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  • Audiobook

    Kipps

    by H.G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Peter Joyce ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    This wonderful comedy about orphan and innocent Arthur Kipps was the means by which Wells satirized what he saw as a gross stupidity and blight upon English society; the pretensions of and obsession with class. Humble drapers’ assistant Arthur unexpectedly inherits his grandfathers fortune and is instantly propelled into a higher social strata with the subsequent problems of attaining the required ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Barbarians Speak

    How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

    Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Battle That Stopped Rome

    Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history.In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chess Improvement

    It's all in the mindset

    by Peter Wells, Barry Hymer ...
    Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructive guide that sets out how the application of growth mindset principles can accelerate chess improvement.With Tim Kett and insights from Michael Adams, David Howell, Harriet Hunt, Gawain Jones, Luke McShane, Matthew Sadler and Nigel Short.Foreword by Henrik Carlsen, father of world ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hungry Heart

    Journeys With William Colenso

    by Peter Wells ...
    Shortlisted for the NZ Post Award this fascinating, innovative biography is of a true original and significant figure in NZ's early colonisation. "I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Long Loop Home

    A Memoir

    by Peter Wells ...
    A prize-winning memoir, a tender evocation of a world, a place and a time. Born in 1950 to sporting parents and sharing his brother's homosexuality, Peter Wells decided at the age of eleven that his family could not 'afford' two homosexual sons. The problems this led to complicated his youth but possibly gave him the creative fuel that would go on to illuminate his books and films. Through the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome.The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only ways of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Global Automotive Industry

    Edited by Paul Nieuwenhuis, Peter Wells ...
    Series series Automotive Series
    The automotive industry is still one of the world's largest manufacturing sectors, but it suffers from being very technology-focused as well as being relatively short-term focused. There is little emphasis within the industry and its consultancy and analyst supply network on the broader social and economic impacts of automobility and of the sector that provides it.The Global Automotive Industry ... Read more

    $100.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Passionate Friends

    by H.G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Peter Eastman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealousy, sex, the struggle against social convention, the future of civilization, and much much more. It is written by a father to his son, "not indeed to the child you are now, but to the man you are going to be. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Practice and Principles

    by Peter F. Drucker ...
    Narrated by Michael Wells ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America’s new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Treating Depression

    MCT, CBT, and Third Wave Therapies

    Edited by Adrian Wells, Peter Fisher ...
    A practical and conceptual guide to treating depression using both Beckian CBT and the latest, cutting-edge third wave CBT approaches, including mindfulness and metacognitive therapy. It provides an understanding of depression and its treatment and a clear practical guidance on how to use each treatment approach.Covers CBT, metacognitive therapy, and third-wave behavioural approaches within one ... Read more

    $49.00 USD