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Stories from Shakespeare 3

by David Timson ...

Narrated by David Timson, Juliet Stevenson, Simon Russell Beale, Clare Corbett, John Cummins, Oliver Le Sueur, Emily Raymond ...

Unabridged

3 hours 52 min

Two leading English classical actors, Juliet Stevenson and Simon Russell Beale, open the doors to eight important plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, and All’s Well That Ends Well. These newly written introductions by David Timson have proved eminently useful for young audiences coming to Shakespeare for the first time. Explained ... Read more

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Two leading English classical actors, Juliet Stevenson and Simon Russell Beale, open the doors to eight important plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, and All’s Well That Ends Well. These newly written introductions by David Timson have proved eminently useful for young audiences coming to Shakespeare for the first time. Explained
... Read more
Shell Shock

The Secrets And Spin Of An Oil Giant

by Ian Cummins, John Beasant ...

Royal Dutch/Shell is a multinational behemoth. Every four seconds of every day, 1,200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civil airliners are refuelled with Shell aviation spirit every ten seconds. The company has long been regarded as a world leader and a model for other corporations. That is, until January 2004.In a truly dramatic statement, ... Read more

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Royal Dutch/Shell is a multinational behemoth. Every four seconds of every day, 1,200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civil airliners are refuelled with Shell aviation spirit every ten seconds. The company has long been regarded as a world leader and a model for other corporations. That is, until January 2004.In a truly dramatic statement,
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Disrupting Finance

FinTech and Strategy in the 21st Century

Edited by Theo Lynn, John G. Mooney, Pierangelo Rosati, Mark Cummins ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technologies ... Read more

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This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technologies
... Read more
The Principles of Banking

by Moorad Choudhry ...

Series series Wiley Finance
The ultimate guide for bank management: how to survive and thrive throughout the business cycleAn essential guide for bankers and students of finance everywhere, The Principles of Banking reiterates that the primary requirement of banking—sound capital and liquidity risk management—had been forgotten in the years prior to the financial crash. Serving as a policy guide for market practitioners and ... Read more

$97.99 CAD

The ultimate guide for bank management: how to survive and thrive throughout the business cycleAn essential guide for bankers and students of finance everywhere, The Principles of Banking reiterates that the primary requirement of banking—sound capital and liquidity risk management—had been forgotten in the years prior to the financial crash. Serving as a policy guide for market practitioners and
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Plebeian Poetry

by Terrance John Cummins ...

This books artistically describes various aspects of God and his work in the world through the use of poetry. The poetry is short and simple but delivers truth in a concise manner. ... Read more

$5.99 CAD

This books artistically describes various aspects of God and his work in the world through the use of poetry. The poetry is short and simple but delivers truth in a concise manner.
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Louisiana

A History

by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz ...

Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most ... Read more

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Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most
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Texas Women and Ranching

On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities

by John T. Becker, Light Townsend Cummins, Alex Hunt, Jean Stuntz, Renee M. Laegreid, Amy M. Porter, Brooke Wilbracht ...

Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of WomenThe realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of WomenThe realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and
... Read more
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Exit Wounds

Nineteen Tales of Mystery from the Modern Masters of Crime

by Jeffery Deaver, Fiona Cummins, Mark Billingham, John Connolly, Sarah Hilary, Martyn Waites, Dennis Lehane, Lee Child, Val McDermid, Christopher Fowler, Dean Koontz, A. K. Benedict, James Oswald, Joe R. Lansdale, Paul Finch, Alex Gray, Louise Jensen, Steph Broadribb, various authors ...

Narrated by Kate Reading, Austin Rising, Marisa Calin, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Alan Smyth, Peter Noble, Derek Perkins, Courtney Patterson, Alison Larkin, Robert Fass, Justine Eyre, Jennifer Woodward, Helen Lloyd, Ron Butler, Rachel Jacobs, Shiromi Arserio, Ralph Lister, John McLain, James Langton, various narrators ...

Unabridged

9 hours 7 min

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O’Regan, this collection includes the following stories:“The Bully” by Jeffery Deaver“Dead Weight” by Fiona Cummins“Like a Glass ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O’Regan, this collection includes the following stories:“The Bully” by Jeffery Deaver“Dead Weight” by Fiona Cummins“Like a Glass
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Julius Caesar

Directed by David Timson

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Sean Barrett, Andrew Buchan, Paul Rhys, Pip Carter, Oliver Le Sueur, Stephen Critchlow, Harry Somerville, Emily Raymond, Joannah Tincey, Roger May, David Antrobus, Charlie Morton, Roy McMillan, Joe Marsh, Adrian Grove, John Cummins, James Phelips, David Timson ...

Unabridged

2 hours 16 min

Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s most political play. He examines whether political assassination can ever be justified, and the effect of this act of violence on its perpetrators. The high ideals of Brutus are tested to the full by the consequences of Julius Caesar’s murder; as is the self-interest of Cassius, whilst in the chaos that ensues, the opportunism of Mark Antony and Octavius is served ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s most political play. He examines whether political assassination can ever be justified, and the effect of this act of violence on its perpetrators. The high ideals of Brutus are tested to the full by the consequences of Julius Caesar’s murder; as is the self-interest of Cassius, whilst in the chaos that ensues, the opportunism of Mark Antony and Octavius is served
... Read more

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by James Marsters, Joanne Whalley, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours

Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way – including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and ... Read more

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Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way – including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and
... Read more

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Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne ...

Narrated by Bill Homewood ...

Unabridged

7 hours 38 min

Undoubtedly one of the most celebrated tales of all time, this is both high-octane thriller and fascinating travelogue. Phileas Fogg, intrepid Victorian gentleman-about-town, accepts a wager that he cannot travel around the world in 80 days. Naturally, he immediately sets off, accompanied by his French manservant Passepartout. They are pursued by a police officer, Detective Fix, who is foolishly ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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Undoubtedly one of the most celebrated tales of all time, this is both high-octane thriller and fascinating travelogue. Phileas Fogg, intrepid Victorian gentleman-about-town, accepts a wager that he cannot travel around the world in 80 days. Naturally, he immediately sets off, accompanied by his French manservant Passepartout. They are pursued by a police officer, Detective Fix, who is foolishly
... Read more

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The Downing Street Years

1979–1990

by Margaret Thatcher ...

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers. ... Read more

$2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.
... Read more

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