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  • Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl

    Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design

    by John Bertram, Yuri Leving ...
    What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life, from fashion to film.Lolita - The Story of a Cover ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • The Horse Racing Enthusiast's Library: 9 Books

    Nine Classic Tales and Histories of the Turf, Jockeys, Breeding, Betting, and Racecourse Life

    by Charles E. Van Loan, Clarence Louis Cullen, Nat Gould, Ralph Nevill, James Glass Bertram, Kenneth Austin, John Lawrence O'Connor, Marguerite Henry ...
    The Horse Racing Enthusiast's Library: 9 Books surveys the many cultural lives of the turf, bringing together fiction, sporting commentary, reminiscence, social observation, and writing for younger readers. Across its nine volumes, racing emerges not merely as spectacle but as a world of breeding, training, wagering, class, regional identity, and human attachment to horses. Dramatic race-day ... Read more

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    The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918 (UNABRIDGED)

    by John Howard Bertram MASTERMAN ...
    Narrated by Jolene Lillie ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The author writes of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who sought to impose order on a shattered Italy, of the rise of the Franks under Clovis, and of the resurgence of the Eastern Empire under Justinian and his general, Belisarius. At the close of the book, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Understanding Mammalian Locomotion

    Concepts and Applications

    by John E. A. Bertram ...
    Understanding Mammalian Locomotion will formally introduce the emerging perspective of collision dynamics in mammalian terrestrial locomotion and explain how it influences the interpretation of form and functional capabilities. The objective is to bring the reader interested in the function and mechanics of mammalian terrestrial locomotion to a sophisticated conceptual understanding of the ... Read more

    $158.00 USD

  • How to Become a Schizophrenic

    The Case Against Biological Psychiatry

    by John Modrow ...
    demonstrates the physical, psychological, and social harm resulting from the label schizophrenic and the continuous need to reexamine the underpinnings and attitudes of psychiatry.BooklistOf all the books written about schizophrenianone is more comprehensive, accurate, thorough, and clearer in style and statement than John Modrows classic How to Become a Schizophrenic. Modrow, who is a recovered ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    1950s Science Fiction 9 - 25 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from the 1950s

    Robots, Paradoxes and Adventures Beyond the Stars

    by Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, John Wyndham, Robert Sheckley, A. Bertram Chandler, Robert Silverberg, Lester Del Rey, Alan E. Nourse, Randall Garrett, Roger D. Aycock, J. F. Bone, Charles E. Fritch, Richard R. Smith, John Victor Peterson, Dick Purcell, Gerda Rhoads, Herbert D. Kastle, Mel Hunter, Dorothy Quick ...
    Narrated by Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Decades

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    The 1950s were a golden age of science fiction—a decade when writers imagined astonishing futures, questioned humanity’s place in the universe, and explored the consequences of technology with equal parts wonder and caution. 1950s Science Fiction 9 brings together twenty-five unforgettable stories from some of the greatest names ever to write the genre.Travel to distant worlds where first contact ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transforming America

    Barack Obama in the White House

    by John J. Coleman, James L. Guth, John F. Harris, James Hohmann, Bertram Johnson, Richard E. Matland, James M. McCormick, Nicol C. Rae, Andrea L. Walker, John K. White, John J. Pitney Jr., Steven E. Schier, Nancy Maveety, Raymond Tatalovich ...
    The presidency of Barack Obama seeks a major transformation of American politics and policy. This new collection, edited by Steven E. Schier, examines the unusual combination of risk and ambition in Obama's presidency concerning popular politics, Washington politics, and economic and foreign policy. It also places the Obama presidency in historical perspective, noting the unusual circumstances of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Best Australian Racing Stories

    From Archer to Makybe Diva

    by Jim Haynes ...
    The finest collection of writing about horse racing includes short stories, verse and anecdotes from some of Australia's best-loved writers.Did you know that Jorrocks raced till the grand old age of 19? Or that Melbourne Cup - winner Grand Flaneur never lost a race? Or that Sunline was the top stakes-winning mare in the world in her day?The Best Australian Racing Stories is chock-a-block with the ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water

    by American Water Works Association, James K. Edzwald ...
    Series series Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Series
    The definitive water quality and treatment resource--fully revised and updatedComprehensive, current, and written by leading experts, Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water, Sixth Edition covers state-of-the-art technologies and methods for water treatment and quality control. Significant revisions and new material in this edition reflect the latest advances and critical topics in ... Read more

    $153.09 USD

  • Animal Eyes

    by Michael F. Land, Dan-Eric Nilsson ...
    Series series Oxford Animal Biology Series
    Animal Eyes provides a comparative account of all known types of eye in the animal kingdom, outlining their structure and function with an emphasis on the nature of the optical systems and the physical principles involved in image formation. A universal theme throughout the book is the evolution and taxonomic distribution of each type of eye, and the roles of different eye types in the behaviour ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Australian Tales

    by Marcus Clarke ...
    Mark Twain Lecture, Melbourne, Oct., 1895MARCUS CLARKEI not only regret, but feel surprised that the 'Selected Works' of Australia's only literary genius—a genius such as you will not see again for many a long year—should be out of print. Through the courtesy of his widow I obtained a copy of the work after failing to buy one anywhere. And such a work, such reading, such power. It was just the ... Read more

    $2.14 USD

  • Structural Biomaterials

    Third Edition

    by Julian Vincent ...
    This is a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded edition of a classic illustrated introduction to the structural materials in natural organisms and what we can learn from them to improve man-made technology--from nanotechnology to textiles to architecture. Julian Vincent's book has long been recognized as a standard work on the engineering design of biomaterials and is used by undergraduates, ... Read more

    $66.29 USD