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  • The Ambitions of Jane Franklin

    Victorian lady adventurer

    by Alison Alexander ...
    A genius at publicity before the term existed, Jane Franklin was a celebrity in the mid-19th century. This is her remarkable life, including her extensive travels, her years in Tasmania as the governor's wife, and her very public battle to save her husband, the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, from accusations of cannibalism.Winner of the 2014 National Biography AwardIn a period when most ladies ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • Tasmania's Convicts

    How felons built a free society

    by Alison Alexander ...
    The story of the 72,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1853, and the colony they built.To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies.Following ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Publish Your Communication Research: An Insider’s Guide

    by Alison F. Alexander, W. James Potter ...
    Well-known journal editors and Communication scholars Alison Alexander and W. James Potter provide an insider′s guide to getting published in scholarly communication journals. Alexander and Potter begin with a review of the manuscript submission process followed by coverage of writing traps that should be avoided. Additional chapters, written by eight other distinguished journal editors, tell ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Media Economics

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Alison Alexander, C. Ann Hollifield, Albert N. Greco, James Owers, Rod Carveth ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Media Economics: Theory and Practice focuses on the basic principles of economics in the business sector and applies them to contemporary media industries. This text examines the process of media economics decision making through an exploration of key topics, such as industrial restructuring, regulatory constraints upon media operations, and changing economic value, providing key insights into ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Simplifying Medical Ultrasound

    Second International Workshop, ASMUS 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Strasbourg, France, September 27, 2021, Proceedings

    Edited by J. Alison Noble, Stephen Aylward, Alexander Grimwood, Zhe Min, Su-Lin Lee, Yipeng Hu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound, ASMUS 2021, held on September 27, 2021, in conjunction with MICCAI 2021, the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. The conference was planned to take place in Strasbourg, France, but changed to an online event due to the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Why Travel?

    Understanding our Need to Move and How it Shapes our Lives

    by Terry Hill, Tom Greenall, Deborah Saunt, Glenn Lyons, Emily Thomas, Hazel Andrews, Tom Selwyn, Alison Kuznets, Roger Hall, Kris Beuret, Alexander Jan1, Tony Hiss2, Charles Pasternak3 ...
    Supported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charityWhy travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences?Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading experts to provide insights from multiple viewpoints across the sciences, arts and humanities. Together, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Mechanics' Institute Review Issue 9

    by Nick Alexander, Jenn Ashworth, Alison MacLeod ...
    This extraordinary collection of short stories traverses many different worlds. From the smoky banks of the Ganges to the breaking waves of Bali, the characters teeter on the edge of life-changing moments. Problematic false teeth, festering limbs and deadly weapons are all par for the course. Quaff expensive wine and discover the real danger of smoking. The ninth issue of The Mechanics’ Institute ... Read more

    $4.91 USD

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    Alexander Pushkin

    Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Imagination and Romance

    by Alexander Pushkin, Alison Belle Bews ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    This original compilation from Skyboat Media features the most inventive and poetic of Alexander Pushkin’s short fiction. Exposed to French culture at a young age, Pushkin’s work reflects these sensibilities, and he combines this with stories of his Russian ancestors that his grandmother would relate to him and his siblings during their summers near Moscow.In the unfinished title story, “Egyptian ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Journey Prize Stories 23

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, Sarah Selecky ...
    Series Book 23 - Journey Prize
    Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers. Previous contributors -- including such now well-known, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Fierce Poise

    Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

    by Alexander Nemerov ...
    Narrated by Alison Fraser ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    **A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of Vogue's Best Books of the YearA dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York“The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen's paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work ... Read more

    $17.50 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    So Close to Home

    A True Story of an American Family’s Fight for Survival during World War II

    by Michael J. Tougias, Alison O’Leary ...
    Narrated by Elijah Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    A true story of men and women pitted against the sea during World War II―and an unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit.On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles away from New Orleans. Captained by twenty-nine-year-old Iron Cross recipient Erich Würdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with fifty-nine souls on board ... Read more

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    Ninth Street Women

    Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

    by Mary Gabriel ...
    Narrated by Lisa Stathoplos ...

    Unabridged

    40 hours 12 min

    Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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