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  • Audiobook

    Touching the World

    Narrated by Bernard Smith ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 6 min

    "Touching the World" is the extraordinary story of Cathy Birchall, a blind woman, who set off with her companion Bernard Smith, to become the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike, an 18-year-old BMW R100. What transpired has become an inspirational, worldwide story that challenges people to question their own self-imposed boundaries.From desolate and dangerous mountain roads, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Henry V

    Directed by David Timson

    Unabridged

    3 hours 6 min

    This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. ... Read more

    $12.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Philosophy of Information

    (Information Is the Power That Drives and Controls Us All)

    (re-printed in November 2007 with an impressive Names and Subjects index)The author's personal website ,which is devoted entirely to his book, is accesible at:www.theinformationstory.com."A topical review of the book, by SIX OF ONE (the prisoner appreciation society), is given under Preview. Other reviews of the book as well as more background to the book, may be reached at the author's blog: <a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Memoires of Japan 1946

    (A People Bowed but Not Broken)

    Having served as a member of the Allied Forces Occupation of Japan, Bernard Smith has produced a book about the time he spent in Japan in 1946 in the city of Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, both of which cities are located on the east coast of Japan alongside its beautiful Inland Sea. Except for his rather mystifying visit to Tokyo in the summer of 1946, his entire book is based almost entirely on his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The 40-Knot Sailboat

    by Bernard Smith ...
    In The 40-Knot Sailboat, visionary engineer Bernard Smith revolutionizes the way we think about sailing. Blending scientific precision with the passion of a lifelong sailor, Smith challenges centuries of nautical tradition in pursuit of one audacious goal — a sailboat capable of exceeding forty knots. First published at the height of postwar innovation, this groundbreaking work explores the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Touching the World

    A Blind Woman, Two Wheels, 25,000 Miles

    Narrated by Bernard Smith ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 6 min

    Cathy Birchall has been blind since she was in her mid 20s. Following the death of her husband of 19 years and finding herself blind and alone she put herself through college and became a Further Education Lecturer. Within this role she met Bernard Smith, and then took a year off from her job with Action for Blind People to go on this journey. Bernard, a motorcyclist for over 30 years, and a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Easystart: Slave Boy of Pompeii

    by Bernard Smith ...
    Series series Pearson English Active Readers
    Young Mico is a slave in a big house in Pompeii. His only friend is the house dog, Fortunatus. One quiet summer day, Fortunatus suddenly runs away. He takes Mico with him. What does the dog know? What is he afraid of? Is it, perhaps, the mountain behind the town? ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • European Vision and the South Pacific Third Edition

    Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia's greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the empirical structuring of scientific and geographical knowledge during the great eighteenth-century voyages ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Daddy Chronicles:

    A 31 Day Devotional of Lessons and Experiences from a Son’s Vantage Point, Taught by a Dad Dealing with Alzheimers

    Daddy Chronicles is a monthly, daily devotional of themed stories, experiences and lessons about a son dealing with a father that has Alzheimer’s and dementia and a teenage son. Three generations under one roof. Daddy Chronicles provides an on-scene account of my experience of becoming “full circle” as a parent and father. A birds eye view from being on top of the hill ( middle life) and being ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sophie's Tom

    Narrated by Bernard Cribbins ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Sophie

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    Sophie is small but very determined. She loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. On her fifth birthday, she gets a model farm and lots of toy animals. What she wants most of all, though, is a real animal – like a cat. Sophie puts her strong will to good use in convincing her parents to let her keep Tom, a stray black cat who flits in and out of her life. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The EU’s Government of Industries

    Markets, Institutions and Politics

    Edited by Bernard Jullien, Andy Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union
    To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU’s choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events actually tell us only part of the story about the extent to which business activity is now ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Mediterranean

    Environment and Society

    This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics and cultural interactions which link the different Mediterranean states as a recognisable geographic entity. Sixteen chapters each deal with a major geographical issue currently facing the Mediterranean, each providing an invaluable summary of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD