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  • After Tamerlane

    The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

    by John Darwin ...
    Tamerlane was the last of the 'world conquerors': his armies looted and killed from the shores of the Mediterranean to the frontier of China. Nomad horsemen from the Steppes had been the terror of Europe and Asia for centuries, but with Tamerlane's death in 1405, an epoch of history came to an end. The future belonged to the great dynastic empires - Chinese, Mughal, Iranian and Ottoman - where ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Prospect of Global History

    Edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, Chris Wickham ...
    The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well as modern history. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Unfinished Empire

    The Global Expansion of Britain

    by John Darwin ...
    A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Empire Project

    The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

    by John Darwin ...
    The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Tales of old Tokyo

    by John Darwin Van Fleet ...
    A breathtaking romp through Tokyo's history from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, using lots of images, writings and clippings to bring back to life those far-off days. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Ultrasilence

    by John Darwin ...
    From the provincial peccadilloes of Prestwich in Manchester to coffee houses and bars by the Bosporus in İstanbul, John Darwin explores life’s three stages of arriving, staying for a bit, and then leaving.A poetic reflection on the ennui of the everyday, intermittent pleasures, and the quest to understand love and belonging from the Gtr Manchester Fringe Festival 2021 Best Spoken Word Performance ... Read more

    $9.22 CAD

  • I Meet Myself Returning

    by John Darwin ...
    “Whichever way I take I meet myself returning.”A poetic journey from the mills and moors of the industrial north to the meals and mosques of the Byzantine middle-east and back again. I Meet Myself Returning is about finding your feet in our convoluted world and letting them take you to a place to call your own. And, occasionally, stopping off for a pint.“For those of us who struggle with the ... Read more

    $9.22 CAD

  • The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

    by Charles Darwin, John Milton, Molière, Anonymous, Plato, Adam Smith, Francis Bacon, Aesop, Oliver Goldsmith, Epictetus, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, Virgil, Christopher Marlowe, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Carlyle, Saint Augustine, Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripides, Tacitus, Sophocles, Plutarch, Dante Alighieri, Edmund Burke, Cicero, John Dryden, Grimm Brothers, Robert Burns, William Penn, Izaak Walton, Thomas Browne, Charles Eliot, Lord Byron, . Homer, . Voltaire, John Woolman, Jane Austen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas á Kempis, Pliny the Younger, Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana Jr, John Stuart Mill, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Bunyan, René Descartes, Thomas Malory, Christian, Blaise Pascal, Ivan Turgenev ...
    The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (2021 Edition)

    by Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Brontë Sisters, Samuel Butler, Miguel de Cervantes, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe0, Fyodor Dostoyevsky1, Arthur Conan Doyle2, Alexandre Dumas3, George Eliot4, Gustave Flaubert5, Charlotte Perkins Gilman6, Nikolai Gogol7, The Brothers Grimm8, Homer9, Victor Hugo0, Victor Hugo1, Washington Irving2, Henry James3, James Joyce4, D. H. Lawrence5, Gaston Leroux6, Jack London7, Arthur Machen8, Herman Melville9, Marcel Proust0, Mary Shelley1, Stendhal2, Robert Louis Stevenson3, Bram Stoker4, Sun Tzu5, Jonathan Swift6, William Makepeace Thackeray7, Leo Tolstoy8, Mark Twain9, Oscar Wilde0, Marcus Aurelius1, Francis Bacon2, Benjamin Franklin3, Plato4, William Shakespeare5, Charles Darwin6, Charles Eliot7, John Woolman8, William Penn9, Thomas Browne0, Adam Smith1, Aesop2, Lord Byron3, Alessandro Manzoni4, Pierre Corneille5, Ben Jonson6, Nathaniel Hawthorne7, Edgar Allan Poe8, H.P. Lovecraft9, Samuel L. Clemens0, Presbourg Press1 ...
    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names:- The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri]- Emma [Jane Austen]- Persuasion [Jane Austen]- Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]- Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac]- Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë]- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë]- Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë]- The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler]- Don Quixote ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die

    The Secret Garden, The Odyssey, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Scarlet Letter, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula and others

    by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Homer, Charles Dickens, Lyman Frank Baum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Haggard, Wilkie Collins, H. G. Wells, Sir Walter Scott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Euripides, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, John Bunyan, Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Howard Pyle, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Giovanni Boccaccio, Rudyard Kipling ...
    50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the ... Read more

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  • Birds - Part III - The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle

    Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy - During the Years 1832 to 1836

    by Charles Darwin, John Gould ...
    This volume presents the definitive ornithological record from Charles Darwin's historic five-year voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle (1832-1836).Birds, Part III of the authoritative Zoology series provides a meticulous and foundational account of the avian life collected and studied across the globe, with a focus on South America and the Pacific islands, including the Galapagos archipelago.This volume ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Let’s Ride

    Sonny Barger’s Guide to Motorcycling How to Ride the Right Way-for Life

    by Sonny Barger ...
    Narrated by John McLain ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    One of the founders and the most famous member of the infamous Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, Ralph "Sonny" Barger says, "Let's Ride" with this ultimate guide to motorcycling.Hailed as the new essential resource for bikers, Let's Ride is today's most entertaining and authoritative guide to mastering the art of motorcycling. From choosing the right bike and keeping it finely maintained to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD