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  • Isaac Newton School Driving

    Physics & Your Car

    by Barry Parker ...
    "Wonderful . . . a great resource for automobile fans who want to understand science, and vice versa." —Alan C. Tribble, author of A Tribble's Guide to SpaceFor some, driving is an art; for others, it's a science. At the Isaac Newton School of Driving, though, every car is a laboratory on wheels and every drive an exciting journey into the world of physics.In this book, physics professor Barry ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Stories Set On Trains

    Enjoy the journey

    by Saki, Aleister Crowley, Richard Marsh, Leonara Wodehouse, Arthur Morrison, Amelia Edwards, Sabine Baring-Gould, W G Kelly, Barry Pain, John Davys Beresford, Gertrude Colmore ...
    Narrated by Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really are up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Stories From The Shadows – Madness

    Embrace the darkness

    by Nikolai Gogol, Anatole France, Valery Bryusov, H P Lovecraft, Barry Pain, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Michael Lyons ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Short Stories About Grief

    Allow this incredible collection of stories to help healing through words

    by Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Barry Pain, Bret Harte, D H Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, Luigi Pirandello, Mary Butts ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Eric Meyers, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. Lives so interwoven that the severing or loss of one life leaves the other weakened, unable to function for some time. Recovery comes in a myriad of forms but is usually debilitating, slow and, in the end, we are not as whole as we ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Physics of War

    From Arrows to Atoms

    by Barry Parker ...
    This fascinating blend of popular science and military history examines the science of war, demonstrating the close connection between the discovery of basic physical principles and the development of weaponry over the ages. Physics has played a critical role in warfare since the earliest times. Barry Parker highlights famous battles of the past as well as renowned scientists and inventors such as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Isaac Newton School of Driving

    Physics and Your Car

    by Barry Parker ...
    For some people, driving is an art; for others, it's a science. At the Isaac Newton School of Driving, though, every car is a laboratory on wheels and every drive an exciting journey into the world of physics. As explained by renowned science writer and physics professor Barry Parker—whose father was a car mechanic and garage owner—almost every aspect of driving involves physics. A car's ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold

    Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War

    by Mystery Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Jeffery Deaver, Jeffery Deaver, Raymond Benson, Raymond Benson, Joseph Finder, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds0, John C. Sheldon1, Sara Paretsky2, Gary Alexander3, Alan Cook4, Brendan DuBois5, Bev Vincent6, Katia Lief7, Vicki Doudera8, Jonathan Stone9, Gigi Vernon0, Joseph Wallace1, Robert Mangeot2, T. Jefferson Parker3, Laura Lippman4, Katherine Neville5, J. A. Jance6 ...
    Narrated by various narrators7, Tom Weiner8, Stephen R. Thorne9, Meredith Mitchell0, Barry Press1, Angela Brazil2, Mark Peckham3, Charlie Thurston4, Rachel Dulude5, Amanda Dolan6 ...
    Series Audiobook 11.6 - The Tess Monaghan Series

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops…The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Einstein’s Dream

    The Search for a Unified Theory of the Universe

    by Barry R. Parker ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Thirty years ago Albert Einstein died, his dream of a theory that would unify the universe unfulfilled. He spent the last decades of his life searching for such a theory-a theory that would explain everything from elementary particles and their interac tions to the overall structure of the universe. But he failed, not because he didn't try hard enough, but because the attempt was ahead of its time ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Good Vibrations

    The Physics of Music

    by Barry Parker ...
    Why does a harpsichord sound different from a piano? For that matter, why does middle C on a piano differ from middle C on a tuning fork, a trombone, or a flute? Good Vibrations explains in clear, friendly language the out-of-sight physics responsible not only for these differences but also for the whole range of noises we call music.The physical properties and history of sound are fascinating to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Extermination, The

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Barry Pain ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    19 min

    Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children.He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta.Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Derra

    by Barry F. Parker ...
    When Derra vanishes, her unlikely friend, Dr. Noah Giles, takes it upon himself to piece together her life in the hope of finding her. What he does find in the process immerses him into worlds that will push him to the brinkblurring the distinctions between love and obsession, sanity and insanity, and physical and spiritual reality. The trail he uncovers includes strange traditions fusing together ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 140 Sea Adventure Novels

    A Classic Anthology of Pirates, Shipwrecks, Mutinies, Whaling Voyages, Naval Battles, and Oceanic Mystery

    by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Bram Stoker, T. Smollett, William Clark Russell, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Charles Boardman Hawes, Victor Hugo, Mayne Reid, Frederick Marryat, Joseph Conrad, Alexandre Dumas, R. M. Ballantyne, Daniel Defoe, Randall Parrish, Mary Johnston, Oliver Optic, Walter Bigges, John C. Hutcheson, Lewis and Clark, Richard Henry Dana, James Norman Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Le Gallienne, Harry Collingwood, Walter Scott, Rafael Sabatini, B. Barker, Gilbert Parker, Angus B. Reach, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeffery Farnol, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, Howard Pyle, William Hope Hodgson, William Henry Giles Kingston, G. A. Henty, Harold MacGrath, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, W. H. G. Kingston, Bracebridge Hemyng, Richard Clynton, Francis Lynde, T. Jenkins Hains, Louis Becke, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Emerson Hough, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Carter, Mór Jókai, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Maturin M. Ballou, Aylward Edward Dingle, N. Ames, W. Bert Foster, John Arthur Barry ...
    Spanning maritime romance, imperial adventure, Gothic terror, nautical realism, and speculative voyage, 140 Sea Adventure Novels maps the sea as both physical arena and imaginative frontier. Its selection ranges from shipboard trials, piracy, mutiny, and castaway narratives to submarine fantasies and uncanny oceanic tales. Canonical maritime visions sit beside popular serial adventures, allowing ... Read more

    $1.99 USD