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  • At the Emperor's Pleasure

    Surviving Wartime Captivity in the Far East

    At the Emperors Pleasure follows the young couple Christopher and Topsy Man through the savage battle for Hong Kong and the years of enforced separation, she interned in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, he as a prisoner of war and forced labourer in Kobe, Japan. The book is not about Christopher and Topsy Man alone but also of friends and colleagues close to them forced to endure the cruel torture and ... Read more

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  • The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird

    The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, and Breakthrough of the World's Fastest Stealth Jet

    The ultimate guide to the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all fifty models in the SR-71 program.At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound—so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SR-71

    The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane

    A pictorial history of the legendary Lockheed spy plane, written by one of its pilots and "filled to the brim with information and revelation" ( Seattle Post Intelligencer Travel for Aircraft blog).At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the ... Read more

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  • The Grumblers' Great Ingredient Quest

    Hop on your bike and join the quest! It's time to cook up a magical feast… When Rumble and Grub receive an urgent royal scroll, they jump on their motorbikes with Biscuit in tow. Snuggled in the sidecar, with Milly the magical map flying just behind, they roar off on the adventure of a lifetime. To cook the Great Gathering Feast, they'll need to find seven enchanted ingredients: a golden egg, a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cite Them Right

    The Essential Referencing Guide

    Series series Bloomsbury Study Skills
    Cite them right is renowned as the most easy-to-use guide to referencing text available to students and authors. Academics and teachers rely on the advice in Cite them right to guide their students in the skills of identifying and referencing information sources and avoiding plagiarism.It provides readers with detailed examples of print and electronic sources, business, government, technical and ... Read more

    $23.39 CAD

  • Triumph Cars - The Complete Story

    New Third Edition

    Relating the story of Triumph cars is complex enough, but to include all the earlier events which persuaded Siegfried Bettman to begin car manufacture in 1923 is even more so.The two authors, however - both of them experts in all things Triumph, the cars, and the political events surrounding them - have assembled and presented an enthralling story of the way the car-making side of the business ... Read more

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  • Flying the SR-71 Blackbird

    In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission

    For anyone who has ever wondered what it's like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Completely redesigned and updated with photos from author Colonel Richard H. Graham's personal archive, as well as a new introduction, Flying the SR-71 Blackbird details what an SR-71 mission entailed, from planning to donning a pressure suit to returning to base ... Read more

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  • Independence in Latin America

    Contrasts and Comparisons

    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in the mid-1820s. How did this come about? Not all Latin Americans desired such a change, and the independence wars were civil wars, often cruel and always violent. What social and economic groups lined up on one side or the other? Were there variations ... Read more

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  • Knight for a Day

    A journey back in time to Camelot

    Henry accepts Merlin's mysterious challenge on his eleventh birthday, and it leads him and his dog to a magical adventure in the colourful but menacing world of the Knights of the Round Table. The dangers of life in the Dark Ages are the least of Henry's problems as he is faced with the strange beliefs, diet, table manners, fashion, humour and stinking bathroom facilities at King Arthur's court. ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Feeding the City

    From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860

    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2011Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Red Star

    The First Bolshevik Utopia

    Translated by Charles Rougle ...
    "An Earth-man's journey to the planet Mars, where he is treated to a wondrous vision of a communist future, complete with flying cars and 3D color movies." —Wonders & MarvelsA communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Comic Book Movies

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Batman and Superman serials were made. The serials, and later television shows in the 1950s and 60s, were for the most part designed for children. But today, with the continuing rise of Comic-Con, they seem to be more a ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD