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  • Coral Reefs

    Majestic Realms under the Sea

    by Peter F. Sale ...
    An eye-opening introduction to the complexity, wonder, and vital roles of coral reefsWhen mass coral bleaching and die'Ć'Äòoffs were first identified in the 1980s, and eventually linked to warming events, the scientific community was sure that such a dramatic and unambiguous signal would serve as a warning sign about the devastating effects of global warming. Instead, most people ignored that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Dying Planet

    An Ecologist's View of the Crisis We Face

    by Peter Sale ...
    Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet. So says leading ecologist Peter F. Sale in this crash course on the state of the planet. Sale draws from his own extensive work on coral reefs, and from recent research by other ecologists, to explore the many ways we are changing the earth and to explain why it matters. Weaving into the narrative his own ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Winds of the Night

    by Joan Sales, Paul Preston ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    The sequel to Joan Sales' great novel of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory, this follow-up takes a provocative look at post-war Catalonia through the eyes of a chaplain struggling with his faith in the aftermath of brutal destruction.Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales's acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. It ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Coral Reef Fishes

    Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem

    Edited by Peter F. Sale ...
    Coral Reef Fishes is the successor of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. This new edition includes provocative reviews covering the major areas of reef fish ecology. Concerns about the future health of coral reefs, and recognition that reefs and their fishes are economically important components of the coastal oceans of many tropical nations, have led to enormous growth in research directed at ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Uncertain Glory

    by Joan Sales ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF 2017A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war.Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo—a beautiful widow with a shadowy past—puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Fugitive!

    On the run with Britain’s most wanted

    by Nick Reynolds ...
    Narrated by Nick Reynolds, Amber Marks, Duncan Campbell, Paul Britton, Peter Bleksley, Tony Sales1, Zahid Khan3, Chris Pickard5, Paul Ferris7, Nick Reynolds, Amber Marks, Duncan Campbell, Paul Britton, Peter Bleksley0, Tony Sales2, Zahid Khan4, Chris Pickard6, Paul Ferris8 ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 9 min

    SHORTLISTED IN THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2024Ground-breaking audio original exploring the reality of life on the run.What is life on the run really like? Featuring never-before heard interviews, this ground-breaking audio original gets you closer to the reality than ever before.Join Nick Reynolds as he explores the reality of the life of a fugitive. Using his own experiences of growing up on the run ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Philosophical Dialogues

    Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy

    by Peder Anker, Per Ariansen, Alfred J. Ayer, Murray Bookchin, Baird Callicott, John Clark, Fons Elders, Paul Feyerabend, Warwick Fox, William C. French, Harold Glasser, Ramachandra Guha, Patsy Hallen, Stephan Harding, Andrew Mclaughlin, Ivar Mysterud, Arne Naess, Bryan Norton, Val Plumwood, Peter Reed, Kirkpatrick Sale, Karen Warren, Richard A. Watson, Jon Wetlesen, Bill Devall, Ariel Salleh, Genevieve Lloyd, Michael E. Zimmerman ...
    The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy-the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Marine Metapopulations

    by Jacob P. Kritzer, Peter F. Sale ...
    Technological improvements have greatly increased the ability of marine scientists to collect and analyze data over large spatial scales, and the resultant insights attainable from interpreting those data vastly increase understanding of poplation dynamics, evolution and biogeography. Marine Metapopulations provides a synthesis of existing information and understanding, and frames the most ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

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  • The Collected Novels of Josè Saramago

    by José Saramago ...
    **This essential anthology presents thirteen acclaimed works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness—with an introduction by Ursula Le Guin.This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel ... Read more

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  • The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

    by Leonora Carrington ...
    “Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories—many newly translated from their original French and Spanish—is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.” —Carmen Maria Machado, NPRSurrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories

    Edited by Joost Zwagerman ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures***'*We were kids - but good kids. If <e... ... Read more

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  • A Moment of War

    A Memoir

    by Laurie Lee ...
    Series Book 3 - The Autobiographical Trilogy
    A memoir of the Spanish Civil War with "the plainness of Orwell but the metaphorical soaring of a poem . . . An extraordinary book" ( The New York Times Book Review).In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France—two days on foot through the snow. I don't know why I chose December; it was just one of a number of idiocies I committed at the time.Such was Laurie Lee's entry into the Spanish ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus