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The View from Hadrian's Wall

Two Friends Hike Along the Ancient Roman Frontier

by Mark Clegg, David Wilmot ...

Built almost 2,000 years ago by the Roman occupiers of Britain, Hadrian's Wall is one of the most famous and identifiable World Heritage Sites. When two old friends, one American and one British, reunited to trek the length of the Wall, they reminisced about the past while sharing apprehension about the future. This memoir of their coast-to-coast voyage examines Roman history, drawing parallels ... Read more

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Built almost 2,000 years ago by the Roman occupiers of Britain, Hadrian's Wall is one of the most famous and identifiable World Heritage Sites. When two old friends, one American and one British, reunited to trek the length of the Wall, they reminisced about the past while sharing apprehension about the future. This memoir of their coast-to-coast voyage examines Roman history, drawing parallels
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The Crimson and Gold

Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia

by Mark Clegg ...

Winner of the Award for Excellence in Local History Advocacy given by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council, The Crimson and Gold is a comprehensive narrative detailing the struggle for integration in Athens, Georgia, in the context of highly competitive football as experienced by athletes, their fellow students, teachers, journalists, and school administrators at (predominantly White) ... Read more

$24.69 USD

Winner of the Award for Excellence in Local History Advocacy given by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council, The Crimson and Gold is a comprehensive narrative detailing the struggle for integration in Athens, Georgia, in the context of highly competitive football as experienced by athletes, their fellow students, teachers, journalists, and school administrators at (predominantly White)
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Mountain Miles

A Memoir of Section Hiking the Southern Appalachian Trail

by Mark Clegg ...

The Appalachian Mountains are a well-known world treasure, perhaps the most biodiverse region on the planet. This book spans almost six years and 500 miles of hiking by the author along the southern portion of the Appalachian Trail. A fresh perspective is brought to the subculture of "AT" hikers.The path of the trail crosses many areas that featured dramatic family events, and the author weaves ... Read more

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The Appalachian Mountains are a well-known world treasure, perhaps the most biodiverse region on the planet. This book spans almost six years and 500 miles of hiking by the author along the southern portion of the Appalachian Trail. A fresh perspective is brought to the subculture of "AT" hikers.The path of the trail crosses many areas that featured dramatic family events, and the author weaves
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A Hero of a Different Stripe

LTUE Benefit Anthologies, #5

by Joe Monson, Jaleta Clegg, Tristan A. Gilmore, Mark Silcox, Ross Baxter, Jessica Guernsey, Henry Herz, Melva Gifford, Emily Martha Sorensen, D.J. Butler, Ray Daley, James Ivan Hughes, Randy Lindsay, Stewart C. Baker, James F. McGrath, Wendy Nikel, James Dorr, Eric G. Swedin, Scott R. Parkin, Jamie Perrault, Ivan Richardson, Michael Young, Staci Olsen, Kevin Wasden ...

Series Book 5 - LTUE Benefit Anthologies
Not Your Standard HeroWe all know what heroes are like, right? Brilliant smiles, superpowers, above average beauty, love to pose for the cameras and bask in the limelight? The heroes found here are not your standard hero. Here you'll find shapeshifting (but ditzy) detectives, considerate sidekicks, avid romance readers, lunar garbage collectors, and more!These stories tell of heroes like Tom ... Read more

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Not Your Standard HeroWe all know what heroes are like, right? Brilliant smiles, superpowers, above average beauty, love to pose for the cameras and bask in the limelight? The heroes found here are not your standard hero. Here you'll find shapeshifting (but ditzy) detectives, considerate sidekicks, avid romance readers, lunar garbage collectors, and more!These stories tell of heroes like Tom
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Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World

How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life

by Brian Clegg ...

Narrated by Mark Peachey ...

Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.Physics informs our understanding of how the world works – but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see ... Read more

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The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.Physics informs our understanding of how the world works – but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see
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Curating Human Remains

Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom

by Myra Giesen, Kirsty McCarrison, Liz White, Margaret Clegg, Mark A. Hall, Michael G Parker Pearson, Mike Pitts, Rebecca Redfern, Simon Mays, Victoria Park0, Charlotte Roberts1, Charlotte Woodhead2, Duncan Sayer3, Gillian Scott4, Hedley Swain5, Jacqueline McKinley6, Jelena Bekvalac7, Jennifer Sharp8 ...

How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and the ... Read more

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How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and the
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Dark Matter & Dark Energy

The Hidden 95% of the Universe

by Brian Clegg ...

Narrated by Mark Cameron ...

Unabridged

4 hours 46 min

All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart, but something concealed holds them together. That ’something' ... Read more

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All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart, but something concealed holds them together. That ’something'
... Read more

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Biomimetics

How Lessons From Nature Can Transform Technology

by Brian Clegg ...

Narrated by Mark Peachey ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.Biomimetics literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be developed to ... Read more

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An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.Biomimetics literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be developed to
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The Graphene Revolution

The Weird Science of the Ultra-thin

by Brian Clegg ...

Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

Series series Hot Science
Unabridged

4 hours 19 min

In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene—the thinnest substance in the world—by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite. Their efforts would win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, and now the applications of graphene and other two-dimensional substances form a worldwide industry. Graphene is far stronger than ... Read more

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In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene—the thinnest substance in the world—by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite. Their efforts would win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, and now the applications of graphene and other two-dimensional substances form a worldwide industry. Graphene is far stronger than
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon

The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell

by Brian Clegg ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Unabridged

7 hours 8 min

Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list.Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases behave. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation ... Read more

$35.99 USD

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Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list.Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases behave. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation
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The Beginning and the End of Everything

From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe

by Paul Parsons ...

Narrated by Dallas Campbell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' – DALLAS CAMPBELL, author of Ad AstraThe Beginning and the End of Everything is the whole story as we currently understand it – from nothing, to the birth of our universe, to its ultimate fate. Authoritative and engaging, Paul Parsons takes us on a rollercoaster ride through ... Read more

$25.49 USD

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'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' – DALLAS CAMPBELL, author of Ad AstraThe Beginning and the End of Everything is the whole story as we currently understand it – from nothing, to the birth of our universe, to its ultimate fate. Authoritative and engaging, Paul Parsons takes us on a rollercoaster ride through
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Einstein's Shadow

The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole

by Seth Fletcher ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

7 hours 28 min

Einstein’s Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein’s theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins of the universe, and the nature of reality.Photographing a black hole sounds impossible, a contradiction in terms. But Shep Doeleman and a ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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Einstein’s Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein’s theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins of the universe, and the nature of reality.Photographing a black hole sounds impossible, a contradiction in terms. But Shep Doeleman and a
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