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Books narrated by James Morrison

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  • Twenty Cars that Defined the 20th Century

    The Automobile as a Vehicle for History

    On the 29 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo triggering events leading to the outbreak of the First World War. Less well known is that the car he was in was a borrowed Graf + Stift Double Phaeton, that the route was published in advance, and the decision to lower the hood was only taken at the last minute. As with the other events in this book, the car played a central ... Read more

    $6.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture

    From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live

    Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years.James V. Morrison discusses works including those of Aristophanes and Plautus, Shakespeare and Moliere, and modern comic writers, performers, and cartoonists, such as Thomas Nast, P. G. Wodehouse, Charlie Chaplin, and Jerry Seinfeld, asking the following questions ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Blowing My Own Trumpet

    As well as being one of Australia's best-known and best-loved musicians, jazz virtuoso James Morrison is a great storyteller, as this rollicking memoir shows. His adventures will delight, surprise and amuse you. They include getting feedback on his haircut from Ray Charles (think about it...), living on a derelict sailboat in freezing New York in justified hopes of making it big there, sneaking ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Exterior To The Evidence (Unabridged)

    Narrated by James Morrison ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    Exterior to the Evidence is a mystery novel by J. S. Fletcher originally published in The Black Mask, a magazine of mystery and detective stories, in April 1922. A death on the moors, a missing will and a number of possible suspects will keep the listener guessing right through the final chapters. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Collected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 200+ Titles in One Edition : Novels, Tales, Plays, Essays, Autobiography & Letters

    The Collected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gathers the astonishing range of a writer who helped define modern European literature: lyric poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, criticism, and scientific reflection. From the Sturm und Drang intensity of The Sorrows of Young Werther to the philosophical vastness of Faust and the measured classicism of later works, the collection reveals Goethe ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Precast Segmental Tunnel Lining Systems

    This comprehensive handbook covers all aspects of design, production, and construction of precast concrete tunnel segmental lining, with the best practices in the field included in one book for the first time.New and current design methods and quantitative analyses are considered in line with ACI and ASTM codes, as well as a full selection of global standards for the reliable design of the product ... Read more

    $474.99 CAD

  • The Workless

    Stigma, Unpaid Labour and the Myth of Economic Inactivity

    This book critically analyses historical and contemporary discourses around worklessness, economic inactivity and the factors that contribute to people withdrawing from the conventional labour market.In analysing popular portrayals of 'the workless', the book draws heavily on the sociological theories of stigma and symbolic annihilation, and conceives of the contemporary narrative about the UK's ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Left Behind

    Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded

    'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse. It is the thread that knits together the 2016 Brexit referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the pernicious culture war being waged today. But who are the Left Behind?James Morrison goes in search of the reality behind the rhetoric, offering the first comprehensive, historical analysis ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Polanski

    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    A new take on an eclectic and controversial directorJames Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Pressure

    Unabridged

    1 hour 43 min

    A Scottish meteorologist locks horns with his American counterpart as both men try to convince General Dwight D. Eisenhower that they can accurately predict the atmospheric conditions needed to launch the greatest amphibious assault in the history of mankind — the D-Day invasion.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in October 2019.Director: Martin JarvisProducing ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Scroungers

    Moral Panics and Media Myths

    Scroungers, spongers, parasites …These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vulnerable in our society, whether they be the sick, the disabled, or the unemployed. Long a popular scapegoat for all manner of social ills, under austerity we've seen hostility towards benefit claimants reach new levels of hysteria, with the 'undeserving ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Right to Read

    Social Justice, Literacy, and the Creation of Frontier College — The Alfred Fitzpatrick Story

    So sums up the quest of Nova Scotian Alfred Fitzpatrick, the man behind campaigns for the betterment of Canada’s working class, and specifically the 1899 creation of the still-running literacy organization Frontier College. A tireless fighter for the rights of workers, immigrants, women, and Indigenous peoples, Fitzpatrick fiercely believed everyone in Canada—no matter their class or ability—has ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD