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    Last Voyage of the Karluk, The

    Narrated by Barry Eads ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Trapped in the frozen Arctic. A ship crushed by ice. A crew fighting to survive against impossible odds.The Last Voyage of the Karluk is a gripping true story of survival, leadership, and human endurance in one of the harshest environments on Earth. When the Karluk becomes locked in Arctic ice during the Canadian Arctic Expedition, what begins as an ambitious scientific mission quickly turns into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Royal

    Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe

    Series series
    Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How did the dynastic system cope with female rule, or pretenders to the throne? How did dynasties use ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... Read more

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  • Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by Robert C. Bartlett ...
    A "singularly accurate, readable, and elegant translation [of] this much-neglected foundational text of political philosophy" (Peter Ahrensdorf, Davidson College).For more than two thousand years, Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle defines three kinds of rhetoric (deliberative, judicial, and epideictic); ... Read more

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  • The Hanged Man

    A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages

    Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Alchemist's Handbook

    A Practical Manual

    Series series Weiser Classics Series
    "If you really want to learn the basic principles of practical alchemy, Frater Albertus' Alchemist's Handbook is literally is worth its weight in gold."—from the foreword by Israel Regardie, author of The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic OrderThe Alchemist's Handbook has long been considered a modern-day classic on the actual practice of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • England under the Norman and Angevin Kings

    1075-1225

    Series series New Oxford History of England
    This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. This was a period in which the ruling dynasty and military aristocracy were deeply enmeshed with the politics and culture of France. Professor ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Sophistry and Political Philosophy

    Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates

    One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths." As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born with ancient sophistry. If we seek to understand the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary radical ... Read more

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  • History in Flames

    The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were destroyed during a single day. This destruction didn't occur by accident of fire or flood but by human forces such as arson, shelling and bombing. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    by Aristotle ...
    The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called “the Philosopher.” Drawing on their intimate knowledge of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lonely Planet Central America

    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Central America.Discover Central America's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from gazing into the magma-churning Volcán Masaya in Nicaragua; to swimming through near-transparent Caribbean waters around the teensy island of Caye Caukler in Belize; and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Voyage of the Karluk

    Shipwreck and Rescue in the Arctic

    On January 4, 1914, the Karluk was stuck in ice when the ominous sound of the ship’s stern being ripped open by pack ice was heard by all on board. It sounded like the firing of a cannon. Bartlett immediately ordered supplies be unloaded on the ice. The Karluk began to break up on January 10, and all on board were ordered to abandon ship. When everyone was safely on the ice, the captain himself ... Read more

    $9.99 USD