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  • War Bows

    Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi

    by Mike Loades ...
    A fascinating and lively history of four bows that changed warfare – the composite bow, the longbow, the crossbow and the Japanese bow, the yumi – by a world-renowned expert.War bows dominated battlefields across the world for centuries. In their various forms, they allowed trained archers to take down even well-armoured targets from great distances, and played a key role in some of the most ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Dogs

    Working Origins and Traditional Tasks

    by Mike Loades ...
    A walk through history with man's best friend, with stops in Alaska, the Middle East, and beyond—includes over 250 photos of canines at work.Handle various dogs engaged in their traditional tasks, Mike Loades takes us on his adventures in the Jordanian desert, where he shares the saddle of his camel with a Saluki, and in the green hills of Wales, where he works cattle with a Corgi. He mushes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swords and Swordsmen

    by Mike Loades ...
    "A 'must have' book for anyone who has an interest in edged weapons . . . Loades holds the reader's full attention with each sword's story that he tells." —The Lone Star Book ReviewThis magnificent book tells the story of the evolution of swords, how they were made, how they were used, and the people that used them. It doesn't claim to give comprehensive coverage but instead takes certain ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Composite Bow

    by Mike Loades ...
    Series Book 43 - Weapon
    An ancient design, emerging from Central Asia in the second millennium BC, the composite bow was adopted by a staggering variety of cultures, from nomadic tribal peoples such as the Huns, Turks and Mongols, to mighty empires such as the Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arabs and Chinese.Offering high power and portability, the composite bow was an ideal cavalry weapon, though it was also used by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Longbow

    by Mike Loades ...
    Series Book 30 - Weapon
    An iconic medieval missile weapon, the deadly longbow made possible the English victories at Crecy and Poitiers at the height of the Hundred Years' War. The longbow was the weapon at the heart of the English military ascendancy in the century after 1340. Capable of subjecting the enemy to a hail of deadly projectiles, the longbow in the hands of massed archers made possible the extraordinary ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Crossbow

    by Mike Loades ...
    Series Book 61 - Weapon
    Technologically sophisticated and powerful, the crossbow has long enjoyed a popular reputation for villainous superiority because it could be used with little training as a weapon of assassination.Known to the Ancient Greeks and the Chinese as early as the 5th century BC, the crossbow developed both in Western Europe and in the Far East. Advances in trigger mechanisms, spanning and bow design ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Body in the Laboratory

    by Mike Lord ...
    A cleaner finds a jacket lying on the floor of a top secret laboratory and then suddenly discovers there is a dead body inside the jacket. The police investigation is hampered by the secret research being conducted at the laboratory in the Fylde. Painstakingly the police review the suspects, but it becomes clear that the murderer probably came from overseas, prompted by the need for an ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chocolates and Cyanide

    by Mike Lord ...
    A box of milk chocolates is delivered to a man just before he leaves to fly to work in Botswana. He does not open it and just tucks it into his packed suitcase. His suitcase is delivered in error to a lady passenger in Johannesburg, who helps herself to one of the chocolates and dies of acute cyanide poisoning!A concerted effort by the police in South Africa and England have to determine who was ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • There's Fungus on the Mushrooms - or if something can go wrong it will

    by Mike Lord ...
    This is the biography of a man who spent almost his entire working life in sub-Saharan Africa and South and East Asia.Mike Lord was born in London within the sound of Bow Bells, just as the WW2 was about to explode. He was evacuated to the country as a small boy and then was brought up in Berkshire. His family moved to various places, including three years in Singapore from 1948, which involved ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sinagiri

    by Mike Lord ...
    Book your next holiday to Sri Lanka, and when you get there head straight for Singiriya!The story is set in 5th Century Sri Lanka – Taprobane as it was then called. A princess from Eritrea becomes the fourth wife of the Raja of Taprobane. The story relates her journey by land and sea, escorted by her brother, from Assaba to Puttulam, and their adventures on the way, even being attacked by pirates! ... Read more

    $4.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serendepia

    by Mike Lord ...
    STOP RIGHT HERE! History is not boring, it can be amusing and informative:This is a prizewinning adventure novel by the Wild Sound Festival in Canada.Sri Lanka has a long and sometimes lurid history. In the early 19th Century a manuscript was found in a Monastery in Ceylon, called the Mahawansa, which detailed in pali a lot of the history of the Indian subcontinent from about 600 BC. Over ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Take Us to a Better Place

    Stories

    by Madeline Ashby, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Calvin Baker, Frank Bill, Yoon Ha Lee, Karen Lord, Mike McClelland, Achy Obejas, Martha Wells ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham, Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    A profound and unforgettable original story collection about well-being and the future of health and the planet. With a foreword by bestselling author Roxane Gay and an introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Pam Belluck. TAKE US TO A BETTER PLACE: Stories is a collection of powerful, perceptive, and seamlessly crafted fiction that tells multiple truths about the realities of our ... Read more

    Free