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  • Sextant

    A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

    by David Barrie ...
    In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Supernavigators

    Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way

    by David Barrie ...
    "Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book."—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book ReviewPublisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys.Animals plainly know where they're going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. Supernavigators is a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Film Buff's Guide

    A Humorous History of Cinema

    by David Barry ...
    Do you love cinema and want to know more about its history? Are you a film fan looking for an informative yet light-hearted review of the last one hundred and thirty years of the silver screen? If so, you've found what you're looking for! In this book, TV and movie star David Barry takes us on a journey through the history of cinema, from the silent movies at the time of the birth of the industry ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Deadly Diversion

    by David Barry ...
    Weston and Turner, novice private detectives, are plunged into a nightmare world of murder when they are hired by a young millionairess to solve the triple murder of her family, a crime the police failed to solve more than eleven years ago. As they delve deeper into the case, they soon discover a hired assassin is always one step ahead of them and someone will do anything to stop them learning the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Than Chattel

    Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

    Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Political Babble

    The Dumbest Things Politicians Ever Said

    by David Olive ...
    "I was dramatically shaped by my grandmother and my aunts because they convinced me there was always a cookie available. Deep down inside I'm four years old, and I wake up and think out there, there's a cookie. Every morning I'm going, you know, either it can be baked or it's already been bought, but it's in a jar . . . somewhere. . . ." — Newt Gingrich in 1994,from his Renewing American ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Police in the Age of Improvement

    by David Barrie ...
    The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected. Little is known about the Scottish police's origins, development and character despite growing interest in the machinery of law enforcement in other parts of the United Kingdom. This book seeks to remedy this deficiency.Based on extensive archival research, its central aim is to provide an in-depth analysis of the economic, social ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-in-Law

    Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister in the Nineteenth Century

    by David Barrie ...
    This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain – the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife’s sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom. It provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Seeing God Through Science

    Exploring the Science Narrative to Strengthen and Deepen Faith in the Creator

    by Barry David Schoub ...
    It has been said that science and religion aren't friends. Indeed, science and scientists are preferably shunned in conservative religious circles. Seeing God through Science, however, emphatically dispels that notion. This book compellingly shows how science is, in point of fact, a potent support for religious faith. From the powerful, universal, biological drives of living organisms to the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh

    The Final Curtain

    by David Barry ...
    After decades of theatrical ventures and performing together, 1957 would be the last time Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh would work together, with a European tour and London season of Shakespeare's seldom-performed Titus Andronicus. Strangely, not much has been written about one of the most prestigious touring theatre productions of all time, which visited six European capitals and became the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Navigator

    Revised Edition

    by Steve Thomas ...
    The classic account of traditional Micronesian navigation and “the last navigator,” Mau Piailug, who fought to preserve it—now available in a revised edition illustrated in full colorAs a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with ancient methods of navigation. He learned that, for thousands of years, the peoples of Oceania had sailed ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Black Women in White

    Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, John McCluskey ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    " . . . pioneering. . . . This history, as Hine vividly depicts it, sheds light on the development of African-American professionals and offers as well the opportunity to analyze the intersection of race and gender." —The Nation" . . . well-researched and innovative . . . Highly recommended." —Library Journal"The book is full of poignant and sympathetic portraits of black nurses in their ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus