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  • The World in 2050

    Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future

    by Laurence C. Smith ...
    A vivid forecast of our planet in the year 2050 by a rising star in geoscience, distilling cutting-edge research into four global forces: demographic trends, natural resource demand, climate change, and globalization.The world's population is exploding, wild species are vanishing, our environment is degrading, and the costs of resources from oil to water are going nowhere but up. So what kind of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Rivers of Power

    How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

    by Laurence C. Smith ...
    Narrated by Victor Bevine ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    A sweeping natural history of the world’s rivers and their ancient, complex relationship withhuman civilizationRivers, more than any road, technology, or political leader, have shaped the course of human civilization. Theyhave opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, and fed billions. They promote life, forge peace, grant power,and can capriciously destroy everything in their path. Even ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rivers of Power

    How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

    by Laurence C. Smith, PhD ...
    An "eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring" natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction).Rivers, more than any road, technology, or political leader, have shaped the course of human civilization. They have opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain

    Families, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Rise of the Professions

    by Laurence Brockliss, Harry Smith ...
    Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of 750 men who were recorded in the 1851 census as practising a profession in eight British provincial towns with distinctive economic and social ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Making Sense of the Central African Republic

    by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe, Ledio Cakaj, Nathaniel Olin, Enrica Picco, Stephen W. Smith, Laurence D. Wohlers ...
    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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    Oklahoma Scoundrels

    History’s Most Notorious Outlaws, Bandits & Gangsters

    by Robert Barr Smith, Laurence J. Yadon ...
    Narrated by Jim Seybert ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    Early Oklahoma was a haven for violent outlaws and a death trap for deputy U.S. marshals. The infamous Doolin gang's OK Hotel gunfight left five dead. Killers like Bible-quoting choir leader Deacon Jim Miller wreaked havoc. Gunslinger femme fatale Belle Starr specialized in horse theft. Wannabe outlaws like Al Jennings traded train robbing for politics and Hollywood films. And Elmer McCurdy's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told

    by Col. Robert Barr Smith, Laurence J. Yadon ...
    Series series Greatest
    In thirty-five chapters, The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told covers many of the leading American and British Commonwealth fighter aces of WW I and II, together with a few bomber crews whose gallantry made a substantial contribution to the end of WW II. Other nations had their aces,but this book concentrates on American and Commonwealth pilots.These aviators were chosen not only because of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Greatest Escapes of World War II

    by Col. Robert Barr Smith, Laurence J. Yadon ...
    Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding them and under it as well; they built tunnels of enormous length and complexity, often working with only their bare hands. They concealed themselves in their captors’ vehicles and hitched rides to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Outlaws with Badges

    by Laurence J. Yadon, Robert Barr Smith ...
    In the Old West, upright lawmen were scarce. Often, the men who were bound to keep the peace were just as corrupt as the men they pursued. These dishonest deputies chose their professions based on convenience rather than conviction, and the most revered were often the wiliest. These men held grudges, ruled with violence, and instilled fear in all who crossed their paths.Offered here is an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Music in the British Isles, Volume 2

    Empire and Afterwards

    by Laurence Bristow-Smith ...
    This engaging and immensely readable book is the first history of British music to be published for fifty years. It tells the fascinating story of the people who have shaped Britain's musical life over the centuries: the composers and performers; the promoters and impresarios; the conductors and critics. It shows how its music evolved – and is still evolving – against a background of religious, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Old West Swindlers

    by Laurence J. Yadon, Robert Barr Smith ...
    True stories of nineteenth-century crooks, con artists, and quacks—including the man who "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge.Gunslingers and outlaws weren't the only ones who made the West wild. The nineteenth century was the golden era of riverboat gamblers, crooked railroad contractors, and filthy-rich medical quacks. These crooks made a living deceiving people who took a stranger at face value and left ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Murder Too Many

    Whitey Bulger and the Computer Tycoon

    by Laurence J. Yadon, Robert Barr Smith ...
    In an unusual dual biography, authors Laurence J. Yadon and Robert Barr Smith explore this compelling criminal case from both sides. Tulsa computer tycoon Roger Wheeler was the victim and organized crime boss Whitey Bulger was the criminal-or so it seemed. Through a fascinating examination of information related to both men, the authors break down the façde and expose the underlying truths in this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus