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  • Supernavigators

    Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way

    by David Barrie ...
    "Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book."—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book ReviewPublisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys.Animals plainly know where they're going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. Supernavigators is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Women in White

    Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, John McCluskey ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    " . . . pioneering. . . . This history, as Hine vividly depicts it, sheds light on the development of African-American professionals and offers as well the opportunity to analyze the intersection of race and gender." —The Nation" . . . well-researched and innovative . . . Highly recommended." —Library Journal"The book is full of poignant and sympathetic portraits of black nurses in their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sextant

    A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

    by David Barrie ...
    In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Last Navigator

    Revised Edition

    by Steve Thomas ...
    The classic account of traditional Micronesian navigation and “the last navigator,” Mau Piailug, who fought to preserve it—now available in a revised edition illustrated in full colorAs a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with ancient methods of navigation. He learned that, for thousands of years, the peoples of Oceania had sailed ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • More Than Chattel

    Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

    Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Atlas of Roman Britain

    by Barri Jones, David J. Mattingly ...
    First published in 1990, this is a comprehensive atlas containing over 270 detailed and wide-ranging maps, figures, plans and site photographs on all aspects of Roman Britain. The maps cover political and military history as well as the physical geography of Britain and the view Roman geographers had of it. Evidence for economic activity, including mining and pottery production, studies of life in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asterisk 1.6

    Build feature-rich telephony systems with Asterisk

    by Barrie Dempster, David Gomillion, David Merel ...
    Build feature-rich telephony systems with AsteriskKey FeaturesInstall, configure, deploy, secure, and maintain AsteriskBuild a fully-featured telephony system and create a dial plan that suits your needsLearn from example configurations for different requirementImplement 3rd party applications which will help you manage Asterisk through a web interfaceBook DescriptionAsterisk is a powerful and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Police in the Age of Improvement

    by David Barrie ...
    The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected. Little is known about the Scottish police's origins, development and character despite growing interest in the machinery of law enforcement in other parts of the United Kingdom. This book seeks to remedy this deficiency.Based on extensive archival research, its central aim is to provide an in-depth analysis of the economic, social ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-in-Law

    Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister in the Nineteenth Century

    by David Barrie ...
    This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain – the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife’s sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom. It provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Embracing Exile

    The Case for Jewish Diaspora

    by David Kraemer ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    Jewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan, then Egypt, and then back to Canaan. From there, they were exiled to Babylon, where they lived for centuries. They also settled in Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, England, and the United States, among other places. Diaspora became normal to Jews, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1

    Magistrates, Media and the Masses

    by David G. Barrie, Susan Broomhall ...
    Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Each volume explores diverse, but complementary, themes relating to judicial practices, relationships, experiences and discourses through the lens of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 2

    Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies

    by David G. Barrie, Susan Broomhall ...
    Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores the role of police courts in moulding cultural ideas, social behaviours and urban environments in the nineteenth century. Whereas Volume 1, subtitled Magistrates, Media and the Masses, analysed the establishment, development and practice of police ... Read more

    $59.99 USD