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  • Midnight In Sicily

    On Art, Feed, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra

    by Peter Robb ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA New York Public Library Best Book of the YearFrom the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily.South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • On Time

    Encounters between India and Europe in Early Calcutta

    by Peter Robb ...
    This book explores the intersection of public and private temporal systems. Examining Calcutta between 1780 and 1830, it reveals how time functioned as both a regulatory mechanism of emerging colonial governance and a deeply personal construct that continued to reflect pre-colonial norms and practices.The author navigates the complex temporal landscape of early colonial Calcutta, where European ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Greater Exploits – 14 MYSTERIOUS SECRETS and Strategies OF THE Dark KINGDOM on Seven (7) Continents with Deployable Countermeasures in the Place of Prayer and Prophetic Actions

    You are Born for This – Healing, Deliverance and Restoration – Equipping Series

    by Ambassador Monday O. Ogbe, Cindy Jacobs, J.P Timmons, John D. Robb, C. Peter Wagner, Ana Mendez-ferrell, Rony Chaves ...
    Series Book 14 - Greater Exploits Series
    Greater Exploits 14 is a continuation of Greater Exploits 13 with more details, focusing on MYSTERIOUS SECRETS and Strategies OF THE Dark KINGDOM on Seven (7) Continents with Deployable Countermeasures in the Place of Prayer and Prophetic Actions by Rony Chaves, Dr. C. Peter Wagner , Cindy Jacobs.John D. Robb, Ana Mendez-Ferrell, J.P. TIMMONS and Ambassador Monday O. Ogbe, these Servants of the ... Read more

    $24.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • M

    The Man Who Became Caravaggio

    by Peter Robb ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year“Robb's ambitions are lofty and, plainly put, it is hard not to be seduced by his prose.”—The Washington PostAs vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sex and Sensibility

    Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822

    by Peter Robb ...
    Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life.   While Sentiment and Self explores issues like interactions between Europeans and Indians, race and tolerance, this volume ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India

    Japanese Perspectives

    by Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa ...
    The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Domestication [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Battle Mage Farmer 1

    by Seth Ring ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Peter Holdway, Wyn Delano, Jenna Sharpe, Robb Moreira, James Lewis, Matthew Pauli, Bradley Foster Smith, Thomas Penny, Holly Adams, Christopher Walker, Kelly Baskin ...
    Series series Battle Mage Farmer

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    "A world on the precipice of the apocalypse. A secret forged in the flames of war. A chance to start over.For John Sutton, only one of those three things matters.Retired from a decade of brutal war, he wants nothing more than a quiet pastoral life while he does his best to stem the steady increase of his Doom Points before they hit 100, signaling the start of the end.He’s been given a small farm ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Rights and Future Comfort

    Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India

    by Peter Robb ...
    This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law debate and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 helped constitute a revolution in the effective aims of government and in the colonial ability to interfere in India, but that they did so alongside a ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Cultivation [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Battle Mage Farmer 3

    by Seth Ring ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Nazia Chaudhry, Christopher Williams, Andrew James Spooner, Dawn Ursula, Jenna Sharpe, Wyn Delano, Tanja Milojevic, James Lewis, Peter Holdway, Christopher Walker, Robb Moreira ...
    Series series Battle Mage Farmer

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    With the mystery of the world deepening, John Sutton is running out of time.The apocalypse is approaching as his Doom Points tick up and John is finding it harder and harder to keep it together. His deepening knowledge of magic seems to be helping but as a hidden society creeps out of the shadows, intent on throwing the world into chaos, it may not be enough.The only good news seems to be the new ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sentiment and Self

    Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822

    by Peter Robb ...
    Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life.   While Sex and Sensibility deals with larger issues of sexuality, concubines, and dynamics of households in colonial ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Agrarian Development in Colonial India

    The British and Bihar

    by Peter Robb ...
    This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms in the state.The book discusses British theories and policies of ‘improvement’, comparing them with ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Rural South Asia

    Linkages, Change and Development

    Edited by Peter Robb ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to the introduction of a ‘modern’ features of production, the importance of physical, cultural and economic communication, and the impact of various development efforts. This book will be of interest to ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD