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  • A Curiosity of the Solar System

    by Ian Antony ...
    Series Book 1 - The Newearth Trilogy
    Set in 1851, A Curiosity of the Solar System follows the adventures of Captain Ivor Hooke, an affable but rather undistinguished officer in the British army who has been sent on a mission of diplomacy to one of the farthest flung corners of the British Empire. Ivor is soon hurled in to a world of rebellious intrigue that sees him plotting his escape from a city suspended above the clouds while ... Read more

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    Way of the Trader

    A complete guide to the art of financial trading

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    This audiobook is narrated by an Authorised Voice Replica.Way of the Trader offers a fresh perspective on a mysterious art – trading the financial markets. Over 15 compelling chapters, Ian Murphy unpacks the world of a private trader, providing a wealth of practical tools for those wishing to make a living from the markets.In Part A he examines the job of a trader and their relationship with the ... Read more

    $22.81 USD

  • Handbook of Sea-Level Research

    Series series Wiley Works
    Handbook of Sea-Level ResearchMeasuring sea-level change – be that rise or fall – is one of the most pressing scientific goals of our time and requires robust scientific approaches and techniques. This Handbook aims to provide a practical guide to readers interested in this challenge, from the initial design of research approaches through to the practical issues of data collection and ... Read more

    $193.00 USD

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    Why the West Rules---for Now

    The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

    by Ian Morris ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first ... Read more

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    War! What Is It Good For?

    Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

    by Ian Morris ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 56 min

    "War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond ... Read more

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    Life at the Speed of Light

    From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create "synthetic life"—putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable us to actually write the genetic code for designing new species to help us adapt and evolve for long-term survival. The science of synthetic genomics will have a profound impact ... Read more

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    Prehistory

    The Making of the Human Mind

    by Colin Renfrew ...
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    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory-human existence that predates the development of written records-while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself. ... Read more

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    Empire

    The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

    Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 13 min

    The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government—all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain’s economy, ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

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    Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

    A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

    Narrated by Tyler Hyrchuk ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Canadian Commentaries

    Unabridged

    18 hours 26 min

    Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in ... Read more

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  • Adolf Hitler

    My Part in his Downfall

    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs
    Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian______________'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a trav... ... Read more

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  • The King's Daughter

    by Barbara Kyle ...
    Upon the death of her father, Henry VIII, Queen Mary assumes the throne after a long exile. Her first order of business is to wed the devout Prince Philip of Spain, creating a powerful alliance that will transform Mary's fanatical dream of ridding England of Protestantism into terrifying reality. And so begins the reign of Bloody Mary. . .Even as she plans for her own nuptials, Isabel Thornleigh ... Read more

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  • The Stars My Destination

    by Alfred Bester ...
    #5 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. "Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them"-Joe Haldeman"Bester at the peak of his powers is, quite simply, unbeatable" -James LovegroveMarooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a ... Read more

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