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  • THE MYSTERY OF THE SEA- LARK
    RALPH HENRY BARBOUR & H. P. HOLT
    When Jack Holden salvages an abandoned sailboat, the Sea-Lark, he sets up a ferry business. But strange events start happening that threaten his new enterprise. First, shadowy figures sneak aboard late at night, trying to steal something. Then Jack catches another prowler red-handed and a struggle ensues. After that, two shady men hire the Sea-Lark for a sail but turn on Jack a...

    $39.70

  • ICONOCLASTIC SEX
    HENRY WALTER SPAULDING III
    Christian sexual ethics operates from a place of privilege when it does not consider those impacted by its moral prescriptions. A large majority of publications on Christian sexual ethics consider choices and images abstracted from lived conditions of the people called to make these decisions. As such, it leaves out many for whom sex is neither welcome nor a choice. As such, th...

    $550.00

  • WAR BUG
    HENRY G. BRINTON
    The United States is more fractured today than it has been since the Civil War. What hope do we have for the healing of our communities, shattered by a global pandemic and a toxic political environment? War Bug opens a window on the riverfront town of Occoquan, Virginia, and offers glimpses of social upheaval through chapters that alternate between the nineteenth and twenty-fir...

    $391.00

  • THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS
    HENRY G. MEECHAM
    In this volume Henry G. Meecham provides a critical edition of the Greek text of the Epistle to Diognetus, accompanied by a translation, notes, and introductory material. The original publication has been lightly revised for a contemporary audience. ...

    $603.00

  • THE HOUSE
    HENRY BORDEAUX
    La Maison, (The House) is a return to childhood and Henry Bordeaux birthplace. He came from a Catholic, royalist family, and he describes this environment. His childhood was lulled by the family's hope of the accession to the throne of the Count of Chambord (Henri V). Although he did not declare himself hostile to the republic, he often portrayed it with great irony. The novel'...

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  • AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 168
    HENRY FARRELL
    Amazing Stories Volume 168 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by different authors: "The Spirit Of Toffee", by Henry Farrell, "Beside The Golden Door", by Henry Slesar, and ""Utopia? Never!"" by Thomas M. Disch. ...

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  • UNDERSTANDING DESISTANCE FROM CRIME AND SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY (RE)INTEGRATION
    ISABELLE F. DUFOUR, NATACHA BRUNELLE, ROXANNE COUTURE-DUBÉ, AND DAVID HENRY
    This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration. Building on interviews with 140 justice-involved youth and young adults (aged 16 to 35), the book explores the challenges they faced while they were under the control of the justice system, the ...

    $1,099.00

  • TRANSLATING TRANSGRESSIVE TEXTS
    PAULINE HENRY-TIERNEY
    Through close examination of references to gender identity, female sexuality and corporeality, this book is the first of its kind to shed light on the complexities of translating the recent transgressive turn in contemporary women’s writing in French. Via four case studies, namely, the translations into English of Nelly Arcan’s Putain (2001), Catherine Millet’s La Vie sexuelle ...

    $1,099.00

  • NID AND NOD
    RALPH HENRY BARBOUR
    Excerpt: "A bell tinkled as the door of the little blue shop opened and closed, and continued to tinkle, although decreasingly, as the stout youth who had entered turned unhesitatingly but with a kind of impressive dignity toward where in the dimmer light of the store a recently installed soda-fountain, modest of size but brave with white marble and nickel, gleamed a welcome. I...

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  • BLESSED EVENT AND TWO MORE STORIES
    HENRY FARRELL
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Henry Farrell: "Blessed Event", "Toffee Haunts A Ghost", and "I'll Dream Of You". ...

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  • YOU CAN'T SCARE ME! & TOFFEE TAKES A TRIP
    HENRY FARRELL
    Two action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction" by Henry Farrell. Featured here: "You Can't Scare Me!", and "Toffee takes a Trip". ...

    $39.70

  • THE HOME-LIFE OF BORNEO HEAD-HUNTERS, ITS FESTIVALS AND FOLK-LORE
    WILLIAM HENRY FURNESS
    Excerpt: “While to scenery, it is distance,—and photography,—which lends enchantment, it is, on the contrary, propinquity which, in my experience, lends to the Borneo Head-Hunters and to their Home-life, a charm which cannot be wholly dispelled even by the skulls hanging from the rafters of their houses. After living among them, for months at a time, an insight is gained into t...

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  • THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL, THE STORY OF A GREAT HIGHWAY
    HENRY INMAN
    A soldier-author's view of the American frontier The history of the expansion of the frontier of America is particularly marked by the famous-perhaps legendary-trails upon which pioneers in their 'prairie schooners' or cattlemen driving their great herds crossed the vast continental interior. All roads tell their own stories, not by virtue of being routes of passage, but becaus...

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  • THE INTEGRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE BASAL GANGLIA
    HENRY YIN
    This volume is the first comprehensive and single-authored book on the functions of the basal ganglia. The goal is to provide a new synthesis of diverse areas of research on the basal ganglia, from cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity to neural circuit mechanisms underlying behavior. A global theory of basal ganglia function incorporating research from th...

