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Heroines of Horticulture

A Celebration of Women Who Shaped North America's Gardening Heritage

by Stefan White ...

A celebration and a salute to 100 brave, determined, creative women over the past few centuries who have shaped North America's heritage and landscapes through their horticulture work and contributions. Through tales of invention, creativity, dogged research, innovation, perspiration, and inspiration spanning from the early 1700s to the mid-1980s, Heroines of Horticulture offers readers insight ... Read more

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A celebration and a salute to 100 brave, determined, creative women over the past few centuries who have shaped North America's heritage and landscapes through their horticulture work and contributions. Through tales of invention, creativity, dogged research, innovation, perspiration, and inspiration spanning from the early 1700s to the mid-1980s, Heroines of Horticulture offers readers insight
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Far Futures

by various authors, Greg Bear, Greg Bear, Donald Kingsbury, Donald Kingsbury, Poul Anderson, Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Joe Haldeman, Charles Sheffield0, Charles Sheffield1, Claire Bloom2, Judy Young3 ...

Narrated by various narrators4, Vikas Adam5, Paul Boehmer6, Susan Hanfield7, Alex Hyde-White8, Stefan Rudnicki9 ...

Unabridged

16 hours 53 min

Five novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the formFrom Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view—all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, ... Read more

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Five novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the formFrom Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view—all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology,
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My Favorites

A Collection of Short Stories

by Ben Bova ...

Narrated by Ben Bova, Efrem Zimbalist, Alex Hyde-White, Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Grover Gardner, John Rubinstein, Gabrielle de Cuir0, Arthur Morey1, various narrators2, Steven Hoye3 ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

In this new collection, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative.Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well ... Read more

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In this new collection, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative.Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well
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Antiliberal Internationalism in the Twentieth Century

Beyond Left and Right?

Edited by Matthijs Lok, Marjet Brolsma, Robin de Bruin, Stefan Couperus, Rachel McElroy White ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
This book shows how antiliberal discourse, thought, and mobilization have, in defiance of nationalist aims, been significantly shaped and determined in the international sphere, as new collaborations position themselves against the liberal order established after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Despite often drawing inspiration from nationalist movements and ideologies, antiliberalism is a phenomenon ... Read more

$64.99 USD

This book shows how antiliberal discourse, thought, and mobilization have, in defiance of nationalist aims, been significantly shaped and determined in the international sphere, as new collaborations position themselves against the liberal order established after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Despite often drawing inspiration from nationalist movements and ideologies, antiliberalism is a phenomenon
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Advertising and Public Memory

Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs

Edited by Stefan Schutt, Sam Roberts, Leanne White ...

Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as ‘ghost signs’). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned them, painted them, viewed them and view them today. Topics covered include cultural memory, urban change ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as ‘ghost signs’). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned them, painted them, viewed them and view them today. Topics covered include cultural memory, urban change
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Tokyo Junkie

60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball

by Robert Whiting, Claire Bloom ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

11 hours 50 min

Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes ... Read more

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Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes
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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities

A Global Perspective

by Olivia Vanmechelen, Pui Hing Chau, Rebecca L. Jones, Caroline Holland, Jeanne Katz, Sheila Peace, Paul McGarry, Mark Hammond, Stefan White, Lisa Cannon, Cathy Gong, Hal Kendig, Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Bernard McDonald, Moses Wong, Francis Cheung, Jean Woo, David Phillips, Dominique Verte, Nico De Witte, Daan Duppen, Liesbeth De Donder, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Birgit Wolter, Josefine Heusinger, Meredith Dale, Luma Al Masarweh, Dale Dannefer, Jessica Kelley-Moore, Fleur Thomese, Samuèle Remillard-Boilard ...

Series series Ageing in a Global Context
As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas.In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The ... Read more

$47.99 USD

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas.In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The
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Queers Destroy Science Fiction!

Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue; The Stories

by Seanan McGuire, Gabrielle de Cuir, Sigrid Ellis3, Steve Berman5 ...

Narrated by Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White0, Stefan Rudnicki1, various narrators6, John Lee7 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers Destroy Science Fiction! shows just how wide the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers Destroy Science Fiction! shows just how wide the
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William Faulkner in the Media Ecology

by Sarah Gleeson-White, Richard Godden, Robert Jackson, Donald Kartiganer, Catherine G. Kodat, John T. Matthews, Sascha Morrell, Mark Steven, Jay Watson, Michael Zeitlin, Dr. Peter Lurie ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history of the U.S. South, but also as a screenwriter, aviator, and celebrity. This fresh, ... Read more

$18.99 USD

William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history of the U.S. South, but also as a screenwriter, aviator, and celebrity. This fresh,
... Read more

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Red Lightning

by John Varley ...

Narrated by Eddie Lopez ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Thunder and Lightning Series
Unabridged

12 hours 19 min

It doesn’t matter that Ray Garcia-Strickland’s father was one of the first men on Mars. The now overdeveloped planet has lost its hip factor, its luxurious hotels—like the one Ray’s father manages—overrun with gravity-dependent tourists from Earth. Ray is over the Red Planet.Soon he gets his own chance at interplanetary adventure when an unknown object hits Earth and causes a massive tsunami. Ray ... Read more

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It doesn’t matter that Ray Garcia-Strickland’s father was one of the first men on Mars. The now overdeveloped planet has lost its hip factor, its luxurious hotels—like the one Ray’s father manages—overrun with gravity-dependent tourists from Earth. Ray is over the Red Planet.Soon he gets his own chance at interplanetary adventure when an unknown object hits Earth and causes a massive tsunami. Ray
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Iron Dragon's Mother, The

by Michael Swanwick ...

Narrated by Christina Traister ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Unabridged

12 hours 43 min

Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother.Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker.When Caitlin ... Read more

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Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother.Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker.When Caitlin
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The Control of Nature

by John McPhee ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her ... Read more

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The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her
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