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  • Doing Time

    A spiritual survival guide

    by Edward Smyth ...
    Jonathan Aitken and Edward Smyth both experienced a dramatic fall from grace.Each of them found themselves removed from their homes and loved ones, locked up in prison and having to deal with the fallout of their actions. However, in the middle of their lowest point they discovered something life-changing. God hadn’t forgotten about them.Doing Time offers encouragement and advice on how to survive ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Letters for the Ages Behind Bars

    Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners

    Edited by James Drake, Edward Smyth ...
    Series series Letters for the Ages
    Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason at all. It is a story that runs from St Paul right up to the present day.The act of depriving someone of their liberty is one of humankind's most enduring responses to 'crime' through history. What society has sought ... Read more

    $19.59 CAD

  • Letters for the Ages Great Musicians

    Edited by James Drake, Edward Smyth ...
    Series series Letters for the Ages
    A collection of letters written through the ages from musicians of all genres, from Mozart to Elton John.For tens of thousands of years, across various civilisations, our species has been creating music. But what is behind the human fascination with music? This new volume in the Letters for the Ages series explores that question through the personal correspondence of history's most brilliant ... Read more

    $19.59 CAD

  • Flag of the Free

    A Civil War Journey of Freedom and Equality

    by Edward Smyth Jones ...
    In "Flag of the Free," Edward Smyth Jones intricately weaves a narrative that explores themes of democracy, freedom, and individual agency during a period of social upheaval. Through a richly poetic prose style, Jones immerses readers in the turbulent historical landscape of the early 20th century, deftly combining fictional characters with real events to illuminate the struggles and triumphs of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sailor's Word-Book

    Enriched edition. A 19th-Century Glossary of Maritime Terminology, Shipbuilding, Navigation, and Seafaring Lore

    by W. H. Smyth ...
    In "The Sailor's Word-Book," W. H. Smyth compiles an extensive glossary of nautical terminology, capturing the rich lexicon of maritime culture during the 19th century. The book is characterized by its meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to precision, reflecting the depth of Smyth's own maritime experience. His prose blends accessibility with scholarly rigor, making it an essential ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spell of Egypt and Pharos and Pharillon

    by Robert Smythe Hichens & Edward Morgan Forster ...
    Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild your life with the drowsy gold of romance, to lose a creeping sorrow, to forget that too many of your hours are sullen, grey, bereft? What do you wish of Egypt? The Sphinx will not ask you, will not care. The Pyramids, lifting their unnumbered stones to the clear and wonderful skies, have held, still ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children's Library of Classics: A 20-Book Collection

    Twenty Timeless Tales of Adventure, Fairy Lore, History, and Moral Imagination for Young Readers

    by Andrew Lang, William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Josephine Pollard, Logan Marshall, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary Eliza Joy Haweis, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Aikin, Judge Parry, Anna Sewell, H. E. Marshall, James Baldwin, William James Sly, E. Louise Smythe, Emeline G. Crommelin, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Henry Gilbert, Howard Pyle ...
    Children's Library of Classics: A 20-Book Collection gathers enduring narratives from medieval romance, Renaissance drama, the picaresque novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction, folklore, history, and moral tale. Its range extends from imaginative adventure and animal-centered storytelling to biblical, historical, and literary retellings, presenting young readers with accessible ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • The Sailor's Word-Book (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. An Encyclopedic Guide to Nautical Terminology, Royal Navy Vocabulary, Seamanship, Navigation, and Maritime Lore

    by W. H. Smyth, Delia Penmere ...
    The Sailor's Word-Book is far more than a maritime dictionary: it is an encyclopedic treasury of naval language, seamanship, ship construction, weather lore, gunnery, navigation, and custom. Arranged alphabetically yet animated by anecdote and precision, it belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of practical learned reference works, preserving the idiom of the Royal Navy at a moment when sail ... Read more

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  • The Sailor's Word-Book

    Enriched edition. An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc

    by W. H. Smyth, Nolan Taylor ...
    W. H. Smyth's "The Sailor's Word-Book" stands as a crucial reference work that meticulously catalogues the specialized vocabulary of seafaring, illuminating the rich tapestry of maritime life in the early 19th century. Smyth adopts a lexicographical style that not only defines terms but also contextualizes them within the naval traditions of his time, providing readers with a comprehensive ... Read more

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  • The Sailor's Word-Book (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A nautical reference guide to maritime terminology and seafaring vocabulary, with shipbuilding terms and oceanic language for enthusiasts

    by W. H. Smyth, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    The Sailor's Word-Book is an encyclopedic lexicon of the sea's technical and vernacular speech, arranged alphabetically and ranging from seamanship, navigation, gunnery, rigging, shipbuilding, to messroom slang and ceremonial usages. Smyth's definitions are concise yet richly allusive, with cross-references and etymological notes drawn from Admiralty practice, voyages, and classical sources. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, ... Read more

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  • Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra

    The Egyptian Sequence, #3

    by Moyra Caldecott ...
    Series Book 3 - The Egyptian Sequence
    Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the fabled Nefertiti, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamun by the powerful General Horemheb at a time of bitter political and religious division. Ankhesenamun is the delicate link between scheming factions ... Read more

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