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    Baseball Heaven

    Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues

    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 52 min

    A behind-the-scenes look at baseball history, as told through timeless interviews with major leaguersFor fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their conversations are a journey back in time to the days of Ruth and Gehrig, Gehringer and Greenberg, Robinson and Reese, and Howard and Mantle, as they reflect on the sport ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Donald and His Seven Cows

    Perhaps Donald Michael MacDonald invented the round mile, all 2,240 yards of it. Donald and his seven cows, walking the same steps each day through the past and the future, the fairy knoll and the poison pool, the eternal truths and the unknowable possibilities. Rarely does Donald venture beyond the round mile, for he has no need to: all of history can be found on his land. Yet the wind farms, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Triumphs of Our Fleur-de-Lys

    150 Years of Trinity College Melbourne

    Trinity College opened in 1872 as the first student residence associated with the University of Melbourne. Established by the Anglican Church, it provided supervised accommodation and academic support for undergraduate students. Over the years, this was expanded to include a theological school (1877), a women's hostel (1886, later called Janet Clarke Hall), and a foundation studies program (1990) ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • An Impossible Dream

    A Non-Believer on the Camino

    We live in disturbed times. Seemingly more now than at any time in the previous five decades, the planet appears riven. Against this troubling global background, An Impossible Dream traces author Peter Campbells six-week, eight-hundred-kilometre long walk along the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain, capturing what he saw and what he felt during the journey.Using the Camino as a backdrop, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Peggy and the Fairy Knolls

    I've always known where it is, and could show you the place, even in my sleep…Growing up in the wild Hebridean landscape, Peggy and her best friend Penny are inseparable, with the magical fairy knolls as constant in their lives as church or school. But as childhood passes, Peggy must learn to navigate the boundaries between the ordinary and the otherworldly, especially when the lines between myth ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care

    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    The fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Medicine remains the definitive, pocket-sized guide for every healthcare professional committed to providing exemplary care for patients with life-limiting illnesses. This handbook is designed to empower its readers, both specialists and generalists, with the knowledge and confidence to alleviate suffering, manage complex symptoms, and honour ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Persistent Creativity

    Making the Case for Art, Culture and the Creative Industries

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of this pattern, particularly with regards to cultural policy, and examines the methods and evidence deployed to make the case for ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Power and Politics in Old Regime France, 1720-1745

    First Published in 2004. Power and Politics in Old Regime France is a major history of the politics of the first half of the reign of Louis XV. It is based on exhaustive archival research and offers the first comprehensive analysis of the neglected ministries of the duc de Bourbon and the cardinal de Fleury. Peter R. Campbell deals first with court, faction and policy. A second section offers new ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Military Realism

    The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army

    Series series American Military Experience
    After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Philosophical Embarrassment

    Wittgensteinian Essays in Moral Psychology

    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
    Should philosophers, on occasion, be embarrassed in their work? Were they? We look at some cases in the history of modern philosophy and study the grounds for embarrassment and the way philosophers have dealt with it. Hume and Wittgenstein are our prime examples of philosophers who were aware that through their work, they had undermined the very possibility of doing such work—that the aims of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Spook City

    If, as Carl Jung said, Liverpool is "the pool of life" then here are things from the darkest depths of that pool, brought to the surface to terrify and startle you...Liverpool has long been known as a city of dreamers. But not all those dreams are as beautiful as a Beatles melody or as funny as a Paul O'Grady punchline. Here are the darker dreams of the Merseyside imagination, the macabre ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus