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  • Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

    Glimpses of China's Hidden Past

    by Robert J. Antony ...
    History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

    A Short History with Documents

    by Robert J. Antony ...
    The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

    Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

    by Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti0, Dr. Weichung Cheng1, Dr. Adam Clulow2, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho3, Dr. Peter Kang4, Michael Laver5, Cheng-Heng Lu6, Dr. Mark Ravina7, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky8, Birgit Tremml-Werner9, John E. Wills, , Jr.0 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Outlaws of the Sea

    Maritime Piracy in Modern China

    by Robert J. Antony ...
    Series Book 28 - Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
    In Outlaws of the Sea, Robert J. Antony provides a comprehensive account of the history of maritime piracy in coastal south China from the 1630s to the 1940s. He neither romanticizes nor maligns pirates, but rather analyzes them in the context of their times and the broader world in which they lived. The author demonstrates that Chinese piracy was a pervasive force shaping maritime society as it ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

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    Reef Life

    An Underwater Memoir

    by Callum Roberts ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 11 min

    How did one of the world’s preeminent marine conservation scientists fall in love with coral reefs? We first meet Callum as a young student who had never been abroad, spending a summer helping to map the unknown reefs of Saudi Arabia. From that moment, when Callum first cleared his goggles, he never looked back. He went on to survey Sharm al-Sheikh, and from there he would dive into the deep in ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Sorcery Forged

    by Robert Ryan ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...
    Series series The Dream of the Druid

    Unabridged

    5 hours 28 min

    Is she my daughter? I protect her against steel and sorcery as though she is, and maybe it will give meaning to my life…I may never learn the truth. Perhaps I don’t deserve to. All I need to know is that her enemies will kill her if they can. That makes them my enemies, and I am Isarn the Invincible. A name to make them tremble.And she has power herself. Strands of destiny swirl through the very ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The History of the Study of Landforms: Volume 1 - Geomorphology Before Davis (Routledge Revivals)

    or the Development of Geomorphology

    by Richard J. Chorley, Antony J. Dunn, Robert P. Beckinsale ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: The History of the Study of Landforms
    This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up to the first important statement of the cycle of erosion by W. M. Davis in 1889, and attempts to identify the most significant currents ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Foreign Body

    by Robert Antoni ...
    Bee, a resilient young woman with an infectious narrative voice, travels from her Caribbean home to Brooklyn, in search of safety, employment, and a truly rewarding partnershipIN FOREIGN BODY, BEE TELLS HER STORY IN THE LILTING VERNACULAR voice of a young Black West Indian woman—wise, humorous, resourceful, and resilient. She is the victim of multiple assaults in her brutally patriarchal village, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 3, AD 1500–AD 1800

    Edited by Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, Caroline Dodds Pennock ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Violence
    In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Arena Forged

    by Robert Ryan ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...
    Series series The Dream of the Druid

    Unabridged

    5 hours 34 min

    Regret is a burden. I should know. And magic makes it worse…Once, the crowd adored me. I was young and the world was small. I fought in the arena, and I was good. The best. Warriors feared me. Kings praised me. And women…Best to say little of that. Yet one ruined me. Cast me aside. Betrayed me. Those who showered me with gold turned to hunting me with steel. Because of her.Age hides me now. But it ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Last Man, The

    by Robert McNeil ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The DCI Alex Fleming Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    A cold case heats up as a British police detective investigates the murder of a union activist—while MI5 puts the pressure on . . .DCI Alex Fleming has returned to work after convalescent leave to find that the Assistant Chief Constable wants him to review an old cold case. William Stroud, a union activist, was shot dead five years ago after a strike at the Atomic Weapons Establishment organised ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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    Drawn up from Deep Places

    by Gemma Files ...
    Narrated by Emily Lawrence, Antony Ferguson, Robert Fass, Neil Hellegers, Marisa Calin, Tim Campbell, Hannah Curtis, Matthew Davies, Andrew Fallaize, Paul Woodson, Cindy Kay, Krystal Hammond, Robin Miles, various narrators ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    If you go down deep enough, you find all sorts of things …In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, ... Read more

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