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  • MAURICE AND THE BAY MARE & LOST FARM CAMP
    HENRY HERBERT KNIBBS
    Maurice and the Bay Mare follows the adventures of the titular character, Maurice, a rugged and skilled cowboy in the American West. The heart of the story centers around Maurice's connection with a remarkable bay mare, a spirited and highly prized horse. "Lost Farm Camp" is a tale that paints a vivid picture of life in the American West during a time when the frontier was stil...

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  • TEACHING FAMILY LAW
    HENRY KHA AND MARK HENAGHAN
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the teaching of an eclectic range of family law topics and the unique opportunities and challenges of teaching family law in different jurisdictions from a varied international perspective. Written by leading legal scholars, the book addresses a gap in the scholarship to comprehensively and systematically analyse the teaching of fa...

    $1,099.00

  • RACIAL IMAGINATION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
    CHARLES P. HENRY
    Although the phrase "the American Dream" dates from the 1930s, the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American president. Moreover, they form the basis of our national collective narrative as expre...

    $999.00

  • JOSEPH ANDREWS AND SHAMELA
    HENRY FIELDING
    This is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of eighteenth-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical approach of Augustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift; and the popular, dome...

    $19.00

  • THE CRIMINALS WE DESERVE
    HENRY T. F. RHODES
    First published in 1937, The Criminals We Deserve asks what kind of criminals does our society deserve? Some people thought that our crime problem was less serious than formerly. Mr. Rhodes, on the other hand, shows how profound changes which took place in our social institutions during the thirty years before 1937, had altered the nature of modern crime, making it more dangero...

    $1,339.00

  • CULTURAL ENABLERS
    MICHAEL MARTYN AND EILISH HENRY
    When done well, implementing the principles found in the Cultural Enablers dimension of the Shingo Model leads to an organizational culture that assures a safe environment, places a special emphasis on the development of its people, and engages and empowers everyone in the pursuit of continuous improvement. This fifth book of the Shingo Model series is laid out in a format simi...

    $1,059.00

  • KING ALFRED'S WEST-SAXON VERSION OF GREGORY'S PASTORAL CARE
    DR. HENRY SWEET
    King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Saxon dialect of the ninth century. ...

    $1,339.00

  • THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO
    JOHN HENRY PATTERSON
    The Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 about a pair of lions that he killed in Kenya, known as the Tsavo man-eaters. The book describes attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo, Kenya in 1898 and how the lions were eventually killed by Patterson. It was remarkable as nearly 14...

    $19.00

  • A PHILOSOPHER'S GUIDE TO NATURAL CAPITALISM
    WAYNE I. HENRY
    This book posits that a sustainable future is possible without abandoning Capitalism. In its current form as Consumer Capitalism, the organization of the global economy is clearly unsustainable. But Capitalism is a malleable concept that has assumed a variety of forms since the 17th century, and it can be altered as needed. In Part I of this book, the author sets out an economi...

    $999.00

  • VIOLENCE AND PUBLIC MEMORY
    MARTIN HENRY BLATT
    Violence and Public Memory assesses the relationship between these two subjects by examining their interconnections in varied case studies across the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Those responsible for the violence discussed in this volume are varied, and the political ideologies and structures range from apartheid to fascism to homophobia t...

    $999.00

  • IMAGE AND IMAGINATION IN BYZANTINE ART
    HENRY MAGUIRE
    The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. They show how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible present by manifesting the spiritual world that they could not see. The articles a...

    $1,339.00

  • BLACK FLAGS IN VIETNAM
    HENRY MCALEAVY
    Black Flags in Vietnam (1968) examines nineteenth-century conflict between China, Vietnam and France. For the first thousand years of its history, Vietnam had been an integral part of China, and during subsequent centuries of self-rule had acknowledged Chinese suzerainty. In the 1850s, France, seeking a base for the political and commercial penetration of southern China, occupi...

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  • THE ROADMAP FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS AND NET ZERO CARBON EMISSION
    HENRY K. H. WANG
    What does sustainable business and net zero carbon emission mean for businesses globally? How should companies globally transform into sustainable businesses with net zero carbon emissions? This book unpacks the institutional, organisational and management challenges in pursuing sustainable business and carbon neutrality for businesses. In this book, Henry K. H. Wang, an intern...

    $919.00

  • THE DAWN IN RUSSIA
    HENRY WOODD NEVINSON
    The Dawn in Russia is a travelogue by British journalist Henry Woodd Nevinson, published in 1905. In the book, Nevinson recounts his experiences traveling through Russia during the early 20th century, particularly focusing on the social and political changes occurring in the country. He describes the poverty and harsh conditions endured by peasants and workers, as well as the t...

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  • A MODERN SLAVERY
    HENRY WOODD NEVINSON
    A Modern Slavery is a book written by Henry Woodd Nevinson, first published in 1906. The book is an investigative report on the forced labor system in Portuguese Africa, specifically in Angola. Nevinson, a journalist and social reformer, traveled to Angola in 1905 to gather information about the forced labor system that was prevalent there. In the book, Nevinson describes the c...

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  • LADYSMITH THE DIARY OF A SIEGE
    HENRY WOODD NEVINSON
    Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege is a first-hand account of the 118-day siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War in South Africa. The author, Henry Woodd Nevinson, was a British war correspondent who was trapped inside the besieged town along with the civilian population and British soldiers. The book describes the daily struggles of life under siege, including the shortage...

    $39.70