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  • Mining in World History

    by Martin Lynch ...
    Series series Globalities
    Mining in World History deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present day, drawing out, in an engaging and fast-paced fashion, the interplay of personalities, politics and technology which have together shaped the metallurgical industries over the last 500 years.Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before the year 1453, of a revolutionary technique ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

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    The Making And Breaking Of The British Empire

    by Randall Lynch ...
    Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 22 min

    England began its imperial climb as an anxious island kingdom watching Spain and Portugal divide the world. Its first steps were uncertain, violent, and improvised, from failed colonies and privateering raids to the hard lessons of Ireland, Roanoke, Jamestown, and the Caribbean.What followed was not a single master plan, but a sprawling machine built from merchants, soldiers, settlers, sailors, ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salvage

    by Mike Lynch, Martin Greene, Neil McClements, Anthony O’Neill ...
    While on a deep space mission the science ship Noland is caught in an ion storm. Adrift in space it is rescued by the crew of an old warship called the Ridley. Their relief is short-lived when they realise that most of the crew of the warship have been experimented on by the ships Doctor and turned into cybernetic monsters. ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre

    by Mary Raftery, Colin Murphy, Jimmy Murphy, Martin Lynch, Domingos Nunez, Grace Dyas ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre is the first anthology of Irish documentary drama. It features five challenging plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the diaspora, with introductory essays by established academics. Together these plays represent the most innovative development in contemporary Irish ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

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    Sugar And Snow: The American Colonies That Stayed British

    by Randall Lynch ...
    Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    Most people know the American Revolution as the moment Britain lost America. But in 1783, the Union Jack still flew over a sprawling American empire of frozen fishing grounds, French Catholic towns, Loyalist refugee settlements, Caribbean sugar islands, Atlantic harbors, and Central American logging camps.What survived was not a footnote to the United States, but a strange and profitable patchwork ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Two Empires: A History Of French Colonialism

    by Randall Lynch ...
    Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 47 min

    France did not build one colonial empire, but two. The first reached west across the Atlantic in search of Asia and found instead fish, furs, forests, sugar islands, Indigenous alliances, and a fragile North American world that could never match the settler weight of Britain.New France stretched across maps with astonishing ambition, but its real strength rested on trade networks, river routes, ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave, The

    by Willie Lynch ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    19 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Willie Lynch, a British slave owner from the West Indies, stepped onto the shores of colonial Virginia in 1712, bearing secrets that would shape the fate of generations to come. Within this manuscript, allegedly transcribed from Lynch’s speech to American slaveholders on the banks of the James River, lies a blueprint for subjugation. Lynch’s genius lay ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mature-Age Male Students in Higher Education

    Experiences, Motivations and Aspirations

    by Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming, Aileen Morris, Pamela Martin-Lynch ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the unique set of challenges faced by mature-age male undergraduates as they adapt to university study. The authors examine the motivations of mature male students for enrolling in higher education and their aspirations for life after graduation, in doing so filling a crucial gap in the current literature. Later access to higher education carries numerous benefits, including ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • The Denniston Rose

    by Jenny Pattrick ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics
    A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

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  • Diamonds, Gold, and War

    The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

    by Martin Meredith ...
    Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Gold: Greed, innovations, daring and wealth

    by Jill Blee ...
    Since ancient times gold has exerted a powerful fascination for humankind. Symbol of wealth and riches, it has influenced the rise and fall of empires and changed the course of history. In Australia, its discovery sparked frenzied gold rushes that opened up large parts of the land to settlement, transformed Melbourne and Sydney from colonial outposts into two of the worlds most vibrant cities, and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Australia's Fossil Heritage

    A Catalogue of Important Australian Fossil Sites

    by The Australian Heritage Council ...
    The National Heritage List was created in January 2004 to recognise, celebrate and protect places of outstanding heritage value to the nation. National heritage encompasses those places that reveal the richness of Australia's extraordinarily diverse natural, historic and Indigenous heritage. One aspect of natural heritage that has been little explored is Australia’s wealth of exceptional fossil ... Read more

    $69.29 CAD