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  • God with Us

    A 17th Century Family in War and Peace

    by John Longworth ...
    Read and encounter the events of the English Civil War told through this gripping saga.Tom, a poor Nantwich briner, has an encounter with King James I in 1617 with unforeseen consequences. Romance, heartache and war ensue, but can the peace of this Cheshire man be restored, when he finds the mystifying ‘great melting mountain’? Can his nation and loved ones be restored to peace as he plays his ... Read more

    $2.67 USD

  • Regionalisation and Integration in China

    Lessons from the Transformation of the Beef Industry

    by Colin Brown, John Longworth, Scott Waldron ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: Changing economic, institutional and market environments have turned the spatial inter-relationships thought to exist in China upside-down. Through an investigation of the beef industry, this text builds a picture of where regionalization and integration are heading in China. It examines the impacts of market forces, industry characteristics, relative factor ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    Kalangadog Junction

    A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama

    by Moya O'Shea ...
    Narrated by Moya O'Shea, Caroline Quentin, John Duttine, Toby Longworth, Brian Bowles, Joanna Munro, June Whitfield, Niall Ashdown, Julie Gibbs, Full Cast0 ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 58 min

    Hilarious comedy about a 1950s couple from Manchester trying to make it Down UnderDr Thomas Barrett and his wife Jane have a perfectly nice existence in 1950s Manchester, but dreams of a new life won’t let them rest. Leaving the security of their home and successful doctor’s practice, they set out for adventure, heading to Kalangadog Junction, a small Australian town of population fifty-nine that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    On Mardle Fen: Series 1-6

    The Complete BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas

    by Nick Warburton ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Helen Longworth, John Rowe, Kate Buffery, Sam Dale, Trevor Peacock ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 5 min

    Trevor Peacock (The Vicar of Dibley) stars as inspired chef Warwick Hedges, in this comedy drama set in an idiosyncratic restaurant in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Warwick’s son Jack works alongside his father, which makes him permanently anxious. They are assisted by Samuel, an earthy odd-job man "who crawled out of the slime with the eels", and Zofia the Polish waitress.Whether hosting unusual ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Peter Lorre vs. Peter Lorre

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

    by Michael Butt ...
    Narrated by Helen Longworth, John Chancer, John Rowe, Kenneth Collard, Kerry Shale, Nathan Osgood, Peter Marinker, Stephen Greif ...

    Unabridged

    43 min

    Towards the end of his unique career, movie star Peter Lorre found himself at the centre of an unusual legal case. Incorporating verbatim extracts from the court transcripts, Michael Butt's play wonders what was going through Lorre's troubled mind as he fought to protect his name and identity. Features a cast including Stephen Greif as Peter Lorre, Peter Marinker as Lester Salkow, Kerry Shale as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Series series Princeton Classics
    A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the WestThe Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe ... Read more

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  • The Plague and the Fire

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  • Elizabeth

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    A historical novel spanning the first thirty years of Elizabeth I's reign, telling the intimate story of England's greatest sovereignThe sickly Catholic fanatic Mary Tudor has reigned for six years when her half-sister Elizabeth ascends to the throne. After enduring years of exile following the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn, the twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth inherits a realm divided by ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Cities of China

    The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country

    by Wade Shepard ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi ... Read more

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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
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  • Ghosts of the Tower of London

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    Series series The Paranormal
    Tales of haunting from one of the world's most terrifying landmarks.The Tower of London's most horrific tragedies are well known; the gruesome deaths of the two boy princes in the Bloody Tower, Anne Boleyn's execution, the Jesuit priests and heretics who suffered the agonies of the rack and thumbscrew. Is it any wonder, then, that there are frequent reports of bloodcurdling screams and moans, of ... Read more

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