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  • No Exit

    An Inspector Jian novel

    by Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Inspector Jian Crime Thrillers
    'No Exit is a cracker... Elmore Leonard was a fan of Inspector Jian's first outing and he would have loved this too.' James Owen, The TimesBook of the Month in Crime TimeBook of the Month in The CriticFebruary pick in The TimesInspector Jian and his daughter Weiwei just want to go back to their home in China: but Jian is facing a corruption charge in his abs... ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • The Civil War as Global Conflict

    Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War

    by David T. Gleeson, Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    A collection of scholarly essays exploring the American Civil War from international perspectives.In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making A Bridge Too Far

    by Simon Lewis ...
    A Bridge Too Far, released in 1977, proved to be the last epic WWII movie made in the Hollywood studio system. Its ambitious goal: to recreate the doomed Allied plan called Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. Market-Garden' s goal was to surprise the Germans with a mammoth parachute drop behind their lines and bring a quick end to the war, but the plan became a disaster for the Allies, with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waterloo — Making an Epic

    by Simon Lewis ...
    History has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon's tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steigerand Christopher Plummer. It was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk who deployed almost 20,000 Soviet soldiers in a noble ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rise and Shine

    The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Journey from Near Death to Full Recovery

    by Simon Lewis ...
    When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn’t expected to survive either.”So begins Rise and Shine, the dramatic story of Simon Lewis and his remarkable recovery from a horrific car ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Border Run

    A Novel

    by Simon Lewis ...
    From the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize—nominated Bad Traffic, a fast-paced adventure novel about two young backpackers who find themselves in serious trouble in the jungle of Southeast AsiaOn the Burmese border, two naïve backpackers, Will and Jake, follow a tour guide into the jungle, tantalized by the possibility of dalliances with the tribal women who live there. At an idyllic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bad Traffic

    An Inspector Jian novel

    by Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Inspector Jian Crime Thrillers
    Inspector Jian is a Chinese cop from the Siberian borders who thinks he's seen it all. But his search for his missing daughter brings him to the meanest streets he's ever faced - in rural England.Migrant worker Ding Ming is distressed - his gangmaster's making demands, he owes a lot of money to the snakeheads and no one will tell him where his wife has been taken. Maybe England isn't the `gold ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Port Cities of the Atlantic World

    Sea-Facing Histories of the US South

    by Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic worldPort Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long transatlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Multicultural Commonwealth

    Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives

    by Stanley Bill, Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Russian and East European Studies
    The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmakingin its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Regions of Memory

    Transnational Formations

    Edited by Simon Lewis, Jeffrey Olick, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Malgorzata Pakier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    “Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2015/2: Double Special Issue: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans and: Martyrdom & Memory in Post-Socialist Space

    by Andreas Umland, Simon Lewis, Uilleam Blacker, Iryna Starovoyt, Michael Galbas, Maria Mälksoo, Sander Brouwer, Jay Winter, Anna Reich, Markus Göransson ...
    Series Book 1.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world. The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY (JSPPS) is a new bi-annual companion ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England

    The Struggle for True Religion

    by Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
    John Wesley and George Whitefield are remembered as founders of Methodism, one of the most influential movements in the history of modern Christianity. Characterized by open-air and itinerant preaching, eighteenth-century Methodism was a divisive phenomenon, which attracted a torrent of printed opposition, especially from Anglican clergymen. Yet, most of these opponents have been virtually ... Read more

    $72.99 USD