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  • The Pendle Witch Fourth Centenary Handbook

    by John Clayton ...
    We have reached that prominent milestone of four centuries since the Pendle Witch trials of 1612. During the period of March to August of that year the number of people accused of witchcraft, and eventually standing trial for their lives, numbered almost two-score. Over half of these unfortunates ended their days on the rope at Gallows Hill in Lancaster.Four hundred years on it is perhaps ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Pendle Witches

    by John Clayton ...
    An fascinating account of witch trials in 1634 where over 60 local people were arrested in the area of Pendle Forest (East Lancashire - Northern England). These unfortunates were tried for their lives on the evidence of a ten year-old boy who became famous as the 'Pendle Witch-finder.'This case became nationally famous when King Charles the First took a personal interest. Playwrights wrote and ... Read more

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  • Natural Rivals

    by John Clayton ...
    John Muir and Gifford Pinchot have often been seen as the embodiment of conflicting environmental philosophies. Muir, the preservationist and co-founder of the Sierra Club. Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service advocating sustainability in timber harvests, instituted conservation. The idealistic Muir saw nature as something special and separate; the pragmatic Pinchot accepted that ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Source

    by John Clayton ...
    What is the origin of the world and of life itself?Did a series of accidents and evolution bring about the world as we know it?Or is there a design and purpose behind it all?And if there is a design, is there an ultimate designer?A number of years ago, John Clayton, a second-generation atheist and respected scientist and teacher, set out to disprove the Bible from a scientific point of view. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Stories from Montana's Enduring Frontier

    Exploring an Untamed Legacy

    by John Clayton ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    At the turn of the twentieth century, Montana started emerging from its rugged past. Permanent towns and cities, powered by mining, tourism, and trade, replaced ramshackle outposts. Yet Montana's frontier endured, both in remote pockets and in the wider cultural imagination. The frontier thus played a continuing role in Montanans' lives, often in fascinating ways. Author John Clayton has written ... Read more

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  • Cotton and Cold Blood

    by John Clayton ...
    A historical novel of life, love and murder in Victorian England.This well-researched true story follows the life of Sarah Ann Davis as she leaves her Black Country home in search of a better life in the booming cotton district of East Lancashire.Sarah goes on to work in service and the humour and hardship of life in the cotton village of Barrowford are superbly described.The humanity of northern ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wonderlandscape

    by John Clayton ...
    An evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone’s evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figures.In calling Yellowstone “Wonderland,” the first white explorers were comparing its striking geological features to the just-published Alice in Wonderland. But over its history, Yellowstone has become famous for not only its ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Death in Living Gray

    by John Clayton ...
    Prudence Abernathy left her job in a California art gallery to marry a young army captain on the way home from Vietnam. She settled into the life of a country housewife at the old family plantation in Mason County, Virginia—that is, until her husband is disbarred from practicing law. Prudence has to pitch in to keep the family finances afloat, first by selling off antiques from the manor house, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Remembering Manchester

    Towering Titans and Unsung Heroes

    by John Clayton ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    The general's courage and calm under pressure would be echoed by many other sons and daughters of Manchester in the succeeding centuries, as the hamlet settled around Amoskeag Falls grew into New Hampshire's largest city. John Clayton describes thirty-two of the Queen City's most remarkable residents, from Iwo Jima flag raiser Rene Gagnon and fast-food innovator Richard McDonald to lesser-known ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What’s with Free Will?

    Ethics and Religion after Neuroscience

    Edited by Philip Clayton, James W. Walters ...
    Are humans free, or are we determined by our genes and the world around us? The question of freedom is not only one of philosophy's greatest conundrums, but also one of the most fundamental questions of human existence. It's particularly pressing in societies like ours, where our core institutions of law, ethics, and religion are built around the belief in individual freedom. Can one still affirm ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Natural Rivals

    John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands

    by John Clayton ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    This dynamic examination traces the lives of two of the most influential figures and their dueling approaches on America’s natural landscape.John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, cofounded the Sierra Club, and is sometimes called the Father of the National Parks. A poor immigrant, self-taught, individualistic, and skeptical of institutions, he had an ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man I Never Wanted To Be

    A Novel

    by John J. Clayton ...
    David is a refugee from the late sixties and early seventies, now teaching at a community college in Western Massachusetts. Committed to helping his working-class students, he is also a part-time father who is trying to raise his son in a responsible and loving way.When he meets an old lover from the seventies who runs a center for battered women in Boston, and she asks him to help out in an ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus