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  • Isaac Newton School Driving

    Physics & Your Car

    by Barry Parker ...
    "Wonderful . . . a great resource for automobile fans who want to understand science, and vice versa." —Alan C. Tribble, author of A Tribble's Guide to SpaceFor some, driving is an art; for others, it's a science. At the Isaac Newton School of Driving, though, every car is a laboratory on wheels and every drive an exciting journey into the world of physics.In this book, physics professor Barry ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Vibrations

    The Physics of Music

    by Barry Parker ...
    Why does a harpsichord sound different from a piano? For that matter, why does middle C on a piano differ from middle C on a tuning fork, a trombone, or a flute? Good Vibrations explains in clear, friendly language the out-of-sight physics responsible not only for these differences but also for the whole range of noises we call music.The physical properties and history of sound are fascinating to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Isaac Newton School of Driving

    Physics and Your Car

    by Barry Parker ...
    For some people, driving is an art; for others, it's a science. At the Isaac Newton School of Driving, though, every car is a laboratory on wheels and every drive an exciting journey into the world of physics. As explained by renowned science writer and physics professor Barry Parker—whose father was a car mechanic and garage owner—almost every aspect of driving involves physics. A car's ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Physics of War

    From Arrows to Atoms

    by Barry Parker ...
    This fascinating blend of popular science and military history examines the science of war, demonstrating the close connection between the discovery of basic physical principles and the development of weaponry over the ages. Physics has played a critical role in warfare since the earliest times. Barry Parker highlights famous battles of the past as well as renowned scientists and inventors such as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Art of Building a Home: A collection of lectures and illustrations

    Enriched edition. Exploring Architectural Innovation and Home Design Principles

    by Raymond Sir Unwin, Barry Parker, Liam Mercer ...
    In 'The Art of Building a Home: A collection of lectures and illustrations,' readers will find a rich tapestry of ideas intertwined with architectural aesthetics and philosophy. The collection meanders through a blend of instructional and conceptual essays, infused with illustrations that provide visual clarity and enrichment. Through its diverse narratives, the anthology exposes readers to ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Funny Business

    by Simon Rich, David Schickler, Dave Eggers, Dorothy Parker, Ian Frazier, James Thurber, Joe Meno, Kevin Barry, R.T. Smith ...
    Narrated by Wyatt Cenac, Isiah Sheffer, Alec Baldwin, Christina Pickles, Dana Ivey, David Rakoff, James Naughton, Kirsten Vangsness ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    3 hours 12 min

    From wild and wacky to knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud fun, these humorous tales represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Comedian Wyatt Cenac gives a killer performance of Simon Rich’s hilarious tale of woe from the point of view of a condom in a young man’s wallet. Alec Baldwin gives a delightful over-the-top performance of James Thurber’s ... Read more

    $28.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold

    Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War

    by Mystery Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Jeffery Deaver, Jeffery Deaver, Raymond Benson, Raymond Benson, Joseph Finder, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds0, John C. Sheldon1, Sara Paretsky2, Gary Alexander3, Alan Cook4, Brendan DuBois5, Bev Vincent6, Katia Lief7, Vicki Doudera8, Jonathan Stone9, Gigi Vernon0, Joseph Wallace1, Robert Mangeot2, T. Jefferson Parker3, Laura Lippman4, Katherine Neville5, J. A. Jance6 ...
    Narrated by various narrators7, Tom Weiner8, Stephen R. Thorne9, Meredith Mitchell0, Barry Press1, Angela Brazil2, Mark Peckham3, Charlie Thurston4, Rachel Dulude5, Amanda Dolan6 ...
    Series Audiobook 11.6 - The Tess Monaghan Series

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops…The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 99 Classic Thriller Short Stories:

    Works by Philip K. Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins...and many more !

