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  • The Box of Delights

    by Piers Torday, John Masefield ...
    Kay Harker is heading home for the school holidays. Recently orphaned, he knows this Christmas will be different but nothing could prepare him for the journey that lies ahead.On the train he meets an old magician, Cole Hawlings, who charges Kay with safeguarding a wondrous device that has time-travelling powers. It's an instrument that Cole's nemesis, the wicked sorcerer Abner Brown, will stop at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology

    Edited by John Pier ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    The essays included in this collection seek to take the pulse of recent developments in narratological research in the French-speaking countries. Theorists in these countries heavily participated in and shaped narratology, an outgrowth of the structuralist movement during the 1960s and 1970s. While US, German, and Scandinavian theorists took the forefront in the 1990s, narratology in France faded ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Contemporary Environmental Politics

    From Margins to Mainstream

    Edited by Piers Stephens, John Barry, Andrew Dobson ...
    Series series Environmental Politics
    This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics,presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a marginal position in society and the academy, to its current place in the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Recent Trends in Narratological Research

    Edited by John Pier ...
    Series series GRAAT
    Individually, these articles approach narrative from various angles, focusing both on matters that have been debated since even before the advent of narratology and on questions that have been dealt with in only a limited way in the past; together, they show that narratology, far from being a method defined by fixed procedures, is diverse in its theoretical orientations and analytical practices ... Read more

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  • Winter Magic

    by Amy Alward, Emma Carroll, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Michelle Harrison, Michelle Magorian, Geraldine McCaughrean, Lauren St John, Piers Torday, Katherine Woodfine ...
    A beautiful and classic anthology of frosty, magical short stories from acclaimed children’s writers.The Dreamsnatcher’s Abi Elphinstone heads up this gorgeous collection of wintery stories, featuring snow queens, frost fairs, snow dragons and pied pipers . . . from classic children’s writers Michelle Magorian, Geraldine McCaughrean, Jamila Gavin, Berlie Doherty, Katherine Woodfine, Piers Torday, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The War for America, 1775-1783

    by Piers Mackesy ...
    The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British, the American colonies were only one front in a world war. England was also pitted against France and Spain. Not always in command of the seas and threatened with invasion, England tried grimly for ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers

    Enriched edition.

    by Pier Francesco Tosi, Tessa Caldwell ...
    Translated by John Ernest Galliard ...
    In "Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers," Pier Francesco Tosi expertly navigates the intricate landscape of vocal music, offering an insightful analysis of both ancient and contemporary singing techniques. Tosi's eloquent prose is infused with a keen understanding of ornamentation and the emotional expressiveness of florid singing. He contrasts the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems

    by Stanley R. Palombo, Walter J. Freeman, Jim Grigsby, Jeffrey Goldstein, E Virginia Demos, John Muller ...
    Series series Psychological Issues
    This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Secrets of Vocal Artistry

    by Pier Francesco Tosi, Rachel Kirk ...
    Translated by John Ernest Galliard ...
    In "Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers," Pier Francesco Tosi presents a comprehensive exploration of vocal ornamentation and singing styles prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries. The book deftly combines theoretical discourse with practical examples, employing a clear, engaging literary style that reflects Tosi's dual role as a performer and ... Read more

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  • The Blood Phoenix

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