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  • South Pacific Air War

    The Role of Airpower in the New Guinea and Solomon Island Campaigns, January 1943 to February 1944

    by Richard Dunn ...
    A new history of the South Pacific campaigns based primarily upon primary source material ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ships, Clocks, and Stars

    The Quest for Longitude

    An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship's precise longitude at sea.A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the longitude problem," the question of how to determine a ship's position at sea—and one that changed the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divinely Different, One Man's Enchantment With Santa Fe

    Award-winning poet Stephen Daingerfield Dunn shows us Santa Fe through his eyes with humor, wit, and human insight. He combines his poetry with beautiful photographs of the natural beauty and majesty of one of North America's most ancient cities, taken by his friend Richard Bettinger.A wonderful journey for any armchair traveler, filled with colorful native imagery. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Sugar and Slaves

    The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Sextants at Greenwich

    A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

    Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum. The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and used for that purpose, between about 1450 and the 1970s. The instruments in the catalogue form the ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • How I Shot the YouTube Megahit “All by Myself” on My iPhone and Why I’m Not Lonely Anymore

    by Richard Dunn ...
    This funny guide to shooting videos on your iPhone will inspire you to use your imagination and see the world in a different way. Dunn provides a firsthand account of what it’s like go from unknown to Internet Celebrity overnight. With 20 million hits and an ever-growing number of fans, Dunn traces the steps he took to create this remarkable video all the way to his final meeting with... CÉLINE ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Navigational Instruments

    by Richard Dunn ...
    Series Book 820 - Shire Library
    With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history.As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated. The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has ... Read more

    $12.19 CAD

  • Effective Teaching

    First Published in 2004. In the nineteenth century, teacher training institutions were called 'normal schools', because it was assumed that there was only one way to teach - the 'norm'. Today there is no single style of teaching endorsed by everyone. How teachers teach depends on factors like the age and ability of the children, their background and needs, the nature of the subject or topic being ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Operation Corporate: Operational Artist's View Of The Falkland Islands Conflict

    On 2 April 1982, after more than 16 years of inconclusive diplomatic negotiations with Great Britain, Argentina launched Operativo ROSARIO, a military campaign designed to take by military means what the Argentine government could not secure by political means: the Islas Malvinas or what the British and the Islanders call the Falklands. As happens in many such instances, the Argentine government ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Board of Longitude

    Science, Innovation and Empire

    In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine longitude at sea, the Board came to support the work of navigators, instrument makers, clockmakers and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics. Embracing the Myths, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore of the Plant Kingdom

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Myths and Superstitions of Plants

    In "Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics," Richard Folkard delves into the intricate tapestry of the plant kingdom, exploring its profound impact on human culture through myths, traditions, and superstitions. The book unfolds in a lyrical narrative style, infused with folklore and poetic language that brings to life the diverse stories surrounding various plants. Folkard meticulously organizes his ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    An Unsuitable Heiress

    A gorgeous regency historical romance from Jane Dunn

    by Jane Dunn ...
    Narrated by Richard Attlee ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 28 min

    'Brilliant, sparkling and very clever' Elizabeth Buchan‘Do you realise, Corinna, just how hard it is for a young woman of irregular birth, without family, fortune or friends in the world? Marriage is the only way to get any chance of a life.’Following the death of her mother, Corinna Ormesby has lived a quiet life in the countryside with her cantankerous Cousin Agnes. Her father's identity has ... Read more

    $35.03 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus