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  • The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate

    AD 500-1000

    by Timothy Power ...
    This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region incorporating Africa with Arabia. The transition from Byzantium to the Caliphate is contextualized in the contestation of regional hegemony between Aksumite Ethiopia, ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boy Who Howled

    by Timothy Power ...
    As far back as Callum can really remember, he's been living in the Wild as the furless mascot of a wolf pack. But when his pack sends him back to live with his own kind-humans-fitting in is quite a challenge. He doesn't remember English very well, so he accidentally says his name is "Clam." He's spent most of his life eating fresh-killed elk, so dining with vegetarians is tricky. And when he tries ... Read more

    $5.79 USD

  • Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective

    Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems

    by Paul Chaisty, Nic Cheeseman, Timothy J. Power ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Democratization
    This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it seeks to understand how presidents who lack single party legislative majorities build and manage ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Hope in Hard Times

    Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression

    by Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, Michael Cary ...
    Of the many recipients of federal support during the Great Depression, the citizens of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, stand out as model reminders of the vital importance of New Deal programs. Hoping to transform their desperate situation, the 250 families of this western Pennsylvania town worked with the federal government to envision a new kind of community that would raise standards of living through a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Resonate

    by Courtney Grace Powers ...
    Narrated by Timothy Powers ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Resonate

    Unabridged

    9 hours 37 min

    1000 years After Earth, music = propulsion, captains = rock stars, and one guitarist’s songs may be the key to humanity’s survival….Although the New World Federation’s music-powered engines allow them to traverse and mine the maze-like nebula known as Caerdroia, the colony space stations are dying, with no actual new world in sight.But Jude Aberdeen is more than just a Federation guitarist; he’s a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democratic Brazil Divided

    Edited by Peter Kingstone, Timothy J. Power ...
    Series Book 353 - Pitt Latin American Series
    March 2015 should have been a time of celebration for Brazil, as it marked thirty years of democracy, a newfound global prominence, over a decade of rising economic prosperity, and stable party politics under the rule of the widely admired PT (Workers' Party). Instead, the country descended into protest, economic crisis, impeachment, and deep political division. Democratic Brazil Divided offers a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Dispatches from the Sweet Life

    One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World

    by William Powers ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan micro-apartment in search of slow in the fastest ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

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    Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

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  • Dragon in the Tropics

    Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez

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