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  • Audiobook

    First Class

    The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School

    Narrated by Alison Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America.In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. These enormous challenges did not stop the local community from rallying for the cause of ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dark Age (3 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Red Rising 5

    Series Audiobook 3 - Red Rising

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?In his darkening shadow, a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Class

    The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School

    Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil War, citizens of Washington, DC, opened the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nothing

    Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion

    The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings.It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audel Pumps and Hydraulics

    Pull up what you need to knowPumps and hydraulic equipment are now used in more facets of industry than ever before. Whether you are a pump operator or you encounter pumps and hydraulic systems through your work in another skilled trade, a basic knowledge of the practical features, principles, installation, and maintenance of such systems is essential. You'll find it all here, fully updated with ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Geocryology

    Characteristics and Use of Frozen Ground and Permafrost Landforms

    This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground called permafrost. Frozen ground is the product of cold climates as well as a variety of environmental factors. Its major characteristic is the accumulation of large quantities of ice which may exceed 90% by volume. Soil water changing to ice results in ground heaving, while thawing of this ice produces ground ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Sous Vide Cookbook: Remarkable Sous-Vide Recipes for Cooking at Home (Cooking in Vacuum)

    by Harry Stewart ...
    Are you still choosing between healthy and tasty food?Here is solution for youYou shouldn’t have to go out to expensive restaurants just to eat perfectly cooked food. Whether you’re a sous vide enthusiast seeking to add new recipes to your repertoire, or just getting into the technique, this book will show you how easy it is to make restaurant quality food in your very own home.Sous Vide attracts ... Read more

    Free

  • Canada's Food Island

    A Collection of Stories and Recipes from Prince Edward Island

    Globe and Mail National BestsellerA sampling of seasonal recipes from Prince Edward Island and stories about the people, places and local ingredients that inspire them.Canada's Food Island invites you to celebrate the Island’s farm-to-table cooking and meet the farmers, fishers and artisans who make those delicious dishes possible. From preparing the perfect lobster roll in spring and galettes ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's Foreign Policy

    by Stuart Harris ...
    Series series China Today
    China’s inexorable rise as a major world power is one of the defining features of the contemporary political landscape. But should we heed the warnings of a so-called ‘China threat?’ Is China set to become the next superpower? Or will its ambitions be tempered by economic and political realities both at home and abroad?In this insightful and balanced analysis, noted China expert Stuart Harris ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Aberystwyth Noir: Private Detective Louie Knight

    A BBC Radio 4 crime thriller series

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    The spoof hardboiled thrillers with Wales's top private investigator dramatised by BBC RadioThis marvelous collection of Malcolm Pryce's acclaimed Aberystwyth Noir radio productions are set in an alternative version of Aberystwyth, where the streets are filled with veterans of the Patagonian War (Wales's answer to Vietnam), the Druids are mob bosses, and the ice cream is... unusual, to say the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Permafrost Environment

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil, gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment. The construction of roads, airfields, buildings and pipelines in this inhospitable environment has posed enormous problems for engineers and geologists. This book is a comprehensive ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Skyland

    The Heart of the Shenandoah National Park

    First published in 1960, this is the autobiography of George Freeman Pollock, a young Washington, D.C. man who in 1895 founded, built and managed the Skyland Resort, originally called Stony Man Camp, in Virginia."The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, separating the eastern or Piedmont and Tidewater sections from the Shenandoah Valley, commence at the south side of the gap at Harper's Ferry. Thence ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus