Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Ends of Enlightenment

by John Bender ...

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience and knowledge in the novel and in the ... Read more

$24.59 USD

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience and knowledge in the novel and in the
... Read more
The Culture of Diagram

by John Bender, Michael Marrinan ...

The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines a history of convergence among diverse streams of data in real-time: from eighteenth-century print media and the diagrammatic procedures in the ... Read more

$28.69 USD

The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines a history of convergence among diverse streams of data in real-time: from eighteenth-century print media and the diagrammatic procedures in the
... Read more
The Dean

The Best Seat in the House

by John David Dingell, David Bender ...

A candid memoir of the past eighty years in American politics, as told by the longest-serving congressman in historyCongressman John D. Dingell first came to Washington, DC, in 1933 at the age of six, when his father was elected to the Congress, and became a House page boy at eleven. Dingell has devoted his entire life to public service and has witnessed and helped shape most of the important ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

A candid memoir of the past eighty years in American politics, as told by the longest-serving congressman in historyCongressman John D. Dingell first came to Washington, DC, in 1933 at the age of six, when his father was elected to the Congress, and became a House page boy at eleven. Dingell has devoted his entire life to public service and has witnessed and helped shape most of the important
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Voyage of the Adventure

Retracing the Donelson Party's Journey to the Founding of Nashville

by John Guider, Albert Bender Jr, Jeff Sellers Jr, Carroll Van West Jr., Learotha Williams Jr. ...

In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a settlement now known as Nashville—over one thousand river miles away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson party’s ... Read more

$14.39 USD

In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a settlement now known as Nashville—over one thousand river miles away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson party’s
... Read more
Audiobook

The Dean

The Best Seat in the House

by David Bender, John David Dingell ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

John David Dingell, the longest serving United States’ Congressman in history, and one of the House's most powerful chairmen, offers a unique, unforgettable, and refreshingly candid behind-the-scenes account of government and politics over the past eighty years.Democrat John David Dingell served in the U.S. House of Representatives for fifty-nine consecutive years, from December 13, 1955 to ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

John David Dingell, the longest serving United States’ Congressman in history, and one of the House's most powerful chairmen, offers a unique, unforgettable, and refreshingly candid behind-the-scenes account of government and politics over the past eighty years.Democrat John David Dingell served in the U.S. House of Representatives for fifty-nine consecutive years, from December 13, 1955 to
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobooks

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobooks
The Banchory Conspiracy

by John Israel Bender ...

The Banchory Conspiracy is revealed in the diaries and journals of a catholic priest. It is 19th century England. The Pettarsons are the wealthiest aristocrats in the country. The priest is their pastor and confessor. The Banchory brothers, twins, have insinuated themselves into the good graces of the Pettarson family.eventually becoming the stewards and executors of their vast holdings. They are ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The Banchory Conspiracy is revealed in the diaries and journals of a catholic priest. It is 19th century England. The Pettarsons are the wealthiest aristocrats in the country. The priest is their pastor and confessor. The Banchory brothers, twins, have insinuated themselves into the good graces of the Pettarson family.eventually becoming the stewards and executors of their vast holdings. They are
... Read more
Special Delivery

From One Stop to Another on the Underground Railroad

by Rose O'Keefe ...

Illustrated by John K Bender ...

Frederick and Anna Douglass's 11-year-old son Lewis is shocked to learn the family is moving from their gracious home on Alexander Street in Rochester, NY. He is even more shocked to learn he must drive a team of horses to help with the move. What could go wrong? ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Frederick and Anna Douglass's 11-year-old son Lewis is shocked to learn the family is moving from their gracious home on Alexander Street in Rochester, NY. He is even more shocked to learn he must drive a team of horses to help with the move. What could go wrong?
... Read more
1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26)

by Norbert Col, Andrew Connell, Taylor Corse, Matthew Davis, Michael Edson, Melvyn New, Mark A. Pedreira, Linda L. Reesman, Adam Rounce, Robin Runia, Jacob Sider Jost, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Ashley Bender, John Burke, Greg Clingham, Gloria Eive, Sören Hammerschmidt, Malcolm Jack, Christopher Johnson, Robin Mills, John Sitter, Paul deGategno ...

Series Book 26 - 1650-1850
Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s ... Read more

$107.99 USD

Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s
... Read more
Animal ABCs

by Rose O'Keefe ...

IntroductionAnimal ABCs is a word game for people who enjoy a search that gets harder as it goes along; who enjoy unusual words and consider a dictionary one of their favorite books or research tools. There is a pattern, that we will leave to the curious reader to unlock on their own. ... Read more

$1.99 USD

IntroductionAnimal ABCs is a word game for people who enjoy a search that gets harder as it goes along; who enjoy unusual words and consider a dictionary one of their favorite books or research tools. There is a pattern, that we will leave to the curious reader to unlock on their own.
... Read more

The Men Who United the States

America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

by Simon Winchester ...

“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
How the States Got Their Shapes

by Mark Stein ...

"[A] wonderfully entertaining account of an often-overlooked oddity of America's history: how the jigsaw-puzzle layout of the United States emerged." —VogueThe New York Times BestsellerWhy does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities ... Read more

$14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

"[A] wonderfully entertaining account of an often-overlooked oddity of America's history: how the jigsaw-puzzle layout of the United States emerged." —VogueThe New York Times BestsellerWhy does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Oxford World's Classics

Ends of Enlightenment

The Culture of Diagram

The Dean

Voyage of the Adventure

The Dean

Tom Jones

The Banchory Conspiracy

Special Delivery

1650-1850

Animal ABCs

People who read these also enjoyed

The Men Who United the States

How the States Got Their Shapes

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Oxford World's Classics

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed