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Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

by Seán Hewitt, Luke Gibbons, Gregory Castle, Simon During, Damien Keane, Susanne S. Cammack, Jeremy Lakoff, Enda Duffy, Chris Ackerley, Alan Graham, Katherine Ebury, Andrew Kalaidjian ...

Series series Irish Studies
Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and ... Read more

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Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and
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Dolly Parton All the Songs

The Story Behind Every Track

by Simon Benoît, Damien Somville, Lalie Walker ...

Series series All the Songs
Take a deep dive into Dolly Parton’s almost 60 year career with this complete guide featuring more than 400 photographs, little-known stories behind each album, and behind-the-scenes details about the recording of each track, the musicians involved, and the songwriting process.Organized chronologically, and covering every album and every song that Dolly has ever released, Dolly Parton All the ... Read more

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Take a deep dive into Dolly Parton’s almost 60 year career with this complete guide featuring more than 400 photographs, little-known stories behind each album, and behind-the-scenes details about the recording of each track, the musicians involved, and the songwriting process.Organized chronologically, and covering every album and every song that Dolly has ever released, Dolly Parton All the
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Why We Play

An Anthropological Study

by Roberte Hamayon ...

Translated by Damien Simon ...

Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s many ... Read more

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Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s many
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Blue Blood

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 15 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

8 hours 49 min

Police officers are the target in this gripping thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.It is Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon’s wedding day. Gig rowers find a body floating in Bridgwater Bay and when the victim is identified as a serving police officer, executed at point blank range with a 3D printed gun, the assistant chief constable is soon knocking on Dixon’s door ... Read more

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Police officers are the target in this gripping thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.It is Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon’s wedding day. Gig rowers find a body floating in Bridgwater Bay and when the victim is identified as a serving police officer, executed at point blank range with a 3D printed gun, the assistant chief constable is soon knocking on Dixon’s door
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Swansong

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 4 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

6 hours 32 min

Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut.With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher into Isobel’s boarding school.But to find the killer, he must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts lurking in his own past. If he can…As Dixon digs ... Read more

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Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut.With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher into Isobel’s boarding school.But to find the killer, he must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts lurking in his own past. If he can…As Dixon digs
... Read more
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Death Sentence

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 6 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

The highly anticipated sixth book in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War Two pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon starts digging into the victim’s past.The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a case that takes him from the cave systems beneath ... Read more

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The highly anticipated sixth book in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War Two pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon starts digging into the victim’s past.The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a case that takes him from the cave systems beneath
... Read more
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Head in the Sand

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 2 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

4 hours 55 min

The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill.A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and Detective Inspector Nick Dixon finds himself caught in a race against time that takes him the length and breadth of the country.The brutal killing of an ... Read more

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The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill.A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and Detective Inspector Nick Dixon finds himself caught in a race against time that takes him the length and breadth of the country.The brutal killing of an
... Read more
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Dead Lock

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 8 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

Early on a cold Somerset morning, ten year old Alesha Daniels is reported missing by her father, a violent alcoholic. Her mother, a known drug addict, is found unconscious, but it’s her mother’s boyfriend the police are keen to trace.As the hunt for Alesha gathers pace, a second local girl is taken, plunging another family into the depths of despair.Cutting short his holiday, DI Nick Dixon races ... Read more

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Early on a cold Somerset morning, ten year old Alesha Daniels is reported missing by her father, a violent alcoholic. Her mother, a known drug addict, is found unconscious, but it’s her mother’s boyfriend the police are keen to trace.As the hunt for Alesha gathers pace, a second local girl is taken, plunging another family into the depths of despair.Cutting short his holiday, DI Nick Dixon races
... Read more
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Kickback

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 3 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

4 hours 56 min

A trainee jockey has been kicked to death by an aggressive stallion at the local stables. Deemed an accidental death, the case is closed. But when the jockey’s brother returns from active service, he sparks an armed siege, demanding the investigation be re-opened and the truth uncovered.Still recovering from the physical and mental scars of his last case, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is dragged ... Read more

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A trainee jockey has been kicked to death by an aggressive stallion at the local stables. Deemed an accidental death, the case is closed. But when the jockey’s brother returns from active service, he sparks an armed siege, demanding the investigation be re-opened and the truth uncovered.Still recovering from the physical and mental scars of his last case, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is dragged
... Read more
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Dead Level

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 5 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

8 hours 20 min

In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the wife of parliamentary candidate Tom Perry is brutally murdered in an apparent burglary gone wrong.With the by-election campaign about to start in earnest, and the festive season in full swing, torrential rain brings with it flood warnings on the Somerset Levels.Suspended on full pay and transferred to the cold case unit, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is ... Read more

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In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the wife of parliamentary candidate Tom Perry is brutally murdered in an apparent burglary gone wrong.With the by-election campaign about to start in earnest, and the festive season in full swing, torrential rain brings with it flood warnings on the Somerset Levels.Suspended on full pay and transferred to the cold case unit, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is
... Read more
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Heads or Tails

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 7 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

The highly anticipated seventh novel in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.A man has been mutilated and left to drown on the incoming tide, handcuffed in his van. With the murder bearing a striking resemblance to a string of sadistic killings carried out with surgical precision in 1990s gangland Manchester, it can mean only one thing: the killer is back.Transferred to the Major ... Read more

$49.46 CAD

The highly anticipated seventh novel in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.A man has been mutilated and left to drown on the incoming tide, handcuffed in his van. With the murder bearing a striking resemblance to a string of sadistic killings carried out with surgical precision in 1990s gangland Manchester, it can mean only one thing: the killer is back.Transferred to the Major
... Read more
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As the Crow Flies

by Damien Boyd ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Series Audiobook 1 - DI Nick Dixon Crime
Unabridged

3 hours 57 min

Rock climbers can’t afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell.The more Dixon learns about Jake’s life, the more he realises that Jake hadn’t been quite the ... Read more

$39.84 CAD

Rock climbers can’t afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell.The more Dixon learns about Jake’s life, the more he realises that Jake hadn’t been quite the
... Read more

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