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  • The Long Way Home

    The Other Great Escape

    by John McCallum ...
    The first-hand account of three Scotsmen and their dramatic escape from Nazi Germany's Stalag VIIIB prison camp during World War II.At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured ... Read more

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  • Peel Back the Skin

    They're among us. They live down the street, in the apartment next door and oftentimes in our own homes. They are the real monsters. And they stare back at us from our own bathroom mirrors. Peel Back the Skin is a powerhouse anthology of horror from Bram Stoker Award-nominated editors Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson that strips away the human mask from the real monsters of our time -- mankind ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tiger Wore Spikes

    An Informal Biography of Ty Cobb

    by John McCallum ...
    The Tiger Wore Spikes, first published in 1956, is an insightful, down-to-earth look at the career of baseball great Tyrus "Ty" Cobb (1886-1961), who spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers (the last 6 years as the team's playermanager), followed by several seasons with the Philadelphia Athletics. Written by sports writer John McCallum, the book is based on the author's interviews with Cobb as he ... Read more

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  • An Ocean of Wonder

    The Fantastic in the Pacific

    An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia

    Series Book 59 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A ... Read more

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  • Australia's New Aged

    Issues for young and old

    by John McCallum ...
    The idea that our society is ageing is a popular source of gloomy predictions for the future. We see today's youth struggling in their mature years to pay for the masses of geriatric baby boomers whose productive years lie far behind.Australia's New Aged shows that this belief is part reality and part myth. While there will be an increase in the proportion of aged people in the next 20 years, this ... Read more

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  • Exploring Emotion in Reformation Scotland

    The Emotional Worlds of James Melville, 1556–1614

    by John McCallum ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual’s life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the Reformed Protestant Church, whose autobiographical writing provides one of the earliest and fullest opportunities to explore the ... Read more

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  • The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

    From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of religious change in Scotland. By exploring their lived experiences, and drawing upon historical, theological, and literary approaches, the essays herepaint a fresh and vibrant portrait of ministry during ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hodder Education Caribbean History: Freedom and Change

    Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary.- Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations to more recent 21st Century events.- Prepare students for studies at CSEC level with a solid grounding in Caribbean history.- Provide practice in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires and Conquests

    Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary.- Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations to more recent 21st Century events.- Prepare students for studies at CSEC level with a solid grounding in Caribbean history.- Provide practice in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Slant of Light

    Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft

    Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD