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  • John (Penguin Monarchs)

    An Evil King?

    by Nicholas Vincent ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since, John has come to be seen as an archetypal tyrant. But how evil was he?In this perceptive short account, Nicholas Vincent unpicks John's life through his deeds and his ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Vincent ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. This Very Short Introduction introduces the document to a modern audience, explaining its origins in the troubled reign of King John, and tracing the significance of the role that it played thereafter as a totemic symbol of the subject's ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Belgium and the First World War

    by Henri Pirenne ...
    Translated by Vincent Capelle, Jeff Lipkes ...
    During World War I, Americans and British were riveted by the invasion and occupation of Belgium. Over 5,500 innocent civilians were executed in August 1914, over 2 million fled to the Netherlands, France, and Britain, and the 5 million remaining in the country faced mass starvation. The great medieval historian Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) provides a detailed, gripping account of the occupation. He ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dwarves of the World

    by Pat Flewwelling, Lisa Toohey, Dale R. Long, Clay Greene, Brenda Carre, Brandon Draga, Nicholas Jennings, Vincent Justin Mitra, Sherry Peters ...
    The Dwarves of the World bundle provides 9 fantastic short stories from 9 talented authors that explore the myths and corresponding mythology about dwarves and dwarf culture. Each story deals with a different aspect of dwarf culture and a different set of dwarves with personalities and situations as unique as the humans you meet every day.Table of Contents"Where the Dwarva Went" by Pat Flewwelling ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Ultimate Mind Power Collection

    The Secrets to Unlocking Your Greatest Potential

    by Florence Scovel Shinn, James Allen, Henry Drummond, Joseph Murphy, Norman Vincent Peale, Nicolas Darvas ...
    One of the biggest secrets of the ages is this: thought is creative. Thought creates reality—no matter how much it might seem otherwise. This is the secret of power, success, love, and health. You shape your reality by shaping your thoughts. This is staggering and incredible, but it’s the truth.If thought is creative, then you have endless power at your disposal in your mind.So why doesn’t ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Emerging Laser Technologies for High-Power and Ultrafast Science

    by Jorge Rocca, Yong Wang, Han Chi, Cory Baumgarten, Brendan A. Reagan, Kristian Dehne, Carmen S. Menoni, Christian Gaida, Martin Gebhardt, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Zenghu Chang, Yi Wu, Esben Larsen, Fangjie Zhou, Lifeng Wang, Alphonse Marra, Daniel Schade, Jialin Li, Nicolas Thiré, Raman Maksimenka, Olivier Albert, Nicolas Forget, Francesca Calegari, Andrea Trabattoni, Andrea Cartella, Lorenzo Colaizzi, Vincent Wanie ...
    Series series IOP ebooks
    Emerging Laser Technologies for High-Power and Ultrafast Science includes chapters from leading experts devoted to the most recent achievements in the field. Including cutting-edge topics such as high energy/high average power laser systems, the most current developments for high repetition rate high average power infrared fiber laser systems, breakthroughs of the development of CPA based on ... Read more

    $174.79 CAD

  • HyphenPunk Spring 2023

    HyphenPunk Magazine, #7

    by Briar Ripley Page, Joachim Heijndermans, Katlina Sommerberg, Mar Vincent, Michael Stevens, Nicholas Jay, e.x. weis, Isaac E. Payne, Jennifer Jeanne McArdle, Jasen Bacon ...
    Series Book 7 - HyphenPunk Magazine
    HyphenPunk brings you eleven new pieces of science fiction in four different -punk genres!Stories by:Mar VincentFayaway & Hermester BarringtonMichael StevensJoachim HeijndermansBriar Ripley PageNicholas Jaye.x.weisJennifer Jeanne McArdleIsaac E. PayneMattie BukowskiKatlina Sommerberg ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Achieving durable disease resistance in cereals

    by Dr Cheng Jiang, Dr Peigao Luo, Dr Claire Kanja, Dr Ana K. Machado Wood, Dr Laura Baggaley, Dr Catherine Walker, Prof Kim Hammond-Kosack, Prof Guihua Bai, Dr Stephen B. Goodwin, Dr Serge Savary, Dr Y. Petit-Houdenot, Dr Marc-Henri Lebrun, Dr G. Scalliet, Prof Harsh Raman, Dr Gayan K. Kariyawasam, Dr Timothy L. Friesen, Dr Min Lin, Dr Morten Lillemo, Prof Ramesh Chand, Dr Sudhir Navathe, Dr Laetitia Willocquet, Dr Sandeep Sharma, Dr Anke Martin, Dr Barsha Poudel, Dr Buddhika Amarasinghe Dahanayaka, Dr Mark S. McLean, Dr Lisle Snyman, Dr Francisco J. Lopez-Ruiz, Dr Karl M. Effertz, Dr Shaun J. Clare, Dr Sarah M. Harkins, Dr Vanessa Bueno-Sancho, Dr Robert Brueggeman, Dr Jerome D. Franckowiak, Dr Gregory J. Platz, Dr Reem Aboukhaddour, Dr Mohamed Hafez, Dr Stephen E. Strelkov, Dr Myriam R. Fernandez, Dr José Mauricio Fernandes, Dr E. M. Del Ponte, Dr J. P. Ascari, Dr Clare M. Lewis, Dr T. J. Krupnik, Dr W. Pavan, Dr F. Vargas, Dr T. Berton, Dr Vincent M. Were, Prof Nicholas J. Talbot, Dr Neil Havis, Dr Douglas Lau, Dr Talita Bernardon Mar, Dr Carlos Diego Ribeiro dos Santos, Dr Diane G. O. Saunders, Dr Eduardo Engel, Dr Paulo Roberto do Valle da Silva Pereira, Dr Torsten Will, Prof Frank Ordon, Dr Dragan Perovic, Dr Christina Cowger, Prof James K. M. Brown, Dr Sarrah Ben M'Barek, Dr Seyed Mahmoud Tabib Ghaffary, Dr Tianheng Ren, Dr Zhi Li, Dr Feiquan Tan, Professor Stephen Wegulo ...
    Series Book 106 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Provides an authoritative review of the key developments in achieving durable disease resistance in cereal cropsComprehensive coverage of the major diseases that affect cereal crops (Fusarium head blight, Septoria tritici blotch, tan spot)Assesses the key challenges in breeding durable disease-resistant cereals faced globally, with dedicated chapters to the regional strategies established by North ... Read more

    $243.99 CAD

  • Mesopotamian Gods & Goddesses

    by Vincent Hale and Nicholas Croce ...
    Series series Gods & Goddesses of Mythology I
    Mesopotamian religion was one of the earliest religious systems to develop with—and in turn influence—a high civilization. Followed by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, Mesopotamian religion and mythology reflected the complexities of these societies and has been preserved in remnants of their cultural, economic, and political institutions. This absorbing volume provides a ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 8

    S Mukerji to Eça de Queirós

    by Henry W Nevinson, Simon Newcomb, Amyas Northcote, Nicholas Olde, Vincent O'Sullivan, Marion Parker, Max Pemberton, Alice Perrin, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Ralph Plummer, John Willaim Polidori, Edwin Pugh, Eric Purves, Eça de Queirós ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Michael Lyons, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of ... Read more

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