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  • Dirt

    A Novel

    by John L. Purdy ...
    The calm lives of rural America collide with systemic forces: economic, political, cultural. For Abel and Janine Bellamy, their parcel of dirt holds everything of value: home, family, history, life itself. So, when they are approached with a lucrative offer to sell the farm that’s been in his family for three generations, their refusal is predictable, and irrevocable. With support from family, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Education for Total Liberation

    Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching Against Speciesism

    Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Carolyn Drew, Amber E. George, Sinem Ketenci, John Lupinacci, Ian Purdy, Joe Leeson-Schatz ...
    Series Book 2 - Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation
    Education for Total Liberation is a collection of essays from leaders in the field of critical animal pedagogy (CAP). CAP emerges from activist educators teaching critical animal studies and is rooted in critical theory as well as the animal advocacy movement. Critical animal studies (CAS) argues for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our relationships with nonhuman animals. CAS ... Read more

    $39.09 USD

  • The Adventures of Leonardo the Drone: Book 1

    Photos from the Sky

    by John A. Purdy ...
    Illustrated by Cindy Rodella-Purdy ...
    Series Book 1 - The Adventures of Leonardo the Drone
    Leah loves to take pictures. Every month, she submits her photos to the library's photo contest. So far she hasn't won. The limited subjects and ground-based view of her neighborhood are frustrating. Until... Leonardo the Drone comes into her life! Leah practices flying Leonardo, and by way of several anxious moments, learns how to be a good drone pilot. Together Leonardo and Leah take amazing ... Read more

    $3.90 USD

  • The Foraging Behavior of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera, L.)

    Edited by John Purdy ...
    The Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera, L.) provides a scholarly resource for knowledge on the regulation, communication, resource allocation, learning and characteristics of honeybee foraging behavior at the individual and colony level. Foraging, in this context, is the exploration of the environment around a honey bee hive and the collection of resources (pollen, nectar, water, ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • History of Rome. Classic Collection. Illustrated

    The Gallic Wars, The Histories, Roman History and The Civil Wars, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The History of Rome

    by Julius Caesar, Tacitus, Appian, Edward Gibbon, Theodor Mommsen ...
    Translated by W. A. Macdevitt, Clifford H. Moore, John Jackson, Horace White, William Purdie Dickson ...
    This collection includes classic works on the history of Rome from its foundation to the collapse of the empire into Western and Eastern:Julius Caesar:The Gallic WarsThe Civil WarTacitus:The HistoriesThe AnnalsAppian:Roman HistoryThe Civil WarsEdward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireTheodor Mommsen: The History of Rome ... Read more

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  • Peter Greenaway's Postmodern / Poststructuralist Cinema

    by Cristina Degli-Esposti Reinert, John Di Stefano, Bridget Elliott, Anthony Purdy, Peter Greenaway, Lia M. Hotchkiss, Michael Ostwald, David Pascoe, Heidi Peeters, Jean Petrolle, Dayana Stetco, Bart Testa ...
    Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films to provocative features, Greenaway has deployed strategies associated with structuralist cinema, only to challenge or critique the very limits of that cinema and of film in general.In this collection ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • James Purdy: Selected Plays

    by James Purdy ...
    Hailed as "a creative genius" (TLS) and "a singular American visionary" (New York Times ), James Purdy may be best known for his remarkable novels, but he was also an astonishing playwright who wrote nine full-length and twenty short plays. Purdy was one of the few contemporary American writers capable of writing tragedy-Tennessee Williams called him "a uniquely gifted man of the theater." This ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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    Discovering Nature's Laws

    A Story about Isaac Newton

    by Laura Purdie Salas ...
    Narrated by Jonathan St. John ...
    Series series Creative Minds Biographies

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Sir Isaac Newton changed the world with his many discoveries and inventions about mathematics, science, optics, and physics. Although he was brilliant, Newton felt no need to publish his ideas or to inform his fellow scientists of the amazing discoveries he made. Because of this, his discoveries were often disputed. Despite the controversy that often surrounded him, Newton made astounding advances ... Read more

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    The news that a flowering weed—mousear cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana)—can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first "hearing" plant. As plants lack central nervous systems (and, indeed, ears), the mechanisms behind this "hearing" are unquestionably very different from ... Read more

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  • Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Series series The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    This Modern Library eBook edition collects all three volumes of Edward Gibbon’s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—complete and unabridged.Edward Gibbon’s magnum opus narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century. Alongside the ... Read more

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  • Pollination and Floral Ecology

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    Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves; how they offer pollen and nectar as rewards; and how they share complex interactions with ... Read more

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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Complete

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    This edition also includes an illustrated history of BOTH the RISE AND FALL of the Roman Empire from its very beginning. HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE COMPLETE VOLUMES 1 - 6 (sometimes shortened to "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire") is a book of history written by the English historian Edward Gibbon, which traces the trajectory of the Roman Empire—and Western ... Read more

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