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  • The Greek Orators

    by John Frederic Dobson ...
    Oratory is one of the earliest necessities of society; as soon as men were organised on terms of equality for corporate action, there must have been occasions when opinions might differ as to the best course to be pursued, and, if there were no inspired king whose unquestioned authority could impose his will, the majority must decide whether to flee or to fight, to kill or to keep alive. Thus ... Read more

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    Blue Pearl, The

    by John G. Brandon ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    John Gordon Brandon (1879-1941) was an Australian-born writer who started life as a professional heavyweight boxer.He moved to England after the First World War and wrote more than 120 novels, and numerous short stories."The Blue Pearl" is an adventure story set in the Dutch East Indies. "Bad Luck" Jim Barton is slaving in a chain-gang and facing five more years penal servitude under the Dutch. ... Read more

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    "Paradise" Coal-Boat, The

    by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944) was a British writer of popular adventure fiction and fantastic literature."The Paradise Coal-Boat" is the story of Ezra Pollard, skipper of a coal boat working between Tyneside and the South coast. The cost-conscious shipowner, Gedge, makes it very clear to Ezra that he is to sail his route at top speed and in the event of any collision to bring home ... Read more

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  • Year of the Gherkin

    by John Dobson ...
    Okay, so his credit card is maxed, his boss hates him, his father is a world-class alcoholic and his hairline, like the country, is showing signs of recession. But everything will come right if he sticks to his New Year's resolutions. All he needs to do to get his life back on track is bag himself a great new job, lose 9 kgs, get a girlfriend (blonde, not too much admin) and get 250 Facebook ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Belligerents, Brinkmanship, and the Big Stick

    A Historical Encyclopedia of American Diplomatic Concepts

    by John M. Dobson ...
    This encyclopedia offers authoritative coverage of the concepts, traditions, events, and individuals that shaped United States' foreign relations from the American Revolution to the present.Belligerents, Brinkmanship, and the Big Stick: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Diplomatic Concepts is the first comprehensive encyclopedic work to focus specifically on America's extraordinary history of ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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    Fascinating Short Stories

    by H. G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, John Buchan, Various Authors ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 43 min

    A superb collection of captivating short stories by leading classic writers, including:'The Cone' by H. G. Wells'The Dream Woman' by Wilkie Collins'Fortunes Adrift' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' by Ella Hepworth Dixon'The Table Under the Tree' by E. Phillips Oppenheim'In Yeddo Bay' by Jack London'The Man with the Canine Teeth' by Edgar Wallace'The Open Boat' by ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Environmental Politics

    From Margins to Mainstream

    Edited by Piers Stephens, John Barry, Andrew Dobson ...
    Series series Environmental Politics
    This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics,presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a marginal position in society and the academy, to its current place in the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • An American Bum in China

    Featuring the bumblingly brilliant escapades of expatriate Matthew Evans

    by Tom Carter ...
    Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the farmsteads of Muscatine, Iowa, at age 21 to pursue his Chinese Dream. With all the makings of a classic folk tale, his curiosity became an epic five-year adventure that would find him homeless, stateless, posing as a professor, imprisoned, deported, and caught in the middle of the 2014 Hong Kong ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Paricutin

    The Miracle of Daniel Pulido

    by Jerome John Dobson ...
    The story of Paricutin begins when sixteen-year-old Daniel Pulido has a premonition of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. He warns his mother who is working at a children’s hospital— but she doesn’t believe him. Eight days later, Daniel is the sole survivor found in the rubble because a special microphone, lowered into the wreckage, picked up some of his mysterious ramblings. The Church attributes ... Read more

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  • The World's Best Poetry: Sorrow and Consolation

    Enriched edition. Journeys Through Sorrow and Solace: A Literary Exploration of Emotional Resilience and Melancholy Verse

    by Heinrich Heine, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew Lang, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eugene Field, John Milton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alexander Pope, John Keats0, Austin Dobson1, Francis Bacon2, Lyman Abbott3, Lord Byron4, Lord Alfred Tennyson5, Arden Whitlowe9 ...
    The World's Best Poetry: Sorrow and Consolation offers readers an enlightening exploration of human emotion, spanning from the depths of despair to the heights of solace. This anthology showcases a rich tapestry of poetic styles, including romanticism, symbolism, and classical artistry, each reflecting the profound themes of sorrow and consolation. The collection's diversity is its strength, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London Dispersion Forces in Molecules, Solids and Nano-structures

    An Introduction to Physical Models and Computational Methods

    by János Ángyán, John Dobson, Georg Jansen, Tim Gould ...
    Series Book 16 - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Series
    London dispersion interactions are responsible for numerous phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology. Recent years have seen the development of new, physically well-founded models, and dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT) is now a hot topic of research. This book is an overview of current understanding of the physical origin and modelling of London dispersion forces manifested ... Read more

    $255.99 CAD

  • UI5 User Guide

    How to develop responsive data-centric client web applications

    by Carsten Heinrigs ...
    The UI5 User Guide gets the reader started quickly with OpenUI5/SAPUI5 development. Step by step, it shows how to develop a basic client web application, introducing concepts and flow of developing with UI5 along the way. You can reuse the resulting code as a template for any serious UI5 application.After getting started, the main content of the book is divided into three parts:The first part of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD