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  • Island at the Edge of the World

    The Forgotten History of Easter Island

    by Mike Pitts ...
    **“**A crisp, confident, and convincing new account of the place and its chroniclers" — The New Yorker“A definitive history of the mysteries of Easter Island...compelling...[a] magisterial history.” — New York Times“Revelatory…fascinating… wholly convincing” — Daily Mail (UK)A vital and timely work of historical adventure and reclamation by British archeological scholar Mike Pitts—... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Build Stonehenge

    by Mike Pitts ...
    Drawing on a lifetime’s study and a decade of new research, archaeologist Mike Pitts explores the mystery of how Stonehenge was built.There is nothing like Stonehenge: the simple, graphic genius of these great, arranged blocks. The stones seem to rise from the ground in some antediluvian heave of the Earth: lintels, great horizontal slabs, roughly squared, the grey rock now covered in subtle ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History

    by Mike Pitts ...
    An award-winning archaeologist and journalist chronicles England’s history—as told through the country’s recent archaeological discoveries.Digging Up Britain traces the history of Britain through key discoveries and excavations. With British archaeologist Mike Pitts as a guide, this book covers the most exciting excavations of the past ten years, gathers firsthand stories from the people who dug ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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    Island at the Edge of the World

    The Forgotten History of Easter Island

    by Mike Pitts ...
    Narrated by Mike Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    **“**A crisp, confident, and convincing new account of the place and its chroniclers" — The New Yorker“A definitive history of the mysteries of Easter Island...compelling...[a] magisterial history.” — New York Times“Revelatory…fascinating… wholly convincing” — Daily Mail (UK)A vital and timely work of historical adventure and reclamation by British archeological scholar Mike Pitts—a... ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King (Revised and Expanded)

    by Mike Pitts ...
    "As gripping as any detective fiction. Proof that one doesn't need to be fascinated with Richard III to be enthralled by the story of his body's discovery." —Publisher's WeeklyIn August 2012 a search began, and on February 4, 2013, a team from Leicester University delivered its verdict to a mesmerized press room and to the world: they had found the remains of Richard III, whose legacy was perhaps ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King

    by Mike Pitts ...
    The story of the archaeology behind the dig that found Richard III, told through a fascinating array of photographs, diagrams, and firsthand accountsIn August 2012 a search began and on February 4, 2013 a team from Leicester University delivered its verdict to a mesmerized press room, watched by media studios around the world: they had found the remains of Richard III, whose history is perhaps the ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs

    More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns

    by Jack London, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Thompson, Richard Wright, Damon Runyon, Shirley Povich, Murray Kempton, Mike Ryoko, Ruben Salazar, Mary McGrory, Mike Barnicle, Molly Ivins, Pete Hamill, Carl Hiaasen, Nicholas Kristof, Steve Lopez, Peggy Noonan, Mitch Albom, Leonard Pitts ...
    An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—"engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise" ( Kirkus Reviews).Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America's greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America's ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Curating Human Remains

    Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom

    by Myra Giesen, Kirsty McCarrison, Liz White, Margaret Clegg, Mark A. Hall, Michael G Parker Pearson, Mike Pitts, Rebecca Redfern, Simon Mays, Victoria Park0, Charlotte Roberts1, Charlotte Woodhead2, Duncan Sayer3, Gillian Scott4, Hedley Swain5, Jacqueline McKinley6, Jelena Bekvalac7, Jennifer Sharp8 ...
    How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Operation Sea Angler: the Second Wave

    Tactics for Successful Saltwater Fishing

    by Dr Mike Ladle, Steve Pitts ...
    Modern methods of fishing aren't just for those in the know - they can work for everyone. Knowing why fish behave as they do is key to using the right techniques and catching more and larger fish. In this book, Mike Ladle and Steve Pitts reveal the inside story on what's going on under the water, answering questions such as:Why do fish bite at the change of light?Where are the largest fish going ... Read more

    $20.29 USD

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    1942

    When World War II Engulfed the Globe

    by Peter Fritzsche ...
    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale, “offering an intriguing perspective on a world at war” (Richard Overy, New York Times–bestselling author of Blood and Ruins)By the end of the Second World War, more than seventy million people across the globe had been killed, most of them ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Nothing Random

    Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built

    by Gayle Feldman ...
    Narrated by Gayle Feldman, Lisa Flanagan ...

    Unabridged

    35 hours 27 min

    A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The “exhilarating” (The Boston Globe) story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making“[A] big, beautiful biography . . . There’s a new Power Broker in town.”—The New York Times“Feldman depicts a lost world, at ti ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Wanderers

    A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II

    by Daniela Gerson ...
    Narrated by Daniela Gerson, David Henry Gerson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 42 min

    An immigration journalist and her wife trace their family’s intertwined past to unearth a history of how hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews survived Hitler’s Holocaust at the brutal hands of Stalin**—**a story that sheds light on the enduring power of hope and love.Daniela Gerson and her wife, Talia Inlender, met at a picnic in Los Angeles, not knowing that 75 years earlier, their grandparents ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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