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  • A Magician among the Spirits (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Magician's Biography of Early 20th‑Century Spiritualism—Exposing Psychic Frauds with Illusion Techniques

    by Harry Houdini, Sophia Webb, Sophia Webb ...
    A Magician Among the Spirits is Houdini's incisive autopsy of the seance vogue that followed war and pandemic. In a cool, prosecutorial prose, he inventories slate-writing, trumpets, ectoplasm, billet tests, and spirit photography, then reconstructs, step by step, the methods that produced them. Mixing case files, affidavits, and on-the-spot trials, he situates his exposures within the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Turn-of-the-Century Pharmacology & Herbal Remedy Compendium with Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Detailed Dosage Guidelines

    by Merck, Sophia Webb, Sophia Webb ...
    Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica is a compact, alphabetized pharmaco-therapeutic compendium that inventories late nineteenth-century drugs, chemicals, and botanicals with their synonyms, preparations, doses, and cautions. Written in a terse, telegraphic style optimized for the pocket and the dispensary bench, it distills contemporary physiological actions, indications, incompatibilities, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Catherine de Medici (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Renaissance-Era French Court Intrigue, 16th‑Century Politics, Romance, and the Wars of Religion

    by Honoré de Balzac, Kara Brackley, Sophia Webb ...
    Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley ...
    Balzac's Catherine de Medici, a triptych within La Comédie humaine, reconstructs the Valois court through a blend of documentary citation and high drama. Set amid the Wars of Religion, it follows the queen mother's calculations among Guises, Bourbons, and Huguenot chiefs, her recourse to astrologers like the Ruggieri, and the workings of raison d'État. Rather than sensationalize episodes like St. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Trent's Last Case (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An early 20th-century gentleman-sleuth whodunit of mysterious murder, literary parody, and unique twists—first case in a classic series

    by E. C. Bentley, Sophia Webb, Sophia Webb ...
    Published in 1913, Trent's Last Case introduces Philip Trent, a painter-journalist probing the death of an American tycoon on his English estate. Bentley inverts the Holmesian model: the detective falls in love, misreads clues, and revises his own theory. Fair-play evidence abounds, yet multiple provisional solutions dramatize how perception, desire, and the press manufacture narratives. The prose ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Utilitarian Foundations for Law, Ethics, and Legislation in 18th-Century British Political Thought

    by Jeremy Bentham, Sophia Webb, Sophia Webb ...
    An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation presents utilitarianism as a practical science of lawmaking. Bentham states the principle of utility, devises the felicific calculus, distinguishes four sanctions, and builds a taxonomy of offenses to guide proportionate punishment. Written in an austere, classificatory style with definitions and careful distinctions, the treatise joins ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Micrographia (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Microscopic observations and experimental science in 17th-century England: non-fiction classic of natural philosophy with innovative illustrations

    by Robert Hooke, Sophia Webb, Sophia Webb ...
    Micrographia (1665) opens a vast new world by recording, in crystalline prose and sumptuous copperplates, the textures and structures of minute bodies—flea and louse, bee-sting and feather, mold, needle point, and the honeycombed cork in which Hooke first named the 'cells.' Organized as a sequence of observations with reflective 'Inquiries,' the book marries measurement with speculation, and sets ... Read more

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  • Eight Homilies against the Jews (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Persuasive 4th-Century Sermons on Christianity and Judaism, Cultural Tensions, and Biblical Polemic

    by John Chrysostom, Brielle Kestridge, Sophia Webb ...
    Eight Homilies Against the Jews comprises late fourth-century Antiochene sermons in which John Chrysostom chastises Christians who visited synagogues and observed Jewish festivals. Blending expository exegesis with courtroom invective, he wields Pauline argument, Septuagint proof-texts, typology, and relentless anaphora to assert Christian supersession and deter 'judaizing'. The homilies are ... Read more

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  • Ireland under the Tudors (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Tudor Conquest and Resistance in 16th-Century Ireland: Plantations, Rebellion, and the Elizabethan Struggle over Church and State

    by Richard Bagwell, Sophia Webb, Sophia Webb ...
    Ireland under the Tudors (Vol. 1–3) offers a sweeping, source-led history of the Tudor reconquest from Henry VII to Elizabeth I's final campaigns. Drawing on the Calendars of State Papers, royal correspondence, and Irish annals, Bagwell narrates rebellions (Kildare, Desmond, O'Neill), church reform, and the machinery of governance—surrender and regrant, presidencies, martial law, plantation. The ... Read more

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  • Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe! (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Empirical challenges to nineteenth-century astronomy and the zetetic method in the Earth-shape debate

    by Parallax, Landon Marwick, Sophia Webb ...
    Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe! assembles experiments, anecdotes, and vignettes to argue that Earth's surface is planar, circled by an Antarctic ice barrier, and roofed by a nearby, circling sun and moon. Written in forthright Victorian prose, the treatise privileges everyday sight over mathematical abstraction, invoking canals, horizons, and perspective to counter Newtonian cosmology. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • THE WOMAN IN BLACK

    by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY ...
    Trent's Last Case published as The Woman in Black in the United States, in 1913, is a detective novel written by E. C. Bentley. Its central character is the artist and amateur detective Philip Trent. It is the first novel Philip Trent appears in, and is a whodunit with a place in detective fiction history because it is the first major send-up of that genre. Not only does Trent fall in love with ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Theory of the Leisure Class (Essential Economics Series: Celebrated Economists)

    by Thorstein Veblen ...
    The Theory of the Leisure Class' was first published in 1899. It's author, Thorstein Veblen, was the son of Norwegian American immigrants. He grew up to become a prominent economist and sociologist, producing many books and articles, and is often remembered for his use evolutionary theory to develop a 20th century theory of economics. This particular work is an economic treatise and detailed ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hollow Crown

    The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors

    by Dan Jones ...
    'The Hollow Crown is exhilarating, epic, blood-and-roses history . . . Jones's material is thrilling . . . There is fine scholarly intuition on display here and a mastery of the grand narrative; it is a supremely skilful piece of storytelling.' Sunday TelegraphThe fifteenth century saw the crown of England change hands seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD