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    Travel Agents

    More Scrapes, Japes and Narrow Escapes

    by Graham Williams, Lisa Jackson ...
    Narrated by Graham Williams, Lisa Jackson ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Love Travel Series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    Would you risk being arrested by Iran’s secret police or subject yourself to a ‘torture massage’ in North Korea just so you could say you’d survived to tell the tale? And would you even want to share a crude-oil bath with a retired croc hunter in Azerbaijan? Or pull a golden ring from a turd?Graham and his wife Lisa have done all of these things. In journeys spanning the globe, they’ve also ... Read more

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    The Man Who Japed

    by Philip K. Dick ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 46 min

    Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules—no premarital sex, drunkenness, or displaying of neon signs—all of which are reinforced through a constant barrage of messaging to the public. The chief purveyor of these messages is Alan Purcell, next in line to become head of the propaganda ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Gunpowder Age

    China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

    by Tonio Andrade ...
    A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global historyThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    Space Team 7: Planet of the Japes [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Space Team Universe

    by Barry J. Hutchison ...
    Narrated by Phil Thron, Danny Gavigan, Carolyn Kashner, Darius Johnson, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Walker, Rob McFadyen, Mark Harrietha, Nora Achrati, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby ...
    Series series Space Team Universe

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    "While trying to stop a cyber-attacker stealing all Space Team's hard-earned money, the cyborg, Mech, unlocks a secret partition in his hard drive, revealing a mysterious set of co-ordinates.The co-ordinates lead the team to Funworld, a planet-sized theme park with a worrying number of artificially intelligent clownbots, and a shocking disregard for Health & Safety.With no weapons, and a ... Read more

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  • The Self-Devouring Society

    Capitalism, Narcissism, and Self-Destruction

    by Anselm Jape Jappe ...
    Translated by Eric-John Russell ...
    Liberals smirk at Trump’s narcissism, but, as renowned theorist Anselm Jappe explains, contemporary capitalism has turned everyone into a narcissist.The Greek myth of Erysichthon describes the fate of a king whose hunger drove him to eat until the only thing left to devour was himself. This image—of a society spiraling inexorably in a self-destructive dynamic—forms the starting point of Anselm ... Read more

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  • Death-Bringer

    by Freddie Silva ...
    Series Book 1 - The Black Sword Saga
    War is coming to the Norwood, and a strange warrior arrives with a black sword to lead the Nor against the invaders.Arlyss Quarrel is oblivious to the danger. His only dream is to marry the girl next door and start a family of his own far away from his demanding father. This dream is shattered when he accidentally injures his best friend and is sent away to the local lord to become a warrior.When ... Read more

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  • Thomas Mann – Selected Classics (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Masterpieces Including Buddenbrooks, Royal Highness, Tonio Kröger, Death in Venice & Bashan and I

    by Thomas Mann, June Umberley ...
    Translated by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, A. Cecil Curtis, Bayard Quincy Morgan, Kenneth Burke, Herman George Scheffauer ...
    Thomas Mann – Selected Classics gathers the essential artistry of one of modern Europe's commanding prose writers, presenting fiction marked by psychological subtlety, ironic narration, and philosophical reach. Whether depicting bourgeois families, artists in crisis, or souls tempted by beauty, illness, and decline, Mann writes within the great tradition of European realism while transforming it ... Read more

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  • Tonio Kröger

    New Translation, Complete Thomas Mann eBook Edition (Novelaris)

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Quentin Netherwood ...
    Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger tells of a man who belongs nowhere. The son of a Lübeck merchant and a mother with an artistic temperament, Tonio lives between two worlds: drawn to the clean, ordinary life that never quite opens to him, and uneasy among artists whose poses he can't fully trust. The story follows Tonio from schoolroom longing into adulthood, where his gifts become both his vocation and ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Japed

    by Philip K. Dick ...
    Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules—no premarital sex, drunkenness, or displaying of neon signs—all of which are reinforced through a constant barrage of messaging to the public. The chief purveyor of these messages is Alan Purcell, next in line to become head of the propaganda ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Great Hollywood Wit

    A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars

    by Gene Shalit ...
    Great Hollywood Wit rollicks with hilarious movie lines and backstage zingers-smart, tart, and (in Sir John Gielgud's case) wicked: "Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them." Julia Roberts, fashion buff: "I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping." Retiring Burt Reynolds: "You can only hold your stomach in for so many years."Great Hollywood Wit is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Last Embassy

    The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China

    by Tonio Andrade ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage ... Read more

    Was $34.59 USD Now $17.99 USD

  • Tonio Kröger & Death in Venice (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Two Novellas by Thomas Mann

    by Thomas Mann, June Umberley ...
    Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan, Kenneth Burke ...
    Tonio Kröger & Death in Venice brings together two of Thomas Mann's most penetrating meditations on art, desire, and bourgeois selfhood. In Tonio Kröger, the divided artist stands between disciplined respectability and the seductive freedom of aesthetic life; in Death in Venice, that tension darkens into obsession, decay, and symbolic catastrophe. Mann's prose is ironic, musical, and ... Read more

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