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  • At Home and Astray

    The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain

    by Philip Howell ...
    Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country’s social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog’s changing place in society was the subject of ... Read more

    $35.59 USD

  • Pub

    by Professor Philip Howell ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    "Erudite, quirky, and amusing." Sebastian FaulksObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Pub

    Object Lessons

    by Professor Philip Howell ...
    Narrated by Tim Frances ...
    Series series Object Lessons

    Unabridged

    2 hours 44 min

    Bloomsbury presents Pub by Philip Howell, read by Tim Frances"Erudite, quirky, and amusing." Sebastian FaulksObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • SF UNIVERSE - The Ultimate Collection

    Dystopian Futures and Intergalactic Adventures: A Classic Sci-Fi Anthology

    by H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ayn Rand, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, E. M. Forster, Anthony Trollope, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, H. Beam Piper, Garrett P. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Lester Del Rey, August Derleth, Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor, Gustavus W. Pope ...
    Translated by Frederick A. Malleson, Eleanor E. King, Lewis Page Mercier, Ellen E. Frewer, Agnes D. Kingston ...
    e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted SF collection, jam-packed with the dystopian worlds, intergalactic action-adventures, and the greatest Sci-Fi classics: E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Philip F. Nowlan: Armageddon–2419 A.D… George Griffith: The Angel of the Revolution… ... Read more

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  • Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales

    The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America…

    by H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ayn Rand, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, E. M. Forster, Anthony Trollope, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, H. Beam Piper, Garrett P. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Lester Del Rey, August Derleth, Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor, Gustavus W. Pope ...
    Translated by Frederick A. Malleson, Eleanor E. King, Lewis Page Mercier, Ellen E. Frewer, Agnes D. Kingston ...
    The 'Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales' offers an expansive and dazzling panorama of science fiction literature, traversing an array of distinct literary styles and epochs. From the abyssal depths of the ocean to the outer reaches of space, these stories explore the profundities of human experience and the vast expanse of the imaginable. The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Releasing the Commons

    Rethinking the futures of the commons

    Edited by Ash Amin, Philip Howell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital commons, and new practices of being in common, such as community economies and solidarity networks. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE

    Classic Visions of Catastrophe, Utopia, Dystopia, Future War, and the Origins of Speculative Fiction

    by Ayn Rand, H. G. Wells, Jack London, Jonathan Swift, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Edward Bellamy, Mary Shelley, William Hope Hodgson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, E. M. Forster, Samuel Butler, Edwin A. Abbott, Anthony Trollope, Fritz Leiber, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith ...
    DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE gathers foundational visions of catastrophe, social collapse, and remade futures across satire, Gothic romance, scientific romance, dystopia, and speculative adventure. Its range extends from plague-ravaged landscapes and planetary disaster to authoritarian states, technological menace, and utopian schemes turned troubling. By placing classic nightmare narratives beside ... Read more

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  • The Future of Darkness: 30+ Dystopias in One Edition

    by Ayn Rand, H. G. Wells, Jack London, Jonathan Swift, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Edward Bellamy, Mary Shelley, William Hope Hodgson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, E. M. Forster, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, Edwin A. Abbott, Anthony Trollope, Fritz Leiber, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith ...
    The anthology 'The Future of Darkness: 30+ Dystopias in One Edition' draws together an eclectic assemblage of visionary tales from some of the most seminal voices in science fiction and speculative storytelling. Navigating through the bleak landscapes of futuristic societies, this collection vibrantly explores themes of authoritarian control, human resilience, and the sociopolitical implications ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History

    Edited by Hilda Kean, Philip Howell ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships.Divided into three parts, the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by H. G. Wells ...
    The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes ... Read more

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  • The War of the Worlds

    by H. G. Wells, Arthur Pober ...
    Illustrated by Scott McKowen ...
    Series series Union Square Kids Unabridged Classics
    What would happen if Martians landed on Earth—and none of our weapons could stop them? H.G. Wellss timeless masterpiece—which spawned many a movie adaptation—imagines this frightening scenario. The horrifying bug-like extraterrestrials, which can wipe out entire crowds with a single heat-ray and poisonous gas, first appear in the English countryside … and then wreak havoc. Narrated by an unnamed ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Man Walks Into A Pub

    A Sociable History of Beer (Fully Updated Second Edition)

    by Pete Brown ...
    It's an extraordinary tale of yeast-obsessed monks and teetotal prime ministers; of how pale ale fuelled an Empire and weak bitter won a world war; of exploding breweries, a bear in a yellow nylon jacket and a Canadian bloke who changed the dringking habits of a nation. It's also the story of the rise of the pub from humble origins through an epic, thousand-year struggle to survive ... Read more

    $10.59 USD