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  • Audiobook

    Murder in Transit

    Narrated by Sam Dastor ...
    Series Audiobook 22 - Inspector Robert Colbeck

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    On a dark, brooding summer's evening, Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compartment on the train to Portsmouth. She is joined by a naval officer and a middle-aged man, in high spirits after dining at his club, travelling to his home on the Isle of Wight. His name is Giles Blanchard - and within moments of the train leaving the station, the sailor strangles him . . . At Scotland ... Read more

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    Death at the Terminus

    Narrated by Sam Dastor ...
    Series Audiobook 21 - Inspector Robert Colbeck

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    A passenger train stands in York station. Jack Follis, the guard, patrols the platform to make sure that everyone is safely aboard. Returning to the brake van to load a box into it, he is alarmed by a smell of burning. Before he can find the cause, there is an explosion and the van is engulfed in flames. Responding to summons from the North-Eastern Railway, Robert Colbeck and Victor Leeming are ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories on Screen

    The Past and Present in Anglo-American Cinema and Television

    What can historical films and period television tell us about history? How reliable are these sources? How, as historians, should we 'read' a film? This second edition of Histories on Screen gets to the heart of these questions and more in a comprehensive volume which greatly enhances our understanding of the relationship between film/television and history.The book begins with a theoretical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Railway Detective's Christmas Case

    Narrated by Sam Dastor ...
    Series Audiobook 20 - Inspector Colbeck

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills, only to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is minimised, but the passengers are alarmed. The first person to alight is Cyril Hubbleday, the man in charge of the excursion. He walks to the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Allies in Memory

    World War II and the Politics ofTransatlantic Commemoration, c.1941–2001

    by Sam Edwards ...
    Series Book 41 - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    Amidst the ruins of postwar Europe, and just as the Cold War dawned, many new memorials were dedicated to those Americans who had fought and fallen for freedom. Some of these monuments, plaques, stained-glass windows and other commemorative signposts were established by agents of the US government, partly in the service of transatlantic diplomacy; some were built by American veterans' groups ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers

    Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection or disconnection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Government Response to Disruptive Innovation: Perspectives and Examinations

    With the increasing pace of disruptive innovation, the world in general and governments in particular are experiencing challenges in adapting their systems to these new technologies. While the focus is on disruptive industries, these innovations also disrupt how governments regulate industries and technologies. The regulatory and policy choices governments and other regulatory bodies make have a ... Read more

    $206.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Tragedy on the Branch Line

    Narrated by Sam Dastor ...
    Series Audiobook 19 - Inspector Colbeck

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    When Bernard Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. He hurries to the railway station. But he doesn't reach his destination alive. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway. It soon becomes apparent that Cambridge's hopes of ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World

    Edited by Sam Edwards, Marcus Morris ...
    As early as 1892, Moncure Conway, the author of the first scholarly Paine biography, noted that whilst Paine’s life up to 1809 was certainly fascinating, his subsequent life – that is, his afterlife – was even more thrilling. Vilified by Theodore Roosevelt as a "filthy little atheist," yet employed by Ronald Reagan in his campaign to make America "great again," Paine’s words and ideas have been ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Revolutionizing the Interaction between State and Citizens through Digital Communications

    Networked communication technologies have drastically changed the relationship between States and their citizens. This fundamental shift has eased civilians’ ability to access information and organize groups like never before, creating the need to re-examine existing theories. Revolutionizing the Interaction between State and Citizens through Digital Communications evaluates the relationship ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

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  • Digital Transformation and Its Role in Progressing the Relationship Between States and Their Citizens

    Countries at different points of development are affected differently by shifts in the ability to access information. These changes require the action of governments to cope in order to preserve accountability and information access. The progression of these changes could vary between countries based on the level of development. Digital Transformation and Its Role in Progressing the Relationship ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • D-Day in History and Memory

    The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration

    Over the past sixty-five years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. The assault itself formed a vital component of Allied victory in the Second World War. D-Day developed into a sign and symbol; as a word it carries with it a series of ideas and associations that have come to symbolize different things to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD