SHOULD BE TOLD …In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to theBorderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Unionwith England. An invasion is imminent as many plot to bring the exiled youngJacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh, the streetsare ... Read more

$25.99 USD

I HAVE BEEN PERSUADED NOW TO TAKE MY PEN IN HAND AND TELL THE STORYAS IT SHOULD BE TOLD …In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to theBorderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Unionwith England. An invasion is imminent as many plot to bring the exiled youngJacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh, the streetsare
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Bruno, Chief of Police

by Martin Walker ...

Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie ...

Series series Bruno, Chief of Police
Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

Acclaimed journalist Martin Walker has written a New York Times Notable Book and a novel shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Bruno, Chief of Police is the first installment of a series starring BenoIt "Bruno" CourrEges, the only cop stationed in a rural French village where tradition remains strong. "[A] timely whodunit . Walker deftly drives his plot toward a dark place where ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Acclaimed journalist Martin Walker has written a New York Times Notable Book and a novel shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Bruno, Chief of Police is the first installment of a series starring BenoIt "Bruno" CourrEges, the only cop stationed in a rural French village where tradition remains strong. "[A] timely whodunit . Walker deftly drives his plot toward a dark place where
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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

A Collection of Outlander Fiction

by Diana Gabaldon ...

Narrated by Jeff Woodman, Davina Porter, Allan Scott-Douglas, Robert Ian Mackenzie ...

Series series Outlander (Gabaldon)
Unabridged

24 hours 19 min

A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. BESEIGED: Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main protagonist of the Lord John novels, Diana's related series (Never before published) A FUGITIVE GREEN: Protagonist is Hal ... Read more

$35.99 USD

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A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. BESEIGED: Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main protagonist of the Lord John novels, Diana's related series (Never before published) A FUGITIVE GREEN: Protagonist is Hal
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