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  • Black Wings VII

    The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these "Best of" tales are selected, stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft's incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right for a retrospective volume that exhibits the choicest items from the series. The task of selection was not a simple or straightforward one, for every tale in the series ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bay of Pigs

    by Howard Jones ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Ignoring warnings from the ambassador to Cuba, the Eisenhower ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • My Lai

    Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness

    by Howard Jones ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "Pinkville" because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration. The soldiers, many still ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • His Own Most Fantastic Creation

    H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), the pioneering writer of weird fiction, has himself become an icon in popular culture. Stories, novels, and other works featuring the gaunt, lantern-jawed gentleman from Providence, Rhode Island, have proliferated. These works have been triggered by the incredible amount of knowledge we have on the writer—his family, his friends, his idiosyncrasies and eccentricities ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bay of Pigs

    by Howard Jones ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Ignoring warnings from the ambassador to Cuba, the Eisenhower ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Tales from the Rain

    Early Weird Fiction

    NIGHTMARE FICTION FROM THE RAGGED EDGES OF REALITYA sinister ice sculpture that towers a hundred feet highThe secret of the ‘man’ suffering from The ConditionA strange girl who welcomes you to her very unusual homeAn insane, otherworldly cure for a lingering deathAn abusive doppelgänger who refuses to lie down and dieA car park that may be one corner of a very personal hellMeet all these horrific ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Mutiny on the Amistad

    The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy

    by Howard Jones ...
    This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of the ship by an American naval vessel near Montauk, Long Island, the arrest of the Africans in ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Death of a Generation:How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War

    How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War

    by Howard Jones ...
    When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of enduring controversy.Now, based on convincing new evidence--including a startling revelation about the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cthulhu Cymraeg The Night Country

    Lovecraftian Tales from Wales

    The old gods are dead …The OLDER gods have returnedBefore the American master of cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft came the Welsh genius of the weird Arthur Machen, who filled his pages with tales of ancient evil.Now comes this collection of seven NEW stories from the ancient land of Machen, following in the footsteps of Lovecraft and his uncanny creations.Featuring original stories by:J. L. GeorgeMark ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Cthulhu Cymraeg The Night Country

    The old gods are dead …The OLDER gods have returned!Before the American master of cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft came the Welsh genius of the weird Arthur Machen, who filled his pages with tales of ancient evil.Now comes this collection of seven NEW stories from the ancient land of Machen, following in the footsteps of Lovecraft and his uncanny creations.Featuring original stories by:J. L. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Eyes on the Stars and Feet on the Ground

    The Foreign Policy of Theodore Roosevelt

    “Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground” reads a plaque near the gravesite of Theodore Roosevelt, America's 26th president. During his tumultuous seven and a half years in the White House, Roosevelt boasted that his administration had combined ideals and reality to take a leading role in maintaining global peace.In this book, the late Howard Jones, one of the most ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Evolution of the Learning Brain

    Or How You Got To Be So Smart...

    How does learning transform us biologically?What learning processes do we share with bacteria, jellyfish and monkeys?Is technology impacting on our evolution and what might the future hold for the learning brain?These are just some of the questions Paul Howard-Jones explores on a fascinating journey through 3.5 billion years of brain evolution, and discovers what it all means for how we learn ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD