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  • Engine Forensics and repair

    by William Palmer ...
    Engine block trouble shooting, Diagnosing, and generalized composition. This book is to help provide knowledge and information to help better both mechanics and technicians alike. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance

    Eight New Translations

    Edited by William W. Kibler, R. Barton Palmer ...
    This volume offers newly translated texts that exemplify the two most important traditions of Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages. Encompassing such key works such as Lawman's Brut and Wace's Romance of Brut, written in Middle English and Old French, respectively, the Arthurian Epic Tradition depends on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, written in Latin. Many modern ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • In Love with Hell

    Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

    by William Palmer ...
    Series series
    'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels'D. J. TAYLORAn 'enjoyable exploration of an enduringly fascinating subject . . . [Palmer... ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Good Republic

    by William Palmer ...
    Opening in 1939, this novel spans 50 years and depicts the central character's life as a political emigre in a run down part of London. He is invited to return to his home city by the renascent nationalist movement where he learns the price of remaining an "innocent" in history. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Four Last Things

    by William Palmer ...
    "Do you know what the last four things are? In theChristian catechism they are Death, Judgment, Heavenand Hell. But in our secular age they should perhaps bechanged. I suggest - First Love, Friendship, Betrayaland Death . . . These also happen to be the staples ofthe novelist. Is that the sort of thing you want?"'Thus Cornelius Marten asks the researcher who turns up one nightat his hous... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Leporello

    by William Palmer ...
    Don Giovanni di Tenario, lives on in the memory of his servant Leporello. In Leporello's tale, the Don escapes his summons to Hell and master and servant travel through the courts and casinos, lodging houses and brothels of eighteenth-century Europe. Their journey ends with Don Giovanni returning to his family estates - and a terrible inheritance. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Devil is White

    by William Palmer ...
    It is 1792 and a group of English gentlemen is recruiting settlers for a new world. Anti-slavers, they foresee the shining vision of a free colony in Africa where all races and classes can live together in harmony.More than a hundred men, women and children set sail from London bound for Muranda, an island off the west coat of Africa. To lead them, they have Sir George Whitcroft; to sail their ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Literary Life

    by William J. Palmer ...
    At eighty-one, novelist William J. Palmer asks: What defines a life lived in words?A Literary Life is not a typical celebrity memoir. It is a candid exploration of sixty years of marriage, four decades in academia, and the relentless pursuit of storytelling. From the innocence of 1950s Ohio to the sun-drenched beaches of California and the pubs of Galway, Palmer chronicles the joy of creation and ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The English Lakes

    by William T. Palmer ...
    The present book, it must be understood, treats the English Lakes rather apart from various other elements comprised in what is known as the Lake District. There is so much to say of the waters and their immediate surroundings that no space has remained to describe mountain, pass, and tarn in the manner their beauties merit. Other limits to the book are due to the writer’s promiscuity of taste. I ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engagement with the Past

    The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians

    by William Palmer ...
    Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, Edmund S. Morgan, Barbara Tuckman, Eric Hobsbawn, Hugh Trevor Roper, Lawrence Stone—aside from carrying the distinction as some of the most successful and well-respected historians of the twentieth century, these scholars found their lives and careers evolving amid some of the world's pivotal historical moments. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Three Short Novels 1955–1965

    Theo and Kia, Zoyhaique, Privateer

    by William Palmer ...
    In the spring of 2018 at the age of eighty-one, the author attacked a stack of manuscripts that had sat on various shelves for over fifty years. Three short novels, some stories, and many fragments made a dusty pile many inches high. Privateer, the earliest novel, had been written while at Harvard and published in the literary magazine MSS in 1974. In this work, an armed merchant ship in the ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition

    by Eric Williams ...
    Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD