理查‧克拉克、r P 艾迪: 882 books

Transportation history buffs rejoice. Ride the rails and the waves in this special two-book collection on the great railways from Canada’s past. Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways The first detailed account of the rise and fall of the maritime...

The British and Russian empires are at their apex. Germany has just formed her confederation and is vying for prominence. America has recover from her civil war and is expanding her reach. A younger son of a minor landholder is allowed to join his Cossack band for the first time, hoping to...

An exclusive selection of favourite stories from the last few years. THE SWIMMER is about a chance encounter between two adults approaching middle-age: a sea swimmer, recently separated from her husband and a man going through marriage difficulties. THE UNWELCOME VISITORS follows a day...

The national media named me the Piano Man. It’s because I love to use a piano wire garrote to strangle my helpless victims. It’s been 15 years since I held the Fox River Valley in an icy grip of terror. I’ve missed the power I held over others. The fear I’ve felt in them as my wire tightened...

It feels as though World War 1 could come to an end any day now, and the Canadian unit, the Bears and Eagles, who call themselves simply, The Regiment, are chomping at the bit to get overseas and do their part. Russia is in the midst of postrevolutionary chaos and decending into civil war....

Every City has one. That place, neighborhood, or borough where the forgotten live, where the once great land when they fall, where the tarnished and corrupt shine and where Justice and Fairness caught the last train out of town.Welcome to the Ninth Circle.The 9th Precinct is known as...

As Eagles Swarm Bears and Eagles 4 June 1940. The Battle for France is almost over. The German juggernaut has over run most of Europe and the Battle of Britain is about to commence. All around the world, British Commonwealth countries are scrambling to come to Great Britain’s...

The adventure continues in author R. P. Wollbaums's Eagle's Claw, the anticipated sequal to his well recieved debut. Minor Russian noble Andreas Bekenbaum has been richly rewarded by both the Russian and British empires for a job well done. But perhaps his biggest achievement is negotiating...

North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled...

"As organisms are what evolve in the biological phase of evolution, so cultures are what evolve in its psychosocial or human phase." --Julian Huxley (1958). Dominant Species examines the most important aspect of evolution for us--cultural evolution, the natural selection of ideas....

 This book compares two competing theories of human nature: the more traditional theory espoused in different forms by centuries of western philosophy and the newer, Darwinian model.  In the traditional view, the human being is a hybrid being, with a lower, animal nature and a higher, rational or...

Cutting-edge coverage of ultracapacitors and their applications Written by a global expert in the field, this pioneering work discusses ultracapacitors and their applications for short-term electrical energy storage. The book describes different types of ultracapacitors and their classification based...

A collection of short stories that explore the darker corners of human nature. Dark, desperate people making the best of difficult situations, doing everything in their power to try and find hope in the hopelessness of their existence. Features the following: The Ballad of Bob O'Connor: The...

A state-of-the-art guide to capacitors and their applications This practical resource provides a comprehensive overview of capacitor technology and its evolution to keep pace with the emerging electrical and electronics industry. Computers, mobile devices, power supplies, automobiles, and other systems...