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  • Thieves Like Us

    by Robert Edmond Alter ...
    Cheops' daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built a pretty big pyramid.Many centuries later, beautiful Greta Brandt also made some fancy burial plans -- but they were for her husband Farley, who wasn't dead yet. And until he was, Greta intended to leave no stone unturned.Then ... Read more

    $4.59 CAD

  • Saving Forest Ecosystems

    A Century Plus of Research and Education at the University of Washington

    by Robert L. Edmonds ...
    After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causing environmental degradation and displacing native peoples.Conflicts about the future of Pacific Northwest forests have continued since then. Only recently have academics, government agencies, industry, small private landowners, tribes, and ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Dramatic Imagination

    Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

    by Robert Edmond Jones ...
    The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Who Lives By the Sword

    by Robert Edmond Alter ...
    In a sun-splashed seaport on the Italian Riviera, a timid curio shop owner lives a double life. By day he sells dusty clocks and fifteenth-century weapons to tourists; by night he watches harbor traffic for an intelligence network and pockets the extra money his extravagant young wife demands.When a nondescript courier summons him to a decaying villa, the shopkeeper learns that a rival network has ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Rabble on a Hill

    by Robert Edmond Alter ...
    Shad Holly and Nat Towne are brought together when they are involved with a British patrol in the streets of Boston. Shad, an experienced frontier fighter, and Nat, a young actor, eventually are engaged in dangerous missions during the siege of Boston. Both are among the defenders of Breed's Hill, a name not so well known as nearby Bunker's Hill, thanks to the confusion of British army ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steal Away Boy

    Selected Poems of David Mitchell

    Edited by Martin Edmond, Nigel Roberts ...
    Structured in seven sections with poems written in the period between 1962 and 2009, this collection showcases the work of iconic New Zealand poet, political activist, and impresario David Mitchell. Literate and amusing, this compilation, which assembles widely scattered poems in one work for the first time, reintroduces Mitchell to a new generation. Drawn from magazines, journals, and private ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trustee for the Human Community

    Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa

    Edited by Robert A. Hill, Edmond J. Keller ...
    Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Facility Management

    by Edmond P. Rondeau, Robert Kevin Brown, Paul D. Lapides ...
    From the moment it was first published, Facility Management became the ultimate reference for facility and design professionals who want to create a productive workplace that corresponds to the short- and long-term goals of their corporation. This Second Edition provides complete, fully up-to-date information and guidance on the evolving facility management profession that will help facility ... Read more

    $137.99 CAD

  • Swamp Sister

    by Robert Edmond Alter ...
    The swamp had no name and no landmarks: just cypress, Spanish moss, and alligators -- and a wrecked plane with eighty thousand dollars inside it. The man who found the Money Plane could have any woman he wanted -- even the deliriously carnal Dorry Mears -- as long as he kept the source of his fortune a secret. But in the swamp no secret was ever safe. And neither was anyone who had Dorry for a ... Read more

    $4.59 CAD

  • 20 Time Travel Classics

    Victorian and Edwardian Voyages Through Utopias, Dystopias, Gothic Fantasies, and Far-Future Worlds

    by H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Mark Twain, Abraham Merritt, Edward Bellamy, Frederic W. Farrar, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Edmond About, Henry Holt, Robert Hugh Benson, Edith Nesbit, Edwin Lester Arnold, Jane C. Loudon, William Henry Hudson, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens, William Morris ...
    20 Time Travel Classics surveys the imaginative history of temporal displacement, assembling romances, satires, speculative adventures, moral fables, and proto-scientific narratives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its selections reveal time travel not merely as a device of wonder but as a means of testing progress, empire, religion, technology, gender, and social order. ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers

    by Robert Edmond Alter ...
    When a young alligator tad with a disfigured snout brings humiliation and discomfort to Dad Peps, there begins a legendary feud between "Shovel Nose," who grows to the stature of a great gator, and Dad Peps, who fancies himself as a great gator grabber.It is more a laugh-aloud series of encounters than a deadly feud, and you will enjoy the blow by hilarious blow description of each encounter. In ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Listen, the Drum!: A Novel of Washington's First Command

    by Robert Edmond Alter ...
    Matt Burnett joins the militia when he hears of pending French and Indian attacks upon colonial settlers. He immediately finds himself regarded as a hero and at the same time a spy-suspect, both situations arising from a series of incidents involving the young Major George Washington.Matt and Chief, his elderly Indian accomplice, begin their adventure by foiling an ambush of Washington. Shortly ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD