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    Kipps

    by H.G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Peter Joyce ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    This wonderful comedy about orphan and innocent Arthur Kipps was the means by which Wells satirized what he saw as a gross stupidity and blight upon English society; the pretensions of and obsession with class. Humble drapers’ assistant Arthur unexpectedly inherits his grandfathers fortune and is instantly propelled into a higher social strata with the subsequent problems of attaining the required ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Barbarians Speak

    How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

    Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Long Loop Home

    A Memoir

    by Peter Wells ...
    A prize-winning memoir, a tender evocation of a world, a place and a time. Born in 1950 to sporting parents and sharing his brother's homosexuality, Peter Wells decided at the age of eleven that his family could not 'afford' two homosexual sons. The problems this led to complicated his youth but possibly gave him the creative fuel that would go on to illuminate his books and films. Through the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Passionate Friends

    by H.G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Peter Eastman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealousy, sex, the struggle against social convention, the future of civilization, and much much more. It is written by a father to his son, "not indeed to the child you are now, but to the man you are going to be. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mother Goose's Menagerie (Illustrated Edition)

    Enriched edition. Children's Book Classic

    by Carolyn Wells, Colin Everett ...
    Illustrated by Peter Newell ...
    Carolyn Wells' Mother Goose's Menagerie (Illustrated Edition) is a delightful collection of timeless nursery rhymes brought to life with charming illustrations. In this book, readers will find themselves immersed in the whimsical world of Mother Goose, filled with iconic characters and imaginative verses that have entertained generations of children. The literary style of Wells is engaging, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Developing Inquiry for Learning

    Reflecting Collaborative Ways to Learn How to Learn in Higher Education

    by Peter Ovens, Frances Wells, Patricia Wallis, Cyndy Hawkins ...
    Developing Inquiry for Learning shows how university tutors can help students to improve their abilities to learn and to become professional inquirers.An increasing proportion of students entering higher education seem to assume that learning is a relatively passive process. This may be the largest single limitation on their achievement. University tutors need to be able to respond creatively to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Hungry Heart

    Journeys With William Colenso

    by Peter Wells ...
    Shortlisted for the NZ Post Award this fascinating, innovative biography is of a true original and significant figure in NZ's early colonisation. "I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Battle That Stopped Rome

    Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history.In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chess Improvement

    It's all in the mindset

    by Peter Wells, Barry Hymer ...
    Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructive guide that sets out how the application of growth mindset principles can accelerate chess improvement.With Tim Kett and insights from Michael Adams, David Howell, Harriet Hunt, Gawain Jones, Luke McShane, Matthew Sadler and Nigel Short.Foreword by Henrik Carlsen, father of world ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Treating Depression

    MCT, CBT, and Third Wave Therapies

    Edited by Adrian Wells, Peter Fisher ...
    A practical and conceptual guide to treating depression using both Beckian CBT and the latest, cutting-edge third wave CBT approaches, including mindfulness and metacognitive therapy. It provides an understanding of depression and its treatment and a clear practical guidance on how to use each treatment approach.Covers CBT, metacognitive therapy, and third-wave behavioural approaches within one ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Love and Mr Lewisham

    by H.G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Peter Joyce ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    Love and Mr. Lewisham is a hugely uplifting tale from the pen of one of our greatest writers. Wells drew on his own experience as a young teacher to provide the background and, one suspects, the emotional drama. The plot enables him to satirise the educational establishment and deliver many wry observations on Victorian morality and the obsession with the supernatural.One day Mr Lewisham sits at ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook