Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Haboo

Native American Stories from Puget Sound

The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language.Haboo, Hilbert’s collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language.Haboo, Hilbert’s collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth
... Read more
Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Edited by G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Jill Kraye ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed. In their own day, these ten figures were all considered to be ... Read more

$114.04 CAD

Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed. In their own day, these ten figures were all considered to be
... Read more
Bastard Behind the Lines

The extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese

by Tom Gilling ...

He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's great World War II guerrilla fighters.'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.'Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a ... Read more

$10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's great World War II guerrilla fighters.'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.'Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Growing up Rich

In South Georgia

by Tom Gill ...

Growing up as a child of a sharecropper family in South Georgia paints an image of hard times but my memories are just the opposite. We ate three good meals every day and slept in a comfortable bed at night. My parents loved me and taught me a code of conduct that I still strive to live by. I was taught; dont lie, cheat, say ugly words or talk bad about your neighbors. Go to Sunday school on ... Read more

$5.99 CAD

Growing up as a child of a sharecropper family in South Georgia paints an image of hard times but my memories are just the opposite. We ate three good meals every day and slept in a comfortable bed at night. My parents loved me and taught me a code of conduct that I still strive to live by. I was taught; dont lie, cheat, say ugly words or talk bad about your neighbors. Go to Sunday school on
... Read more
The Lover of Soldiers

by Tom Gill ...

Cineas of Athens is a well-educated, hero-worshipping young man. He lives in a world where Alexander the Great's surviving generals battle for kingdoms of their own within Alexander's conquests. Cineas leaves his stodgy family behind and joins the mercenary army of glamorous Demetrius the Besieger at his fortress of Acrocorinth. "Three months later," Cineas recalls, "I was in Asia…." Following the ... Read more

$5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Cineas of Athens is a well-educated, hero-worshipping young man. He lives in a world where Alexander the Great's surviving generals battle for kingdoms of their own within Alexander's conquests. Cineas leaves his stodgy family behind and joins the mercenary army of glamorous Demetrius the Besieger at his fortress of Acrocorinth. "Three months later," Cineas recalls, "I was in Asia…." Following the
... Read more
Yokohama Street Life

The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer

by Tom Gill ...

Series series AsiaWorld
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the ... Read more

$61.99 CAD

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the
... Read more
Audiobook

Start Digging, You Bastards!

Australian and New Zealand Forces' Desperate Battle with Rommel and the Axis at El Alamein

by Tom Gilling ...

Narrated by Ian Ferrington ...

Unabridged

8 hours 31 min

July, 1942. The North African campaign rages. The Allies have been forced to retreat from Gazala, and are being pursued through the sandy wastes by 'The Desert Fox' – Field Marshal Rommel and his Panzerarmee. The target of the enemy is Cairo – if taken, the Axis powers will control the Suez Canal and be within striking distance of the oil fields of the Middle East, tipping the war in Hitler's ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

July, 1942. The North African campaign rages. The Allies have been forced to retreat from Gazala, and are being pursued through the sandy wastes by 'The Desert Fox' – Field Marshal Rommel and his Panzerarmee. The target of the enemy is Cairo – if taken, the Axis powers will control the Suez Canal and be within striking distance of the oil fields of the Middle East, tipping the war in Hitler's
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Start Digging, You Bastards!

Australian and New Zealand forces' desperate battle with Rommel and the Axis at El Alamein

by Tom Gilling ...

The gripping story of Australians' and New Zealanders' key role defeating the Axis in North Africa a true turning point of World War II'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about ... We felt it was a suicide mission.'July 1942: the North African campaign ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

The gripping story of Australians' and New Zealanders' key role defeating the Axis in North Africa a true turning point of World War II'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about ... We felt it was a suicide mission.'July 1942: the North African campaign
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Blood Money

Bikies, terrorists and Middle Eastern gangs

by Clive Small, Tom Gilling ...

Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power?There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, the sale and stockpiling of dangerous weapons, extortion and large-scale fraud; the outlaw ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power?There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, the sale and stockpiling of dangerous weapons, extortion and large-scale fraud; the outlaw
... Read more
The Dark Side

The explosive story of corruption, greed and murder in the Australian drug trade

by Clive Small, Tom Gilling ...

A fierce and compelling expose of organised crime and the role of a senior law enforcement officer in Australia's multi-billion dollar drug trade.'Each year at least 10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

A fierce and compelling expose of organised crime and the role of a senior law enforcement officer in Australia's multi-billion dollar drug trade.'Each year at least 10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Audiobook

The Way Back to One Another

How to Live as People Created for Community

by Jeff Galley, Phillip N. Smith ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

Unabridged

5 hours 20 min

Jesus said his followers would be known for their love, not their loneliness. Yet over half of Americans―and American churchgoers―say that they lack companionship or that no one knows them well. We live increasingly disconnected lives, and our mental and spiritual health suffer as a result.In The Way Back to One Another, Jeff Galley and Phil Smith provide a remedy based on studying Scripture, ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Jesus said his followers would be known for their love, not their loneliness. Yet over half of Americans―and American churchgoers―say that they lack companionship or that no one knows them well. We live increasingly disconnected lives, and our mental and spiritual health suffer as a result.In The Way Back to One Another, Jeff Galley and Phil Smith provide a remedy based on studying Scripture,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
The Griffith Wars

The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia

by Tom Gilling, Terry Jones ...

The story behind the murder that shocked a nation.The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder.Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - who, as the editor of the local newspaper, knew ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

The story behind the murder that shocked a nation.The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder.Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - who, as the editor of the local newspaper, knew
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in Canada

Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

Mystery Tribune

DK Around the World

AsiaWorld

Social Sciences (R0)

Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Haboo

Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Bastard Behind the Lines

Growing up Rich

The Lover of Soldiers

Yokohama Street Life

Start Digging, You Bastards!

Start Digging, You Bastards!

Blood Money

The Dark Side

The Way Back to One Another

The Griffith Wars

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in Canada

Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

Mystery Tribune

DK Around the World

AsiaWorld

Social Sciences (R0)

Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Show: