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  • The Ultimate Horse Enthusiast's Compendium: 41 Books

    A 41-Volume Treasury of Horsemanship, Veterinary Science, Racing, Cavalry, and Adventure

    by Will C. Barnes, Sewell Ford, Nat Gould, Rush Shippen Huidekoper, Charles B. Michener, Leonard Pearson, United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, W. H. Harbaugh, John E. Russell, François Boucher, A. E. Sir Shipley, John Hankins Wallace, H. Caulton Reeks, James Glass Bertram, E. Daumas, O. S. Pratt, Kenneth Austin, Francis Bond Sir Head, Moses James Nobbs, John Gilmer Speed, Theo. Stephenson Browne, Joshua A. Nunn, John J. Stutzman, P. R. Kincaid, Maurice Hartland Mahon, William Osmer, A. S. Alexander, J. Albert Frost, William J. Moore, Conrad Mitchell, Basil Tozer, Walter Sir Gilbey, Charles Hunt Marshall, Laura Lee Hope, James Otis, Harry Castlemon, William O. Stoddard, Marguerite Henry, David Grew, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Edith Carrington, Homer Greene, J. D. Koogle, Oskar Pfungst, George Wharton James ...
    The Ultimate Horse Enthusiast's Compendium: 41 Books surveys the horse as working partner, athletic subject, cultural symbol, and imaginative companion. Its unusually broad archive moves among manuals of breeding, veterinary care, conformation, and training; histories of cavalry and travel; sporting narratives; and juvenile adventures in which equine loyalty structures moral education. Scientific ... Read more

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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

  • 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

  • First Command

    by A. Bertram Chandler ...
    Series Book 2 - John Grimes Rim Worlds
    The second in a six-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes books! Classic Star Trek meets the high seas. If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels. Here it is, the entire "Captain John Grimes—Far Traveller Courier" saga, collected in one volume. These are the tales of John Grimes' ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

    by Molière, St. John Hankin, Elizabeth F. Guptill, Petronius Arbiter, Anthony Trollope, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Carlyle, George Gibbs, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, Herman Melville, Maria Edgeworth, Marietta Holley, Anatole France, Nelson Lloyd, Voltaire, Samuel Brunt, Archibald Marshal, Gilbert Knox, H. H. Sir Bashford, P. G. Wodehouse, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Love Peacock, William Carlos Williams, Terry Southern, Hilaire Belloc, Iris Barry, C. M. Westmacott, Desiderius Erasmus, I. J. Potter, Montague Glass, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage, Bernard Mandeville, James Thomson, G. W. Foote, Marie Corelli, William Herman, Mark Twain, Ingersoll Lockwood, Jonathan Swift, T. Smollett, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Bertram Gayton, George S. Schuyler, Eugen Richter, Walter Harte, Aristophanes, Bill Nye, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Bridges, James Bramston, Ambrose Bierce, Franklin P. Adams, John Hervey Baron Hervey, An M. D., Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

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  • To the Galactic Rim

    by A. Bertram Chandler ...
    Series Book 1 - John Grimes Rim Worlds
    John Grimes will one day command his own starship, and change the course of Galactic history, but right now he's a wet-behind-the-ears junior officer who finds that he keeps running into problems which were never covered in his courses at the Academy.The Road to the Rim—meet Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey Service; fresh out of the Academy-and as green as they come.To Prime the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ride the Star Winds

    by A. Bertram Chandler ...
    Series Book 4 - John Grimes Rim Worlds
    Number four in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels:The Anarch Lords: John Grimes' short career as a somewhat benevolent space pirate is over, but he has sunk even lower, becoming a politician. He's now the governor of a planet of anarchists, where term limits are unnecessary, what with all the assassinations taking place.The Last ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Upon A Sea of Stars

    by A. Bertram Chandler ...
    Series Book 5 - The John Grimes Saga
    Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim.Number five in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels:Into the Alternate Universe (1964 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Galactic Courier

    by A. Bertram Chandler ...
    Series Book 3 - John Grimes Rim Worlds
    Number three in a six-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. Classic Star Trek meets the high seas. If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels. Here are the crowning tales of Grimes' career—the Grimes Rim Commodore stories. In these tales, Grimes has found ... Read more

    $6.99 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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  • Matilda's Stepchildren

    by A. Bertram Chandler ...
    Series series John Grimes
    John Grimes, owner of the deep space pinnace Little Sister, could not be too fussy about who he carried. Fenalla Pruin, the muckraking reporter, was always going to be trouble. They need the boomerang throwing abilities of two sexy dancers from New Alice to get them out of trouble. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Rim Gods

    by A. Bertram Chandler ...
    Series series John Grimes
    Gods! Dragons! Fairies! Frog Princess! Knights! and much more. John Grimes faces them all. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD