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  • Finding China's Lost Generation

    The Beijing Fifty-five

    by John Israel ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    In December 1968 Mao Zedong proclaimed that China’s educated urban youth should move to the countryside to be reeducated by the poor and lower middle peasants. Some seventeen million who responded to his call spent the better part of a decade laboring in remote and impoverished regions.Returning to the cities in the late 1970s, undereducated, unemployed, and manifestly unprepared to contribute to ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Lianda

    A Chinese University in War and Revolution

    by John Israel ...
    In the summer of 1937, Japanese troops occupied the campuses of Beijing’s two leading universities, Beida and Qinghua, and reduced Nankai, in Tianjin, to rubble. These were China's leading institutions of higher learning, run by men educated in the West and committed to modern liberal education. The three universities first moved to Changsha, 900 miles southwest of Beijing, where they joined ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Golden Dawn

    The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order

    by Israel Regardie ...
    First published in 1937, Israel Regardie's The Golden Dawn has become the most influential modern handbook of magical theory and practice. In this new, definitive edition, noted scholar John Michael Greer has taken this essential resource back to its original, authentic form. With added illustrations, a twenty-page color insert, additional original material, and refreshed design and typography, ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Masters of Midnight

    In Darkness, Delight, #1

    by Josh Malerman, Evans Light, Andrew Lennon, William Meikle, Jason Parent, Ryan C. Thomas, Mark Matthews, Israel Finn, Joanna Koch, John McNee, Patrick Lacey, Paul Michaels, Michael Bray, Lisa Lepovetsky, Espi Kvlt, Billy Chizmar, Monique Youzwa ...
    Series Book 1 - In Darkness, Delight
    Midnight strikes like an invocation, clock hands joining in prayer to the darkness. After the twelfth chime, there's no escaping the nightmare.Fear reigns supreme.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full-throttle thrillers. Open ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales

    by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Anna Katharine Green, Susan Glaspell, G.K. Chesterton, Max Pemberton, John Kendrick Bangs, Israel Zangwill, W.S. Gilbert, Rudyard Kipling0, Grant Allen1, Jacques Futrelle2, M. McDonnell Bodkin3, Catherine Louisa Pirkis4, Robert Barr5, Robert Barr6, H. Greenhough Smith7, Edgar Allan Poe8, Jack London9, Charles Dickens0, J.P. Buschlen1, Dick Donovan2, R.C. Lehmann3 ...
    The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly the spirit of Victorian crime fiction continued beyond Queen Victoria. This volume contains 25 ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Perfect Crime

    The Big Bow Mystery

    by Israel Zangwill ...
    Series series Detective Club Crime Classics
    The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since.“The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Big Bow Mystery

    by Israel Zangwill ...
    Narrated by John Hastings ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    'The perfect crime is the one that seems impossible.'First published in 1892, The Big Bow Mystery is gripping crime novel, and one of the earliest examples of a locked-room mystery – now a well-loved trope in the genre.Set in Bow, East London, a widow named Mrs Drabdump is left panicking after she fails to wake one of her lodgers. In distress and unable to open the lodger's locked door, she seeks ... Read more

    $20.54 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • The Art and Science of Private Land Stewardship

    by Daniela Barrientos, Ty Bartoskewitz, Bruce Beard, Drew Bennett, Karrigan Bork, Jim Bradbury, Ken Cearley, Lucas Cooksey, Matthew Crawford, R. Tom Darden, Chad Ellis, Andrea Feldpausch-Parker, Craig D. Galli, Wendell Gilgert, Jeff Goodwin, Buddy Huffaker, Myriah Johnson, Angelica Lopez, Alison Lund, Mark Madison, Clay Mathis, Tony Mayoral, Gene T. Miller, Andrea E. Montalvo, Blake Murden, Stephan A. Nelle, Todd Nightingale, Oswald John Nira, Israel D. Parker, Nils Peterson, Garrett Powers, Kevin Skow, Addie Smith, Jamie Sowell, Decky Spiller, Temple Stoellinger, Matthew W. Wagner, R. Neal Wilkins ...
    Series series Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Lands
    “Anyone can take responsibility for a place,” writes Simon Roosevelt, great-great grandson of avid conservationist President Theodore Roosevelt, here in his foreword. “How persistently and well a conservationist pursues responsibility, connection, and the imperatives of use and care is as much a record of a conservation commitment as is the landowner’s mark on the land.” Private working lands ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Banchory Conspiracy

    by John Israel Bender ...
    The Banchory Conspiracy is revealed in the diaries and journals of a catholic priest. It is 19th century England. The Pettarsons are the wealthiest aristocrats in the country. The priest is their pastor and confessor. The Banchory brothers, twins, have insinuated themselves into the good graces of the Pettarson family.eventually becoming the stewards and executors of their vast holdings. They are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Journal of John Woolman (Unabridged)

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    by John Woolman ...
    Narrated by Israel Mossien, Edward Murray, Flora Brooks, Jeanne Kirkman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 32 min

    John Woolman was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York, England, in 1772. He was the child of Quaker parents, and from his youth was a zealous member of the Society of Friends. His “Journal,” published in 1774, describes his way of life and the spirit in which he did his work; but his humility prevents him from making clear the importance of the part he played in the movement ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Surviving the Cross

    An Evidentialist Appraisal of the Swoon Theory

    by Christopher D. Banks, John S. Knox, Joe Parle ...
    For Christians, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ are quintessential subjects as Jesus died on the cross and rose on the third day. Unfortunately, even after reading about the life of Jesus in the Bible--and all that he has done and promised to do in the coming age--many people choose to dispute the traditional story of Jesus Christ. These skeptics have embraced other heterodox ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century

    by Wayne Flynt ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants.Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party politics, and Flynt’s writing reaffirms religion as the lens through which southerners understand and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD