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  • A Sweet, Wild Note

    What We Hear When the Birds Sing

    by Richard Smyth ...
    Birdsong is woven into culture, emotions, and landscape. It is the soundtrack to our world, shaping experiences of place and belonging. We have tried to capture this fleeting, ephemeral beauty, and the feelings it inspires, for millennia. In this rich and insightful account, Richard Smyth asks what it is about birdsong that we so love, exploring the myriad ways in which it has influenced ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bum Fodder

    An Absorbing History of Toilet Paper

    by Richard Smyth ...
    This is the hidden history of an invention that we use every day but seldom dare to speak of. In medieval China it was cutting-edge technology. For 19th-century Americans it was a newfangled alternative to dried corncobs and the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. Wits in Georgian London preferred pages of bad poetry. The sages of ancient Athens were content to wield the xylospongion instead. It's the tale ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell

    Finding Wild Things With My Kids

    by Richard Smyth ...
    'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery' Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting ' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Smyth writes with warmth and engaging perception about our relationship and understanding of the natural world on our doorsteps' - Jon Dunn, author of The Glitter in the Green<... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The BBC National Short Story Award 2021

    by Lucy Caldwell, Rory Gleeson, Georgina Harding, Danny Rhodes, Richard Smyth ...
    Series series The BBC National Short Story Award
    A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each other’s changing bodies before a Friday night disco…A grieving woman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow traveller on a night train to Kiev…An unusually well-informed naturalist is eyed with suspicion by his comrades on a forest exhibition with a higher purpose…The stories shortlisted for the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award with ... Read more

    $5.36 USD

  • The Jodan Ju

    by Richard Smythe ...
    David Turner, geologist and SAS Vietnam veteran, discovers a covert mine deep in outback Australia. Not the legitimate operation of Japanese conglomerate Tanada Industries at all – strange Asians are extracting and enriching high-grade uranium. The mine boss is a tall young Eurasian, Jimmy Shan – polite, ruthless…and a lieutenant of the Japanese Mafia, the Yakuza. Pursuit by Australian ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toad Has Talent

    by Richard Smythe ...
    Every year when Moonlight Pond freezes over, a talent contest takes place deep in the woods. Ducks dance, mice perform… But there is one animal that never competes. Toad watches the talent show from behind his rock, careful to keep himself hidden. Because Toad doesn't have a special talent--or so he thinks! When Toad is finally discovered, he slips on the icy pond and realises he does have an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • English History: Strange but True

    by Richard Smyth ...
    Series series Strange but True
    This book is a treasure trove of English oddities, crammed with the most curious stories, remarkable facts and unexpected goings-on from the country's long and convoluted history. From frogs' legs at Stonehenge to knicker elastic in the Blitz, this is England – the unauthorised biography. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody British History: Leeds

    by Richard Smyth ...
    Series series Bloody British History
    Phantom in the library! The bizarre true story of a Victorian haunting revealed! King cholera! The day that death came to the Dock family! Exploding mummies! The weirdest events of the blitz examined! A Yorkshire tragedy: Fifteenth-century murder at Calverley Hall! Leeds has one of the darkest histories on record. From the fatal Dripping Riot of 1865, sparked by the theft of two pounds of ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Poems

    by Richard Smythe ...
    'Your smile, your lovely smile / Stirs my senses, as if / Waking to the first rays of an alpine sun / On the ridge of my tent, / I enjoy a spreading warmth........ Richard Smythe's imagery goes straight to the heart of what it is like to be human, simply joyful or sad, expectant or fearful, but above all to feel the natural world, in all its wonder, to be a part of oneself in life and, at the end, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Sweet, Wild Note

    What We Hear When the Birds Sing

    by Richard Smyth ...
    A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Birdsong is woven into our culture, our emotions, our landscape; it is the soundtrack to our world. We have tried to capture this fleeting, ephemeral beauty, and the feelings it inspires, for millennia.In this fascinating account, Richard Smyth asks what it is about birdsong that we so love. Exploring the myriad ways in which it has influenced ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Sanctions Law

    by Richard Gordon Gordon, Michael Smyth, Tom Cornell ...
    This book creates a user-friendly, accessible guide to the complex area of sanctions law. In particular, the book examines how sanctions restrictions work in practice, and what the implications are for multinational businesses operating across numerous sanctions regimes. To this extent, the book considers the interrelationship between sanctions at the supranational and national levels, including ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Critical Terrorism Studies

    A New Research Agenda

    Edited by Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth, Jeroen Gunning ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
    In response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'.In the years since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism studies has undergone a major transformation from minor subfield of security studies into a large stand-alone field, and is probably one of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD