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  • Audiobook

    Knights of the North Pole: Santa

    Knights of the North Pole, Book 1

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Knights of the North Pole

    Unabridged

    11 hours 8 min

    In the world of Solstice, every Christmas myth is real.Dying on Christmas Eve, Jacob is reborn in a winter-locked realm of monsters, magic, and cultivators. A land where the Knights of the North Pole hold back the darkness. At least, they used to.Cultists of the Krampus are raising a wicked ritual in the ice. The goat lord of ShanYang enslaves the elves in manufactories. The polar bear king leads ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hobart

    by Peter Timms ...
    Series series The City Series
    A journey through Hobart—Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital—this updated edition reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the post-modern world. From Hobart's convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage architecture, and climate to crime rates, economic hardship, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silliness

    A serious history

    by Peter Timms ...
    Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking. But it's not new. This delightful yet informative book reveals the surprisingly rich history of silliness, going all the way back to the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Swindon Works Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    Two men started the transformation from sleepy hilltop community into a thriving town. Gooch and Brunel chose the area near Swindon to build a factory for the Great Western Railway and for more than 140 years The Works was renowned for high-quality heavy engineering. Gooch, Armstrong, Dean, Churchward and Collett would be responsible for the design and building of some of the world’s finest ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • In and Around Swindon Works

    by Peter Timms ...
    In and Around Swindon Works covers further aspects of the famous manufacturing centre of the Great Western Railway during its heyday of 1930 to 1960. This is the second half of a detailed work begun with the book Working at Swindon Works 1930 - 1960. In piecemeal form, much has been written about Swindon Works but many aspects of it have remained, until now, neglected. From ex-employees, both male ... Read more

    $21.69 CAD

  • Swindon Works 1930-1960

    by Peter Timms ...
    Swindon Works 1930–1960 is a fully revised and enlarged edition of Working at Swindon Works 1930–1960, first published in 2007. It describes various aspects of the famous railway works of the Great Western Railway, later British Railways Western Region. Despite the disruption caused by economic depression, the Second World War, nationalisation and the transition from steam to diesel manufacture, ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

  • Hobart

    by Peter Timms ...
    Series series The City Series
    In this updated edition, Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the post-modern world: 'going boutique, nice and slow', as one overseas visitor notes. From Hobart's ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Marries Whom?

    Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies

    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, A. Timm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Marriage and social inequality are closely interrelated. Marriage is dependent on the structure of marriage markets, and marriage patterns have consequences for social inequality. This book demonstrates that in most modern societies the educa tional system has become an increasingly important marriage market, particularly for those who are highly qualified. Educational expansion in general and the ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Corporate Criminal Liability in Germany

    This English-language handbook is a comprehensive guide to German corporate criminal liability. Tailored for both German legal professionals seeking precise English terminology and assistance in explaining German legal concepts, as well as foreign lawyers requiring a useful overview, it delivers practical insights into criminal and administrative offences affecting businesses in Germany.This book ... Read more

    $210.19 CAD

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    A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But, no matter how busy or tired he was, something kept niggling at him. Books. Books he’d always wanted to read. ... Read more

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  • Paperweight

    by Stephen Fry ...
    A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.Perfect to dip into but just as enjoyable to read cover to cover, this book, perhaps more than any other ... Read more

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  • In a Sunburned Country

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It's a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost — yes, lost — while swimming at sea, to Japanese cult members who may (entirely unnoticed) have set off an atomic bomb on their 500,000 acre property in the great western desert.Australia is the only ... Read more

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