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  • The Red Atlas

    How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

    by John Davies, Alexander J. Kent ...
    The "utterly fascinating" untold story of Soviet Russia's global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian).From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Wales

    by John Davies ...
    Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales.Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, this is the definitive history of an enduring people: a unique and ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Bird River

    by John Davies ...
    John Davies is a poet and carver of wooden birds, whose prior career as an academic has taken him from his Port Talbot birthplace to teach English Literature in North Wales (where he now lives) and North America. Birds and the river Clwyd are the threads that ties the whole together. ... Read more

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  • Lower Deck

    Life Aboard a British Destroyer in WWII

    by Lieutenant John Davies ...
    Lower Deck, first published in 1945, is a journal-like, exciting recounting of life aboard a Royal Navy destroyer, the H.M.S. Sikh (due to wartime regulations, the ship's name in the book is the H.M.S. Skye); the ship is stationed in the eastern Mediterranean in the defense of Malta. Centering on the lives of the crewmen who are part of a gun crew, the book portrays the ship's almost daily ... Read more

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  • The First Vampire

    by John Davies ...
    "...incredibly well-researched historical fiction.""...high brow horror for intellectuals that intertwines the delicate art of voice with historical events and the supernatural."-THE PORTSMOUTH REVIEW. 4.5 / 5.The First Vampire provides an alarmingly plausible explanation of why and how the first human was transformed into a vampire, against a backdrop of factual Eastern European history. The ... Read more

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  • God versus Particle Physics

    A No-Score Draw

    by John Davies ...
    The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular science texts and media articles, written by physicists, seeking to explain the workings of the sub-atomic world. The accounts, it is argued, are a) mutually exclusive and contradictory, and b) metaphysical or magical in essence.Themes of the book include: ... Read more

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  • The Prisoners of Hartling

    by John Davys Beresford ...
    Dog's life, old man, a dog's life; you can't get away from that. Arthur Woodroffe's voice was quite cheerful as he framed this indictment of the life of a general practitioner in a poor neighbourhood, but his companion frowned and shook his head impatiently. "You are still re-acting to the pernicious influences of that damnable war," he said. "You're hankering after the intoxication of saving ... Read more

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  • Herbert George Wells

    by John Davys Beresford ...
    In his Preface to the Unpleasant Plays, Mr Shaw boasts his possession of "normal sight." The adjective is the oculist's, and the application of it is Mr Shaw's, but while the phrase is misleading until it is explained to suit a particular purpose, it has a pleasing adaptability, and I can find none better as a key to the works of Mr H.G. Wells. We need not bungle over the word "normal," in any ... Read more

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  • The Neglected Authors: Volume 1 (of 6) - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa to Thomas Burke

    by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, John Davys Beresford, D K Broster ...
    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • Short Stories About Mental Illness: A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health

    by Nikolai Gogol, Radclyffe Hall, John Davys Beresford ...
    For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be ... Read more

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  • John Davys Beresford - A Short Story Collection: A sadly neglected English author that captivated the audience of his time

    by John Davys Beresford ...
    John Davys Beresford was born on 17th March 1873. His life was blighted by infantile paralysis which left him partially disabled.After an education at Oundle school he trained to be an architect. However, he quickly decided that his life was to be centred on a literary career. His first offerings were in drama and as a journalist.As well as being a book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian he ... Read more

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  • 80 Graded Studies for Clarinet Book Two

    by Paul Harris ...
    The full eBook version of 80 Graded Studies for Clarinet Book Two in fixed-layout format.Studies are an established part of every instrumentalist's training. They place technical problems in musical contexts, and can be invaluable aids to development. 80 Graded Studies for Clarinet is a must-have resource for all students and teachers, and the two books feature heavily on the major examination ... Read more

    $9.99 USD