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  • Kicking the Carbon Habit

    Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy

    by William Sweet ...
    With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong steps must be taken now to slow global warming. Further warming threatens entire regional economies and the well being of whole populations, and in this century alone, it could create a global cataclysm. Synthesizing information from leading scientists and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists

    by William Sweet ...
    The British idealists of the late 19th and early 20th century are best known for their contributions to metaphysics, logic, and political philosophy. Yet they also made important contributions to social and public policy, social and moral philosophy and moral education, as shown by this volume. Their views are not only important in their own right, but also bear on contemporary discussion in ... Read more

    $22.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris

    The Effort to Contain Global Warming

    by William Sweet ...
    The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Situating Putin

    Why He’s Not Going Away and How That Matters

    by William Sweet ...
    This is a rather old-fashioned book of essays. Its sole objective is to describe the character of Putin's political order as accurately as possible, and to spell out why and how Putinism is worrisome. The main essay, while providing a summary account of how Putin came to power and consolidated his position as Russia's virtual dictator, evaluates Putinism in terms of the main models or metaphors ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Wings of Spirit

    by G. Bailey ...
    Narrated by Lauren Sweet, Kale Williams ...
    Series series Protected by Dragons

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    Three secrets. Two fights. And one broken curse.Isola is finally back in Dragca, but nothing is the same when she is hunted and betrayed by everyone she meets. With one of her dragon guards fighting for his life, time is running out.When the seers come to her aid, lies and blood are their price. With two battles on her hands, one for their freedom and one for her dragon guards, Isola has a lot to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Wings of Fire

    by G. Bailey ...
    Narrated by Lauren Sweet, Kale Williams ...
    Series series Protected by Dragons

    Unabridged

    5 hours 12 min

    Four lost dragon guards. Three choices. Two betrayals and one secret . . .Dumped on earth with three dragon's guards, who have no idea who Isola is, isn't what anyone had planned. With the biggest betrayal still haunting her heart, it's hard for Isola to remember what she has to do and that she has to return to Dragca. Only making her dragons remember her, isn't as easy as she hoped. The three ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ideas under Fire

    Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity

    Edited by Jonathan Lavery, Louis Groarke, William Sweet ...
    Since Aristotle’s famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically, however, some of the most powerful and influential contributions to Western intellectual culture have been produced in conditions that were ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    Wings of Ice

    by G. Bailey ...
    Narrated by Lauren Sweet, Kale Williams ...
    Series series Protected by Dragons

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    Four Dragon Guards. Three Curses. Two Heirs. One Choice . . . Forbidden love or the throne of the dragons?Isola Dragice thought she knew what her future would bring. Only, one earth-shattering moment destroys everything.When war threatens her home, Isola returns from earth to the world of dragons she knows nothing about, and to Dragca Academy. When the four most powerful dragon guards in history ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Somerset Tales

    by Jack William Sweet ...
    Jack William Sweet relates shocking true events and personal stories which have terrified and horrified this seemingly placid county over the centuries. Spanning one hundred and fifty years, from early nineteenth-century witchcraft to the fear of spies and tragic deaths of the First World War, he recounts mysterious tales of the Highway Robberies of 1872, a Violent Death in Crewkerne, Bigamy, and ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Migrating Texts and Traditions

    Edited by William Sweet ...
    There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a range of philosophies in France from Cartesianism to post-modernism, and so on. Yet many philosophical texts and traditions have also been introduced into very ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • More Somerset Tales

    by Jack William Sweet ...
    Somerset is a beautiful county – 'The Land of Summer' – and it is also one of the oldest English counties. However, beneath the beauty lies a Somerset that is sometimes shocking, often surprising. Once again Jack Sweet tells some of these stories, including the unsolved brutal murder of young Betty Trump at Buckland St Mary, a terrific storm that struck the Somerset coast in 1903, a prison break, ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Yeovil's Years

    by Jack William Sweet ...
    In the Yeovil Corporation's Official Guide Yeovil With its Surroundings, published in 1906, Chapter II entitled 'Describes Yeovil in the Past' begins: 'It has been said, and that, in Yeovil itself, that Yeovil has no history, and in a sense, no past i.e. worth recording.' Jack Sweet, as a Yeovilian by birth and ancestry, can still feel a touch of anger when reading these words 104 years later but ... Read more

    $11.69 USD