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  • A Stitch in Time

    by Andrew J. Robinson ...
    Series series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    An unique and intense tale following Elim Garak as he attempts to stitch the ravaged society of Cardassia back together.For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing—to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Writing and Script

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Without writing, there would be no records, no history, no books, and no emails. Writing is an integral and essential part of our lives; but when did it start? Why do we all write differently and how did writing develop into what we use today? All of these questions are answered in this Very Short Introduction. Starting with the origins of writing five thousand years ago, with cuneiform and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye

    The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in 2021: 'The films of Satyajit Ray are truly treasures of cinema, and everyone with an interest in film needs to see them.'Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye is the definitive biography, based on extensive ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Last Man Who Knew Everything

    Thomas Young

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame.As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Indus

    Lost Civilizations

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series Book 1 - Lost Civilizations
    The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    This concise history tells India's unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day, with a new preface and postscript.Throughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of philosophers and indomitable, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Cracking the Egyptian Code

    The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts--ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic--would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia. More than twenty years later a remarkably gifted Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Stitch in Time

    by Andrew J. Robinson ...
    Narrated by Andrew J. Robinson ...
    Series series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Unabridged

    12 hours 31 min

    An unique and intense tale following Elim Garak as he attempts to stitch the ravaged society of Cardassia back together.For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing—to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Genius

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or more. Most of us would probably answer: all ten possessed something we call genius, which in each instance permanently changed the way that ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Raspberry Pi Hardware Projects 1

    by Andrew Robinson, Mike Cook ...
    Learn how to take full advantage of all of Raspberry Pi’s amazing features and functions—and have a blast doing it!Congratulations on becoming a proud owner of a Raspberry Pi, the credit-card-sized computer! If you’re ready to dive in and start finding out what this amazing little gizmo is really capable of, this ebook is for you.Taken from the forthcoming Raspberry Pi Projects, Raspberry Pi ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Raspberry Pi Projects

    by Andrew Robinson, Mike Cook ...
    Learn to build software and hardware projects featuring the Raspberry Pi!Congratulations on becoming a proud owner of a Raspberry Pi! Following primers on getting your Pi up and running and programming with Python, the authors walk you through 16 fun projects of increasing sophistication that let you develop your Raspberry Pi skills. Among other things you will:Write simple programs, including a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD