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  • Tunes of Glory

    de James Kennaway ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    The classic Scottish novel made into a movie starring Alec Guinness and John Mills. "[A] brilliant depiction of . . . the male military world" ( The List).Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair is a rough-talking, whisky-drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Col. Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cost of Living Like This

    de James Kennaway, Frederic Raphael ...
    Series series Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    "Kennaway's best book. More than any of his other books, it testifies to his extraordinary poetic talent and the power of his human insight." - John le Carré"If there is any justice at all . . . Kennaway's stock will rise posthumously. He could, after all, write rings around many of his more famous contemporaries. And is it too much to hope that he will be remembered at least partly as the author ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Mind Benders

    de James Kennaway, Paul Gallagher ...
    'A fine fusion of science and imagination, this novel belongs on the same shelf as the books of William Golding and George Orwell's 1984.' - Washington Post'[E]xciting . . . provides more than a few frissons and a story of considerable sophistication and fascination.' - Kirkus Reviews'Kennaway's treatment of this nightmare and his horrifying suggestions for bending minds makes this a first-rate ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being

    Edición de Penelope Gouk, James Kennaway, Jacomien Prins, Wiebke Thormahlen ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music therapy to history and sociology have turned their attention to the question of how music ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment

    The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Edición de James Kennaway, Rina Knoeff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Bad Vibrations

    The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease

    de James Kennaway ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus

    Tunes of Glory; Household Ghosts; Silence

    de James Kennaway ...
    Series series
    Tunes of GloryHousehold GhostsSilenceThis volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the early age of forty.Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and the brutality of post-war army life as the tensions and ... Leer más

    $13.09 USD

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  • The Road to Hell

    de Gillian Galbraith ...
    Series Libro 5 - The Alice Rice Mysteries
    Scottish detective Alice Rice puts her career—and life—on the line in this "excellent crime novel" from the author of No Sorrow to Die ( Scottish Field).When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing, and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Winter Sea

    de Susanna Kearsley ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Scottish series
    A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderA hauntingly beautiful tale of love that transcends time: an American writer travels to Scotland to craft ... Leer más

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  • The Innkeeper's Daughter

    de Val Wood ...
    Holderness, 1846.For reliable, thirteen-year-old Bella, life isn't turning out quite as she'd hoped. She lives at the Woodman Inn - an ancient hostelry run by her family in the Yorkshire countryside - surrounded by two older brothers who never pull their weight and a flighty younger sister. When Bella learns not only that her father is seriously ill, but that her mother is expecting a fifth child, ... Leer más

    $9.69 USD

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  • It Won't Hurt a Bit

    Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    de Jane Yeadon ...
    When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane's journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • Far from the East End

    The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

    de Iris Jones Simantel ...
    ** Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition winner**From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End.Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of ... Leer más

    $9.69 USD