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur O. Friel, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Stringer, Arthur Train, Baroness Orczy, Barry Pain, Charles E. Van Loan, Cleveland Moffett, Compton Mackenzie, Cy Warman, E.Nesbit, E.W. Hornung, Edgar Wallace, Edward S. Ellis, Ethel Turner, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, G.B. Lancaster, George Newnes, Gilbert Parker, Guy Boothby, H. Bedford-Jones, H.A. Lamb, H.C. Bailey, H.G. Wells, Hapsburg Liebe, Harold Bindloss, Harold Titus, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Henry C. Rowland, Jack Holt, James Aquila Kempster, James B. Connolly, Josephine Dodge Daskam, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Shipman Raymond Andrews, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, O.Henry, Philip K. Dick, Rafael Sabatini, Sax Rohmer, Stewart Edward White, W.W. Jacobs, Wadsworth Camp, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Wilkie Collins, William McLeod Raine, Readym Anthologies ...
    Series Book 1 - 99 Readym Anthologies
    CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The Countess of Bellarmine ARTHUR STRINGER: 11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 12. The Button ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lake Street Stories

    by William E Burleson, Stephen Parker, Teresa Ortiz, Will Kaiser, Stephen Wilbers, Marcella Estibill, Edward Sheehy, Don Browne, Lucy Rose Fischer, Barry Madore, Megan Marsnik, Drew Danielson ...
    12 stories from the heart of South Minneapolis: Lake Street.Lake Street cuts across Minneapolis from west to east, from the urbane to the urban to the blue-collar. North and south, it is the dividing line between inner-city neighborhoods and tidy bedroom communities. Lake Street is a polyglot of people from all corners of the world mixing with lifelong Minneapolitans.These stories connect people's ... Read more

    $6.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Edwardian Ghost Story

    The top ten Ghost Stories of the Edwardian era.

    by Oscar Wilde, William Hope Hodgson, E F Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Bram Stoker, M R James, Perceval Landon, W W Jacbos ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 140 Sea Adventure Novels

    Moby-Dick, Treasure Island, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Blue Lagoon, The Sea Hawk, The Pilot, The Mystery of the Sea

    by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Bram Stoker, T. Smollett, William Clark Russell, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Charles Boardman Hawes, Victor Hugo, Mayne Reid, Frederick Marryat, Joseph Conrad, Alexandre Dumas, R. M. Ballantyne, Daniel Defoe, Randall Parrish, Mary Johnston, Oliver Optic, Walter Bigges, John C. Hutcheson, Lewis and Clark, Richard Henry Dana, James Norman Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Le Gallienne, Harry Collingwood, Walter Scott, Rafael Sabatini, B. Barker, Gilbert Parker, Angus B. Reach, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeffery Farnol, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, Howard Pyle, William Hope Hodgson, William Henry Giles Kingston, G. A. Henty, Harold MacGrath, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, W. H. G. Kingston, Bracebridge Hemyng, Richard Clynton, Francis Lynde, T. Jenkins Hains, Louis Becke, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Emerson Hough, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Carter, Mór Jókai, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Maturin M. Ballou, Aylward Edward Dingle, N. Ames, W. Bert Foster, John Arthur Barry ...
    Embark on an epic literary voyage with "140 Sea Adventure Novels", a meticulously curated anthology that captures the essence and thrill of nautical escapades from some of the greatest minds in classic and adventure literature. Spanning a wide range of literary styles from the fantastic tales of Edgar Allan Poe to the intricate and action packed stories by Jules Verne, this collection invites ... Read more

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  • Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

    by H. and E. Heron, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Bellamy, Arnold Bennett, S. Baring-Gould, Daniil Kharms, E. F. Benson, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, Julian Hawthorne, A. E. W. Mason, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Ethel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, Andy Adams, Bertha Sinclair, Fitz James O'Brien, Eleanor H. Porter, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Otis Adelbert Kline, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Barry Pain, Gertrude Bennett, Francis Marion Crawford, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Richard Austin Freeman, Alice Duer Miller, Leonard Merrick, Anthony Hope, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, B. M. Bower, August Nemo ...
    Series Book 3 - Best Short Stories Omnibus
    This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus