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  • A Different Kettle of Fish

    A Day in the Life of a Physics Student with Autism

    by Michael Barton ...
    “I'm looking at the Solar System display when I hear a child close by shouting at his mum, to which she replies 'No need to bite my head off!' I've heard of laughing your head off (to laugh a lot) and even biting your tongue (to be quiet) but biting someone's head off puts a rather more vivid picture into my mind!”During a trip to London, taking in tube announcements, guitar shops, and the Science ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • It's Raining Cats and Dogs

    An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions

    Illustrated by Michael Barton ...
    by Michael Barton ...
    The English language can be extremely confusing and illogical, especially for people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who interpret meaning in a very literal way. Why should an announcement that cats and dogs are falling from the sky indicate heavy rain? And what have chickens got to do with being a coward?It's Raining Cats and Dogs is a witty and stylish insight into the mind of someone ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Glorious Recollections

    J. Howard Wert's Lost History of the 209Th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1864-1865, Including the Defense of Bermuda Hundred, the Battle of Fort Stedman and the Storming of Petersburg with Additional Documents

    by Michael Barton ...
    Glorious Recollections: J. Howard Wert's Lost History of the 209th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1864-1865, including the Battles of Bermuda Hundred, Fort Stedman, and Petersburg is a Civil War regimental history originally written in 1894. It was not published at the time and has now been edited and supplemented for today's readers. Wert's text is both a detailed history and a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Civil War Soldier

    A Historical Reader

    by Michael Barton, Larry M Logue ...
    An anthology of landmark scholarship on the histories of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil WarIn 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together landmark scholarship on the subject, from a 19th century account of life as a soldier to contemporary work on women who, disguised ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering the Civil War

    The Conflict as Told by Those Who Lived It

    by Michael Barton, Charles Kupfer ...
    In the years following the American Civil War, many participants—generals, politicians, journalists, and soldiers—authored first-hand accounts of their unique experiences. As Alfred E. Smith of the Library of Congress wrote in 1998, “No chapter of American history has been so voluminously recorded.” While the quality and reliability of the memoirs vary, a large number provide important ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Show Me the Money

    Where Did All the Aid and Money Go After Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines November 2013

    by Graham Michael Barton ...
    Graham Michael Barton is an Englishman retired on a tiny island of less than three thousand souls in the Philippines. Emponet Barton Beach Resort and 60 per cent of the homes on Higatangan Island, Biliran, were destroyed by Yolanda. Two weeks after the super typhoon passed through, Graham returned with a modest amount of supplies and food, distributed throughout the island by his partner, Emily ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Steelton

    by Michael Barton, Simon J. Bronner ...
    Series series Images of America
    For much of the 20th century, the name Steelton represented a great industrial complex that stretched nearly four miles along the Susquehanna River near the state�s capital of Harrisburg. Immigrants from all over Europe, particularly Slavs and Italians, worked with African Americans from the South at the Bethlehem Steel Company and gave Steelton its reputation for ethnic diversity, second only to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bittersweet on the Autism Spectrum

    by Becky Heaver, Michael Barton, Andrew Smith, Colin Newton, Dominic Walsh, Maggie, Debbie Allen, Sarah Galley, Gerard Wilkie, Eloise, Maurice Frank, Serena Shaw, Andy R, Natasha Goldthorpe, Barnabear ...
    In this rich and diverse collection, 28 writers describe what positive experiences they have had as an autistic person, and show how the most unexpected subject areas can be a source of the positive. They demonstrate that individuals can, and do, experience life in positive ways, sometimes in the face of adversity. Sharing both dark and joyful moments with unreserved honesty, their insights are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bellevue Park the First 100 Years

    An Anniversary History by Its Residents

    by Michael Barton, Jeannine Turgeon ...
    This book is a history of a community, and, moreover, a history by that community. In January, 2007, Jeannine Turgeon began to recruit a committee of Bellevue Park neighbors, volunteers who would be willing to produce a book about their neighborhood in honor of its 100th anniversary. Initial members were Clark and Vickie Bucher, Dan Deibler and Elizabeth Johnson, Chris Dick, Frank Haas, Hannah ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Very Small (Obviously) Book of the Philippines

    An Englishman's View of What Should Be Paradise

    by Graham Michael Barton ...
    This is one mans slightly cynical view of the Philippines, a group of islands tucked between the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. These are his experiences as a middle-aged foreigner living on a tiny island where there are no cars and fewer than 3,000 people. He is the only Englishman in the village. His snapshots of daily life and incidents that perhaps anywhere else in the world would come ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Civil War Memoir of Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19Th Ohio Volunteers

    by Judith A. Kennedy, Michael Barton ...
    The Civil War Memoir of Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19th Ohio Volunteers, was originally published as a series of 174 articles appearing from 1912 to 1915 in the Pottsville (PA) Evening Chronicle. The authorat that time a physician practicing in nearby Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvaniahad been invited by the editor to describe his service fifty years earlier in an Ohio regiment fighting in the western ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Body A-Z

    A fun, fascinating and family-friendly manual for the most important thing you own

    by Matthew Barton, Michael Todorovic ...
    Did you know that liquorice was used to stave off dehydration for desert-dwelling nomadic tribes? Have you ever considered what happens to someone's body when they don't eat for 382 days? YouTube stars Dr Matt & Dr Mike invite you on an entertaining, eye-opening A-Z tour of the human body like you've never seen before.The Body A-Z is packed with mind-blowing facts, funny insights, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD