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  • Red Sand Green Heart

    Ecological adventures in the outback

    by John L. Read ...
    Australia's arid outback is teeming with life ... when you know where to look. From taipan snakes and pelicans to hippie activists and hardline miners, John Read brings to life the characters, creatures and cultures of the outback. Through vivid, personal stories he shares his experience as an ecologist making new discoveries; challenging conventional approaches to pastoralism, mining, tourism and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • From Alchemy to Chemistry

    by John Read ...
    "Chemistry, in particular, is capable, when suitably presented, of making a strong appeal to the intelligence and the imagination; for, as the following pages are intended to show, it is the most romantic of all the branches of science; and in its variegated history, stretching back through unnumbered generations of alchemists into an indefinite past, its present votaries have (if they but knew) a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Among the Pigeons

    Why our cats belong indoors

    by John L. Read ...
    During the last century, global domestic cat numbers rocketed past 200 million, along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick, injured and malnourished cats. Cat shelters are overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of cats are euthanised every year by despondent animal welfare workers. Misplaced sentimentality, sometimes promoted by corporate greed of cat food companies, has ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Dear Grandpa, Why?

    Reflections from Kokoda to Hiroshima

    by John L. Read ...
    "'Dear Grandpa, why?' is a question that has been asked many times over, by descendants of those who have died in war. John L. Read, however, has placed his energy into actually seeking an answer to his own question." - Hon. Sir Eric Neal, AC, CVO. Edward Tompson Mobsby, father of twin baby girls, volunteered for war service and was shot down by the Japanese in New Guinea in 1942. John Read's ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The History of the Revolution & The Communist Manifesto

    Enriched edition. The History of October Revolution

    by John Reed, Karl Marx, Jayden Walsh ...
    Translated by Samuel Moore ...
    In 'The History of the Revolution & The Communist Manifesto', readers encounter a riveting fusion of historical narrative and revolutionary philosophy. This anthology juxtaposes John Reed's vivid firsthand accounts with Karl Marx's probing theoretical writings, offering a broad spectrum of political thought and narrative style that demarks the transformative eras they discuss. It thoughtfully ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Kid's Guide to the Night Sky

    Simple Ways to Explore the Universe

    by John A. Read ...
    Learn how to stargaze and discover the most amazing sights in the night sky—no telescope required!This easy-to-use stargazing guide for kids explores the popular night sky constellations, visits the brightest stars, and tours our solar system. As they learn step-by-step how to find the most fascinating sights in the night sky, readers will learn how the sky changes with each season, when to look ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Fiction River: Last Stand

    by Fiction River, Felicia Fredlund, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Eric Kent Edstrom, Dory Crowe, Dan C. Duval, M. L. Buchman, M. E. Owen, Angela Penrose, Laura Ware, Bonnie Elizabeth, Rob Vagle, Chuck Heintzelman, Anthea Sharp, Lee Allred, Travis Heermann, Kerrie L. Hughes, John Helfers, Dean Wesley Smith ...
    Series Book 20 - Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine
    History offers many heroic tales of final battles. And in Last Stand, sixteen courageous authors offer their take on the topic. From a heartwarming tale of not-so-friendly business competition to a battle of the gods—sort of—for the fate of the world to a tale of looking for love in all the wrong places. These inventive stories make Last Stand one of the most creative—and memorable—Fiction River ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Ten Days that Shook the World

    by John Reed ...
    Narrated by Adam Sims ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    Ten Days that Shook the World is John Reed’s phenomenal first-hand account of the October Revolution, leading up to the storming of the Winter Palace and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. A socialist journalist from the United States, John Reed was open about his Bolshevik sympathies and used his support to gain access to officials, witness speeches by the likes of Lenin and ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Insurgent Maxico

    by John Reed ...
    Insurgent Maxico by John Reed ... Read more

    $0.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Days That Shook the World

    by John Reed ...
    Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed’s eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Ten Days That Shook the World

    by John Reed ...
    In 1917 John Reed, a journalist and socialist, witnessed first-hand the 1917 Russian October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks seized power and began forming the Soviet Union. Ten Days that Shook the World is his account of the revolution, including on-the-ground descriptions of the days up to those portentous events.The book received a mixed reception. Some reviewers found it a powerful account ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Catherine Booth

    Laying the Theological Foundations of a Radical Movement

    by John Read ...
    Catherine Booth's achievements--as a revivalist, social reformer, champion of women's rights, and, with her husband William Booth, co-founder of The Salvation Army--were widely recognized in her lifetime. However, Catherine Booth's life and work has since been largely neglected. This neglect has extended to her theological ideas, even though they were critical to the formation of Salvationism, the ... Read more

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